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09-30-2003, 11:32 AM
http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/newsh/items/article/item_3718.html
The Qi Question?
Is It More Than "A Beautiful Form of hypnosis"?
Garret Yount
Garret Yount, Ph.D., was trained as a molecular neuroscientist. His wife, Yifang Qian, m.d., ph.d., who is from Beijing, was trained in both Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. Eleven years ago, when Yount's father was diagnosed with Stage IV (terminal) leukemia, the three traveled to China where Yount's father engaged in a combination of conventional chemotherapy and Chinese therapies including herbs and qigong. Nowadays, Yount's father is coexisting peacefully with his cancer, Qian is a board-certified psychiatrist, and Yount has taken up qigong. A collaborator with Anne Harrington and funded by the Fetzer Foundation, he dreams of discovering that the mind is able to alter genetic expression. He already has provocative evidence suggesting that qi is more than a "beautiful form of hypnosis."— Ed.
Most people involved in qigong have a daily meditation practice often using simple movements or postures and breathing exercises, and there is plenty of good evidence that this kind of practice is health promoting. From the Western perspective, it seems likely that the behavioral techniques involved in qigong meditation can influence human physiology just like hypnosis can — through the complex interconnections of the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems. But there are some individuals who, after many years of practicing internal qigong, believe they can develop the ability to manipulate qi outside the body. This is the basis of external qigong therapy, which looks basically like psychic healing or spiritual healing. It is the aspect of qigong we wanted to study. . . .
Our data indicates that the differences in the qigong dishes are likely due to some aspect of the qigong treatment rather than to something we were unknowingly doing to the cells when moving them around. We explored other possible explanations for the effect, even if they seemed improbable. We analyzed the results considering the position in the incubator that each plate had been randomly assigned to and found that position did not correlate with any differences. Neither did the order in which the experiments were performed or the order in which the plates were counted.
Its your life! You decide. Superstitious, feudal or intriguing possibilities? Only the Shadow knows! (radio) :eek:
We're grappling with huge questions: To use Dr. Harrington's language, how did the Chinese come to create such radically different maps for the territory of human experience? What happens to our own bodily experience and to our faith when we borrow the maps of another culture? Will we be lost? Or healed? What if these Chinese maps of our shared human terrain illuminate a vital connection between all things that Western maps have overlooked? And, if so, are we ready for a world where love is healing and hatred is like secondhand smoke?
— Stephen Kiesling
How could we have missed it? :(
Brain Imagery and Qi — Tracing the Body's Emotional Wiring
Recent studies of accupuncture's effects on the brain
(not available for downloading)
The Qi Question?
Is It More Than "A Beautiful Form of hypnosis"?
Garret Yount
Garret Yount, Ph.D., was trained as a molecular neuroscientist. His wife, Yifang Qian, m.d., ph.d., who is from Beijing, was trained in both Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. Eleven years ago, when Yount's father was diagnosed with Stage IV (terminal) leukemia, the three traveled to China where Yount's father engaged in a combination of conventional chemotherapy and Chinese therapies including herbs and qigong. Nowadays, Yount's father is coexisting peacefully with his cancer, Qian is a board-certified psychiatrist, and Yount has taken up qigong. A collaborator with Anne Harrington and funded by the Fetzer Foundation, he dreams of discovering that the mind is able to alter genetic expression. He already has provocative evidence suggesting that qi is more than a "beautiful form of hypnosis."— Ed.
Most people involved in qigong have a daily meditation practice often using simple movements or postures and breathing exercises, and there is plenty of good evidence that this kind of practice is health promoting. From the Western perspective, it seems likely that the behavioral techniques involved in qigong meditation can influence human physiology just like hypnosis can — through the complex interconnections of the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems. But there are some individuals who, after many years of practicing internal qigong, believe they can develop the ability to manipulate qi outside the body. This is the basis of external qigong therapy, which looks basically like psychic healing or spiritual healing. It is the aspect of qigong we wanted to study. . . .
Our data indicates that the differences in the qigong dishes are likely due to some aspect of the qigong treatment rather than to something we were unknowingly doing to the cells when moving them around. We explored other possible explanations for the effect, even if they seemed improbable. We analyzed the results considering the position in the incubator that each plate had been randomly assigned to and found that position did not correlate with any differences. Neither did the order in which the experiments were performed or the order in which the plates were counted.
Its your life! You decide. Superstitious, feudal or intriguing possibilities? Only the Shadow knows! (radio) :eek:
We're grappling with huge questions: To use Dr. Harrington's language, how did the Chinese come to create such radically different maps for the territory of human experience? What happens to our own bodily experience and to our faith when we borrow the maps of another culture? Will we be lost? Or healed? What if these Chinese maps of our shared human terrain illuminate a vital connection between all things that Western maps have overlooked? And, if so, are we ready for a world where love is healing and hatred is like secondhand smoke?
— Stephen Kiesling
How could we have missed it? :(
Brain Imagery and Qi — Tracing the Body's Emotional Wiring
Recent studies of accupuncture's effects on the brain
(not available for downloading)