for you. In addition, they are an autobiographical adventure story, for Norman Shealy almost always tested the energies himself. For instance, when we were investigating psychic surgeons in Manila and surrounding territory, he allowed himself to be a subject—something that Alyce and I didn’t want to experience. After all, if a so-called “spiritual healer” can insert a hand into your body and stroke your heart, as Neo did for Trinity when she was wounded by gunshot in The Matrix Reloaded, would you, as a medical investigator, allow yourself to be the “experimental subject” as well? Norman did—and the reason was, and still is, that he “personally” wanted to test everything that was said to be therapeutic whenever he had a chance. Fortunately, certain “chances,” such as open-heart surgery, seldom come.
The first few chapters of this book will be news for non-medical people, but the chapters on acupuncture, electrotherapy, and forward will have “news” of the Edgar-Cayce type for everyone. After all, we are “empty creatures” in the physical sense, for all structures in us, physical/emotional/mental, are spiritual realities in a spectrum of densities. And the questions are: “Who are we—we who are encased in a fabric of energies?” And, “How can the multiple outside ‘energies’ of the Kosmos be used to keep the fabric healthy?
Those are Norman’s questions, and his discoveries and organization of knowledge make fascinating reading. In succeeding years, he may change some of his theoretical positions, but even Columbus didn’t have every detail right the first time. But like Columbus’ descriptions of what he found and saw, this book is history in the making.
—Elmer Green, Ph.D., director emeritus, Voluntary Controls Program—Menninger Clinic; founder of Clinical Biofeedback; co-founder of International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine; author of The Ozawkie Book of the Dead and coauthor of Beyond Biofeedback.
Preface
In this book, I am going to focus on the aspects of Energy Medicine that I personally consider most useful: the history of Energy Medicine; Edgar Cayce’s Energy Medicine approaches; the karmic roots of disease; the psychospiritual roots of disease; the physiological roots of disease; anatomical roots of disease; homeopathy; acupuncture; electromagnetic approaches; body therapy; spiritual energetics; radionics and electroradionics; energy psychology; quantum physics in Energy Medicine; and sources for putting Energy Medicine to use in your life. Obviously, this alone is a tall order, which I hope to put in proper, practical perspective for those who wish to take advantage of the benefits of Energy Medicine. Perhaps the big question is, “When is energy medicine appropriate, and when is conventional medicine essential?”
In acute illness, it is very important to seek medical evaluation and recommendations from a competent physician. There are certain illnesses that require current conventional medicine. These include:
• significant fever
• acute infections
• Swelling, especially if accompanied by redness or pain
• fractures
• major trauma
• acute significant pain
• changes in consciousness
• paralysis or loss of sensation
When competent medical evaluation determines that there is no need for surgery or a lifesaving drug and, especially when the condition becomes chronic or when the medical therapy recommended is extremely toxic and poses great risks, I think patients then have a responsibility to evaluate and decide about the potential of Energy Medicine to provide comfort and healing. This decision may be the most critical of your life!
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What Is Energy Medicine?
One needs to look no further than conventional medicine to find a variety of energy tools—EEG, EKG, X-Ray, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Electromyography (electrical responses of muscles), and nerve conduction studies. Radiation therapy is one of the strongest uses of energy. In surgery we use electrical energy to cauterize blood vessels to stop bleeding. And of course the cardiac pacemaker is widely used, along with several other implanted electrical devices. All drugs, surgery, and nutrition are themselves applications of energy. Chiropractic and osteopathy have gained increasing acceptance in the last century. Technically, all therapy involves energy. However, in general, the approaches we call Energy Medicine are currently mostly considered alternative, complementary, or holistic. Some of them are gradually being introduced as part of Integrative Medicine. Of course, many of the Energy Medicine therapies are often used by ordinary people. Indeed, frequent studies over the past two decades show that a majority of people use one or more of the alternatives that we include in Energy Medicine.
Potential vs. Kinetic Energy
In one sense, everything that we know, see, think, feel, or do is energy. Energy can be considered either potential or kinetic. “Potential” energy is that which is stored and inert but has the potential for generating some manifested form of energy. For instance, wood has potential energy to provide heat directly to heat water or create steam. “Kinetic” energy is active energy, having expressed the energy actively, such as electricity; it’s the power to induce change or do work. In one sense, energy is considered to be either a particle or a wave, and even that is debatable as light moves both as particles (photons) and in waves.
In our common use of the term, we think of energy as force, vigor, power, action, or strength. Even our mental ability to use our will in making decisions is a use of energy. More scientific terms are thermal, gravitational, sound, light, elastic, electromagnetic, etc. A theorem by German mathematician Amalie Emmy Noether meshed with Einstein’s relativity to show that the conservation of energy is a consequence of the fact that laws of physics do not change over time; therefore, any form of energy can be transformed into another form, but the total amount of energy always remains the same. As difficult as it is to understand, energy can neither be created nor destroyed, so that the potential energy in coal or wood or gasoline, which is inert, can be converted to heat or, in a more complicated system, into electricity to produce lights or run a motor vehicle—but no energy is lost and no new energy is created.
Energy in the World Around Us
The primary source of energy on the earth is solar energy, which is the foundation for all plant life. Plants, plus various minerals in soils, are the foundation for all animal life. Prior to 1945, all energy used as civilization advanced came from use of wood, coal, oil, water, and steam. Then nuclear energy literally exploded onto the scene. Unfortunately, common sense did not arrive at the same time. Over sixty years later, we still do not know how to dispose of nuclear waste safely!
Another source of energy is chemical energy, which can be put to a variety of uses. Examples of chemical energy are:
| Batteries | Natural gas or propane |
| Charcoal | Gasoline |
| Coal | Gun powder |
| Drugs |
