| In my nearly twenty year exploration of | | | | healing information. Researchers at Princeton |
| alternative medicine and healing I have often | | | | University have measured changes in |
| wondered about the concept of healing | | | | information in the form of changes in the |
| "energy." Healing energy is a mysterious | | | | outputs of random number generators in |
| thing indeed. Many people can definitely feel | | | | healing practices. Random number generators |
| it but it escapes scientific measurement. | | | | should produce a series of ones and zeros |
| When scientists try to measure this energy in | | | | that cancel each other out. When these |
| the form of the four forces of nature | | | | devices are placed in healing practices or |
| (electromagnetic, gravity, strong and weak | | | | have intention directed at them they deviate |
| nuclear) they usually come up empty handed. | | | | from randomness by producing more ones or |
| | | | zeroes. |
| My hypothesis about healing: that all healing | | | | |
| is in essence exchanges of information | | | | These measurements of decreases in randomness |
| provides an answer to the mystery of healing | | | | are measurements nonetheless as compared to |
| energy. A number of leading scientists | | | | the lack of success in measuring healing |
| including James Gardner, John Barrow, Paul | | | | energy. Perhaps these fluctuations picked up |
| Davies and Nobel laureate Christian de Duve | | | | by the devices represent a change in some |
| have put forth ideas that support the concept | | | | kind of informational field surrounding a |
| that life can be understood in terms of | | | | living being. The healer does not send |
| exchanges of information. In complexity | | | | healing energy to the patient but somehow |
| theorist James Gardner's new book "The | | | | changes the informational field surrounding |
| Intelligent Universe" he posits what he calls | | | | the patient. The healer acts as an |
| the selfish biocosm hypothesis in which the | | | | information source much like in a |
| universe is much like an intelligent being. | | | | communications channel. The patient receives |
| The universe evolves on a path to preserve | | | | the information and integrates it with the |
| information. It does so by producing life | | | | result of moving toward a state of greater |
| that also evolves to higher states of | | | | complexity or healing. |
| complexity in order to preserve the | | | | |
| information in the universe. | | | | If this is true then healing energy will be |
| | | | understood in a whole new light. The search |
| If we live in the midst of what could be | | | | for an elusive kind of energy will transform |
| called a cosmic computer perhaps what we | | | | into a search for information. |
| experience as healing energy may in fact be | | | | |