Human Energy Fields, by Colin Ross

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Next he makes a series of predictions, relating his ideas to medical problems like heart attacks, seizures, migraines, cancer, CFS, Parkinson's, phantom limbs, mental disorders, as well as 'fringe' practices like acupuncture, meditation, OBEs, aura reading, 'energy work', massage, chiropractic, and yoga.

There might be some preliminary confirmation about the electrical nature of migraines based on a relatively recent theory about CSD (Cortical Spreading Depression) -- I mentioned it here when I was researching migraines earlier this year (click on the 'Cortical Spreading Depression' link to see an article about it). The parts below about neurotransmitters (serotonin, dopamine, etc) are also interesting from the viewpoint of Ross's critique of the lock-and-key mechanism of receptors and his alternative hypothesis.

This book sounds very interesting and lately I've been thinking somewhat along the same lines and look forward to reading it.

Thanks for posting the link, Shijing, I'd either somehow missed it or had forgotten about it but a couple of days ago, I came across the same/similar information as I was doing a search on similarities between migraines and anxiety as I've found from personal experience that at times, some of the symptoms can overlap (specifically the predrome and aura phases).

 

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I read this book last month and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's good to see credentialed scientist investigate these topics. I will say that I read this book prior to Ruper Sheldrake's "The presence of the past and morphic resonance" which basically explains how it could be possible that everything resides inside of a morphic field. The similarities between these two book were really interesting from my perspective.

Yeah, I saw some similarity with Sheldrake's work too. While I think they're both onto something, I think their theories are incomplete. Philosophically, they don't really explain free will (i.e., Sheldrake's theory is basically mechanistic). It's understandable in Ross's case, as he's simply trying to make and empirical and testable claim about EM fields being the unifying life-force. But for an overall worldview that makes sense of these things, I still haven't found anything better than Whitehead and David Ray Griffin's philosophy of panexperientialism (or panpsychism).

Finished reading the book yesterday. I also thought his theorizing about spirit being beneath physics was a kind of an incomplete model. I wish he went into more detail with more references explaining his reasoning behind the many hypothesis he touted off to the reader. Since he clearly could have gone into much greater detail (judging by how much science/philosophy/anthropology he skims over), I wonder why he or the editors kept the page number that artificially low.