The Vibrant Nature of Health
The Vibrant Nature of Health
The Vibrant Nature of Health
Nature Of
Health
Essay
By Peter Fritz Walter
Contents
Medical Science vs. Self-Healing 3
The Chakras 8
Vibrational Healing 23
The Hypnotic View 46
Energy Medicine 51
Alternative Cancer Cure 57
Bibliography 76
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Medical Science vs.
Self-Healing
Health is a harmonious state of mind; healing
simply is the process that leads to a healthy state of
mind. Illness is the result of a disturbed state of
mind, one that is fragmented.
Dr. Larry Dossey writes in Russell di Carlo’s A
New Worldview (1996) that we can take prayer into
the laboratory and make it subject to testing, and
show that it works.
While this insight was first felt as something like
quack wisdom, now natural healing, and ancient in-
sights about self-healing enter more and more the
medical professions around the world.
To begin with, let us first see what prayer really
is. While it was in traditional religions considered as
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an act of asking for something, now science begins to
understand that prayer is more like a psychological
act which brings us closer to the transcendent reality
of our soul. In this sense, prayer is not immediately
correlated with religion, and turns out to be rather a
personal quest for a more complete and harmonious
existence. When I pray, I am sending out loving feel-
ings for other beings, and even for myself, and often
also, for the entire universe. This means that I am ir-
radiating a positive vibration!
This is the key to how prayer induces self-heal-
ing. As Dr. Dossey rightly argues, materialist thinkers
cannot account for nonlocal events. Fortunately
quantum physics has helped us understand that in
truth all in the universe is nonlocal, uncertain and
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consciousness-related, and therefore always subject
to change and transformation.
This is the starting point of understanding that
prayer can indeed bring about a transformation of
matter, and material life, and therefore, changes in
the body.
It has been proven in the meantime that prayer
can affect the molecular level of reality as on this lev-
el, all is interconnected. That is why prayer effects on
people, situations and relationships even over long
distances.
It was for many years a paradigmatic discussion,
especially within the circles of materialistic scientists
and medical doctors, if distant healing is real, or a
mere fiction, or imagination of an excited mind? It
was a question that affected the worldview and belief
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system of an entire profession that pleased itself to
operate above superstition and the muddy waters of
approximation, and that is able to produce tangible
results. However, prayer and distant healing call into
question the certainty of the hyper-rational world-
view; it also calls into question the adequacy of a
purely materialistic medical science that operates on
the basis of inflicting chemicals to the human body
to bring about a response, if this response is real
healing or not.
Medical doctors traditionally considered it an in-
sult to be called ‘healers’ and this is really symp-
tomatic in this context! Dr. Dossey reports that the
physicist Max Planck, commenting on the controver-
sy surrounding quantum physics said that science
changes ‘funeral by funeral.’
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That’s of course often true; people need to be re-
placed if they are not able to change their minds. But
we also have to see that by 1992, according to a Har-
vard survey, 60 million Americans went to alternative
therapists that year. It is one-third of the adult popu-
lation. And that was 27 years ago! In the meantime
the picture has changed even more, much more, in
favor of alternative medicine and many new para-
medical disciplines like spontaneous diagnosis, aura
healing, acupuncture, reiki, radionics, osteotherapy,
distant healing, phytotherapy, spirit healing, energy
psychology, and many others.
Larry Dossey’s studies on prayer for healing show
that under laboratory controlled conditions, it be-
comes obvious that some aspect of the psyche is
eternal, nonlocal, immortal, or spiritual. Hence, he
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concludes ‘the great divide between science, religion
and spirituality is false.’
The Chakras
In my years of research on the human energy
field, I have not encountered that much information
about such esoteric a subject in one single book.
This book is entitled The Chakras: Correlations be-
tween Medical Science and Clairvoyant Observation
(1989) and it is authored by Shafica Karagulla, a
medical doctor, and Dora van Gelder Kunz, a clair-
voyant. The author herself, Shafica Karagulla, is the
kind of traditional physician who writes with a lot of
‘faculty terms,’ so to speak, using medical terminolo-
gy all over the place. For me, it was indispensable for
my research. There are some elucidations in this
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book that I found earlier in my research, but only af-
ter studying tedious manuals and old hermetic writ-
ings. One detail also is important somehow. Dora van
Gelder died before this book was even in a draft, and
therefore Karagulla was not always sure when she
gave detailed accounts on Gelder’s paranormal per-
ceptions. This is obviously a bad fate, as part of the
theory rests on assumptions. On the other hand,
from her memory, Karagulla could relate many an
anecdote demonstrating the powerful personality of
the famous clairvoyant and her lucid intelligence.
