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U.S. Funds Study of Long-Distance Healing
By Hilary E. MacGregor, The Los Angeles Times
Copyright, June 23, 2005

On an operating table at a medical center in San Francisco, a breast-cancer patient is undergoing reconstructive surgery after a mastectomy. But this will be no ordinary surgery. Three thousand miles away, a shamanic healer has been sent the woman’s name, a photo and details about the surgery.

For each of the next eight days, the healer will pray 20 minutes for the cancer patient’s recovery, without the woman’s knowledge. A surgeon has inserted two small fabric tubes into the woman’s groin to enable researchers to measure how fast she heals.

The woman is a patient in an extraordinary government-funded study that is seeking to determine whether prayer has the power to heal patients from afar – a field known as “distant healing”.

While that term is probably unfamiliar to most Americans, the idea of turning to prayers in their homes, hospitals and houses of worship is not. In recent years, medicine has increasingly shown an interest in investigating the effect of prayer and spirituality on health.

A survey of 31,000 adults released last year by the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 43 percent of U.S. adults prayed for their own health, while 24 percent had others pray for their health. Some researchers say this is reason enough to study the power of prayer.

"Almost every community in the world has a prayer for the sick, which they practice when a member of their community is ill," said Dr. Mitchell Krucoff, a Duke University cardiologist and researcher in the field of distant prayer and healing. "It is a ubiquitous cultural practice, as far as we can tell… Cultural practices in health care frequently have a clue. But understanding that clue, learning how to best use it, requires basic clinical science".

Science has only begun to explore the power of distant healing, and the early results of this research have been inconclusive. In an article published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2000, researchers reported on 23 studies on various distant healing techniques, including religious, energy and spiritual healing. Thirteen of the 23 studies indicated there are positive effects to distant healing, nine studies found no beneficial effect and one study showed a modest negative effect with the use of distant healing.

The study of distant healing was once the realm of eccentric scientists, but researchers at such prominent institutions as the Mind/Body Medical Institute in Chestnut hill, Mass., Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina and the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco are involved in the field. The National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has spent $2.2 million on studies of distant healing and intercessory prayer since 2000 – a small fraction of the agency’s annual budget, which totaled $117 million in 2004.

While some scientists oppose such studies on religious or scientific grounds, others question whether it is possible to devise a scientifically valid method for measuring something as nebulous as the power of prayer. What constitutes a “dose” of prayer? How does one define prayer? Is channeling Buddhist intention or Reiki energy the same thing as praying to a Judeo-Christian God? And how do you determine whether it was prayer that made a patient better, or something else, such as a placebo effect?

Cardiologist Randolph Byrd did the first major clinical study on distant healing at San Francisco General Hospital in 1988. He divided 393 heart patients into two groups. One group received prayers from Christians outside the hospital; the other did not. His study, published in the Southern Medical Journal, found that the patients who were not prayed for needed more medication and were more likely to suffer complications. While it had flaws, the study garnered considerable attention.

Since then investigators have continued to look at the possible effects of remote prayer and similar distant healing techniques in the treatment of heart disease, AIDS and other illnesses as well as infertility. Numerous experiments involving prayer and distant healing have also been done involving animals and plants. One such study found that healers can increase the healing rate of wounds in mice.

“Critics often complain that if you see positive results in humans, it is because of positive thinking or the placebo response,” said Dr. Larry Dossey, a retired internist in Santa Fe, NM, and author of numerous books on spirituality and healing. “Microbes don’t think positively, and are not subject to the placebo response.”

In the early 90’s, Elizabeth Targ and colleagues at the California Pacific Medical Center studied the effects of distant healing on 20 AIDS patients. Marilyn Schlitz, who worked with Targ (who died of a brain tumor in 2002), said the study found those receiving prayer survived in greater numbers, got sick less often and recovered faster than those who did not. A follow-up study of 40 patients found similar results.

At about the same time, Duke University’s Krucoff was leading a small but unusual experiment to determine if cardiac patients would recover faster after angioplasty surgery if they received any of several intangible (noetic) treatments. His study compared the results of healing touch, stress relaxation and distant healing with standard care.

Spiritual healers from around the world – including Jews leaving prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Buddhists praying in monasteries in Nepal and France, Carmelite nuns in Baltimore offering prayers during vespers, and Moravians, Baptists and fundamental Christians praying during church – each simultaneously prayed for one of several designated groups in the study.

All the groups did better than the standard care group, with those receiving distant prayers doing the best. He has since completed a larger, multi-site study. That study – the largest to date – is currently under review for publication in a medical journal.

Distance Healing: The New Phenomena

What is it? Does it work?

