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Healing Research : Volume 1

Healing Research, Volume 1 (Popular Edition): Scientific Validation of a Healing Revolution

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Overview

This unique book brings you a light summary of a comprehensive survey of scientific research on spiritual healing from around the world. Spiritual healing is used as a generic term for hand-healing (without massage or pressure) and healing through meditation, mental intent or prayer. Common methods included are Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, Reiki, Qigong and more. 

The popular edition focuses on what healers say they do and how they do it, with a lighter review of the research, without the statistical analyses. The professional supplement is for readers who want to see research confirming that these methods really work, with all of the statistical details. 


If you’re considering buying this book, you will want to read the endorsements below from leaders in the field of healing.


Contents

This is an annotated bibliography of 189 randomized, controlled studies of healing 


Research shows that spiritual healing may be helpful in treating heart conditions, AIDS, hypertension, muscle fatigue, arthritis, pains of many sorts, depression, anxiety and stress reactions. Studies in other species demonstrate effects on wound healing, cancer growth, growth of plants, bacteria and yeasts, and influencing cellular and DNA functions. There is more research on spiritual healing than on most of the other complementary therapies.


Chapter 1 surveys healers from around the world about their experiences in learning, giving and teaching healing. It is wonderful to see that there are excellent results from healing for common problems such pains of all sorts, physical trauma, and acute and chronic diseases. While the media focus on rapid improvements or cures from healing for highly unusual diseases, these are the more rare cases (and therefore newsworthy). Far more commonly, healing is a gradual process of change, though far more rapid than normally seen - and still extremely impressive when seen in medically incurable problems. What is also impressive is that healing appears to exist in all cultures where it has been sought.


Chapter 2 explores measurements of healing effects. Subjective sensations of heat, cold and tingling suggest that there is an energy exchange between healers and healees. Varieties of measurements of known physical energies have sometimes shown effects, but these have rarely been consistently replicated. We are clearly still at the beginning of our journeys of exploration of these effects.


Chapter 3 reviews research in Parapsychology, which has broad overlaps with spiritual healing. Many healers are able to identify and assess the problems of healees intuitively. Parapsychology provides surprisingly solid evidence that these abilities are present in most of the population, although only measurable in common people through statistical analyses of large numbers of people. This is because most of us possess only modest parapsychological abilities. Healers are highly gifted and can demonstrate them more regularly and robustly.


Chapter 4 reviews and analyzes results of 189 controlled studies of healing. Of the 51 most rigorous, controlled studies of healing research, 74% show significant positive effects.


Chapter 5 reviews observational studies, qualitative studies and other reports from careful observers of healing. Again, these are reviewed and discussed in detail.


Conclusions: Healing research is demonstrating far-reaching benefits, with wonderful implications for health care, personal spiritual awareness, and the healing of our environment.

Healers are starting to collaborate with doctors and to work in hospitals. Nurses and doctors are learning to develop and use their own healing gifts. Healing can be an effective, safe and cost-effective complement to most treatment modalities.

Healing also enhances personal spiritual awareness, a deep inner knowing that you are a part of a vast, loving universe.

Healing knows no limits. We can learn to extend healing to our ailing society and planet.


Healing research also clarifies the subjective nature of research, showing that there is no “objective truth.” If mind can interact with living and inanimate matter, as research evidence in this book convincingly suggests, then researchers can actually influence their own experiments to conform with their expectations. One healing experiment specifically examines and confirms that this can happen.


580 pages, over 1,500 references, endnotes, glossary, index, resources

Endorsements

“The scientific proof for non-ordinary forms of healing is one of the best-kept secrets of our time. Dr Daniel Benor has taken the wraps off this immense data base. As physicians and laypersons learn of this evidence, healing may never again be the same. The ultimate value in this information extends beyond healing, however, to touch on the Great Questions: who we are, what our essential nature is, and how we may fit into the cosmos. A majestic contribution in the best traditions of science!”
Larry Dossey, MD
Author of Healing Words
“An outstanding collection of information on healing written by a physician and scientist. Self healing, spirituality, psyche and other modalities are explored. This excellent collection is sure to open minds and help us see all healing is scientific."
Bernie Siegel, MD
Author of Love, Medicine and Miracles

Healing Research, Volume 1, Professional Supplement

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Overview
This professional supplement is for readers who want to see research confirming that these methods really work, with all of the statistical details. The popular edition focuses on what healers say they do and how they do it, with a lighter review of the research, without the statistical analyses.
If you're considering buying this book, you will want to read below the endorsements from many leaders in the field of healing.

This unique book brings you a comprehensive summary of scientific research on spiritual healing from around the world. Spiritual healing is used as a generic term for hand-healing (without massage or pressure) and healing through meditation, mental intent or prayer. Common methods included are Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, Reiki, Qigong and more. 

Contents
580 pages, over 1,500 references, with endnotes, glossary, index, resources

This is an annotated bibliography of 191 randomized, controlled studies of healing 

Research shows that spiritual healing may be helpful in treating heart conditions, AIDS, hypertension, muscle fatigue, arthritis, pains of many sorts, depression, anxiety and stress reactions. Studies in other species demonstrate effects on wound healing, cancer growth, growth of plants, bacteria and yeasts, and influencing cellular and DNA functions. There is more research on spiritual healing than on most of the other complementary therapies.

Chapter 4 reviews and analyzes results of 191 controlled studies of healing. Of the 52 most rigorous, controlled studies of healing research, 74% show significant positive effects.

Chapter 5reviews observational studies, qualitative studies and other reports from careful observers of healing. Again, these are reviewed and discussed in detail.
Healing research is demonstrating far-reaching benefits, with wonderful promise for health care, personal spiritual awareness, and the healing of our environment.

Healers are starting to collaborate with doctors and to work in hospitals. Nurses and doctors are learning to develop and use their own healing gifts. Healing can be an effective, safe and cost-effective complement to most treatment modalities.
Healing also enhances personal spiritual awareness, a deep inner knowing that you are a part of a vast, loving universe.
Healing knows no limits. We can learn to extend healing to our ailing society and planet.

Endorsements

“. . .truly a remarkable effort. This book makes available the literature not only on healing but also on other diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. By adopting an energy paradigm, Dr. Benor brings a coherence to what would otherwise be a confusing picture."
Bernard Grad, PhD 
 Pioneering researcher in healing
“Dr Benor’s manuscript goes well beyond anything that I have seen in documenting the abundance of work in the psychic-healing field. I am personally delighted to have had an opportunity to review the manuscript prior to publication. Work such as this needs wide dissemination.”
C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD
Founding President, American Holistic Medical Association
“Spiritual Healing is a comprehensive overview of scientific investigations on spiritual healing. In this volume, Dr. Benor has assembled data from all over the world. His explanatory theories provide a solid base for badly needed research on these controversial phenomena. The material is clearly presented, masterfully organized and discussed in a manner that is fascinating without being sensationalized..”
Stanley Krippner, PhD
Renowned expert on Shamanism
“I find the book to be an excellent resource on research in healing. Some of the studies quoted in his book I can find nowhere else. I refer to this book often. It is well-written and contains much valuable information.”
Richard Gerber, MD
Author of Vibrational Medicine
“A most valuable guide to a very important subject. This book is both a fascination to read and invaluable as a work of reference.”
Rupert Sheldrake, PhD
Author, researcher of morphogenetic fields
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