One thing she relates to have been a constant in van
Gelder’s sayings was:
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And we are reminded of the German poet and
scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, himself an
initiate, who said that all secrets of the universe
could be known to the common man, if only he
could free himself from ‘school wisdom,’ which was
the eternal parody of real knowledge. This being
said, there truly is precious knowledge contained in
this book. The following three sentences alone con-
tain more than a whole library of non-scientific ‘eso-
teric’ samplers full of assumptions and half-truths:
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It is said by some that every human being emits a
unique tonal pattern which is created by his in-
dividual energy fields working in unison. This is
sometimes referred to as the personality note.
(Id., 2).
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are manifestations of the primal cosmic energy field,
and not different fields.
The following quote may point to a similar in-
terpretation. If we can admit a universal field, as it
has recently been done, for example through the re-
search of Lynne McTaggart, exposed in her brilliant
book The Field (2002), then we are back at the
ground, and can affirm there is only one field:
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Another important detail in the research for their
book was the authors’ focus on energy patterns. I have
seen in my own research on the bioenergy that we
can establish as fact the observation that life is coded
in energy patterns, and not in any form of ‘matter’ as
a primary substance of creation.
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Now, we have to ask the pertinent question how,
once we know that all disease is a result of either
lacking or misdirected bioenergetic flow in the ether-
ic body, we can balance the bioenergetic setup so as
to bring about health? Karagulla notes:
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a universal force in nature connected with
breathing and breath. (Id., 28).
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Fear, hostility, and generally negative emotions,
when they are constant, disturb this flow of emotion-
al energy; then the field becomes disordered. From
there, then, an illness comes up as a somatization of
the disordered field. Shafica Karagulla writes:
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In a more intelligent, responsive and sensitive
person they will be brighter, of finer texture and
with a more rapid movement, and in an awak-
ened individual who makes full use of his pow-
ers, they become coruscating whirlpools of color
and light. (Id., 36).
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tions, the vibrational resonance between the chakras
gets disturbed, and ill health will be the result.
Today, we know that meditation and yoga have a
positive influence upon keeping our chakras in a
healthy condition. Meditation does not only bring
harmony to our thoughts and emotions but in a
much more direct manner, it keeps our emotional
flow in good shape, and can even increase the spin,
color and vitality of our chakras.
More than twenty years ago, I found in one of
Wilhelm Reich’s books the surprising statement that
emotions are energy. As I looked around, I saw that
Reich, at his time, was quite the only medical doctor,
scientist and psychiatrist who was saying this.
I was intrigued and began a long research on
emotions. But I couldn’t find anything but the noto-
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rious assumption that emotions were ‘difficult to
grasp research objects’ and that their nature was little
known, while in the esoteric literature it was always
assumed that emotions are related to the vital energy.
Now, this book by a doctor and a famous clairvoyant
gives some conclusive evidence for the emotional
field. This is also highly important: the emotions are
by no means ‘in the brain,’ but flow pretty much like
electric currents in the emotional body, which is the
second subtle body we carry around our physical
body. Karagulla explains:
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ture appears as a multicolored aura extending
thirty-nine to forty-five centimeters (fifteen to
eighteen inches) beyond the physical body. It
looks rather like an ovoid, luminous cloud sur-
rounding the body, as though the individual were
suspended inside a semitransparent bubble of
changing colors and patterns. (Id., 48-49).
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There is another interesting parallel with Reich’s
discoveries about emotions. Reich was talking all
through his books about the ‘emotional plague’ as a
major pathological development in humanity that he
thought was caused by mishandling our emotional
flow through the moralistic reprehension of strong
emotional reactions, as for example the prohibition
of sexual arousal through the taboo of shared nudity.
The authors of the present book basically say the
same:
Vibrational Healing
All creation is sound because it’s vibration. All
life is vibration because it eternally pulsates, and al-
ternates between charge and discharge. Every sen-
tient being emits a unique sound that is unlike any
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other sound in the universe, much like a cosmic vi-
brational identifier.
A healthy human body possesses the characteris-
tics of that total vibration being in harmony with it-
self; a sick body signals a disharmony on the vibra-
tional level, which then disturbs the psyche, and fi-
nally somatizes as symptoms of a specific disease.
