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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: <renate.ratlos@bigfoot.com> (Renate Ratlos )
Newsgroups: de.alt.naturheilkunde
Subject: Internationales Esoterikernetzwerk
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 16:39:29 GMT
Organization: Universe 2
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http://www.iaam.nl/_fundamental/00020000.htm[Zitatanfang]Dove Health Alliance
430 Cliff Dr. Aptos, CA 95003
Tel: (831) 688-1133 Fax: (831) 688-8898
Email: dove1@mindspring.com
Summary Report of Dr. Maret's Europe Visit (Jan 23 -Feb 7, 2001)
The trip was undertaken by Dr. Karl Maret, President of the Dove Health
Alliance, to network with scientific and medical colleagues in Germany,
France and Holland and to learn about recent new developments in the field
of Energy and Informational Medicine. Some of the more noteworthy
developments are described in this report. It is hoped that a more active
collaboration between American doctors and scientists and our European
colleagues can begin to be initiated. In general, the response from all
people visited was extremely positive and without exception, all persons
contacted expressed a sincere desire to develop a closer working
relationship with American scientists and organizations active in this
field.
Dr. