When You Have the Right Vibe, it’s not a Coincidence ~ Synchronicities, Energy Healing, and Other Strangeness in the Field ~ Amy L. Lansky PhD

 

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When You Have the Right Vibe, It’s Not a Coincidence The following is excerpted from Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within [1], recently released from R.L.Ranch Press.


One piece of evidence for the
holographic nature of nonstandard fields that have been proposed in
recent years — the zero-point field (a candidate for the unified field
[2]), the psi field of psychic phenomena, Ervin Laszlo’s Akashic field
[3], and the morphic field proposed by Rupert Sheldrake [4] — is that
they all share a common feature: sensitivity to similarity in vibration.


If a holographic image has many
different holograms embedded within it, shining a laser of a specific
frequency upon it will cause only those holograms made with lasers of
the same frequency to stand out.


That’s because things with the same
vibration naturally resonate and reinforce one another — just as two
violin strings at the same pitch resonate with one another. This
property of resonance has [also] been used to explain how each of us
might interact with mysterious fields like the psi or Akashic fields…


People pick up only that with which
they personally “resonate.” Each individual’s resonant frequency,
determined by their life experience, physical body, and energy body,
limits what they can perceive. Biologist
Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of morphic resonance also depends upon
similarity in vibration. Members of the same species, being “on the same
wavelength,” are able to tap into information that pertains uniquely to
them.


And while members of an entire species
might be able to tune into a fairly broad spectrum of frequencies
(think of Carl Jung’s notion of the collective unconscious that humans
supposedly tap into [5]), smaller, more tightly connected groups — such
as members of the same family or loving couples — resonate in more
focused zones of vibration; they have access to their own “private
frequency.”


In fact, Sheldrake goes even further
and suggests that morphic fields can explain how human memory operates.
Instead of being stored in our brains, he suggests that memories are
stored in the morphic field. Our brains then pick them up via resonance,
like radios tuning to their own private stations.


The existence and importance of
similarity in vibration has also popped up in psi experiments. For
example, individuals gifted at psychokinesis — the ability to affect
physical objects with the mind — have described the experience as a
feeling of resonance with those objects.

A fascinating body of evidence has also
been uncovered by Dean Radin and his colleague Roger Nelson at
Princeton’s PEAR lab… [R]esearchers at PEAR found that connected
couples can influence random event generators (REGs) more effectively
than individuals working alone.


Because of this phenomenon, Radin and
Nelson decided to test for even larger field effects by using these
random devices as “antennae.” First they placed REGs at events where
people were all focused on the same thing and therefore “vibrating”
similarly-for example, at music festivals, religious events, and even at
the Academy Awards.


The results were as predicted; these venues did indeed cause the machines’ outputs to deviate from the norm [6, 7].


Then, in 1997, they decided to place
REGs at fifty locations all over the world, run them continuously, and
see if they could pick up on major world events. The results were
astounding. Over the next ten
years, Radin and Nelson studied the machines’ reactions to 205 major
world events and discovered that they did indeed respond to events that
were intense on a global level — especially those that were tragic.

The most striking effects occurred in
response to the events on 9/11, which caused the largest daily average
correlation between the machines’ outputs. Even
more amazing, this correlation became noticeable a few hours before the
first of the twin towers was hit! [8, 9] An instance of collective
precognition?


Whereas world events less horrific
than 9/11 probably evoke more varied vibratory responses in people (and
therefore do not resonate and amplify each other as well), truly
frightening events tend to evoke a more common, coherent response. As
this study showed, when nearly all of the people on Earth “got onto the
same wavelength” on 9/11, even machines noticed…

Synchronicity and Fields of Meaning Similarity
in vibration has also been used to explain the phenomenon of
synchronicity — “coincidences” of seemingly unrelated events that share
a common meaning… [A] well-known illustration of this phenomenon was
described by psychiatrist Carl Jung, the originator of the notion of
synchronicity [10].


One of Jung’s patients was recounting
her dream about a golden scarab beetle when he heard a rapping on the
window. When he opened it, a rose chafer beetle — the insect most
similar to a scarab in Jung’s region — flew into the room. Jung quickly
put two and two together.


He realized that the mythological
meaning of the scarab — an ancient Egyptian symbol for rebirth — was
highly pertinent to his patient’s problems. And this was also the reason
why the insect had appeared in waking life.


The phenomenon of synchronicity
demonstrates a key point — the universe may not be operating like a
cold, meaningless machine after all. Instead,
the reality we experience each day may be flooded with fields of
meaning. One field might embody the horror and violence of 9/11. Another
field might be associated with a hope for rebirth.


Each field of meaning has a particular
vibration to it, and objects, individuals, emotions, dreams, and events
with similar vibrations will tend to resonate with one another and then
co-occur. This is what creates
synchronicities. In fact, various theories of quantum physics require
the existence of synchronicities [11]…


Think about it. There may be another
fundamental mechanism at play in our universe besides cause and effect.
Most of us think that everything that occurs in our world is due to some
causal mechanism.


