Timpanagos Publishers, 2005   256 pp   $19.99

Keith-Scott Mumby, PhD, has taken us on a journey from the earliest twentieths century to the present and into the future – in  terms of Cybermedicine, Virtual medicine, Energy medicine.

Early in the 20th century, a neurologist, Albert Abrams, made a serendipitous discovery that by tapping on certain areas of the abdomen, he could diagnose certain hidden diseases such as tuberculosis and cancer. BUT the body had to be situated in a East-West position, and the diagnostic sound disappeared when the body was rotated otherwise. He concluded that unknown waves were being emitted by the diseased tissue. From that he developed an instrument called the Reflexophone as an energy detecting and quantifying instrument, capturing and measuring these “strange” emanations. From this beginning, a whole host of instruments has been created through the 20th century, reflecting what the Tibetan (Mahatma Master from Tibet, and teacher of Alice Bailey) had predicted, that in the years to come we would be dispensing with material agents for diagnosis and even for surgery, replacing them with the Force of energy.

In this comprehensive, remarkable and very readable book, Mumby takes us from this early discovery by Abrams on to the present, where we now are developing energy researcherss, energy practitioners and even energy dentists. The biological dentist is discovering that the teeth are very important sources of energy and pathology and therefore potential agents for disease or for healing. Sad to say, biological dentists are rarities in the United States, but they have begun to appear on the scene. But most importantly, we find that East is meeting West, forecasting the presence of a combined approach to healing. This is very well said by Mumby in a quote from the preface of this book:

Then suddenly in the last quarter-century of this millennium we have discovered that our 'advanced physics' is beginning to meet ancient systems of the mind, such as Tao and the Vedas. That is to say, science is catching up with older wisdom, not the other way round. There is a remarkable and quite stirring concordance between texts written thousands of years ago and what scientists working at the leading edge of knowledge are discovering about today's reality.

While recognizing that those doctors who are pioneering in the practice of energy medicine are threatened with excommunication by their conventional colleagues,-nevertheless (to quote Mumby again):

Well I'm pleased to say that things have begun to change. We are seeing a rebirth of the philosophy of Vitalism, the understanding that the world we experience is structured and takes its cues from life itself. Not from some meaningless clockwork motor which God or somebody installed 'at the beginning' and has run ever since. Life is no longer some menace that got into the perfect machine but is the creator of all. It is a living and conscious universe where energy and dynamic process are the basis of reality.

We now have a better and more functional model of health and disease. The age of energy medicine is here.”

Book review by
Maurie D. Pressman, M.D.
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