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Media Watch for September 2006 (Issue 58)
The Media Looks for Conflict not Resolution: Michael Tymn interviewed Dr. Gary Schwartz for a Psychic Times article. Schwartz, as most of you know, is the University of Arizona professor who has done double and triple blind studies testing mediums. Schwartz had this to say about the biggest problem with the media. “I was recently contacted by a national television show which wanted to have a medium for research and then wanted to have a skeptic,” he explained, “and I said you are telling this as if there are only two stories. There’s the medium and science versus the skeptic. I told him he had it wrong, that there are three stories here. There are what the mediums claim, there are what the skeptics claim, then there is the science which attempts to look at what the truth is. Science is actually the third story. Somebody can criticize the science, but that’s a different issue. The media is making a huge mistake when it sees it as two stories only. They’re looking for conflict, not resolution.” From: The Psychic Times, “Dr. Gary Schwartz Continues Survival Research,” by Michael E. Tymn, http://thepsychictimes.com/articles/schwartz.htm
The Art Transplant: William Sheridan was able to
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Medical opinion is skeptical but Gary Schwartz, a professor of medicine, neurology, psychiatry and surgery at the University of Arizona, says research by a team he leads has found definite links. He calls it “cellular memory.” Schwartz has documented seventy cases where he believes transplant recipients have inherited the traits of their donors. He says, “When the organ is placed in the recipient, the information and energy stored in the organ is passed on to the recipient.” This theory applies to any organ and not just the heart but Schwartz says heart transplant patients are the most likely to experience personality changes. From: The Daily Mail, “The art transplant,” 31st March 2006, www.dailymail.co.uk. Note this is the same Dr. Schwartz interviewed by Tymn (above.)
Implications of Bioentanglement: In the “Frontiers of Science” column of the March-May 2006 Institute of Noetic Science magazine, Shift, consciousness researcher, Dean Radin, described some of the experimental evidence showing that biological systems are apparently “entangled” in much the same way that photons can be entangled as seen in quantum physics. As an example, in experiments conducted by researchers in the University of Milan, Italy, human neurons in one culture responded to stimuli applied to neurons in a physically separated sample. Thus, even though separated, they were somehow mutually aware.
Bioentanglement is a modern term describing what is traditionally referred to as “connectedness.” The big difference is that, as with the Italian experiments, research is showing that the network of connectedness Spiritualists and human potential researchers around the world have always been aware of, is a tangible field now referred to by some researchers as a “morphic field.”
“Morphogenesis” is concerned with the formation of an organism, and Rupert Sheldrake has hypothesized that “Morphogenesis also depends on organizing fields.” He has referred to these “organizing fields” as “morphogenic fields” or “morphic fields.” (See www.sheldrake.org)
We have previously written about the work Dean Radin and others have conducted to identify the bounds and implications of connectedness. In the above mentioned column, Radin speculated about how people would behave if their entanglement with the rest of society might alter behavior, concluding that, “in an entangled society, cheating doesn’t pay.” He did not describe any possible mechanism that might make the influences of such entanglement suddenly strong enough to change a person’s behavior; however, the implication is that our behavior may be influenced in small ways by our connectedness.
Similar speculation is often heard concerning “how wonderful it will be when everyone accepts that we survive so called death.” In fact, we know a number of people who should know and accept their immortality. Our observations are that certainty of survival does not automatically translate into a change in behavior, and that knowing to follow the Golden Rule does not come naturally but must be taught. Intellectually knowing we are connected and that we will survive our physical body does not automatically translate into personal knowledge that will guide our decisions.
The Placebo Effect: The placebo effect has been considered a psychological peculiarity but research at the University of Michigan is showing that it has a real physical effect on the body. Jon-Kar Zubieta’s team found that placebos relieve pain by boosting the release of endorphins. The researchers did not simply take the word of the volunteers that they felt less pain but also scanned their brains and found that they were releasing more pain-relieving endorphins than normal.
Suspended for Consulting a Psychic: In April, an Australian Federal Police officer was suspended for consulting a psychic regarding a death treat to Australian Prime Minister John Howard. An AFP official stated that they do not condone the use of psychics in security matters. The AFP’s spokesman for homeland security said he would be greatly concerned if the AFP was using clairvoyants, “I think, perhaps, this fellow has watched a few too many of the US detective shows.” From: The Age, “The police, the PM
and the psychic,” By Leo Shanahan, Eamonn Duff, Jason Koutsoukis
Netherlands Cracking Down on Complementary Medicine: Three doctors who were involved in the treatment of deceased actress, Sylvia Millecam, were punished in April by the Medical Disciplinary Board in Amsterdam. One was permanently expelled, one suspended for six months and another for a year. According to the Medical Board, the three alternative practitioners withheld the necessary information on treatment for her breast cancer. They say that the actress would have had a reasonable chance of healing if she had been treated in a regular way (surgery followed by chemotherapy). The Board also said that Sylvia’s resistance to this type of procedure did not free the doctors of their obligation to make it clear to her that such a treatment was “her only chance on curing.” From: Dutch newspaper, Trouw, www.trouw.nl, 4/7/2006
Beat the Devil: We had to laugh at this little tidbit titled, “Beat the Devil,” in the AARP Bulletin. “Why just older woman,” we wondered. “In the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong, ritual performers will punish your enemies by smashing paper effigies of them. ‘We thought only older women would come,’ a practitioner’s daughter told a reporter, ‘but I have seen many young people asking my mother to beat and curse detestable colleagues.’”
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transplant operation, he was suddenly blessed with artistic talent. He
was even more amazed when he discovered what he now believes is the
explanation for his new talent; The man who donated his new heart was an
artist who had shown an interest in art at the early age of eighteen
months and preferred art supplies to toys.