By Allan Schulte

Robert is a highly-stressed businessman who heads a non-profit company in Washington, DC. Currently in Cambodia on business, Robert’s mother is worried about him because he picked up a severe intestinal virus on the trip and told her he was exhausted. She knows his system is already highly stressed. She picks up the phone, makes a call to have an hour of distance healing done for him, to de-stress his system. Later that night, Robert sleeps peacefully, the virus having lifted. His system had been de-stressed from a distance, giving his immune system the additional energy it needed to overcome the virus.

Sound space age? It isn’t. It’s the new technology. Robert’s mother knows how well quantum distance healing works. It has successfully helped her gout, her high blood pressure and her neuralgia.

Distance healing is not a new phenomenon. In India and England distance healing has been helping people for years. In India they have built transmission towers through the country to intensify their form of distance healing, called radionics.

Today, distance healing in the U.S. is a high-tech form of biofeedback. With this new technology, healers use machines that perform quantum mechanics on a person who might be 5, 500, even 5,000 miles away. Distance does not matter because in quantum science everything is inter-connected.

Another client, the CEO of a major financial organization, has big goals to achieve, which are very stressful. She is also stressed because her time is closely allotted and she focuses on her work for over 12 hours a day. Her precious free time is spent with her 10-year old son and her husband, so she has little time for exercising, let alone de-stressing sessions.

She began using distance healing because the stress of her job was giving her fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue symptoms. She didn’t even have time to take a daily walk. Distance healing helped balance her hormones, reduce her stress, and help to reduce her sense of overwhelm. After one year of this distance work, her fatigue and fibromyalgia symptoms are gone, she has stamina, and is stronger. She feels she cannot afford to stop distance healing because it takes none of her time and has helped move her into her prime.

The machines that provide her with this kind of help are very complex. They do an enormous amount of number crunching because they are based on bio-physics. In the first five minutes of her weekly one-hour session, the system takes over 9,000 stress measurements on her system. It shows everything about the stress levels in her system. Then, with the aid of a technician-healer, the system begins to balance out her body, energetically. It doesn’t matter what is stressed – her vision, her digestion, her adrenals, her emotions. These new quantum systems stimulate the mind to balance the body.

Sylva, who divides her time between Florida and New York, has been using quantum distance healing for nearly four years. She used to come in to the office to be connected up to the machines. Now she relies increasingly on distance healing because she finds it does just as thorough a job, and she doesn’t have to spend the time coming in for appointments.

She began using this system to help her skin cancer. It helped amazingly well. Then she used it for digestion and her depression with great success. Recently, she started using it for her children and grandchildren in New Hampshire. It has worked amazingly well for them. She loves the ease with which it works, and how it has helped her husband with his foot problem.

“I’m not sure how it works. But it has been very effective for us.”
“The amazing thing about quantum distance healing is that it kept me so beautifully
detoxed from a distance—fungi, bacteria, candida, viruses. It has kept our systems
clean and detoxed for several years now – so we’re really enjoying good health.
Since starting quantum, my skin cancer has abated. That was a big help to me. It
also helps my husband, Hutch – from an emotional standpoint. Every time we have
quantum distance healing done on him he is happier, gentler, less angry, more pleasant and easier to live with!” Sylva Hutchins

Quantum distance healing works by calculating the resonant frequency pattern of an individual. To get this, the machine has to have the name, date of birth and place of birth. The system is not connected with astrology in any way. It is not esoteric, but a scientific process that allows the subconscious to interface with the quantum system and share large amounts of data and body stresses.

Allan Schulte, one of the largest and most progressive distance healing organizations in the US says:

People are used to the idea of garage door openers, television remotes, cell phones… Wireless technology is taken for granted. All it takes is a sender and a receiver. Our clients understand this and further realize that distance is not a factor. Quantum is tied in with the idea of intent. Prayer is intent. Distance makes no difference when you pray for someone. It’s just that quantum distance healing in addition to intent, adds mathematics for a very specific human “tune-up.”

We can read just where a person’s system is by reading their stress levels. Are their emotions stressed? Their liver? Their water balance? Their brain? Their oxygen levels? And so we just begin to help them to rebalance by stimulating their brain to start balancing their body systematically. We get all the information on how to go about this effectively through their subconscious. In an hour session, we can make 30 to 40 adjustments to the system. But we do have to have the person’s permission to do this. They have to be willing. The system will not work if the person is resistant. The client has to want to heal.

Distance Healing helps people all over the United States and the world. From emotional upsets in San Francisco to digestive difficulties in Paris, France, they run the spectrum. Most distance healing companies work by appointment. Clients can choose to be on the phone during the session, or not. Some clients want to know how their numbers are improving. Others just want to be taken care of and are oblivious to how it works. What’s really happening here is that when the body is de-stressed it begins to heal itself naturally.

