People have the potential to heal themselves and each other. Dr. Daniel Benor, a wholistic psychiatrist, explains how mind-body and body-mind interactions promote health or cause illness. Clear and concise explanations of a large body of research, clinical examples, and a variety of theory explain healing through complementary/alternative medicine.

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Product Description

Consciousness, Bioenergy and Healing will dramatically broaden and deepen your understanding of health, illness and healing. Including: comprehensive reviews of evidence-based CAM research (137 pp of references), case examples, and explanations of wholistic self-healing, therapist healing and energy medicine.

Consciousness: We have far greater potential for healing ourselves and each other than we generally appreciate. Dr. Benor, a wholistic psychiatrist, explains how mind-body and body-mind interactions can promote health or cause illness through wholistic interactions of body, emotions, mind, relationships (with other people and the environment) and spirit. An enormous body of research, clinical examples and a variety of theories describe and explain healing through complementary/ alternative medicine (CAM), including meditation, visualiza-tion, acupuncture, osteopathy and many more modalities, with clear and concise explanations of each of these healing modalities.

Bioenergy: Newtonian medicine has been slow to absorb the lessons of quantum physics: The body can be addressed not only as matter, but also as energy. Subtle biological energies are used by many CAM therapies – some offered through the hands of the therapist, others through specialized interventions detailed and explained by Dr. Benor. Acupuncture addresses energies in acupuncture points, along meridians running from head to toes, and in chakras – the body’s energy regulating centers. Homeopathy and flower essences introduce energies and information through the water that is their vehicle for treatment. Does all this sound strange? Dr. Benor has gathered an amazing body of research in this book to confirm the healing potentials of these subtle bioenergies.

Biological energies interact with environmental energies. Dr. Benor reviews a wealth of research on unconventional energies, demonstrating their relationships to spiritual healing – following on Volume I of Healing Research, which reviews 191 controlled studies of healing, demonstrating it is a highly effective treatment.

Healing: Dr. Benor explains how we can create health or illness through body-mind interactions, wholistic CAM and bioenergy medicine interventions. He reviews and discusses impressive research supporting claims that CAM and bioenergy therapies are potent and effective treatments.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153506 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 713 pages

Review
"Daniel Benor's compilation is an excellent resource on health and healing. Every health care practitioner should read it." -- Bernie Siegel, M.D., Book jacket

"The most extensive and critical analyses of healing research found in a single sourcebook, a classic in the healing field." -- Richard Gerber, M.D., Book jacket

"This volume is authoritative, insightful, and comprehensive. Daniel Benor is the great chronicler of this field." -- Larry Dossey, MD, Book jacket

BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD -- The Scientific and Medical Network www.datadiwan.de/SciMedNet/11.htm

From the Publisher
Consciousness, Bioenergy and Healing is Volume 2 of the four-volume series, Healing Research.

Volume 1 Spiritual Healing: Scientific Validation of a Healing Revolution
This volume establishes that Spiritual Healing (Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, Reiki, Prayer Healing and other, similar approches) are real and potent interventions. Volume 1 provides an annotated bibliography of 191 controlled studies of healing; summarie of qualitative studies; and reviews of healers' explanations of what they do and how they do it.

Volume 2, Consciousness, Bioenergy and Healng, explains self-haling and complementary/alternative medicine (CAM). This compendium is an outstanding work, in and of itself, with 137 pp of references to supplement the extensive summaries of research and clinical information that is brilliantly summarized in the text.

Volume 2 also frames spiritual healing in the spectrum of self-healing and bioenergy medicine. It becomes clear that spiritual healing is a major aspect of many bioenergy interventions. Conversely, it becomes clear that self-healing is a major aspect of spiritual healing - and of every other form of CAM therapy.

Volume 3 will explore the research in spiritual dimensions, also framing the effects of spiritual healing that open healers and healees into transpersonal dimensions.

Volume 4 will summarize what is known in spiritual healing research, including many theories - all of which are partial explanations for how healing works. The author's personal experiences as a physician, psychiatric psychotherapist and healer are also shared in this volume.

From the Author
Healing Research is a baby that has been 25 years in gestation.

Volume 2, PROFESSIONAL EDITION, presents detailed reviews of research in self-healing, complementary/ alternative medicine, and bieoenergy medicine.

Volume 2, POPULAR EDITION, "How Can I Heal What Hurts?" presents these materials in less technical terms. It also includes a broad spectrum of self-healing methods that answer the question posed in its title.

I wish you good healings in exploring these realms!

Daniel J Benor, MD

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Customer Reviews

The Scientific Evidence for a Revolution in Healthcare
We owe Daniel Benor an enormous debt of gratitude for taking the time (over 25 years and counting (!)), effort and energy to see if there was any research evidence to support the use of "Energy Medicine" and Healing, and then to carefully analyze what he found.

Many years ago Dan told me that the evidence for spiritual healing was better than that for most of the rest of complementary medicine, and considerably better than the evidence for some widely used methods and techniques in use in conventional medicine!

Here is the evidence for that statement. This is the second of four volumes that will ultimately constitute part of Dr. Benor's legacy to a grateful world.

For people needing less of the research background, there is also a version of the same book for a more general readership - How Can I Heal What Hurts? (Healing Research, Vol. 2; Popular Edition) - that is also available at Amazon, that I recommend as highly as this volume.

