In terms of the stuff below the healing intention paragraphs....
I thought this was an informative reminder for those days when everyone just
can't wait to put the imprimatur of "real science" and it's preconceived
notions on this out-of-the-box field of sound therapy...e.g. what happens when a
field decides by committee what it is actually, really, fundamentally, basically
measuring and then creates doctrine about these real units of measurement and
that becomes the foundation of certification and thus standard of practice.
When people talk about the importance of such, I am always astonished that
they haven't yet really comprehended that certification and standard of practice
are code words for creating vested and controlling interest hidden behind some
shibboleth of "excellence" Georgia



...Rein investigated Dr. Laskow's ability to affect DNA synthesis of
tumor cells in vitro using five different healing intentions.
When Dr. Laskow held an intention for the cells to "return to the
natural order and harmony of the normal cell line," he found a 39
percent inhibition in tumor cell growth. Allowing God's will to manifest
resulted in a 21 percent inhibition. A visualization in which he saw
only three cells in the petri dish found an 18 percent inhibition. A
visualization in which he saw many cells resulted in an increased growth
of tumor cells by 15 percent. Unconditional love had no effect on the
rate of cell growth--without any guiding intention, it was completely
neutral. In a second experiment the intent for normal cell growth had
only a 20 percent inhibitory effect, while combining that intention with
a visualization doubled the inhibitory effect to 40 percent. (p. 26)
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In the 1840s obstetrician Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis came up with the
radical idea that if doctors washed their hands fewer women would die in
childbirth. The hygienic measures he instituted brought deaths from the
complications of childbirth from 9.92 percent to 1.27 percent a year.
But he was laughed out of Vienna and hounded out of medicine. What,
after all, would a doctor washing his hands have to do with preventing
fever in a patient?
Even when, a few decades later, Louis Pasteur suggested that microbes
caused infectious diseases, the idea was far from acceptable. The
Academy of Medicine in France expelled Pasteur, while a fellow scientist
was so offended he challenged Pasteur to a duel. (can you imagine anyone
being offended by the idea that molecular weight and frequency might jsut be
related?)
Indeed, the list of scientists' resistance to new ideas is almost
endless. When Kepler proposed in the 1600s that tides were caused by the
gravitational pull of moon, Galileo declared, "These are the ravings of
a manman! Kepler believes in action at a distance!" (despite the popular
notion of Galileo as a brilliant and independent rebel of the spirit, he was
known to be exceedingly mean spirited, disparaging of others to his advantage)
When Guglielmo
Marconi, the inventor of radio, proposed that invisible waves moving
through space could carry information across long distances, his friends
had him briefly committed.
Meanwhile, Ernst Mach, a physicist whose work inspired Einstein,
thought the theory of relativity was ridiculous, And the man who
developed the modern theory of the atom, Thomas Rutherford, dismissed
the concept of atomic power as "moonshine." Lord Kelvin, the scientist
who gave the world the Kelvin temperature scale, was sure that X-rays
were a hoax. And when the French Academy of Science invited a
demonstration of the phonograph, a scientist leaped from his chair,
seized the exhibitor and shouted, "I won't be taken in by your
ventriloquist!" (p. 39)
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"You can't be sure all things are made of atoms-- it's an assumption.
Suppose all things, including atoms, are made of consciousness instead?"
(p. 45)
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Through intent and resonance, Gough believes, healers "are moving charge
and changing the spin of [subatomic particles]. I think that's what's
going on." Ultimately, changing the charge on ions in our bodies changes
molecular structures, which changes meaning and function. "It changes
neuropeptides and their receptors," he asserts. "Since the neuropeptides
and receptors are the actual underpinnings of our conscious awareness,
we experience changes in our emotions, beliefs, and expectations." (p. 46)

Excerpts are from How People Heal by Diane Goldner


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