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Jul 29Liked by Max Goodbird

I think there is a firm physical basis for qi and energy healing, it is simply discarded because it doesn't get your research project funded. It's a field that a few US scientists have dug into but their work is reaching bigger scales with Chinese institutions.

•The experiment that showed cells (can) communicate with light. When they divided cells with an impermeable transparent glass wall they still communicated with each other.

•It is known that lasers can promote cell healing, with red light therapy hitting the mainstream. If a cell can communicate with light, it can produce light and if a person could train this aspect of their body a 'healing touch' is inevitable.

•It is already well known that the physical touch of a mother regulates the biological body systems of her baby. Temperature, breathing, heartrate, etc. This is another avenue that a healing touch may tap into. It's unlikely that this system would 'go away' completely upon hitting adulthood.

Etc.

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You are doing an important service to society by doing this. Including subjecting yourself to synesthesia!

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Oct 4Liked by Max Goodbird

Not sure who else to share it with, but I made a pretty big discovery regarding the somatic field. I have narcolepsy with cataplexy. I experimented with using meditation to try to overcome my condition and failed spectacularly— it turns out I become completely unable to experience/sense the somatic field during cataplexic episodes, and observing for when the sense of the somatic field returns can successfully predict the end of a cataplexic episode. Given this, I would theorize a shared mechanism—either motor neurons directly or upstream from there, general consciousness regulation.

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That's super interesting--I can't even imagine what it would be like to lose all somatic sensations, but to keep visual/auditory sensations (otherwise you'd just have a full cessation experience, or total unconsciousness)

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Aug 26Liked by Max Goodbird

I love the way you've authored this topic. Minus the nonsense 100%.

Maybe the younger generation of medical scientists or psychologists will pay more attention to alternative ways of healing, so they become mainstream in the future.

Just like psychoactive drugs slowly being accepted as a cure for various mental illnesses, energy healing could follow.

Thank you for this beautiful piece!

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Love this! Thank you

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If you're not already familiar with the work of medical intuitives, you'll doubtless find it interesting.

The most famous of them is probably Edgar Cayce, who diagnosed many at a distance. In one instance (if memory serves), there was a young woman in a sanitarium diagnosed with mental illness. Cayce went into trance and reported she had an impacted wisdom tooth that was the problem. They looked, there was in fact an impacted tooth, and on removing it she quickly returned to normal.

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Great article. I have written a paper on some of these topics a couple of years ago. It can be downloaded here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1155/2020/7630190

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After some consideration, I've decided to remove this comment.

That's not something I do lightly, as I want there to be an open discussion here. And I generally find your comments to be kind and insightful.

But there's a lot of medical misinformation here, and it appears to endorse an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. That's not the kind of discourse I want to encourage here.

Happy to provide more color in DMs.

-Max

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That's ok. There is no medical misinformation in my work unfortunately, nor anti-semitism - I love the East and everything about it. There is a terrible misunderstanding in the world and especially online, which I don't feel any need to contribute to. The truth is very distorted - and so is the medical industry. I've written at length about that too, but I suspect you're not up to hearing it yet. Or would simply deny it, so.

Nothing is as it seems, and I hope that you continue your writing; you are so very close to the truth in some ways, but not yet in others.

Everything I wrote only needs research and meditation to be confirmed - which you do well, and is why I wrote it here. Sincerely, A.

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