Jean Beaulieu, in his book Music and Sound in the
Healing Arts (1987) affirms that there is a functional
relationship between music and the vital energy cir-
culation. Sound healing can be defined as a return to
the fundamental, to speak in musical language. In this
sense, our inner harmony can be defined as being in
deep resonance with our own fundamental. In this
sense, we can use our voice to stimulate our vital en-
ergies in specific ways, and we can also do this by us-
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ing a tuning fork. The use of a set of tuning forks is
an ancient method of bringing the body in harmony
with cosmic vibrations, each tuning fork emitting
another vibration. It is then the tiny interval between
their respective vibrations, an interference pattern, that
makes for highly uncanny and beneficial effects upon
the psyche. The ratios of vibrational sequence can be
found everywhere in nature, according to the law of
proportions discovered by Fibonacci (Leonardo
Pisano) during the Renaissance. Another application
of this insight are so-called binaural beats, discovered
by Robert Monroe, which have various interesting ef-
fects, some of which, next to healing and inner har-
mony are remote viewing, out-of-body experiences
and lucid dreaming, as well as astral projection.
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Barbara Brennan writes in Russell di Carlo’s A
New Worldview (1996) that the human energy field is
the matrix structure for our physical body, and that
in between the structured layers of this field there is a
bioplasma-like energy that flows along the lines of
the structured field pattern. This energy field changes
with the nature of our thoughts and emotions, as
there is a direct correlation. Hence, when we change
our thought patterns, the patterning of the field
changes.
Brennan affirms that self-healing essentially starts
with forgiving ourselves. When we deny a certain
pattern or desire within us, tension arises and the vi-
tal energy stagnates; this then creates a distortion
within the energy pattern and that, in turn, can bring
about disease. Why is this so?
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Life is associated with constant flow within the
luminous energy field, hence any attitude of non-for-
giveness within the self will create a flow blockage.
When we are caught in a denial pattern or we repress
certain desires, for that matter, the flow of the vital
energy gets blocked and anxiety arises. That in turn
leads to our field becoming rigid and its strength de-
creasing.
Typically, when we repress an emotion or desire,
we project it upon others and then become judgmen-
tal about their behaviors or preferences, or else their
sexual attractions. However, when we remain non-
judgmental, by embracing all of our desires, we allow
love to come into our field, and we connect with
others by this loving vibration. Then our field be-
comes energized and stronger.
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When we accept all that is in there and out
there, we surrender to the simplest and most existen-
tial reality there is. That’s essential because it allows a
connection to take place between the self and the
deeper regions of the human being, the core essence
or the divinity within. The intense energy from the
core essence then irradiates out. It’s as if a corridor
opens from the core essence of an individual, and the
energy is able to flow out and into the entire world.
Also, the connection from the personality to the
spiritual or divinity within, is open and made more
solid. In addition, being loving and basically grateful
puts us in sync with the universal energy field that
connects all of life, the flow of the life force, or the
morphogenetic fields of the whole planet and the so-
lar system.
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Energy and consciousness are one. When the ener-
gy moves, our consciousness follows it and we be-
come aware of that vibrational change. This is the
way to bring about personal transformation and
long-lasting change.
We humans are basically an onion, a layered and
patterned field of consciousness, or energy egg. At
the core is our prime vibration or soul, and at the pe-
riphery there is a sort of osmosis that connects us
with the energy fields of others, animals, plants and
mother earth, and even the entire universe.
In other words, our responses to life form pat-
terns that influence our vibrational circuitry. This
means essentially that we have to take responsibility
for our attitudes and for the thoughts that we gener-
ate because every thought is but a vibrational pattern
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that certainly has a consequence in the physical
world.
I have in fact studied sound theory during my
musical studies at our conservatory that I had en-
gaged parallel to my law studies, and I remember to
have read a thick book written by the German com-
poser Paul Hindemith about harmonics. To begin
with, why should you study sound, harmonics and
sound healing? If you are not a healer, and if it’s not
specifically for self-healing, there is a reason that
Jonathan Goldman gives in his book Healing Sounds
(2002), and that I find very important. He states that
sound plays a key role in our time, for ‘sound is help-
ing us adjust to the frequency shifts that are occur-
ring on so many levels.’ Presently, we are going
through revolutionary shifts in human consciousness
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that are indeed reflected by a rising energy vibration
on the cellular level, as it has been affirmed by many
esoteric and scientific authors. This is why it is a
good idea to learn more about sound and vibration,
in general. For everything is virtually in a state of vi-
bration. Goldman affirms that sound can change
molecular structure, and it can create form.
But first, let me ask: ‘What are harmonics?’
