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The INTENTION EXPERIMENT©2007
by Lynne McTaggart, Author of The Field©2001
Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World.
Latest additions ...
The BODY ELECTRIC ©1985 by Robert O. Becker MD and Gary Selden, HARPER New York, London ... accurate expose of the politics of medicine and research. Journal of Ultramolecular Medicine.
EM - Sometimes difficult to follow, but worth the read! Dr Becker has taken the trouble to recount his experiences with the frustration of having ground breaking research held up several decades by the politics of grant approval. Becker wants the general public to know that science isn't run the way we read about it and he wants lay people to understand that we cannot automatically accept the pronouncements of scientists at face value. The way research is funded and evaluated at present means that we are finding out more and more about less and less ... science is becoming our enemy instead of our friend.
The SPONTANEOUS HEALING of BELIEF: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits©2008 by Gregg Braden, Hay House Inc., California, New York. Does a shift in our perceptions, our beliefs hold the key to healing? AMAZING BOOK!!
The HUMAN ANTENNA: READING the LANGUAGE of the UNIVERSE in the SONGS of OUR CELLS©2007,2008, by Dr Robin Kelly, Energy Psychology Press, Santa Rosa California. Dr Kelly describes the mechanisms by which cells speak to each other using electrical fields; our bones and ligaments are conductors that can transmit energy and information at the speed of light. Offers ways to use this energy.
Books of Interest ...
BAD SCIENCE,Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks©2008,2009, 2010, by Ben Goldacre, McClelland & Stewart Ltd, Toronto Canada. Goldacre is a doctor who writes the Bad Science column for the Guardian, London UK. His work focuses on unpicking the evidence behind misleading claims from journalists, the pharmaceutical industry, alternative therapies, and government reports. Lots to chew on!
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. by Marcia Angell MD,©2004, Random, Former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, and a critic of the pharmaceutical industry with facts and evidence to back up her observations. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Angell
The BRAIN That Changes Itself ©2007 Penguin Books New York, by Doidge Norman MD. Our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brain, and Doidge explores numerous case histories and conversations with scientists who explain the phenomenon.
Our Daily Meds ©2008 by Melody Peterson. Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York. How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs.
When the Body says NO ©2003 by Mate Gabor MD, Vintage Canada.
Mate examines patients' life histories with explanations of the science behind mind-body unity. "When we have been prevented from learn how to say no, our bodies may end up doing it for us." Gabor Mate
ELECTRIC UNIVERSE ©2005 by David Bodanis, Random House Inc. New York . "A technological odyssey complete with heroes and villains, triumph and tragedy - a true scientific adventure." Simon Singh, Author of Big Bang
Amazing look at history of humanity and the mysterious electromagnetic force. E.M.
The Push to Prescribe - Woman and Canadian Drug Policy ©2010 by Anne Rochon Ford and Diane Saibil, Women's Press Toronto.
This is critical information for women, and men! Written as a text, it's heavy reading for the women who need to know the truth about drug policy and whether we can trust government health departments.
Unraveling
the mysteries of Health:
How people manage stress and stay well © 1987 by Aaron Antonovsky, San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass. Why are some people located toward the positive
end of the health-ease/dis-ease continuum? Why do they move to the health end whatever
their location? Individual issue: problem solving and regulation of emotion?
The
Turning Point - Science, Society and the Rising Culture © 1982 by Fritjof Capra, Bantam Books New York. Capra shares a compelling vision
of a new reality. A reconciliation of science and the human spirit for
a future that will work. See ... exclusion of
healing from biomedical science ... p124
The
Tao of Physics© 1975 by Capra Fritjof, Collins
Publishing Group London.
Exploration of the harmony
between Eastern mysticism and quantum
physics.
Bootstrap
and Buddhism© 1974 by Fritjof Capra, American Journal of Physics 42:15-19. All scientific
theories and models are approximations
to the true nature of things.
QUANTUM
HEALING: Exploring the Frontiers of MIND/BODY Medicine© 1989 by Chopra Deepak, Bantam Books.
Brings together research
in Western medicine and neuroscience, with insights of Ayurvedic medicine
to show how human body operates with
"network of intelligence" grounded in quantum reality.
The
Genie in Your Genes© 2007 by Dawson Church, Elite Books, Santa Rosa California. Epigenitic
Medicine and the key to Biology of Intention ... research demonstrates
that only 16% of patients visiting medical clinics have an identifiable
organic ailment ...
Newton's Tyranny© 2001 by Clark David H & Stephen
PH Clark, WH Freeman and Company New York. ... for all his contributions
to the Enlightenment, Newton was a deeply complex man who sometimes aggressively
tried to obscure the intellectual achievements
of others ... lessons for modern times.
