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Attractor Field TechniqueInterventions: The Manipulation of Subtle Energy
R. K. Ebert, Ph.D., ©2002
Understanding Attractor Field Technique(AFT) interventions requires stepping beyond the boundaries of traditional medical and biological thinking. It requires first an acknowledgment of what science, medicine, and biology do not know: the nature of the energy of the life force and the role this energy plays in our health and well being.
Science has since the time of Darwin and Mendel looked at genes as the key to understanding the mechanism of our physical well being. More than simple Mendelian genetic transfer occurs at conception: life energies are merged. Genes are not alive, do not contain life, and have no material impact outside of a living cell. Placing genetic material from a living cell into a dead cell does not restore the dead cell to life. Life is something other than genetic material.
Further, genes cannot explain the myriad different type of cells that comprise a living organism. The genetic model only allows for perfectly identical cell reproduction or random mutations through chemical miscoding: it cannot explain how every human being has skin cells and bone cells and white blood cells and red blood cells and liver cells, and on and on. Genetics cannot explain how arms and legs and heads regularly appear in the same places on all people. Clearly there is some common factor within each species that allows us to recognize members of that species as being different from other species. This factor cannot be genetic: if we follow the rules of genetics all creatures would look alike, formless multi-celled blobs.
Interestingly for the first few day all developing fertilized eggs to appear to follow genetic programming and then they begin differentiate, to form the placenta and the embryo. Within a couple of weeks the embryo is recognizable, with the first hints of what will be the brain and spinal cord. Within another week the heart is pumping fluid though blood vessels and the first red blood cells appear. All of this occurs with such regularity and predictability that is as if there exists a master architectural plan for each species that insures that members of that species resemble other members of that species. If the master plan is not within the genes then there is only one other potential source: the life forces merged at conception. Rupert Sheldrake (1981, 1988) has recently studied this problem and has proposed that "morphogenetic fields", or energy fields that influence physical form, are transferred along with genetic material at the instant of conception.
Sheldrake was not the first to conceive of energetic forces as underlying physical morphology. In one of the most ancient Chinese Acupuncture texts, the Su Wen it is stated that "That which was first in heaven is Chi, on earth it becomes visible as form. Chi and form interact giving birth to the myriad things" F. Mann, 1971, p. 47. If there is truth in these contentions then is there evidence in their favor? The work of Charles Shang, M.D. Shang (1996) is directly relevant. Shang has studied the Meridian system using SQUID (Superconducting QUantum Interference Device) instrumentation. His work indicates that the first acupuncture points appear in embryos prior to the appearance of any differentiation within the embryo. His work further indicates that the Meridian system is a distinct signal transduction system that overlaps and interacts with the nervous and circulatory systems, but is not part of these systems. Shang's work also indicates that Acupuncture points are singularity points (electromagnetic sinks or sources), and Meridians are separatices that divide the body into domains of different electromagnetic energy flow and intensity.
Interestedly, within physics it is known that time and space are altered or warped in the vicinity of singularity points. Noting the established role of electrical fields in growth control and regulation, and his own observations of embryonic development, Shang has developed the "Morphogenetic Singularity Theory" which explains the development of the Meridian system as an evolutionary outgrowth of organizing centers which are high electrical conductance points on the body surface of amphibians through higher vertebrates. He provides convincing evidence that the change of electrical activity at organizing centers correlates with signal transduction and precedes morphologic change; that as an intracellular transduction system the Meridian system is likely to have preceded all the other physiological systems. Shang's work finally indicates that the morphogenetic influence of the meridians does not end with birth, but rather continues throughout life.
This morphogenetic influence is utilized therapeutically in Acupuncture. If the energetic pathways used in Classical Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture are at the source of physical shape, form, and the regulation of the nervous and circulatory systems, then what role do they play in illness? What influences the meridians in such a way that we are individually subject to illness? Eric Kandel, MD, in his Nobel Prize winning (2000) research has conclusively demonstrated that the formation of memories changes the morphology of the nervous system itself, that thoughts and thought like activities actually turn genes on an off to accomplish changes in morphology. David R. Hawkins, MD, Ph.D., (1995) notes that the physiologic consequences of emotions are well documented and has given rise the whole field of psychosomatic medicine.
