January 2018
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Publications (35)
June 2003
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The purported ability of a seventeen-year-old female, investigated for seven years in China, to perceive information without using visual and kinesthetic cues, was studied. In one experiment, five letters from A to Z and five numbers from 0 to 100 were randomly selected by computer, written on small sheets of paper and individually folded and placed in a sealed envelope. The folded stimuli were removed one by one and placed into a cloth bag that was opaque to light; the bag was tied below the participant's right elbow. The participant was accurate for all ten trials. In a second experiment, three video cameras carefully monitored the participant's hand movements; in addition, both ends of the folded papers were sealed with clear tape. Careful analysis of the clear tape and the videotapes revealed evidence of practiced deception. Data were also collected from a 25-year-old graduate student and a 7-year-old child not employing a cloth bag. Their data suggest that deception is not necessarily involved in all cases of purported anomalous perception.
March 2002
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706 Reads
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33 Citations
Journal of Near-Death Studies
It is generally assumed that learning is restricted to neural and immune systems. However, the systemic memory hypothesis predicts that all dynamical systems that contain recurrent feedback loops store information and energy to various degrees. Sensitive transplant patients may evidence personal changes that parallel the history of their donors. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether changes following heart transplant surgery parallel the history of the donors. We conducted open-ended interviews with volunteer transplant recipients, recipient families or friends, and donor families or friends, in hospitals in various parts of the country. Patients included ten recipients who had received heart or heart–lung transplants. Main outcome measures were transcripts of audiotaped interviews quoted verbatim. Two to 5 parallels per case were observed between changes following surgery and the histories of the donors. Parallels included changes in food, music, art, sexual, recreational, and career preferences, as well as specific instances of perceptions of names and sensory experiences related to the donors. The incidence of recipient awareness of personal changes in cardiac transplant patients is unknown. The effects of the immunosuppressant drugs, stress of the surgery, and statistical coincidence are insufficient to explain the findings. We suggest that cellular memory, possibly systemic memory, is a plausible explanation for these parallels.
January 2002
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November 2001
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Personality and Individual Differences
Perceived parental caring and relative left frontal activation (LFA) of the electroencephalogram (EEG) have been associated with salutary mental and physical health benefits. Defensiveness on the other hand, is associated with decreased self-reported and other-reported psychopathology, and physical health liabilities. Though previous work has delineated relations among some of these factors (e.g. LFA and defensiveness, LFA and immune function, parental caring and defensiveness), the interrelationship of defensiveness, LFA, and parental caring is unknown. The present study examined relationships among defensiveness, perceived parental caring, and resting anterior asymmetry of the electroencephalogram. Defensiveness and perceived maternal caring contributed significant unique variance to the prediction of relative left lateral frontal activation. Paternal caring did not correlate with left frontal activation. The results are discussed as they relate to the relevance of these factors for physical and mental health.
February 2001
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Advances in Mind-body Medicine
August 2000
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Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
May 2000
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26 Citations
Medical Hypotheses
The controversy surrounding clinical observations and double-blind studies on homeopathic treatments is lessened when modern dynamical systems analysis is applied to high-dilution therapies. The logic of recurrent feedback loops, which applies to all dynamical network systems, inexorably leads to the systemic memory hypothesis - that complex patterns of emergent information and energy are stored to various degrees in physical, chemical, and biological systems. The addition of resonance, a dynamic pattern recognition process, explains many classic observations using high-dilution therapies. The systemic memory resonance hypothesis potentially provides a plausible biophysical mechanism for explaining not only how high-dilution therapies contribute to healing, but by extension, how information and energy in low-dilution and chemical therapies contribute to healing as well.
April 2000
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65 Citations
Integrative Medicine
Context: It is generally assumed that learning is restricted to neural and immune systems. However, the systemic memory hypothesis predicts that all dynamical systems that contain recurrent feedback loops store information and energy to various degrees. Sensitive transplant patients may evidence personal changes that parallel the history of their donors. Objective: To evaluate whether changes following heart transplant surgery parallel the history of the donors. Design: Open-ended interviews with volunteer (1) transplant recipients, (2) recipient families or friends, and (3) donor families or friends. Setting: Hospitals in various parts of the country. Patients: Ten recipients (7 males, 3 females; 7 months to 56 years old), received heart (or heart-lung) transplants (5 males, 5 females; 16 months to 34 years old). Main Outcome Measures: Transcripts of audio taped interviews quoted verbatim. Results: Two to 5 parallels per case were observed between changes following surgery and the histories of the donors. Parallels included changes in food, music, art, sexual, recreational, and career preferences, as well as specific instances of perceptions of names and sensory experiences related to the donors (e.g., one donor was killed by a gun shot to the face; the recipient had dreams of seeing hot flashes of light in his face). Conclusion: The incidence of recipient awareness of personal changes in cardiac transplant patients is unknown. The effects of the immunosuppressant drugs, stress of the surgery, and statistical coincidence are likely insufficient to explain the findings. The plausibility of cellular memory, possibly systemic memory, is suggested.
February 2000
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Advances in Mind-body Medicine
Citations (20)
... Os exemplos apontados, oferecem ao design industrial contemporâneo, sugestões para caminhos nos quais os atributos do produto podem ser manipulados a fim de provocarem ou incutir uma resposta de prazer no utilizador. Se toda a matéria tiver um teste padrão vibracional [44], e os seres humanos estiverem num campo da energia detectável pela fotografia [45] estes têm a sensibilidade vibratória através do toque [46], então não é inconcebível que o prazer táctil possa resultar de sensações recebidas dos campos sobrepondo a energia vibracional entre seres humanos e objectos. Em 1965 Gyorgy Kepes [47] Uma das várias Exposições realizadas em Coimbra, no ano de 2003, enquanto Capital Nacional da Cultura, foi subordinada ao tema "Materialmente-Vem Descobrir ...
