January 2003, Volume 3, No. 1

Individuation

Editor's Musings

Being attacked verbally or physically

Being threatened verbally or physically

Intrusion upon or disrespect of our boundaries

Physical

Social

Not receiving

Something in the outer world that was promised or expected (material or benefits)

Behaviors or attitudes that are expected (respectfulness, courtesies, attention)

Outer responses to hurts may range from withdrawal to verbal and physical attack - immediate or in long-term vengeance. Inner responses may range from feeling overwhelmed through being infuriated. The consequences of our choices in responding to our angers are far-reaching, both for ourselves and for others, as individuals and in our social groups and nations...

Transformation

Sarajevo, Bosnia, was the center of fierce fighting between the Croats and the Serbs in the early 1990s. Some religious leaders fueled the hate and made religion part of the problem. Now, in December 2000, I had to meet with some of these same leaders and get their cooperation for an important initiative for peace.

My mission, as part of the US European Command, was to negotiate with and invite each segment of Bosnia's religious population to send a representative to an important NATO chaplains' conference on the free exercise of religion and religious tolerance.

Basic Research

Specific intention is “imprinted” into the host device via four very qualified humans acting from a deep meditative state. The device then acts as an effective surrogate for these humans, plus cooperating parts of the “unseen,” with respect to transferring this specific intention to the experimental site of the appropriate target experiment.

The main target materials selected for this study were (1) purified water, (2) the liver enzyme, alkaline phosphatase (ALP), (3) the main cell energy storage molecule, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and (4) living fruit fly larvae, drosophila melanogaster. By comparing the separate influence of two physically identical devices, one unimprinted and the other imprinted via our meditative process, we were able to demonstrate a robust influence of human consciousness on these four materials......

Clinical Research

Part 1. This dissertation examines psycho-energetic (bioenergy) psychotherapy, the anthropological and scientific/medical validity of bioenergy as a construct, and three psycho-energetic therapy paradigms with mature theories and interventions. Paradigms discussed include pre-psychodynamic (Christian), psychodynamic (Pierrakos, Lowen, Brennan), and post-psychodynamic (Confluent Somatic Therapy of Steven Vazquez) psycho-energetic psychotherapy.

Part 2: A phenomenological study explores psycho-energetic experiences common across three highly advanced psycho-energetic psychotherapists. The study isolates common psycho-energetic experiences, qualifies and describes/interprets them, and recommends a technical vocabulary to formalize them.

(Part 2 will be published in IJHC Volume 3, No. 2, May 2003)

Spiritual Awareness and Healing

Energy medicine and intuitive diagnosis have come to the forefront of complementary/ alternative medicine (CAM) – meridians and chakras have gone mainstream. Many medical and psychological intuitives work from a model that says disruption in the balance of the energy system due to trauma is the root cause of many physical and emotional problems, and that releasing that trauma restores balance and brings healing. A medical and/or psychological intuitive may perceive and translate the energetic code of buried emotional and physical trauma in the body, mind and spirit.

Living with intuition It recently occurred to me that some of the frustration that I’ve felt much of my life is the result of a gift that I’ve seen as a curse for years. I am a visionary. Visionaries think (and live) “outside the box.” Being highly intuitive as well as visionary doesn’t mean that I’m smarter than anyone else, or that I’m privy to the ancient secrets of the universe. It means that my brain takes a freeze frame of the big picture, on levels seen and unseen, instantly analyzes it and computes the bottom line. One would think this ability to be a great asset, but it’s taken me years to realize why people are not amused when I brightly announce how well things would turn out if only they’d do “X.”

Most visionaries that I know possess a finely tuned intuitive sense that allows them to perceive the underlying “blueprint” - a pattern of cause and effect, hidden motivations and personal agendas - in a relationship, a corporate structure, virtually any situation where people are involved...

Two physicians' reports validate intuitive assessments and healings

Spiritual facilitation is a method in which the nurse provides spiritual intervention to assist in resolution of end-of-life (EOL) issues, supported by nursing conceptual models, and promoting positive client and family outcomes. The proposed approach of spiritual facilitation, intervention, nursing education and conceptual models of nursing are all intimately related. Research validates the need for basic education regarding nurses’ ability to provide spiritual intervention in relation to end-of-life care issues and describe the pertinent concerns that nurses identify as barriers to providing EOL care.

...”Selima” was born and reared in Egypt, is Muslim and practices the Islamic faith. She is eighty-five years old and is cared for by her unmarried fifty-year old daughter. Upon recommendation from a family friend, I was contracted to provide spiritual care for the patient as a result of her deteriorating health following a mild cerebral vascular accident in June of 2000. She presented initially with mild deficits in speech, and mild right-sided weakness.

As her speech began to improve, Selima began to verbalize her fears of dying…

Healees' Perspectives

Wholistic Approaches

This article briefly reviews how the process was developed, based on another process the author first encountered in 1978. The second part of the article contains feedback from people who have used the Tuner in the four and a half years since it first became available. The comments represent a cross section of many different areas in which the Tuner has been valuable as a tool for healing, both by itself and in conjunction with other healing modalities.

Healing Through the Creative Arts

Healing with Food

Wholistic News Reviews

New SNRI anti-depressant effective in one week

Colonoscopy patients control their own analgesia

Cancer patients receiving head/neck radiation helped by a “morphine mouthwash

Looking forward to fun releases endorphins and counteracts stress

Acupuncture and hypnosis effective for facial, head and neck pain

Humor

Poetry

Book Reviews