| In my nearly twenty year exploration of alternative | | | | healing energy may in fact be healing information. |
| medicine and healing I have often wondered about | | | | Researchers at Princeton University have measured |
| the concept of healing "energy." Healing energy is a | | | | changes in information in the form of changes in the |
| mysterious thing indeed. Many people can definitely | | | | outputs of random number generators in healing |
| feel it but it escapes scientific measurement. When | | | | practices. Random number generators should produce |
| scientists try to measure this energy in the form of | | | | a series of ones and zeros that cancel each other |
| the four forces of nature (electromagnetic, gravity, | | | | out. When these devices are placed in healing |
| strong and weak nuclear) they usually come up | | | | practices or have intention directed at them they |
| empty handed. | | | | deviate from randomness by producing more ones or |
| My hypothesis about healing: that all healing is in | | | | zeroes. |
| essence exchanges of information provides an | | | | These measurements of decreases in randomness |
| answer to the mystery of healing energy. A number | | | | are measurements nonetheless as compared to the |
| of leading scientists including James Gardner, John | | | | lack of success in measuring healing energy. Perhaps |
| Barrow, Paul Davies and Nobel laureate Christian de | | | | these fluctuations picked up by the devices |
| Duve have put forth ideas that support the concept | | | | represent a change in some kind of informational field |
| that life can be understood in terms of exchanges of | | | | surrounding a living being. The healer does not send |
| information. In complexity theorist James Gardner's | | | | healing energy to the patient but somehow changes |
| new book "The Intelligent Universe" he posits what | | | | the informational field surrounding the patient. The |
| he calls the selfish biocosm hypothesis in which the | | | | healer acts as an information source much like in a |
| universe is much like an intelligent being. The universe | | | | communications channel. The patient receives the |
| evolves on a path to preserve information. It does | | | | information and integrates it with the result of |
| so by producing life that also evolves to higher | | | | moving toward a state of greater complexity or |
| states of complexity in order to preserve the | | | | healing. |
| information in the universe. | | | | If this is true then healing energy will be understood |
| If we live in the midst of what could be called a | | | | in a whole new light. The search for an elusive kind |
| cosmic computer perhaps what we experience as | | | | of energy will transform into a search for information. |