A causes B causes C. However,
synchronicity — the co-occurrence of events within the same field of
meaning — may be another fundamental reason why things tend to happen. Many things in life that we think are due to cause-and-effect or mere coincidence may actually be due to synchronicity.


Here’s an example that occurred while I
was writing this book. My husband Steve and I had long admired Rupert
Sheldrake’s work on morphic fields but had never met him.


To us, he was a brilliant scientist
living far away in England. However, in September 2008, just as I was
working on the section of this book that describes his work, Steve got
word that Sheldrake would be giving a talk at his research laboratory at
Sun Microsystems.


Now please understand; talks about
things like the morphic field are not commonplace in computer research
labs. In fact, Sheldrake’s talk was poorly attended. But it just so
happened that one of the lab’s researchers had met Sheldrake in Scotland
and had invited him to speak the next time he was in our area.


When Steve heard about Sheldrake’s
visit, he asked if I could also attend, and we both received an
invitation to have lunch with him the next day. Before I could even
finish writing about Rupert Sheldrake, I was sitting and having lunch
with him! Coincidence? Or synchronicity?…

A Meaningful Cure The
powerful influence of similarity in vibration has also made its way
into healing. In fact, it is the very foundation of homeopathy — an
alternative medical system originally developed in Germany in the early
1800s.


The word “homeopathy” literally means
similar (homeo) suffering (pathy), and practitioners of homeopathy
choose medicines for their patients based on a principle of cure called
the Law of Similars. This principle can be described as follows:


If a substance is shown experimentally
to cause a specific pattern of emotional, physical, and behavioral
symptoms in healthy test subjects, then that substance can be prepared
so that it can cure individuals suffering from the same pattern of
symptoms.


In other words, homeopathy is the
science of healing based on similarity of vibration. The Law of Similars
essentially says: “likes cure likes.” Bring two things of like
vibration together — a remedy and a patient — and the effect will be a
cure of the patient’s disease.


Here’s a simple illustration. We all
know the common effects of drinking coffee: wakefulness, a mind full of
thoughts, excited happiness, acute senses, and sometimes heart
palpitations and diarrhea. These symptoms are manifestations of the vibration of coffee, and coffee imparts these qualities to those who drink it.

Now, if a patient comes to a homeopath
seeking help for chronic insomnia, and their insomnia is characterized
by an overactive mind, excitement, acuteness of the senses, heart
palpitations, and diarrhea, it is likely that the homeopath will
prescribe Coffea Cruda — a remedy prepared from coffee.


That’s because this patient manifests
the same vibrational qualities as coffee. And if the remedy is truly
homeopathic to the patient — that is, if coffee’s symptoms match his or
her overall emotional, mental, and physical state — it has the
potential to completely cure their insomnia, not just palliate it as a
sleeping pill would do.


Of course, the most controversial
thing about homeopathy is not the Law of Similars, but the way in which
homeopathic remedies are made. The process, called potentization,
involves a sequence of steps in which a substance is repeatedly diluted
and vigorously shaken.


In fact, for most remedies, these
dilutions are so extreme that they do not contain even a single molecule
of the original substance! Nevertheless, homeopaths have found that the
higher the dilution, the more potent a remedy can be. They believe this
is possible because the energetic signature of a substance is captured
by the potentization process.


In other words, potentization enables
the innate vibrational quality of a substance in nature to be unleashed
and harnessed. It is this vibration that evokes the symptoms caused by a
remedy, and it is also this vibratory signature that enables the remedy
to cure a similar vibratory state in a patient. Like vibrations cure
like vibrations…

Water: A Potent Carrier of Information Although
homeopathy has been the target of skeptics and critics since it was
developed by physician Samuel Hahnemann in the early 1800s, open-minded
scientists are finally beginning to get an inkling of how the remedies
might be working.


Recent studies have shown that the
encoding of information in homeopathic dilutions is not about their
chemical composition; it’s more about the bonding structures between the
molecules within them.


Apparently, the shaking process (also
called succussion) performed during homeopathic potentization is the
critical step that develops these structures. In
2007, a prominent researcher in the field of structured water,
Professor Rustum Roy of Pennsylvania State University, showed for the
first time that extreme homeopathic dilutions are not mere water, but
highly structured arrangements of water molecules.


In fact, various types of instruments
in Roy’s laboratory were able to pick up the distinct signatures of
different remedies, even at levels of dilution in which no remedy
substance likely remained [12].

Homeopathic experience has shown that these
unique signatures can then be transmitted to dry pills, and that the
power and distinct effects of these pills remain stable indefinitely if
they are stored properly…


Interestingly, the potentization
process can be used to capture the energetic signature of any substance,
not just those used to make homeopathic remedies.