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COMPORTAMENTOS E INTERACÇÕES DO DESIGN
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January 2018
... When asked to choose which reading was more applicable to them, sitters chose the readings intended for them 81% of the time. Schwartz, Beischel and colleagues have reported a number of broadly similar studies that also claim above chance performance (e.g., Schwartz, Russek, & Barentsen, 2002 (2005) recruited five mediums who each gave readings for five sitters drawn from university staff and students who were chosen in the basis that they did not know each other but were relatively similar (in age and gender). Each medium attended for one day during which the five sitters attended sessions in a randomised order. ...
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Mediumship and Survival
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January 2002
... La teoria proponeva anche il fatto che i benefici fisiologici delle frequenze coerenti del cuore prodotte durante gli stati emozionali positivi sono mediate dal DNA. Nel 1996 Russek e Schwatz [19] suggerirono che il cuore può essere visto come un sistema che genera energia dinamicamente, e coniarono il termine "cardiologia energetica". L'avanzata ricerca di McCraty et al. ha portato alla straordinaria e convincente prova che il campo energetico del cuore è accoppiato ad un campo di informazione che non è vincolato dai limiti del tempo e dello spazio. ...
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January 1996
... These waves "entrain" or match-up between therapists and patients, and their entrainment is correlated with higher ratings of therapeutic alliance and perceived empathy, as well as lower dropout rate (Bar-Kalifa et al., 2019;Coutino et al., 2020;Tschacher & Meier, 2019;Wiltshire et al., 2020;Zhang et al., 2018). The electromagnetic waves of a person's heart reportedly can be registered by sensitive machinery from as much as three feet's distance, and its rhythm-pattern has been shown to sync up with the rhythm-pattern of the brain waves of another person within conversational distance (McCraty, 2015;Russek & Schwartz, 1994); when there is synchronization of physiological rhythms among people, cooperation, trust, and compassion is higher (Koole & Tschacher, 2016;McCraty, 2017). When a person is in a state of heart rate coherence (when one's heart rate synchronizes with one's breathing in an even, sinus rhythmic pattern), they are more sensitive to receiving information contained in the magnetic wave fields radiating from others (McCraty, 2015). ...
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January 1994
... Homeopathy may prove to be a prototypic case of a funda-mental phenomenon worthy of the serious attention of the clinicians and scientists concerned with the challenge of integrating medicine. 10 The use of homeopathic drugs to control subclinical cases is thought to be useful, because the principal of homeopathic treatments is the earlier the drugs reached the pathologic organs, the better the possibility of the recovery. 11 In subclinical mastitis cases, the changes are found mostly on the superficial of mucosal epithelial cells of mammary glands. ...
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March 1998
Integrative Medicine
... The training deficiencies identified in this study (the lack of information on CAM in medical training and the poor development of Western medical diagnostic skills in CAM training) have been reported as barriers to integration [17][18][19] along with lack of evidence for some CAMs, 20-23 divergent philosophies, 24,25 and medico-legal issues. [26][27][28][29][30] These factors might account for the relatively small number of integrative practices in existence. ...
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June 1999
Integrative Medicine
... All these patient groups vary in their diagnosis and do not offer a uniform perspective, hence our calling for future social science research. Additionally, insights from studies on allotransplantation need consideration, providing potential areas of concern for patients Swazey 1974, 1992;Lock 2002;Idvall 2017;Idvall and Lundin 2007;Pearsall et al 2002;Sharp 1995Sharp , 2006Shildrick 2010Shildrick , 2015Simmons et al 1987). This includes concerns about stigmatisation (as also witnessed with xenotransplantation (Cook 2013)), discomfort with being transplanted, worries regarding one's subjectivity, identity and embodiment, such as changes in personality or character, considerations of bodily integrity and the symbolic meaning of organs and unrecognised physical, emotional and existential suffering (Sharp 2006). ...
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March 2002
Journal of Near-Death Studies
... While other studies also find associations with one prefrontal region but not the other (e.g. Kline, Knapp-Kline, Schwartz, & Russek, 2001;Papousek et al., 2017), their differential roles are not completely clarified. Therefore, we did not postulate any apriori hypotheses regarding the roles of the different locations in the PFC and are not able to fully explain the non-significant findings in the F8/F7 region. ...
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November 2001
Personality and Individual Differences
... Scale (OSBES; Schwartz & Russek, 1999) is an 18-item self-report scale, which measures spirituality across two dimensions: spiritual beliefs and spiritual experiences. A total score is computed by adding all items. ...
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... Este enfoque, estrechamente relacionado con la física newtoniana sienta las bases de una ciencia clásica que propone una interpretación analítica del mundo, considerando que este funciona mecánicamente bajo el dominio del tiempo y el espacio. La metáfora de raíz sugiere una afinidad con el materialismo y el reduccionismo, donde los elementos o eventos operan como engranajes en una dirección predeterminada, guiados por relaciones causa-efecto (Schwartz y Russek, 2012) [10]. El enfoque mecanicista persigue descubrir las leyes que gobiernan el universo y aspira a describir los efectos de estas leyes. ...
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