Harmonics are mathematical extrapolations of
sound vibration projected again in sound, but sound
that most of the time we do not consciously ‘hear’
but perceive as timbre. For example, the special tim-
bre of a trumpet is created by the harmonics of the
sound coming out of the trumpet. The same tone
played on a piano sounds like ‘piano’ because it has
got different overtones than those created by the
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trumpet. Different instruments will all produce spe-
cific overtones that are also called ‘formants.’
The striking characteristic of harmonics is that
they are affecting all vibrations that are in the imme-
diate environment, and they affect most the ones that
are mathematically closest related to the one that is
the triggering vibration—and therefore are called
‘harmonics’ of it. But harmonics are not only an es-
sential part of music, they are simply a part of life.
Goldman writes:
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in many other aspects of the body: when the
knee divides the entire leg; when the eyebrows
divide the head; when the elbow joint divides the
entire arm. These proportions of the major sixth
(3:5) and minor sixth (5:8) can be found in other
bodies, such as those found in the plant, insect
and animal kingdoms. (Id., 35).
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tions, as for example the Hermetic tradition. In An-
tiquity, the sage was mathematician in just the same
way as he was musician and musical theorist, writer,
poet, philosopher and teacher of the youth, and also
political theorist, orator, government consultant, as-
trologer, fortune teller, life consultant and coach—all
in one single person!
Goldman studied one example of this ancient ar-
chetype of the universal scholar and found it embod-
ied in the Greek mathematician Pythagoras:
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of nature, demonstrating the harmonic relation-
ship within the elements, the planets, and the
constellations. (Id., 30)
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sagas, preceded verbal language. And looking in the
future, we may be able to engage in time travel by
simply manipulating sound and frequencies, proba-
bly through the use of powerful quartz crystals that
act as energy transducers.
Another important body of knowledge regarding
the nature of sound and vibration is native wisdom.
Most native peoples utilize a form of harmonics in
their sacred ceremonies that is not created by an in-
strument, but by the human voice. A striking exam-
ple for this age-old wisdom tradition is one-voice
overtone chanting of Tibetan monks and Mongolian
shamans.
The Gyuto and other monks from Tibet namely
chant a bass voice that is entirely unknown to profes-
sional singers in the West. Scientists formerly stated
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that it was impossible to produce a sound of less
than 150 Hz with the human voice. But these monks
prove the contrary.
Research scientist and medical doctor Alfred
Tomatis has revolutionized our understanding of
sound and sound healing. Tomatis studied chanting
throughout the world; he believes that due to the
high altitude of Tibet it was necessary to chant in the
extremely deep voice in order to create higher over-
tones.
When we talk about sound and vibration, we
need to learn to distinguish between ‘hearing’ and
‘listening.’ Active listening, as opposed to hearing,
involves using our ears as an organ of consciousness.
When we hear, we do not discriminate between the
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sounds around us. We may be unaware of them.
Through listening we can begin to open up to sound.
That all life is coded in sound, we know from
ancient times, but it has been completely disregarded
in modern science until very recently. Now, based on
this ancient understanding of the human body as a
resonance emitter and receiver, we can indeed devel-
op from this insight a genuine sound healing ap-
proach that is based upon the mapping of frequen-
cies. Goldman writes:
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A Practical Guide to Vibrational Medicine (2001) by
Dr. Richard Gerber is an excellent book while it may
not be as practical as the title suggests. It is perhaps
not as practical as for example Donna Eden’s book
Energy Medicine (1998).
The book is conceptual in the first place, and
practical in the second place, and it’s paradigmatic,
and cutting-edge in its overall perspective. It contains
also a very valuable and practical resource section
with pages of organizations that can lead you further
in your research project. But the book from its over-
all style is a sound academic study, and when I say
academic, this is for me surely not a negative thing to
note.
The merit of this book is the vast research the
author has done, and it can be considered as being a
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condensation of this research, in that it produces
something like a synthesis of a lot of material that is
only mentioned in the notes.
What is also very strong in this book is how the
author connects our modern perspective of vibra-
tional medicine with the old teachings, the medical
tradition of Antiquity, the esoteric knowledge of the
Mystery Schools, Chinese medicine and acu-
puncture, or Chinese QiGong. Gerber writes:
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concept when we begin to factor into the human
equation some of the new discoveries in the field
of quantum and Einsteinian physics that describe
the underlying energetic nature of the physical
world? (Id., 2).
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complex, integrated life-energy system that pro-
vides a vehicle for human consciousness as well
as a temporary hosting for the creative expression
of the soul. (Id., 3-4).
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emotions, and how they are thought to impact on
human health, or on illness.
