The thread alerted me to William Bengston. He is coming from a sociology perspective about using energy medicine. This is a very interesting interview.Posted by samvado (here)
Prof. William Bengston's healing technique. I learned it (in all of 2 days) and have healed numerous people with it, 3 cancer cases included. Now, THATS stuff that works (just so you can see I can tell the difference).
He uses a mental technique of cycling rapidly through prepared list of things that produces within the hands on healer a feeling of "flow". IMO, this is creating heart/mind coherence. IMO when I have been in a healing environment, this "flow" and heart/mind synchronization could be felt.
IMO, this is all interlinked with the truth about how we as a human instrument trigger healing mechanisms AND VERY EXCITING. Overview of rapid image cycling...ell me this image-cycling technique. Describe to me the technique you use and that you teach other people.
The image-cycling technique involves extremely rapid imaging of things that are important to you and very specific, that you're imaging in consort with the experience of an emotion. That's as short as I can make it.
That was pretty succinct.
So if I am doing the technique now, I might be imaging several hundred images a second of things that have been prepared by me in advance.
Hundreds of images in one second?
Yes. I could go faster than that, but hundreds of images a second of things in a list of images that I've prepared, that are idiosyncratic to me and the things that I want. This is done in response to emotion. That's the real short version. That's the three-by-five index card.
OK, but hold on. I'm imagining like a filmstrip of images.
Wonderful.
And yet I can't imagine that many in a second. A second seems pretty fast to me.
Yep.
Am I not cycling fast enough?
Yes. You're not cycling fast enough.
I'm slow.
Well, frankly, I've probably put in more practice than you have, and it's a skill that is awkward to begin and awkward to master, like any other skill. I liken it to playing sports: if you have never played tennis before and I'm a competitive tennis player, and you and I played on opposite sides, we wouldn't be playing the same game.
OK, so the idea is I do this rapid image-cycling with the emotion connected, while my hands are on someone, or while I'm directing the energy of my hands to another person?
You would do the rapid image-cycling in response to any emotion -- any emotion! -- and if you have mastered it, you've done it without detracting from the experience you're having. In kind of an analogous way -- I think the best analogies I can come up with are in sports, so I'll go back to tennis. First of all, the first time you go out on a tennis court and try to hit a ball, it's ugly. It's going in the wrong direction, it's going straight up, it's going backward, and you think this can't be done. Many hours later, you're playing a game that's reasonable, maybe a couple of years later. You keep getting better, so it's not like, "OK, I'm done! Here's your graduation certificate. You're a tennis player." There's no such thing as a tennis player. It's a continuum of skill. If you get good at it- First of all, you put in a lot of time, but if you get good at it, the other thing you do is that you don't pay attention to what you're doing. There's enormous literature on this, and it's mostly surrounding sports, but I think it works in life, generally, and it's called flow.
Yes.
I used to be a tournament ping-pong player. You can't have a faster game than ping-pong. I mean, it's brutal! So the ball's coming at you at like 120 miles an hour, and you're 15 feet away. You get hurt if you get hit by a ping-pong ball, and so not many people play like that. It hurts, so you know you'll have a welt for quite a bit of time. You can't think about ping-pong and be any good at it.
Yes.
You've got to practice your brains out, and then you have to experience. I don't know how else to describe it. You experience it as-I've been in tournaments playing against people who hit the ball real hard, and I can't even see the ball, and I find my body in a particular position, and I'm hitting the ball back harder at them than they hit it at me, and I have no- I'm watching! I'm a spectator! This is almost an out-of-body experience.
Yes, so is the idea behind doing the image-cycling technique that you get into a flow state?
Yes.
That's the idea.
Yes, and it takes a long time. For some. Some people take to it better.
Why do you suspect that this it that we can't measure occurs when the healer is in a flow state, or is more likely to occur when the healer is in a flow state?
The best I can I can give you is an intuitive hunch. So if I go into very, very rapid imaging, something happens to me physiologically. I can demonstrate the physiological changes. I can do it in an EEG, in an MRI, I can do the physiological correlates all around me; the random-event generators go nutty when I do it, the micro-pulsations go nutty, stuff goes nutty around me. I feel something.
http://realitysandwich.com/117899/ex...ndson_healing/
Here is a link to further interview with Dean Radin at IONS http://www.noetic.org/library/audio-...aling-with-wi/Step 1—Each volunteer was required to make a list of at
least 20 things that he or she wanted, and to write them down
without regard to when or how they might be realized. There
was no upper limit to the number of items. Each item was
required to be specific and could involve material things,
health issues, and other people. There is a strict ethical rule
that any list items involving other people must have the other
person’s knowledge and consent, although the other people
do not have to practice the technique.
Step 2—The items on the list were translated into images
of the things already accomplished, without regard to when
or how. Each item was required to be be an end goal, not a
means to an end. To illustrate, many people say they want
money. Upon reflection, it is really that they want money
because they want to buy something. It is that something
that is the image, not the money. If there are health issues,
the images that are constructed imply that the health issues
have already been resolved. For example, if the person has
bad knees that prevent he or she from taking part in a par-
ticular sport, it is the image of playing the sport rather than
wanting to fix the knees that is required. If the image be-
comes realized then the health issues have been resolved.
And, when the image becomes realized it should be taken
off the list because it is already accomplished. Each of these
images is unique to each individual, and considerable time
is usually spent in the construction of each cycling list.
There have been exceptions to this. When the experiments
involved volunteers, it was requested that each person have
as one item on his or her list the image of us collectively
raising glasses of champagne to toast success. If the image
became realized, the mice would have already been remit-
ted. Notice that the image does not contain the questions of
how or when we would have been successful in the exper-
iment, nor does it matter whether the volunteers believed
the image might come to be realized. The cycling technique
is manifestly not an attempt to get people to think positively.
Step 3—The images must be memorized so that they can
be recalled without effort. This also takes considerable time
and practice before the person does not struggle with trying
awkwardly to recollect or reconstruct the images.
Step 4—all of the previous steps have been preparation
for the actual practice of image cycling. Once they have been
mastered, cycling is the process of going through the im-
ages for an instant at a time while experiencing any emo-
tion. It makes no difference whether the emotion being ex-
perienced by the person is positive or negative.
It is important to cycle through the list as rapidly as pos-
sible for as long as the emotion is experienced. After con-
siderable practice, an experienced subject should be able to
cycle through at least a couple of dozen images per second
http://www.livingwaterunity.org/pick...ds%20Paper.pdf