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An Historical Perspective

It can’t be true therefore it isn’t -
some reductionist history

200 years of science and technology has illuminated many bodily mechanisms. However this has been based on a reductionistic, dissective approach fathered by Isaac Newton and some of his contempories. Their view of a being was a machine, constructed from a set of parts, which additively made a functioning mechanism: a machine. In the main each part was seen to function independently from the other. Thus it was possible to understand the whole by dismantling and finding out how each part worked. These parts were not considered to have an innate intelligence: they were just like cogs in a machine. They could be mended just like a machine: by part specific treatment. Hence drugs, surgery and transplants. Paralleling this was the view that people as well as the whole of nature followed a preset design and action set: all events and their consequences were determined by physical laws without any self determining or evolving consciousness. The body was viewed as made from “dead” stuff. There was a separation between body, mind and spirit.

Alongside the scientific view of disease and dysfunction, illness has been seen mainly as an “external factor”: germ, virus, bacteria etc. (but surprisingly not - and perish the thought - a consequence of our technical environment!!).These perceived invaders have been fought with head on, aggressive weaponry. There have undoubtedly been some successes in intensive medicine, particularly from severe disease. However for many low level, non acute or chronic situations there are very few “conventional” testing or treatment approaches. Often no underlying cause is sought, let alone found. The patient tolerates the discomfort till it becomes sufficiently acute to be “conventionally visible” or accepts continuous medication, often addressing only symptoms and frequently with side effects.

The result has been a progressive dissociation  from nature’s integrated, wise and self actualizing base. It is not that this connection never existed or has totally disappeared. It has been present in pre Roman Celtic and Druid traditions as well as ancient Eastern living philosophies. It has been recovered in many healing modalities including homeopathy.

Bioenergetic medicine offers a profound approach to effect re-connection: everything is aimed at restoring our innate self healing ability, reminding, re-educating and re-establishing our own intrinsic abilities. These always act in the direction of wellness. It targets to reduce and if possible eliminate pathological, disease promoting factors and simultaneously strengthen core, healthy and innate physiological processes.

A History of Bioenergetic Medicine

Is Bioenergy for Real?

Bioenergetic approaches are based on the human body being an energy field: as such it is able to receive and communicate electronically using electromagnetic oscillations. Strange ? but true! The current view of our universe is a sea of energy: our world, the stars and other planets are contracted, dense forms of this energy. This basic identity between energy and mass was Einstein's revelation: E=mc2.

Today we experience the effects of magnetic and electrical energies in our everyday lives: the emissions of TV and PC screens X-rays, radiation for cancer cell treatment, electrical signals from nerves and muscles in EEG and ECG testing etc

The story begins millennia ago with Acupuncture, the earliest recorded scientific charting of energy based diagnosis and treatment.

The modern additions really start with Homeopathy in the 1800’s.

However the fathers really belong to the 1900’s. Most contributors are characterized by a multi-disciplined approach: a combination of acupuncture, science, electronics and homeopathy.

There are almost two distinct threads that are now coming together

The “electrical” characterization of acupuncture points and meridian systems.

The detection and characterization of “energy fields” around substances and living matter.

Electro acupuncture and Electrodermal Developments.

1940’s Niboyet discovered that the acupuncture meridian nodes had a different resistance to surrounding skin.

1940’s  Voll was the one to really investigate and refine earlier work, beyond the static resistance characteristic .He discovered that each acupuncture point had a unique characteristic when a small current was applied. The normally lower resistance was further influenced by the associated meridian system.  Voll exhaustively characterized points with physical organ activities.

1970 Morrell uncovered a relationship between a bioelectric input signal to the body, the body processing of a signal and the output: there was a discernable difference in output between a healthy and unhealthy tissue organ and organism. He found a way to electronically filter to separate the unhealthy pathogenic signal from the healthy physiological part. Health improvements were found to occur when the pathogenic aspect was inverted and fed back and also when the physiological part was amplified prior to being fed back.
1973 Popp, a physicist et Al constructed a device which measured the electromagnetic energy radiating from body cells. They showed that each and every cell of the body possessed a resonant frequency and emitted (re-emitted also) electromagnetic waves. The slowest waves traveled at the speed of light! The communication between cells used many different wavelengths.

Energy Field Developments

Since time immemorial energy has been worked with. Healers have existed in all traditions and cultures. There appears little difference in essence between healing practices, sensations and benefits then and now. It is perhaps more that a dimension has been added a variant facilitated by the science and mathematics of quantum physics.

Prof. Saxton Burr in the 1920’s found voltage potential variations in the field around living plants and animals. Lakhovsky in 1925 hypothesized  the existence of a biological radiation field, validated the principles on plants and achieved remarkable beneficial effects on disease. Nodon, President of the Societe Astronomique, an expert in short waves, found confirmation in the transmission of radiation from all living plants and animals. US surgeon G .Crile paralleled this work and in 1933 foresaw radio-diagnostics.

Nobel Prize winner Prof. R. Becker in the 1970’s showed that living organisms propagate a DC electrical field which alters in health and disease. He also confirmed that electrical current is conducted through the body by unknown channels corresponding in location to acupuncture meridians.

Dr. Albert Abraham discovered that the radiation of diseases tissue can be transmitted via a cable just like electricity is.

The advance of technology produced increasingly sensitive instrumentation: the field of astronomy is an outstanding example. In the biological area the SQUID magnet-o-meter is the current ultimate in the detection of electromagnetic fields. This has detected the hearts field being still present as an electromagnetic field 15 feet distant! Research since then   has shown that bio-magnetic fields are often more indicative of inner body events than resistance measurements taken at the skins surface.

Zoologist Rupert Sheldrake and others now postulate the existence of information within these fields, like an energetic blueprint for our physical being. This correlates with the texts of ancient cultures and modern healers and energy field therapists.

All rather against the grain of conventional science:  it can’t be true, therefore it isn’t! How many times does our own experience go against this one!