Dr. Gerber notes that the conventional medical
model considers emotions as influential on illness
‘through neurohormonal connections between brain
and body.’ By contrast, the vibrational medical model
posits emotions as influential on illness ‘via energetic
and neurohormonal connections among body, mind,
and spirit.’ The following quote puts it all in a coher-
ent model, as it shows how the new medical model
evolved from the former mechanistic model of medi-
cine:
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as a sophisticated machine. In this old worldview,
the heart is merely a mechanical pump, the kid-
ney a filter of blood, and the muscles and skele-
ton a mechanical framework of pulleys and
levers. The old worldview is based upon Newton-
ian physics, or so-called billiard-ball mechanics.
In the days of Sir Isaac Newton, scientists
thought they had figured out all the really impor-
tant laws of the universe. They had discovered
laws describing the motion of bodies in space
and their momentum, as well as their actions at
rest and in motion. The Newtonian scientists
viewed the universe itself as a gigantic machine,
somewhat like a great clock. It followed, then,
that the human body was probably a machine as
well. Many scientists in Newton’s day actually
thought that all the great discoveries of science
had already been made and that little work was
left to be done in the field of scientific explo-
ration. (Id., 7).
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distorted view upon nature. Traditional medicine was
studying death, instead of life, for gaining informa-
tion about life, which could obviously not result in a
functional medical system.
The result was that as Paracelsus reported in his
books many more people were dying from official
medical practice rather than as a result of illness or
old age, virtually in the blossom in their youth.
While the Chinese, already thousands of years ago,
had observed the living body, and never resorted to
vivisection. Chinese medicine traditionally focused
upon health, and preventing disease, while Western
medicine focused upon illness, and how to prepare
for death. More importantly even, vibrational medi-
cine has got a model for the vibrant nature of human
emotions as it considers emotions not just as a result
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of neurochemical reactions in the limbic system, but
as driven by the human energy field.
Wilhelm Reich wrote that emotions are bioener-
gy in flow, energy in motion, which is why, as he ex-
plained, they are called emotions: as they are e-moted
or moved out, squeezed out from the bioplasma. I
think one can hardly express it in better terms. But
this view was clearly marginal until recently in mod-
ern science.
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marily of the writings of Max Long and Erika Nau on
Huna, I did not find anything really new in this
book, but it clarified many things through expressing
them not in modern scientific terms but in the lan-
guage the natives are using.
To begin with, as I found through my own re-
search, there is something like a hypnotic view, which
is a way to see reality through the eyes of the astral
dimension or etheric vibrational field.
While under hypnotic trance, I was seeing the
faces of people in different ways than in ordinary re-
ality. For example, I had seen a large third eye, a real-
ly huge human eye in the center of the front of an
energy healer, during a treatment with Bach Plants.
Victor and Cora Anderson confirm this uncanny
observation by explaining that the trance view of
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human being’s genitals shows surprising anomalies in
that with a male, some parts of female genitals are
observed, and with females, some archaic representa-
tion of a male organ.
They call this process the ‘etheric view,’ and it is
identical with what I call the ‘hypnotic view.’ It is a
way of perceiving reality visually in a non-ordinary
space-time continuum that some call ‘trance,’ others
‘hypnosis’ and again others, the ‘clairvoyant reality.’
Besides, the authors of this book also assert that
the human soul consists of a ‘trinity structure’ in that
the human soul consists of three distinct entities.
The authors have a unique manner to express
phenomena known from psychology, psychoanalysis,
parapsychology and quantum physics, as they use
the terminology of the natives, and not the language
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of modern science. But for this very reason, their ac-
count actually gains vivacity and authenticity. Some
observations are strikingly original, such as the idea,
to be equally found in other clairvoyant literature,
that the human body emits a specific sound, a sound
that is different from one individual to the other, a
frequency that identifies the individual.
Generally speaking, the field of research that
quantum physics calls subatomic, is in the language
of the natives the world of the spirits. I have found
this confirmed in the overwhelming part of shamanic
literature.
A particularly interesting field of study has be-
come aura research, and even aura healing, the heal-
ing of the luminous body. What years ago was still
relegated to ‘esoteric traditions’ is now beginning to
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be sternly integrated into the official body of medical
science and psychology.
However, in the popular literature, the aura is of-
ten presented in a misleading manner, probably be-
cause of lacking knowledge. Contrary to common
belief, the aura is not limited to living beings, but is
an energy-related phenomenon that is to be found
with all objects, be they animated or inanimate.
For the clairvoyant it looks like a shadowy sub-
stance around the object, which varies in color, den-
sity and dimensions, depending on the kind of mat-
ter. This is even true for a piece of rock, let alone a
piece of wood, because the latter is organic matter.
