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From: Daniel J. Benor, M.D.
Date: 5/7/2001
Time: 11:59:09 AM
Remote Name: 207.144.212.70
Psi Healing and Related Evidence: Implications Beyond Individual Treatment
Daniel J. Benor, M.D.
Daniel J. Benor, M.D. P.O. Box 502 Medford, NJ 08055 Phone (609) 714-1885 Fax (609) 714-3553 E-mail: db@WholisticHealingResearch.com http://www.WholisticHealingResearch.com ©2000 by Daniel J. Benor, M.D.
This paper accepts the existence of psi healing (also called spiritual, mental and paranormal healing) to be an established fact. The author has found 152 published studies of healing (Benor 1990; Benor in press). More than half of these demonstrate significant effects. There is thus more research on healing than on all the other complementary therapies combined, with the exception of hypnosis and psychoneuroimmunology. Psi healing demonstrates that the mind of a healer can alter the conditions of organisms, including cells in vitro, bacteria, yeasts, plants, animals and humans. In addition, there is evidence that healers may influence water, crystallization of salt solutions and enzymes. Some of these studies show significant effects of healing at a distance. These studies have focused on the question of whether healing exists and whether healing may influence particular target organisms or other systems. There is evidence that healing effects may extend beyond an individual or single target system. Healing may influence groups of bacteria or mice simultaneously. Anecdotal reports and the author's experience indicate that healing directed at individual persons' problems may influence their relationships with others. There is evidence from healers that unconscious or subconscious needs and/or wishes of healees may link them telepathically with healers or with a source of healing. Anecdotal reports indicate that healees may draw healing to themselves and/or that healers may send healing without conscious awareness or even without specific intent. Healers, New Age people, members of various religions and some psi researchers believe that minds may link telepathically in meditation, prayer and group activities such as sports. Clairvoyants and telepaths appear able to obtain information from an undefined source about anything they wish to know. This extends to intuitive diagnosis in healing. The existence of "super-ESP" is suggested by numerous experiments These facts imply that psi may link us to a collective consciousness or that it may connect us with information on demand from anyone, anywhere in the world. Many of the experiments forming the basis for Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphogenetic fields suggest that a collective consciousness may for a basis for species-specific memory. There is a growing awareness of "Gaia" as a geo-biological ecosystem. The implications of the above are that psi may link us as individuals with other individuals and with our planet as cells are linked with each other to form an organism whose whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A growing awareness of "Gaia" as a unitary organism suggests that parapsychology has much to contribute about possible mechanisms whereby the parts may function as a whole. At least one simple experiment is suggested to forge a link in this direction. Rex Stanford's "conformance" theory postulates that psi acts readily upon systems that are in random flux. Cells dividing for reproductive purposes (in meiosis) appear to go through a phase where the individual genes arrange themselves randomly within chromosome pairs. This would appear to be a system that could be readily influenced by psi. A Mendelian bean color experiment could be performed in which subjects seek to influence more white or more black beans to be produced (Benor 1987).
Relevant references: Benor, DJ, Healing Research, Volumes I-IV, Southfield, MI: Vision Publications (in press) Benor, DJ, Lamarckian genetics: theories from psi research and evidence from the work of Luther Burbank, Proceedings of SPR Conference, Edinburgh, August 1987.