This has been shown repeatedly by
several independent scientists in replicated studies. For example,
consider the work of Jacques Benveniste, a French physician and medical
researcher in the field of immunology who helped discover
platelet-activating factor in 1972. Unfortunately, Benveniste’s career
was set upon a rocky course when a colleague encouraged him to study the
phenomenon of potentization.


His first paper about the subject
described how antibodies of immunoglobulin E (anti-IgE) could be
potentized beyond Avogadro’s number (the point at which it is unlikely
to find a single molecule of a substance remaining in a dilution) and
still cause substance-specific effects.


When Benveniste published these
results in the prestigious journal Nature in 1988 [13], he came under a
barrage of attacks that lasted for the rest of his life.


But perhaps this wasn’t surprising.
Benveniste’s work had essentially shown that any drug could be
potentized and still remain effective. That means that billions of doses
of any drug could be produced for pennies — information that drug
companies would spend a fortune to attack and suppress.


And in fact, there is evidence that a
world-wide campaign to discredit homeopathy has been funded by the
pharmaceutical industry for this very reason [14, 15].


Despite the attacks on Benveniste and
his subsequent loss of government funding in France, he continued his
work and came up with even more astounding results. Because he suspected
that the potentization process conveys an electromagnetic signal into
the water of a dilution, he developed an apparatus that could digitally
record it.


He then transmitted this signal
electronically — via E-mail — to a distant laboratory, and had it
“replayed” into water there. Amazingly, the resulting water caused the
same effects as the original substance.


Benveniste eventually conducted
several blinded experiments using this protocol. He published a paper in
the Journal of Clinical Immunology in 1997 that described one such
experiment, in which a specific antigen was potentized, recorded,
E-mailed to Chicago, and replayed into water in a Chicago laboratory
[16].


This water did indeed cause
antigen-specific effects on isolated guinea pig hearts. I saw Benveniste
present this paper at Stanford University Medical School in 1999. The
large lecture hall was standing-room only, but the audience was politely
incredulous.


Of course, Benveniste’s new results in
what he called “digital biology” were even more mind-boggling and
threatening than his original paper in Nature. Not
only could billions of doses of a substance be prepared cheaply using
potentization, but its signature could be E-mailed and imprinted into
water essentially for free…

Despite the fact that other
initially-skeptical scientists have successfully replicated his work
[17, 18], acceptance of Benveniste’s work remains for the future.


Perhaps, with the growth of a new
consciousness in the scientific community, that future will arrive
sooner rather than later. Indeed, in 2009, some new research conducted
by Nobel prize winner Luc Montagnier confirmed the same kinds of effects
that Benveniste described [19]…

The Meaning of Disease The
power of potentization is indeed one of the landmark discoveries of
Homeopathy. It provides us with a method for capturing the energetic
signature of any substance in nature. But perhaps even more significant
is homeopathy’s therapeutic principle, the Law of Similars — because it
says something specific about how fields of meaning operate and
interact. There may even be a direct relationship between the Law of
Similars and synchronicity.


The late psychiatrist Edward Whitmont
was a student of Carl Jung and eventually became a homeopath. In his
book, Psyche and Substance, he speaks at length about the relationship
between homeopathy and synchronicity [20].


Psychiatrists have long known that
patients sometimes alternate between specific physical symptoms and
specific mental or emotional symptoms.


In fact, when mental symptoms are
present, physical symptoms often vanish, and vice versa. This phenomenon
is an illustration of the fundamentally psychosomatic nature of disease
— that disease manifests in both the psyche (mind) and soma (body)…


Homeopathy and other holistic medical
systems have long recognized that disease is a body-mind affair. That is
why each patient manifests a unique pattern of mental, emotional, and
physical symptoms — a pattern that is an outward representation of his
or her vibratory state.


As Whitmont points out, each
homeopathic remedy is also associated with a vibration… The Law of
Similars then states that bringing together the vibratory pattern of a
patient and the similar vibratory pattern of a remedy can be curative.


The reason this is true, Whitmont
suggests, is synchronicity… Homeopathic remedies are curative because
they share the same synchronistic field as a disease and therefore can
replace it within a patient’s body.


Hahnemann proposed essentially the
same explanation in the early 1800s for the operation of his remedies
upon what he called the dynamis or vital force — the energetic etheric
field that encompasses the physical body.


The fact that homeopathy has worked
for millions of people for 200 years says a lot about the power of the
Law of Similars. But it also says something about fields of meaning and
their relationship to us in disease and in health.


Just as the dream of the golden scarab
said something meaningful about the psychological state of Jung’s
patient, holistic practitioners recognize that each person’s unique
manifestation of disease is not merely the result of genetic inheritance
or the accidents of life — it is a reflection of a field of meaning
vibrating at the core of their being.


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