Consciousness, Bioenergy and Healing
In the ever pondered question "how does healing happen?", Daniel J. Benor discusses the role of consciousness in spiritual healing. In his second book of four on healing research, entitled, Consciousness Bioenergy and Healing, Dr. Benor discusses the current research and theories associated with how biological energy therapies might contribute to healing. He systematically reviews dozens of types of complementary therapies that have some aspect of spiritual healing associated with them to investigate the relationships between the complex workings of consciousness, and how people seem to be able to tap into it to heal others or themselves. It is important to understand that he defines spiritual healing as "a systematic, purposeful intervention by one or more persons aiming to help another living being by means of focused intention, hand contact, or passes to improve their condition." These therapies include but are not limited to therapeutic touch, biofeedback, reiki, healing touch, prayer, meditation, and qigong.

One of the most interesting aspects of this book is the question of how much healing is associated with the collective consciousness. We have no true understanding about how our thoughts affect each other for good or ill. Is it possible that we are able to tap into the Universal All to heal others and ourselves, or is it simply by suggestion that some kind of placebo effect is generated? Can suggestion activate our internal healing abilities that go beyond placebo to true healing? Dr. Benor believes that much of the research we have leans towards a universal connectedness both biologically and cosmically that we have hardly begun to understand.

Another large area of discussion is the relationship of spiritual healing in Psychotherapy. Many Psychotherapists are now incorporating aspects of spiritual healing into their practice. This area is of great interest to Dr. Benor as he is also a Psychotherapist. An aspect of spiritual healing that can be of great distress among healees, is that very often some profound realization may be brought to the surface that then leaves that person without professional support to deal with the consequences of that realization for continued healing. On the other side, when individuals are cared for under psychiatry assistance, drugs are often used to curtail anxiety that may better suited to the type of care, concern and suggestion by spiritual healers that you are not alone and will be healed. Suggestion in all forms can alleviate meta-anxiety.

When a reciprocal relationship is created between healer and healee spontaneous insights and understanding develop. Dr. Benor believes that there are several mechanisms that may contribute to these effects that alleviate, what he calls, meta-anxiety. Meta-anxiety is a type of anxiety that occurs when worrying about the possible outcomes of things like disease. If Psychotherapists can incorporate some of this type of relationship seen between healers and healees, it is possible to treat someone without the incorporation of drugs with this type of anxiety. Some of the key factors in this relationship are that 1.) Healers and healees trust that whatever happens during healing is directed by a higher power, 2.) Healers and healees communicate on a very deep levels during healing (telepathic or clairvoyant) and 3.) The healing process itself appears to help healees deal more effectively with their primary-level emotions, thus eliminating the meta-anxiety and panic.

Very little is understood about how energy therapies work to heal the body. There is much to be researched and understood. As we look deeper into this area, it is important to realize the intricacies of healing. There is no one road towards wellness, and all these roads seem to be intertwined into a complex web that will make it difficult if not impossible to qualitatively study without major flaws in research and its design. While it may be possible to study some of the competencies that create a successful healing, we may never fully understand in a scientifically designed manor the right combination of science and spirituality to cure what allies us.

Human Consciousness and Healing
As a clinical psychologist, I am always amazed when, after asking Christian patients if they believe in spiritual healing, they say yes, adding that only holy figures are capable of this gift and not themselves.

They are unaware that "miraculous" healings have been reported since the biblical era, but the origins date back to shamanic, magico-religious healing traditions extending as far back as 15,000-40,000 years, during the Paleolithic era or that experimental studies have taken place since Bernard Grad's seminal work in the 1960s.

In contemporary Western societies, culturally unorthodox, non-instrumental physical healing procedures are known by many names: Christian Science healing, faith healing, laying-on of hands, mental healing, prayer healing, psychic healing, spirit healing, spiritual healing, etc.

Periodically, unorthodox healing methods reach public attention through the unscrupulous acts of self-proclaimed healers as well as their debunkers, whose sensational tactics rival those they seek to discredit While more vocal and negatively-biased skeptics continue to unmask ever-present charlatans in their attempts to confirm that these alleged phenomena have no place in society, serious investigations of alternate healing methods by dedicated, credible researchers have received little public or scientific attention or funding.

The growing interest in alternate healing practices is the focus of a sociological study. McGuire and her associate examined the use of alternative healing systems among "middle-class, middle-aged, well-educated, socially, culturally and residentially established suburbanites". Although adherents continued to use conventional health care in addition to an alternative healing system, they were attracted to the latter's holistic belief systems and were not driven by medical crises, as had been assumed earlier. These movements offer transcendent, holistic cosmologies, integrating the individual, the world, and the universe through the incorporation of symbols of transcendent power and order. This suggests that there is more than physical healing being sought in such practices, something that lies beyond that "dreamt of in [our] philosophy."

Consequently, the attractiveness of alternative healing practices cannot be fully explained by positing a loss of faith in conventional medicine or a need to ameliorate intractable physical disorders where conventional medicine has failed. Beyond these possibilities, the growing popularity of alternative healing practices suggests that they may address a deeper, broader, and more archaic human need in the healee and the healer.

In his remarkable accomplishment developed over two decades, psychiatrist Daniel Benor has compiled the most comprehensive collation and annotated analyses of anecdotal, clinical and experimental studies into these types of healing. Having known Dan for over 20 years, I am impressed with his persistence and objectivity in gathering information, his insights into research methodologies while remaining in touch with his humanity.

His 4 volumes are an act of love and legacy of good science dedicated towards a poorly understood, yet intensely interesting and another important aspect of the science of healing, core human needs and consciousness. I am honored to have been included in the first volume of this outstanding achievement.