Blessings and peace to all beings, especially those who are suffering
and in need of mercy.

I have been an energy healer for many years and have worked in
healthcare for many years. I practice Pranic Healing and
Psychotherapy, and Bio-Field therapy. A few points I would like to
address from the phact.com website follow:

> My point is that the Energy Field Disturbance (EFD) was accepted
into nursing science without the proper evidence and research to
support it. The only way to get at the truth is to use the scientific
method. It is the only way to filter out wishful thinking,
experimenter bias, self-deception and error - in other words, the
>crap. Nursing has skipped this and no one seems to think that it's
>important.

First of all let me point out that as far as supporting evidence,
there is still quite a bit we don't understand about the body. There
are tecniques which have been and are still being applied even in
Neuro surgery which are not completely understood but which work.

In studying pharmacology one of the first things we learn is to
compare clinical value to toxicity. With energy medicine the toxicity
principle is highly eleminated. If the scientific proof being sought
is that the "Aura" be measured with scientific equiptment I think it
is quite a stretch for a people who have no idea what the bottom of
their own ocean looks like, cannot see to the end of the universe, and
cannot photograph an atom. I don't think such a request is asking too
much of the practitioners who can provide collectively millons or even
perhaps billions of records of sucessful sessions, but I do think it
is asking quite a bit of science at this point.

> More important than "how" and "when" here is "if." If TT works then
more study is warranted. If it does not, then we should proceed to
>something else.

This is a very good point. Again, even pharmacology which i think
we can all agree is a "real" science there is what we call empirical
theraputics. This is an accepted part of the science of
pharmacotheraputics in which the effect of the drug action has no
suitable explanation but just seems to work. So even with science
which is not always adequate to give a perfect picture of "A because B
therefore C," sometimes things are accepted not because we know
exactly how they work, but for all intents and pourposes, because the
universe acts as if they do work.

If we look at effective case studies as empirical data then we can
move on to the how and why. And in this case we can even move beyond
the idea that there may be a physical aura surrounding the body. But
at this point acting as if an aura exsists, "working" upon it and
producing results is what should be looked at and in this case the
results are the emperical data being collected.

> I am not injecting simple blind criticism here. I have been studying
TT for a while. I have devised a simple double-blind study to see if
anyone can feel a HEF. So far only one TTP has had the gumption to
>take it. The rest, including Dr. Krieger, have avoided me.

This is very a very interesting point but my concern is that the
designer of the test has a pre-concived notion as to what the outcome
might be and has designed the test in such a way as to prove he was
correct. A true double blind test is needed.

I am aware of a test given by an 11 year old which the anti TT groups
jumped on even at the enormous breches in protocal. The tests designer
was the sole tester, there was no control group, and the many factors
which play a part in practice were not addressed, ie., "which hand was
the object of focus." surely one attempting to disprove psychic
phenomena would recognise mindset and focus factor and realise there
must be an unaccounted variable in order for the diferential to be
anything other than 1:1, as far as science must go to eleminate the
placebo effect surely one might appreciate that the observer does play
a role in outcome.

That being said i would be very happy to participate in any test which
is undertaken as a scientific endeavor, not a control mechanism to add
arsenal to the religion of anti-TT.

Thank you all for your time, Namaste,

Errin N Davenport,
Fresno, CA

The secret of Alchemy is This; there is a way of manipulating matter
and energy to produce what modern science calls a "field of force."
This field acts upon the observer and places him within a privledged
position within the universe. From this position he has access to the
realities which are normally hidden from us by time and space, energy
and matter. This, we call "The great work." - Fulcanelli