It is fair to point out that distance healing is not a substitute for medicine. Medicine still has its applications and distance healing is not meant to be a substitute for medical treatment. So the two do not interfere with each other. Quantum distance healing is an entirely new field that works on the principles of biophysics. It does not interfere with prescription drugs.

Barry Dale, a high-gear businessman and a quantum enthusiast for over two years, uses quantum healing to achieve optimum levels of health and performance. He began to use it for a very specific health problem, but now that’s well under control. Now he still uses quantum weekly because it keeps him focused and keeps him on top of his game.

Distance healing appointments usually cost $l20.00 per hour. This includes the
7 ,000 system measurements that give a full overview of a person’s energetic health picture, as well as a running commentary of everything found, and about 30-40 adjustments on the system.

"Quantum technology has changed my life! I’m stronger and healthier than I’ve ever been before. Distance healing is a powerful way to revitalize and rebalance your entire body. Quantum healing has been a great blessing in my life, and I’ll always be grateful for all they have done for me." Susan C., Sarasota, Florida

"There is no question that this quantum distance healing is the most convenient way of addressing your health, without having to leave the privacy and comfort of your home. It’s a total convenience and I love how easily it works. The amazing thing is the detailed way you can see all of your system. This is the smartest new technology I have ever seen!” Ralph R., Osprey, Florida

YOUR CONSTELLATION OF QUANTUM THOUGHT
From Power Vs. Force by David R. Hawkins, M.D.

“An idea, or a constellation of thoughts presents itself in consciousness as an attitude that tends to persist over time. This attitude is subsequently associated with an attractor energy field of corresponding power or weakness. The result is a particular perception of the world, and appropriate events are created to trigger the specific emotion.

“All attitudes, thoughts and beliefs are also connected with various pathways"
– called meridians of energy – to all the body’s organs. Through kinesiologic testing, it can be demonstrated that specific acupuncture points are linked with specific attitudes, and the meridian, in turn, serves as the energy channel for specific muscles and body organs. These specific meridians have traditionally been named according to the organs that they energize such as the heart meridian, the gallbladder meridian, and so on.

“There’s nothing mysterious about these vital internal communications, and they can be demonstrated in seconds to anyone’s satisfaction – for as we know, if one holds a particular negative thought in mind, a very specific muscle will go weak. If one then replaces the thought with a positive idea, the same muscle will instantly go strong. The connection between mind and body is immediate, so the body’s responses shift and change from instant to instant in response to one’s train of thought and the associated emotions.

“We’ve referred to the law of sensitive dependence on initial conditions, drawing from the science of nonlinear dynamics and its mathematics. Remember that this describes the manner in which a minuscule variation in a pattern of inputs can result in a very significant change in the eventual output.

“This is because the repetition of a slight variation over time results in a progressive change of pattern, or when the increment increases logarithmically, it leaps to a new harmonic. The effect of the minute variation becomes amplified until it eventually affects the entire system and a new energy pattern evolves – which, by the same process, may then result in a further variation, and so on.

“In the world of physics, this process is called turbulence, and is the subject of an enormous amount of research, especially in the field of aerodynamics, which combines both physics and mathematics. When such turbulence occurs in the attractor fields of consciousness, it creates an emotional upset that continues until a new level of equilibrium is established.

“When the mind is dominated by a negative worldview, the direct result is a repetition of minute changes in energy flow to the various body organs. The subtle field of overall physiology is affected in all of its complex functions – mediated by electron transfer, neural hormonal balance, nutritional status, and the like.

“Eventually, an accumulation of infinitesimal changes becomes discernible through measurement techniques, such as electron microscopy, magnetic imaging, x-ray, or biochemical analysis – but they the time these changes are detectable, the disease process is already quite advanced.

We could say that the invisible universe of thought and attitude becomes visible as a consequence of the body’s habitual response. If we consider the millions of thoughts that go through the mind continually, it isn’t surprising that the body’s condition could radically change to reflect prevailing thought patterns, as modified by genetic and environmental factors. It’s the persistence and repetition of the stimulus that, through the law of sensitive dependence on initial conditions, results in the observable disease process. The stimulator that sets off the process may be so minute that it escapes detection itself.

“If this scheme of disease formation is correct, then all illness should be reversible by changing thought patterns and habitual responses. In fact, spontaneous recoveries from every disease known to man have been recorded throughout history. Traditional medicine has documented spontaneous “cures,” but has never had the conceptual tools with which to investigate them.”

From Power Vs. Force by David Hawkins, M.D., published by Hay House, Copyright 1955, 2002

DISCLAIMER: None of the above is meant to diagnose, treat, prescribe or claim to cure any disease. Clients are advised that they should consult their own medical practitioners and medical professionals for the diagnoses, care, treatment or cure of any health condition.