Alternative Medicine Even a Science Geek Can Embrace

I was contracted recently to promote a new documentary called The Living Matrix, which will have its world premier at The Science of Healing Conference in London next month. Quite an assignment for a self-acclaimed science enthusiast: a film that challenges the conventional medical community to reconsider its understanding of human biology. Energy and information fields -- not genetics -- drive human physiology and biochemistry, the scientists and researchers in the film assert. Now, I'm no stranger to alternative health care. My kids have had engaged in energetic medicine for their food allergies, a sort of electrodermal screening of their energy fields and the ingestion of drops imprinted with healing information. For myself, I'm under the care of an integrative medicine practitioner MD who combines conventional and alternative care. I've also participated in energy healings, body work, homeopathy, yoga, and meditation. But the idea of redefining my beloved subject of biology to include energy and information fields was a stretch for me. Until I did the research for my writing assignments. Turns out, there's lots of science to back it up. Here's a sneak peak at one of the pieces I created for the documentary press kit:

What is bio-energetic medicine?

To understand bio-energetic medicine, you have to connect some dots that conventional medicine leaves unconnected. We know that all living things emit energy in the form of electromagnetic frequencies. We measure these frequencies in the heart with electrocardiographs (ECGs) and in the brain with electroencephalographs (EEGs). In fact, magneto encephalographs (MEGs) measure these frequencies in the brain without even touching the body, so we even acknowledge that these frequencies extend beyond the body; that they are being broadcast outside the physical structure. Next, when quantum physics was discovered 80 years ago, we all came to agree that matter, including the human body, is made up of subatomic particles that emit energy. And we know that these particles react with other particles to create more energy.

That’s a lot of energy moving through the human body, and thousands of years ago, these fields of energy were central to our understanding of health and wellness. That was when medical practitioners understood how these systems of energy interacted with the physical and chemical systems of the body to make us well, and how the disruption of these interactions made us ill. However, when scientists wanted to record the universe in measurable terms, they separated it into components that they could label: the mind from the body, people from each other, and space from time. Newton further defended the notion of the human body as a separate machine, the heart as a stand-alone mechanical pump, the brain as a distinct repository of information, and DNA as the only information the body needed to operate. Because the machines to measure and label energy were generations away, modern scientists defended the ultimate and most damaging separation of all: the separation of energy from biology. Eastern medicine continued to thrive on an understanding of the role of energy in human biology; Western medicine wanted evidence before it would reconsider.

Bio-energetic medicine brings back together the body’s energy systems with its chemical and physiological systems to reestablish a comprehensive understanding of human biology. And because we are all connected to and influenced by our environment, this energy exchange also includes the transfer of energy between the human body’s energy field and all other things around us that also emit energy. Because we now have ways to measure the human body’s energy fields and because scientists have studied and recorded evidence of energy healing, conventional medicine is more receptive to its effectiveness. It is called “bio” energy to reinforce its connection to not separation from biology.

Quantum physics. Newton. EEGs and ECGs. What more could a science geek ask for?