Even if we break a rock apart, we will see that the
aura or etheric part follows the outline of the break.
What has been seen by the use of Kirlian Photography
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is described also by energy healers who heal recur-
ring pain in phantom limbs by impacting energetical-
ly upon the luminous field of the missing or ampu-
tated limb.
Energy Medicine
It is good to see that for one time, professionals
in the alternative sector realize and acknowledge that
their discoveries are not a product of our time, but
simply, a rediscovery of ancient wisdom.
Donna Eden and David Feinstein, in their book
Energy Medicine (1999) speak of a ‘return of energy
medicine,’ not for that matter about the ‘emergence’
of energy medicine. They acknowledge that this new
science is a ‘legacy of our ancestors in harmonizing
with the forces of nature.’ It also seems that Donna
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Eden’s collaboration with David Feinstein led to a
very wholesome mix of energies.
The authors have done ground-breaking research
on the ubiquitous quality of the energy concept,
thereby having laid the theoretical groundwork of
energy healing, and this is truly a good thing to hap-
pen, as there are still many healers who learn from
hearsay and practice methods they don’t truly under-
stand. Not so for these authors. They followed up to
their strong intuitive perception by a thorough base
of theoretical and cross-cultural knowledge, and this
makes the strength of this book. The authors write
on the cultural background of energy medicine:
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Jewish cabalistic tradition, ki in Japan, baraka by
the Sufis, wakan by the Lakotas, orenda by the
Iroquois, megbe by the Ituri Pygmies, and the
Holy Spirit in Christian tradition. It is hardly a
new idea to suggest that subtle energies operate
in tandem with the denser, ‘congealed’ energies of
the material body. (Id., 16).
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Swedenborg as spirit energy, with Mesmer as animal
magnetism and with Reich as orgone.
The base principle of what I would like to call
the energy worldview, as opposed to the materialistic
worldview, can be expressed by the slogan ‘matter
follows energy;’ in this sense, when our vital energy
is vibrant, our body is healthy.
And here we should realize a methodological
hurdle. When we pick out concepts from different
cultural soils, we cannot just put them in the same
box and glue one label on the box identifying both.
When we do that, we disregard the truth that every
concept is filled with meaning and the meaning is
contextual, and cultural. In our culture, for example,
we have a certain notion of ‘soul’ as being a subtle
energy that gives form to us; when spirit is the all-
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pervasive, intelligent energy of creation, soul is the
manifestation of it at the personal level.
Let me give another example. In Traditional Chi-
nese Medicine (TCM), harmony means health. The an-
cient Chinese physicians discovered that when an or-
ganism is healthy, it is naturally harmonious, and
there are no extremes and all is in a state of balance.
The same is true the other way around: when an or-
ganism is found to be in harmony, the physician
could conclude that the organism is in good health.
This was ignored over centuries in Western medi-
cine, and energy medicine now brings this perennial
notion of harmony or balance into our medical par-
adigm. The authors acknowledge balance as being a
‘pivotal concept’ within energy medicine. However,
the book goes far beyond the theory. There are many
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different ways to work on your vital energy, and how
to balance it if you have abused of yourself too
much, through stress, smoking, fatigue, drug intake
or through destructive relationships. For most com-
mon ailments the book gives practical advice how to
treat not just the symptom, but the underlying ener-
gy misbalance to reestablish health by opening the
energy flow, as a first step, and by balancing the en-
ergies, as a second step.
The authors explain that many health problems
at their early stage can be healed by dissolving the
energy blockage. How does the energy flow get
blocked? In most cases by mishandling our emo-
tions, by repressing certain emotions, or by trying to
overadapt to certain situations, disregarding feelings
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of anger or frustration over long periods of time. This
is how the vital energy can become obstructed.
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ternative cure for cancer back in the 1970s. They had
a lot of courage. And they did not give up when oth-
ers would have done so, namely when things got hot
and smelly. They did not fear to lose their reputation
while they were doing things that were not quite tol-
erated, at that time, by the medical establishment.
They criticized the usual ways of treating cancer—or
should I say of mistreating cancer?
Their account is written in an honest and lively
manner, not theory-based but sanely experience-
based. They have walked their talk over so many
years that nobody questions it any more—or almost.
I think they have greatly helped to establish alterna-
tive cancer cure in our today’s diversified medical
servicing, and thereby have done a great job for all of
us! This is great news.
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And yet, I have met so many people in my life,
even in recent years, who never heard of the exis-
tence of alternative cancer therapy! How can that be?
