In recent years there has been quite a bit of scientific research into the body/mind connection which can help us to understand what it is and how it works. In her recent book on this subject titled "The Field" Lynne McTaggart has collected a number of research findings into an easily read format. She suggests that quantum coherence might be the key to the body/mind connection:

"Coherence establishes communication. It's like a subatomic telephone network. The better the coherence, the finer the telephone network and the more refined wave patterns have a telephone. The end result is also a bit like a large orchestra. All the photons are playing together but as individual instruments that are able to carry on playing individual parts. Nevertheless, when you are listening, it's difficult to pick out any one instrument.

What was even more amazing was that Popp was witnessing the highest level of quantum order, or coherence, possible in a living system. Usually, this coherence - called a Bose-Einstein condensate - is only observed in material substances such as superfluids or superconductors studied in the laboratory in very cold places - just a few degrees above absolute zero - and not in the hot and messy environment of a living thing."

I believe that researchers have found the substances that Lynne McTaggart is talking about. We call these substances ORMUS and more information about them can be found in an article on this subject at:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/connecting.htm

McTaggart describes research which suggests that water is one medium of this coherent communication system:

"This would mean that water is like a tape recorder, imprinting and carrying information whether the original molecule is still there or not. The shaking of the containers, as is done in homeopathy, appears to act as a method of speeding up this process.14 So vital is water to the transmission of energy and information that Benveniste's own studies actually demonstrate that molecular signals cannot be transmitted in the body unless you do so in the medium of water.15 In Japan, a physicist called Kunio Yasue of the Research Institute for Information and Science, Notre Dame Seishin University in Okayama, also found that water molecules have some role to play in organizing discordant energy into coherent photons - a process called 'superradiance'.16

This suggests that water, as the natural medium of all cells, acts as the essential conductor of a molecule's signature frequency in all biological processes and that water molecules organize themselves to form a pattern on which can be imprinted wave information. If Benveniste is right, water not only sends the signal but also amplifies it."

I have written a couple of articles on this subject. They can be found at:

Homeopathic Resonances and ORMUS
http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/homeopat.htm

Living Water, Vital Air
http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/livwater.htm

She also suggests that the communication between mind and body literally involves information stored in non-physical realms:

"Walter Schempp's explosive discovery about quantum memory set off the most outrageous idea of all: short- and long-term memory doesn't reside in our brain at all, but instead is stored in the Zero Point Field. After Pribram's discoveries, a number of scientists, including systems theorist Ervin Laszlo, would go on to argue that the brain is simply the retrieval and read-out mechanism of the ultimate storage medium - The Fie1d.47 Pribram's associates from Japan would hypothesize that what we think of as memory is simply a coherent emission of signals from the Zero Point Field, and that longer memories are a structured grouping of this wave information.48 If this were true, it would explain why one tiny association often triggers a riot of sights, sounds and smells. It would also explain why, with long-term memory in particular, recall is instantaneous and doesn't require any scanning mechanism to sift though years and years of memory."

McTaggart suggested that "mind over matter" effects can be stronger and more coherent in certain circumstances:

"Being of the same sex tended to have a very slight negative effect. These types of couples had a worse outcome than they achieved individually; with eight pairs of operators the results were the very opposite of what was intended. Couples of the opposite sex, all of whom knew each other, had a powerful complementary effect, producing more than three and a half times the effect of individuals. However, 'bonded' pairs, those couples in a relationship, had the most profound effect, which was nearly six times as strong as that of single operators.35"
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"Strangest of all, the size of the effect on the agitated group by those trying to calm them down was only slightly less than the effect that people had on themselves when using relaxation techniques. In statistical terms, it meant that other people could have almost the same mind-body effect on you that you could have on yourself. Letting someone else express a good intention for you was almost as good as using biofeedback on yourself.

Braud tried a similar study showing that you could also help someone else focus his or her attention by remote influence. Once again, the effects were largest among those whose attention seemed to wander the most.14"
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"The perfect opportunity to look closer at the nature of collective memory and resonance arose during a trip to Egypt. Nelson decided to attend a two-week tour of Egypt with a group of nineteen colleagues, planning to visit the main temples and sacred sites of the ancient Egyptians, where they would carry out a series of informal ceremonies, such as chanting and meditation. This trip would give him the chance to see whether people engaged in meditative activities at these sites - the kind of activities, in a sense, for which the sites had originally been built - had even more effect on the machines. Nelson kept a PalmREG [Palm computer based Random Event Generator] running in his coat pocket during visits to all the major sites - the great Sphinx, the Temples of Karnak and Luxor, the Great Pyramid of Giza. The PalmREG was on while the group meditated or chanted and when they were simply wandering through the temples, and even during moments when he was on his own, touring or meditating. He also kept a careful record of times when various activities had occurred.

When he'd returned home and compiled all his data, an interesting pattern emerged. The strongest effects on the machine occurred during times when the group was engaged in a ritual such as chanting at a sacred site. In most of the main pyramids, the effects had been six times that of ordinary REG trials at PEAR and twice those of ordinary FieldREG trials. These were among the largest effects he'd seen - as large as those for a bonded couple. But when he put together all the data of the twenty-seven sacred sites he'd visited, while simply walking around them with no more than a respectful silence, the results were even more astounding. The spirit of the place itself appeared to register effects every bit as large as the meditating group."

How might we use the scientific information in Lynne McTaggart's book to improve our success with various mind/body healing techniques?

