We are talking a bit more than electricity in the brain although this alone would be cause for me to suspect the bodies responses is more than chemical reactions.
[SIZE=-1]Early in this century, medicine saw living organisms as operating via the following interaction/reaction equation:[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Function <-> Structure <-> Chemistry[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]In keeping with this equation, human health was thought to depend on the integrity of the body structure. The integrity of the body structure depended on a relatively stable state of equilibrium (i.e., homeostasis) between the different but interdependent structural parts. In turn, homeostasis depended on a host of organic and inorganic chemicals. Whenever the body didn't function properly, structural defects arising out of chemical imbalances were blamed.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]*[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]To cure this problem and restore the needed homeostasis of the body, prescriptions were ordered involving sophisticated chemical complexes at increasingly larger dosages in order to trigger the body's defense and repair mechanisms. This approach led to what can be called "chemical medicine" with its many strengths and weaknesses.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]*[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Later in the century, neuropsychiatry demonstrated that small electric currents between specific points in the brain gave rise to the same behavioral changes that were observed with the ingestion of certain brain-stimulating chemicals. Other researchers found that small electric currents can stimulate cells to regenerate, tissue to repair itself and fractures to heal. Although the use of x-rays and diathermy have a long history in medicine, recent extensions to MRI scans all tend to indicate that the earlier three-part equation (shown above) was incomplete.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]*[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]In the light of the electric current effects, a four-part equation was presented, the fourth part involving electric and magnetic fields:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]E/M[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Function <-> Structure <-> Chemistry <-> Fields[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The body's electric and magnetic fields provide the necessary conditions for homeostasis at the chemical level. Detection of imbalances at the electric/magnetic field levels would be an early warning factor of coming potential disruptions in the chemical homeostasis condition, and which, if unchecked, would eventually result in repercussions at the body's functional level.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]*[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Research and study of hypnosis and hypnotic affects revealed that the human body can exhibit truly remarkable feats of strength and endurance - attesting to an important linkage of body/mind, in which the mind can influence not only the body's structure and function, but also its chemistry and electric/magnetic fields.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]*[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Advancing research in psychotherapy revealed that certain chemical treatments induce specific mental states - while certain mental treatments influence specific chemical populations.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]*[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]More recently, biofeedback techniques have shown that directed mind not only can control various autonomic body functions (such as skin temperature, pain, etc.) but can also repair the body.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]*[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Thus, a new five-part equation became necessary:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]E/M[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Function <-> Structure <-> Chemistry <-> Fields <-> Mind[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]*[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Well-controlled, remote influence experiments with healers, and experiments with psychokinesis, clairvoyance, remote viewing, homeopathy and many other phenomena, indicate the existence of processes inadequately understood. The nature of these processes extends beyond conventional knowledge of the physical domains of nature, and appear to involve emotional, spiritual and other intangible qualities.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]*[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]These qualities should also enter an extend form of the five-part equation presented above. However, since we presently do not have clear definitions of these different qualities, they might temporarily be put into the category of SUBTLE ENERGIES. Preliminary research data indicate that the subtle energies somehow influence the electric and/or magnetic fields of the body, and which influences have demonstrable effects on its structure, function, chemistry, and the mind. The SUBTLE ENERGIES can include emotional, mental and spiritual qualities, but appear to operate in connection with physically intangible factors that can be called ETHERIC.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]*[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]These qualities should also be entered into the equation:[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]E/M Subtle[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Function <-> Structure<->Chemistry<->Fields<->Energy[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Fields[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]*[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]In conventional science, four forces are considered responsible for all observable phenomena in the universe:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The strong nuclear force;[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The weak nuclear force;[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The electromagnetic force: and[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The gravitational force.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]These four forces characterize the purely physical domain very well. Thus, the "subtle energies" referred to above, and the subtle forces/effects they generate, are not necessarily weak - but rather constitute that large body of elusive energies and forces beyond the four accepted by today's physical science.[/SIZE]