Alternative
Pathways to Healing: The Recovery Medicine Wheel© 1990 by Coggins Kip, Health Communications Inc, Deerfield Florida.
Explains the concept
of the North American Indian
Medicine Wheel to recover and live in harmony with self, others and the
world.
Pride
and a Daily Marathon© 1991 by Jonathan Cole, MIT Cambridge Mass & London, Recovery from total loss of sensation and
position sense, an amazing experience of self healing.
Beyond
Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing REINVENTING MEDICINE© 1999 by Larry Dossey MD, HarperSanFrancisco ... Considered one of the
pioneers of mind/body medicine - provides the scientific and medical proof
that the spiritual dimension works
in therapeutic treatment -explodes the boundaries of the healing arts. ref to Yount Garret L, California Pacific Medical Center
.. experiments with cervical cancer, "... mental intentions can increase
vitality of living things and can also inhibit and destroy ..." p51
How
the Self Controls Its Brain© 1994 by John Eccles, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. A challenge to long dark
gloom of materialism, and a scientific explanation to reinstate the
spiritual self as controller of the brain.
Conquering
Stress© 1993 by Edstrom KRS, Barron's Educational Series, Hauppauge, New York. page
iii 75-90% visits to doctor are stress related and top 3 prescription
drugs for stress related -preventable conditions!
p13 50 - 80% disease considered
stress related - psychosomatic mind/body!
Higher Creativity - Liberating the Unconscious for Breakthrough
Insights© 1984 by Harmon Willis & Howard
Rheingold, Jeremy P Tarcher/Putnam of Penguin
Putnam Inc. A quantum leap beyond
ordinary creativity and our previous way of looking at things! Authors discuss our self imposed limitations
and The
Secret history of inspiration
... ReProgramming the awesome power of the unconscious.
Infinite
Mind, Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness© 1989 by Valerie Hunt, Malibu Publishing Co, Malibu California. Scientific exploration
of the human electromagnetic field ... clarifies metaphysical deductions
from physics ... how our magnetic field
changes during human interactions, correlation of field waves and auric
colours ... clinical suppositions.
When
the Horse Dies, Get off and Stop Dragging It Around! Awakening the quantum biological
human © 2004 by Louise LeBrun, WEL-Systems Institute,
Ottawa, Canada ... Discover just how
powerfully you can move through your world when you are mindful and awake.
Alternate
Realities The Search for the Full Human Being© 1976, by Lawrence LeShan, Ballantyne Books, New York.
Normal and paranormal,
possible and impossible ... and in each, the choice
is up to us ...
How
to Meditate© 1974 by Lawrence LeShan, Bantam Books, New York.
Former Chief of Psychology
at Institute of Applied Biology in NY, LeShan
is a pioneer in exploring therapeutic and ethical implications of meditation.
Biology
of Belief - unleashing the power of consciousness, matter and miracles© 2005 by Bruce Lipton, Mountain of Love/Elite Books Santa
Rosa California ... Summary of scientific discoveries about the biochemical
effects
of the brain's functioning,
shows how all cells are affected by our thoughts!
Motivation
and Personality© 1984 by Abraham Maslow Maslow, Harper & Row, New York ... general theory of human motivation ... emphasizing the psychology of health
... a biological efficiency that needs explaining ...
The Alchemy
of Energy© 2004 by Gwen McCauley, WEL-Systems
Institute Ottawa Canada ... Like
all matter of the universe, physics shows us how we are mostly space with energy moving in, and through, us. How
we choose to live, determines how this energy manifests as our bodies,
relationships, health.
The
Field, The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe© 2002 by Lynne McTaggart, Quill, an
imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, US Edition.
Science
is beginning to prove a new biological paradigm - that mind and body are
not distinct and separate from
their environment, but a packet of pulsating power constantly interacting
with this vast energy sea ...
Why
People Don't Heal and How They Can© 1987 by Myss Caroline, Harmony Books, Crown Publishers, New York NY. ... hidden interactions
of belief and body, soul and cell ... cultural and individual contexts
in which people become physically and
spiritually ill ... how to connect with your energy and stay on path
to wellness ...
The Healing Brain© 1987 by Ornstein Robert and Sobel
David, A Touchstone Book, Simon & Schuster, New York ... Exploration
of myriad healing powers of the brain ... beliefs and expectations are
powerful.
The Biology of Transcendence A Blueprint of the Human Spirit© 2002 by Joseph Chilton Pearce, Park Street Press, Rochester Vermont
... biological truth
of the capacity for transcendence within us ...
Evolution's End, Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence© 1992 by Joseph Chilton Pearce, HarperSanFrancisco,
HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY ... It's
time for the way we think about our families, our schools, and our lives to evolve.