This is how our society is: there is diversification,
but only for the educated strata, or should I say for
those who have the money to buy books? The com-
mon man and the common woman get their knowl-
edge from the mass media, and there you see same
old soup, even now, nineteen years after the change
into the new millennium, with death-blow doctoral
injunctions of the kind ‘Your life expectancy is max-
imum six months,’ chemotherapy, and all the rest of
it. And of course, you can find the Simontons on the
Internet, their well-done web site about the Simon-
ton Cancer Center, but if your mind is barren, and
you believe only what you are told on television, you
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are done, cooked, boiled, eaten. And you won’t even
search the Internet for getting an information that
you think does not exist.
Fritjof Capra mentions in his book The Turning
Point (1982/1987) that when he did his research on
alternative medicine, and wrote his critique of tradi-
tional Western medicine, he was astonished to find
that the words healing and healer assume a pejorative
meaning for most medical doctors. In fact, these
terms are associated by most medical businessmen as
relating to ‘charlatanism.’ That is why, among other
things, the Simontons did not have an easy job. Their
breakthrough were techniques today called ‘self-
awareness techniques’ that at the time when they
started where called visualization techniques or men-
tal imaging. It was one of several approaches they
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had tried out, but as these techniques were more
successful than others in helping patients to getting
well again, they stuck with them. (There are many
other alternative cancer therapies, some are based on
diet, some on bioenergetic treatment, some on ozone
inhalation, and so on and so forth).
If I have understood the book well, the most im-
portant in the process of helping the patient to col-
laborate in healing their cancer is to get them to learn
that they have at all a role to play in their healing.
For they are conditioned by traditional medicine to
be mere injunction-receivers, and passive sufferers of
a fate falling on their head like the proverbial tile
from the roof. The authors write:
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to national cancer statistics, they have an average
life expectancy of one year. When these people
believe that only medical treatment can help
them—but their physicians have said that medi-
cine is no longer of much avail and that they
probably have only a few months to live—they
feel doomed, trapped, helpless, and usually fulfill
the doctor’s expectations. But if patients mobilize
their own resources and actively participate in
their recovery, they may well exceed their life ex-
pectancy and significantly alter the quality of life.
(Id., 4).
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chronic irritants, and cancer, and that the matter is
rather controversial in the literature.
What concerns genetic predisposition, the au-
thors note that a human-based research was not yet
available, the research being available having been
conducted on mice, and that this research left con-
siderable doubt on any ‘it’s genetics alone’ theory.
As to the problem of radiation, the authors note
that background radiation, also called cosmic radia-
tion, is too universal a cause to possibly contribute to
the cancer etiology. Specifically with regard to fluoro-
carbons released from aerosol cans that destroy the
ozone layer of the atmosphere, leading to an in-
creased exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the
sun, the authors admit that although this could cer-
tainly lead to potential health problems, high levels
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of ultraviolet rays were not normally associated with
any cancer other than skin cancer.
As to x-rays and other radiation used in medical
diagnosis and treatment, the evidence was still un-
clear because many people who have been exposed
to high levels of x-rays or other radiation do not con-
tract cancer.
Regarding diet as a possible cause of cancer,
which is a relatively recent etiology, the authors note
that Japan has had over years the lowest cancer rate,
but those Japanese who are working and living in the
United States are prone to cancer just like Americans.
The authors argue that for understanding cancer,
we have to look why some people have a stronger
immune system than others? As problems with organ
transplantation showed, the body’s immune system
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normally is very strong. For example, a cancer-affect-
ed organ would not be accepted by the receiver, and
if forced to do so, as was shown by experiments, the
receiver would indeed contract the cancer, but as
soon as the organ was again removed, the cancer
would quickly disappear. This research, as the au-
thors conclude, has led to a broad medical accep-
tance of what is called the ‘surveillance theory’ of
cancer development.
Now, the answer is of course, as it trickled
through in the meantime even into popular science
publications that the real causes of cancer are related
to emotional stress, in the sense that the suppression
of emotions, or certain emotions, clearly contributes
to the causation of cancer. Another factor is the in-
ability noted in most cancer patients to express their
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emotions and thus release themselves at times from
pent-up emotional tension. For example in a research
done by Dr. Thomas A. Holmes and his associates at
the University of Washington School of Medicine, the
authors report, and where a scale was designed that
assigned numerical values (1-100) to certain stressful
events, ‘Death of Spouse,’ is rated 100, followed by
‘Divorce’, with 73 and ‘Marital Separation’ with 65.
