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SEEING AND EXPERIENCING THE WORLD
IN BLACK AND WHITE
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Credit: Debbie Lerman
AND/OR IN COLORS
Credit: Rosie Jones
Editorial MusingsRight and Left Brain Dominance: Thinking outside the box
Daniel J. Benor, MD, ABIHM
Iain McGilchrist's book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, is one of the most important books I have ever read. McGilchrist's thesis is that the existence of our world as we know it is threatened by our reliance on left brain hemisphere (LH) thinking - to the exclusion of right brain hemisphere (RH) awarenesses and thinking.
ResearchHuman Clinical Study of the Efficacy of LifeWave Energy Patch in Improving Flexibility, Strength and Endurance in Healthy Humans
Lisa Tully, PhD
In this double-blind crossover placebo-controlled clinical trial, tests were conducted that measure flexibility, strength and endurance in 60 healthy humans. Tests conducted included: stretch and reach, hand strength, latissimus dorsi pull down maximum weight, outcome measures with an ergometer bicycle (peak and average power and watts per kilogram, average and peak speed and speed per kilogram, distance and calories. These results demonstrate that the LifeWave Energy Patch improved performance in several different tests of flexibility, strength and endurance in healthy humans. In addition, one third of the subjects reported an increase in [[subjective] energy levels while wearing the active patch and no change in energy while wearing the placebo. In contrast, [[only] one of 60 reported that the placebo produced an increase in energy and no energy change with active patch.
Remarkable RecoveriesMy Body Was My Teacher
Anna Parkinson
In 2002, a BBC producer in her mid-forties, suffering from severe headaches and double vision, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in her right cavernous sinus, next to the pituitary gland. The tumour proved inoperable and proposed diagnoses included chondrosarcoma, meningioma and chordoma. This article shares how the writer learned from an American healer, Martin Briofman, to see her illness as the language of her consciousness. She explains how she used only meditation, visualisation and healing to clear her symptoms and dissolve the tumour.
Living with Life ChallengesI Had to Be Mad to See a Spiritual Healer
Rosie Jones
Through my study and working in the field of conventional Western medicine I was lulled into the sense that this was the best and only way to treat illness and disease. Other modalities of treatment were either completely unknown to me or dismissed with a lofty arrogance. It was only when I became extremely unwell with pneumonia followed by an acute psychosis that I was introduced to the remarkable powers of bioenergetic healing. Through a forty minute session with a clairvoyant healer I was transformed from complete mental chaos back to normal. She restored me to a healthy vigour I hadn't felt for years. I would love the future to include an acceptance of bioenergetic healing and the many other healing options available to us.
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Poetry, Art and Humor are HealingBlack and White Photo Project
Debbie Lerman
The idea for the black & white photo project occurred to me several years ago, when I realized my young kids (then around 7 and 5) had no words for, and no emotional baggage around, racial differences. They were in a relatively integrated school (Project Learn School) in a relatively integrated neighborhood (Mt. Airy, Philadelphia) and they didn’t call people “black” or “white,” because we didn’t use those words at home or at school. They just described what people looked like, using “brown-skinned” or “light-skinned” when they wanted to make that distinction.
So I thought: Wouldn’t it be nice if we all looked at each other with that kind of innocence? Yet, of course, we as grownups already have black and white ingrained in our culture and psyches as racial descriptors, with all the associated historical pain. But what if we could see black and white, instead of as conflicted opposites, as perfect complements and reflections of one another?
When a very dear and wonderful art teacher at Project Learn saw the project for the first time she said: “This could heal the world!”
Beyond All This
Jim Perretta
Beyond symbol, art, and myth
Beyond history, politics, and dogma
There breathes my God.
Beyond bigotry, self-interest, and greed
Beyond intolerance, oppression, and violence
There waits my God.
Book ReviewsIain McGilchrist. The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Kathryn Schulz. Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Cami Walker. 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change your Life
Jini Patel Thompson. Listen To Your Gut: Natural healing and dealing with inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome
Bert Hellinger. Supporting Love – How Love Works in Couples Relationships
Anodea Judith. Waking the Global Heart: Humanity’s Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love
Martina Steiger, ThD. The Extra in the Ordinary
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