Molecules
of Emotion, The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine© 1999 by Candace Pert, Touchstone, New York. ... history of Pert's landmark peptide
research ... how chemicals in the body form dynamic information network,
linking mind and body ... change
how we see ourselves ... molecular
basis for emotions ...
The Self And Its Brain An Argument for Interactionism© 1977 by Karl R Popper and John C
Eccles, This edition© 1986, Springer-Verlag, Berlin ... Coming to terms with
conflicting opinions between
philosophy and neuroscience on the body-mind puzzle, the emergence of life,
and the
consciousness and creativity of our minds.
NEVER
GIVE UP© 1999 by Lillian Postgate as told to Heidi Oeste, SHALOM PRODUCTIONS, CANADA ... 60 Years of living well with MS in spite of various problems ...
Learned Resourcefulness© 1990 by Michael Rosenbaum, Springer Publishing Company New York. Reprogramming chosen
rather than reflex response to our environment ...
The Mind & The Brain© 203 by Jeffrey M Schwartz MD and
Sharon Begley, HarperCollins. ... "just like actual physical movements, imagined
movements trigger synaptic change
at the cortical level" p217
From
Dream to Discovery - On Being a Scientist© 1994 by Hans Selye, McGraw-Hill Book Company New York ... "deprivation of
motivation goal is the greatest mental tragedy because it destroys all
guidelines."
SOUL
MIND BODY MEDICINE , A Complete Soul Healing System for Optimum Health and Vitality© 2006 by Sha, Dr Zhi Gang Sha, New World Library Novato California ... Just as our thoughts can influence water, our souls can bring healing
and balance to our lives ... mind has ability to condense its own power
...
Exploring
CHAKRAS Awaken Your Untapped Energy© 2003 by Susan Shumsky, Career Press, Franklin Lakes New Jersey ... uncovers the
chakra system in the body responsible for physical, mental and spiritual
activity ... " more than breath flowing in and out of lungs ... living
electricity induces activity of every cell of living matter ..."
Love,
Medicine & Miracles© 1986 by Bernie Siegel MD, Harper & Rose Publishers, NY. Love heals; miracles
happen every day.
Mind,
Matter and Quantum Mechanics© 1993 by Henry Stapp, Springer Verlag How are conscious processes related
to brain processes?
p4 brain processes
are causally influenced by subjective conscious experience. (mind affects
plasticity of brain)
The Physiology of Consciousness© 1993 by Robert Keith Wallace, Maharishi International University Press ...
How Maharishi's Vedic
Physiology and its practical application can solve the problems of individual and collective health
and raise life to a
new level of fulfillment. ISBN 0 923569 06 5
The Neurophysiology of Enlightenment© 1986 by Maharishi International University Press. How Maharishi's Meditation
transforms the human body.
ISBN 0 923569 02 2
Sense
and Nonsense of Statistical Inference: Controversy, Misuse and Subtlety Misuse and abuse of statistical
methods© 1993 by Chamont Wang,
Marcel Cekker, New York ...
Contrary to popular belief
among many scientists, sometimes subjective
knowledge is more reliable than "objective"
experimentation.
Spontaneous
Healing How to Discover and Enhance the Body's Natural Ability to
Maintain and Heal Itself © 1995 by Andrew Weil .... Fawcett Columbine New York
Leadership and the NEW SCIENCE Discovering Order in a Chaotic
World© 1999 by Margaret Wheatley, Berrett-
Koehler Publishers Inc. California.
Describes a world
where chaos is natural, where intricate webs of cooperation connect us
and we emerge from chaos with new capacities
and new energy. Life seeks order, but uses messes to get there.
Silent
Power© 1996 by Stuart Wilde, Hay House Carlsbad, California,
Accessing our silent
power ... real and fake self ...
Human Senses and Perception© 1964 by CM Wyburn, RW Pickford & RJ Hirst, University of Toronto Press, Toronto Canada.
Contribution of the senses
to to human experience.
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Research of Interest
Transcranial magnetic stimulation: new insights
into representational cortical plasticity. Roman Siebner Hartwig and
John Rothwell, Brain Research 148:1-16, 2003. ... transcranial
magnetic stimulation TMS, is produced by passing a very brief high-current
pulse through an insulated coil of wire held over the scalp ... pulse induces
rapidly changing magnetic field [that] passes readily into the brain where
it induces electrical currents that will ... generate action potentials
... conditioning effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation
are not limited to the stimulated cortex
but give rise to functional changes in interconnected cortical pathways
... periods of transcranial magnetic stimulation can sometimes
produce effects that outlast the duration of the stimulus ...