Following Diamond (1979) Hawkins notes that attitudes, thoughts, and beliefs are also connected with the energetic pathways used in Classical Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture; that negative and malevolent thoughts are catabolic and physically weaken us and that accepting and benevolent thoughts are anabolic and strengthen us. Hawkin's research indicates that the basic nature of the disease process is one in which the energy of our thoughts inadvertently influences our organs and physiology, our nervous, circulatory, and immune systems through the influence of thought on the meridians. In Hawkins' model thoughts themselves produce the energy that disturb the normal energetic balance of the meridians which can depress immune function or directly generate the disease process. While each thought we think influences us energetically, it is the repetition of patterns of thinking that ultimately lead to the development of disease.
Repeated patterns of thought eventually result in an energetic pattern in the body that ultimately manifests as disease. Once initiated the energetic disturbance underlying the disease process continues even if the initiating stimulus is terminated. The disease initiating energetic patterns of thinking are themselves the result of the brain's "hard wired" neural networks. These neural networks act as systems of nonlinear attractors so that while an individual neuron appears to act in a random fashion the overall system of which it is part does not act randomly (Li and Spiegel, 1992). Each network generates its own energetic pattern or signature. Being "hard wired" the energetic pattern generated by a particular network is basically the same across people. Thus the energy or fear or anger, guilt or shame, despair or ecstasy is essentially the same from person to person. Interestingly, studies have demonstrated that identical neural network attractor systems are present in animals as in humans.
It has been further demonstrated that AFT formulas (specific patterns of stimularion) have the same impact on animals as humans. Further, the same catabolic energetic patterns found in humans have been found to underlie disorders such as pneumonia, bacterial skin infections, and periocarditis in animals. Kandel's historic research implies that attractor systems are present in all animals that possess a nervous system, no matter how primitive the organism. While neural networks are typically activated by thinking or remembering, recent research by Cho, et.al. (1998) has led to a startling discovery: when Acupuncture points are stimulated there is a corresponding activation of a specific region of the brain. Thus, appropriately patterned stimulation of meridian points can involuntary cause the brain to generate energy in a manner similar to thinking and remembering.
The understanding of the energetic commonality of thoughts of specific types, in conjunction with understanding how Acupoint stimulation activates the brain's neural networks, has allowed for the development of specific therapeutic interventions reversing the catabolic energetic patterns of various disease states. These are the subtle energy manipulations of AFT. Meridian stimulation is accomplished in AFT by either mechanical percussion of specific patterns of Acupoints (tapping each point a specific number of times in order to appropriately stimulate neural network activity) or through the use of a proprietary form of electromagnetic like stimulation utilizing highly specific frequencies for each of the Acupoints stimulated. Separate sets of frequencies have been uncovered that stimulate animal and human meridian points. Sets of these frequencies exists within the human range of hearing, allowing the patterns of meridian stimulating frequencies to be digitally encoded on CDs. Unfortunately audio speakers are inefficient generators of the specific EM like energies that actually stimulate the meridians. It is not the sound that stimulates the meridians. Simply hearing the frequencies does not ensure treatment, thus the patient must remain within a few feet of the audio speaker. In order to increase the range of effectiveness of treatments an "antenna" has been developed that allows treatment at a distance.
In animal studies entire factory farms have been treated with a single antenna. The stimulation of the appropriate pattern of meridian points induces an energetic state change within the meridians leading to physical symptom remission. In order to reverse the catabolic energy pattern underlying a specific disorder a particular AFT formula is applied a specific minimum number of times per day across a minimum number of days. The appropriate frequency of AFT formula application is especially important if the meridian points are manually percussed. Application of AFT formulas via the CD methodology allows for continuous treatment. This is especially useful when treating disorders that require weeks or months to resolve. Summary Within Attractor Field Technique, disease is viewed as being caused by highly specific energetic patterns encoded within the meridians of Traditional Chinese Medicine by the action of repeated thought patterns. The subtle energy of our thoughts gradually causes an energetic state we call disease. Attractor Field Techniqueinterventions are designed to use the energetic discharge of the neural networks of the brain to disrupt or reverse the disease process itself by inducing specific energetic state changes within the meridians themselves. References
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