However, even in Holmes’ study, 51 percent of the
individuals with scores of 300 did not get sick during
the period of the study, which let the authors con-
clude that an event, even stressful, is construed dif-
ferently from person to person. A decisive study
done in the 1920s by Dr. Hans Selye at the Universi-
ty of Prague gave conclusive evidence for the stress-
related etiology:
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This evidence clearly demonstrates the very real
physical effects of stress. But it is still another ef-
fect that is of greatest importance to the cancer
patient. Selye has discovered that chronic stress
suppresses the immune system which is respon-
sible for engulfing and destroying cancerous cells
or alien microorganisms. The important point is
this: The physical conditions Selye describes as
being produced by stress are virtually identical to
those under which an abnormal cell could repro-
duce and spread into a dangerous cancer. Not
surprisingly, cancer patients frequently have
weakened immune systems. (Id., 53).
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immune system where it was demonstrated ‘that the
body’s immunity to tuberculosis can be profoundly
affected by hypnotic suggestion,’ which leads to the
conclusion that mental and emotional stress impacts
on the body’s defenses. The authors conclude that
there are major themes of research in the etiology of
cancer that crystallized out and that can be summa-
rized as follows:
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But this is not yet the core of what we can learn
from the book. Yes, it may sound dramatic, but we
are not yet in the center of the hurricane, so to speak.
The real causes of cancer are still more subtle. The
authors went further in their research and found his-
torical connections between cancer and emotions,
and that certain beliefs clearly create a predisposition
for cancer. They finally found that it’s not down the
road the fact that we got stress, but how we cope
with it. They note:
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I have always assumed that moralism is a strong
factor in the etiology of cancer, and the cancer pa-
tients I have met in my life have corroborated this in-
sight. They were invariably people who were think-
ing much on the lines of ‘should be’ and ‘ought to
behave’ compared to the average citizen who tends to
rather think first of themselves!
In other words, the lesson cancer teaches us can
be described as: ‘Don’t try to be holier than the
Pope!’
Quoting a researcher who published a book in
1893 with the title Cancer and the Cancer-Process, and
who stated that ‘idiots and lunatics are remarkably
exempt from cancer in every shape,’ the authors go
on to examine an array of research findings that cor-
roborate the insight that it’s the way we cope with the
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loss of a relative or spouse, or generally with emo-
tional stress, that decides about the fate to contract
cancer or not.
In other words, it’s our basic attitude toward life,
how we are facing life’s challenges, how we are en-
countering situations, good or bad, how we react to
experiences that are stressful, or felt as ‘defeating.’
When we do not have a stoic attitude, as I have
defined it several times in other publications, we
tend to be virtually thrown about like a ship without
rudder when the sea is high. In such a case, our
mental attitude creates a ‘predisposition’ for cancer.
Now, among the factors that cause a predisposi-
tion, the authors examine the research of Dr.
Lawrence LeShan, an experimental psychologist who
found evidence that codependence and emotional
—71—
abuse may contribute to the cancer etiology. He iden-
tified four recurring elements, something like a fatal-
ly coincidental sequence, in the life stories of more
than 500 cancer patients:
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quently viewed the cancer patients as unusually
wonderful people, saying of them: ‘He’s such a
good, sweet man’ or ‘She’s a saint.’ LeShan con-
cludes, ‘The benign quality, the ‘goodness’ of
these people was in fact a sign of their failure to
believe in themselves sufficiently, and their lack
of hope. (Id. 63).
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After reviewing some of their own patient’s life
stories, the authors inquire into the psychological
process of illness. They come to stress certain factors
they have seen in all the life stories they reviewed,
such as, for example:
1. Experiences in childhood result in decisions
to be a certain kind of person.
2. The individual is rocked by a cluster of
stressful life events.
3. These stresses create a problem with which
the individual does not know how to deal.
4. The individual sees no way of changing the
rules about how he or she must act and so feels
trapped and helpless to resolve the problem. /
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5. The individual puts distance between himself
or herself and the problem, becoming static, un-
changing, rigid. (Id., 74-75).
For each of these categories, the authors cite very
conclusive evidence from case histories, which I will
not discuss here because of copyright. I can only say
that this part of the book is perhaps the most impor-
tant as it provides concise evidence as to the real
causes of cancer, which can be summarized as being
emotional, behavioral, and belief-related.
But this is not all there is in the etiology of can-
cer. The authors also provide conclusive evidence for
the fact that also the expectations a patient fosters
about cancer as a disease contribute to the etiology,
and that there is also evidence for the fact that the
stiff neurotic adherence to a life-denying ideology or
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religion or otherwise morality-imposing belief system
decidedly contributes to the causation of cancer.
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