[the effects
of transcranial magnetic stimulation, can also be achieved
with repetitive thought & movement ... ie body-mind, as shown by Hunt,
Lipton, Myss, Ornstein, Schwartz ... although the authors recognize that
repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, they maintain
the therapeutic approach to finding external applied techniques, rather
than exploring the power of the mind to effect transcranial magnetic
stimulation with repeated thought and movement ... em]
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Transcranial
magnetic stimulation: new insights into representational cortical plasticity, Siebner HR, Rothwell J. Sobell, Exp Brain Res. 2003 Jan;148(1):1-16. Epub 2002 Nov 5. Department of
Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology,
8-11 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK. h.siebner@ion.ucl.ac.uk
In the last decade, transcranial magnetic
stimulation (TMS) has been used increasingly as a tool to explore the mechanisms and consequences of cortical
plasticity in the intact human cortex. Because the spatial accuracy
of the technique is limited,
we refer to this as plasticity at a regional level. Currently, TMS is used
to explore regional reorganization in three different ways.
First, it can map changes in
the pattern of connectivity within and between different cortical areas
or their spinal projections.
Important examples of this approach
can be found in the work on motor cortex representations following a variety of interventions such as immobilization,
skill acquisition, or stroke.
Second, TMS can be used to investigate
the behavioural relevance of these changes. By applying TMS in its "virtual
lesion" mode, it is possible
to interfere with cortical function and ask whether plastic reorganization
within a distinct cortical area improves function.
Third, TMS can be used to promote
changes in cortical function. This is achieved by using repetitive TMS
(rTMS) to induce short-term functional reorganization in the human cortex.
The magnitude and the direction of
rTMS-induced plasticity depend on extrinsic factors (i.e. the variables
of stimulation such as intensity, frequency,
and total number of stimuli) and intrinsic factors (i.e. the functional
state of the cortex targeted by rTMS). Since conditioning effects of rTMS are not limited to the stimulated
cortex but give rise to functional changes in interconnected cortical areas,
rTMS is a suitable tool to investigate
plasticity within a distributed functional network. Indeed, the lasting
effects of rTMS offer new possibilities to study dynamic
aspects of the pathophysiology of a variety of diseases and may have therapeutic
potential in some neuropsychiatric disorders.
Driving plasticity in human adult motor
cortex is associated with improved motor function after brain injury. Fraser C, Power M, Hamdy S, Rothwell
J, Hobday D, Hollander I, Tyrell P, Hobson A, Williams S & Thompson D. Neuron, 2002 May 30;34(5):831-40. University
Department of Gastroenterology, Salford M6 8HD, United Kingdom.
Changes in somatosensory input can
remodel human cortical motor organization, yet the input characteristics
that promote reorganization
and their functional significance have not been explored. Here we show
with transcranial magnetic stimulation
that sensory-driven reorganization of human motor cortex is highly dependent
upon the frequency, intensity, and duration of stimulus applied. Those
patterns of input associated with enhanced excitability (5 Hz, 75% maximal
tolerated intensity for 10 min) induce stronger
cortical activation to fMRI. When applied to acutely dysphagic stroke patients,
swallowing corticobulbar excitability is
increased mainly in the undamaged hemisphere, being strongly correlated
with an improvement in swallowing function.
Thus, input to
the human adult brain can be programmed to promote beneficial changes in
neuroplasticity and function after cerebral
injury.[em - can be done with thought and movement!]
Chronic Relapsing multiple
sclerosis: a case of rapid recovery by application of weak electromagnetic
fields, R Sandyk, Int J Neurosci Jun 82(3-4):223-42, 1995. Neurocommunication
Research Laboratories, Danbury CT 069111 USA ... application of 2 successive
treatments of pulsed electromagnetic fields(EMFs) ... patient experienced
immediate improvement in symptoms, most dramatically, balance, gait, speech
and level of energy ... Report points to the unique capacity of externally
applied pT [em - picotesla - unit of
magnetic flux density or density of flow of magnetic field] range of EMFs
in the symptomatic treatment of MS ... indicates
a lack of an association between the extent of demyelinating plaques on
MRI scan and rate and extent of recovery in response
to EMFs and supports the notion that dysfunction of synaptic conductivity
due to neurotransmitter deficiency ... contributes more significantly to the development of MS symptoms than
the process of demyelination which clinically seem to represent an epiphenomenon
(secondary happening) of the disease
...
[em- epiphenomenon
def secondary happening, dependent or subject to - an event. in other words: lack of nerve connections
is worse than damage to myelin!!
Nerve connections can
be generated with visualization and movement.
It has been proven (see
Lipton & Schwartz above] that the weak magnetic
fields of
every thought and movement, cause changes in the nervous system!]
