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A healer removes the pain of a broken wrist in fifteen minutes. Another removesan ovarian tumor in a couple of weeks. Still another, from thousands of miles away, regenerates the nerves of an injured spine for a patient on whom the doctors had given up. These sound like tabloid stories but could they be true? They are just three out of millions of instances in which healers have claimed to manipulate energy fields to cure the body.
Books on vibrational medicine, prayer, and spiritual healing present readers with an array of historical and current discoveries and techniques. But so far nobody has addressed the reality of healing through comprehensive scientificresearch. The Energy Healing Experiments fills that void. Harvard-educated Dr. Gary E. Schwartz provides scientific experiments and evidence to reveal the truth about the existence of energy fields and unlocks their potential for enhancing your health.
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"Through the able hand of a master scientist, this book is a reliable guide to the complex and sometimes perplexing engagement of mind, body, and spirit."
Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, PhD, Vice President for Research and Education, Institute of Noetic Sciences
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"For more than 30 years, I have known and learned from the truly creative geniusof Dr. Gary Schwartz. In The Energy Healing Experiments his courageousodyssey continues with scientific rigor, penetrating insights, his characteristic twinkling humor, and true wisdom."Kenneth R. Pelletier, PhD, MD(hc), author of New Medicine and internationalbestseller Mind As Healer, Mind As Slayer
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"This is a lovely book. I congratulate Gary Schwartz, with William Simon, on a very readable and lucid book on the important and complex topic of energy/information healing as distinguished from chemical/nutritional healing. It is highly recommended for all readers because it will significantly transform the public mind-set in very beneficial ways."
William A. Tiller, PhD, author of Science and Human Transformation
About the Author
Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry, and surgery at the University of Arizona and director of its Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University, he served as professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic, before moving to Arizona in 1988. He has published more than four hundred scientific papers and coedited eleven academic books. He is the author of The Afterlife Experiments and The Truth About Medium and coauthor of The Living Energy Universe. William L. Simon is a screen and television writer and bestselling author.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Richard Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS Preface
PART I - EVERYTHING HAS ENERGY AND CONSCIOUS INTENTION
1. My Eyes Are Opened
2. Examining Energy Healing
3. Unlocking the Mystery of Invisible Energy Fields
4. Experiencing Human Energy Fields
5. Perceiving a Person's Intention
6. Learning to Detect Energy and Consciousness
7. Sensing the Energy of Minerals and Crystals
PART II - OUR ENERGY FIELDS CONNECT US WITH EVERYTHING
8. Interplay -- The Heart and the Brain
9. How Your Heart's Energy Can Affect Another Person's Brain
10. Your Body Can Affect TV Satellite Dishes
11. How Healers' Hands Affect Magnetic-Field Meters
12. How Healers Affect the Invisible Light from Plants
13. Plant Communication and Botanical Cell Phones
14. Testing Energy Healing in the Laboratory
15. Testing Medical Intuition in the Laboratory
PART III - ALL HEALING INVOLVES ENERGY AND CONSCIOUS INTENTION
16. Energy Healing and the Placebo Effect -- A New Vision
17. How Energy Healing Works -- The Living Cell Phone
18. How Spirit and G.O.D. Play a Role in Energy Healing
19. Envisioning the Future of Energy Healing -- Awakening to Energy Living
20. We Are All Energy Healers
Frequently Asked Questions
Recommended Readings
Appendix: Understanding Universal Energy
Acknowledgments
Index