First, it would be nice to increase the concentration of the substances she speaks of as being Bose-Einstein condensates that enhance quantum coherence in the body. My life work is dedicated to making free information, about how to make or extract these substances, available to everyone. You can find some of these methods on my web site at:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/magtrap.htm
http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/ormus2.htm

Second, we might consider using techniques which are successful at accessing the non-physical "zero point field" like prayer and meditation in order to strengthen our connection with this source of knowledge.

Third, healing circles which include bonded men and women may be more effective than same gender healing circles.

Fourth, sacred places appear to set up a resonant field which promotes coherent healing forces.

I am sure that we will discover many other techniques related to the subtle energy healing methods as we begin to apply scientific methods to our exploration. Just as hypnotism has improved between Mesmer's discovery of "animal magnetism" and Milton H. Erickson's Ericksonian Hypnotism.

This is obviously an area in which we must rely more on intuitive observations and ideas than traditional sciences. Our intuitive discoveries should, nevertheless, be examined with scientific rigor using some of the new measurement tools that science is providing.

We can use tools like the Prognos diagnosis device to verify muscle testing and dowsing results. We can also use the random event generators to help us redesign healing circles for greater benefit. There are other new measurement tools on the horizon. One example of these is Philip Callahan's tachyon detector which he built using a ficus plant hooked up to a chart recorder.

Here is another example of how the subtle healing energies might be better used as we gain more understanding of them. This passage is a discussion between a clinical psychologist and a physicist who have been working with the ORMUS elements and related technologies for several years:

+++++  I have two entirely different spin field generators and have no idea either what causes the longitudinal waves, if that is what they are,  but notice that they "propagate" at a 90 degree angle to the vector of the spin field. The spin field extends from both generators in a manner similar to a light-saber, as popularized by the Star Wars movies. Though not visible except to the subtle vision, the spin field effects are clearly discernable in a narrow cone emanating from the source. (More on the effects below.)

+++++ To visualise these two types of phenomena, imagine a sword pointing straight upwards. In this picture, the vertical segment of the hilt is the generator. On the same upward vector, the sword blade is the spin field. The cross bar that is the protector at the hilt represents the longitudinal waves in question.

            These waves pass uneffected through steel and affect the human body according to my kinesiological testing . They can be quite healthy. At one point I referred to them as virtual nutrition (I now think wrongly). With a white noise wide spectrum of these (possibly longitudinal) waves, I can find no body reflex indicative of nutritional need,  deficiency,  of any kind.

This is good!!! As you know, everything is energetic in its basis, and everything has a resonant frequency.
The fact that there is no indication of any kind of deficiency is important, and indicates to me
that this system is highly beneficial to the person. In fact, I think you were not far off when you
referred to this as "virtual nutrition". It is fairly clear, based on your expressions, that the apparatus
seems to act to balance the energetic aspects of the Being, which energetic aspects are the true
foundations of physical health. One could view this as an energetic nutrition, but I would look at
it more in terms of an energetic tonifier. And very valuable at that.
 
+++++ Yes, both ways of looking at the effects, energetic nutrition and energetic tonifier, are appealing. I got into torsion fields (effect) through the study of Ormus. I think that The Stone is supposed to meet every physical need? The  virtual nutrition effect of the spin fields may be parallel. At the moment, I am conceiving of the effect as supporting the spectrum of biological activities that are otherwise supported physically by vitamins, minerals and etc. ( P. Yogananda wrote that vitamins were forces.) So as you suggested, the nutritional effects may have to do with resonant frequencies. Yet, it is not EMF if it passes unaffected through the steel box (Faraday cage), is it? I am thinking pre-physical, coming from the subtle or hyperdimensional (implicate order ?)  space.

The Russian literature has a large body of studies regarding the effects of various kinds of energetic sources
which are used to generate resonances which act to improve all manner of physical problems and diseases.
There was even a study which claimed cures of some forms of insanity by applications of the proper resonant frequencies!
I think of this one as invaluable!

Does your apparatus demonstrate any large and strong effect on the emotional and/or mental well-being?
 
+++++N, the spin field vector, the sword blade in the analogy, has an immediate and dramatic effect on the emotional nature. The acupuncture meridians come into balance very quickly. This (chi) level of the human energy field is well balanced with the use of the device. Further, one of my associates, a clairvoyant and healer, uses the sun in his personal energy development and clearing. He pointed the back part of my device ( bottom of the hilt, input) at the sun and the front at his heart area ( point of the sword, output) at my request. He said the marvelous results were more than 100 times what he is normally able to get from the sun, including some things he was never able to perceive and use before. He claimed a high charge state with great clarity as the result. this result brought to mind something that you had written about torsion fields being more than 100 times the speed of light. Please note that, I do not think this is the case with Alexander Shpilman's Axion generator.

+++++Lastly , re the psychological aspects functioning. There is a state called psychological reversal. It is one in which a person will not heal, regardless of any factor because they are basically negative to themselves. This can also show up in self-defeating life choices. I have found that the "transverse waves" can be aligned with the energy field of the brain to at least temporarily terminate psychological reversal. These waves are modulated in my apparatus to include frequencies from sub-minutes to 14 MHz, although it is not EMF!

If so, it is worth its weight in gold. Literally.
 
+++++ Yes, it has been worth that to me, as I use it daily in my clinic and it has speeded up my work and made it seem effortless in many cases. There is another value to it, I think. Perhaps this type of device allows us to model on a macro level some of what happens with Ormus at the nuclear level? Also, the same types of charging that can be used in making The Stone can be used as an input for this generator and applied to a material or directly to a person with good result. This research is in its tentative beginnings but, my oh my, you should see what starlight can do when "amplified" in this manner.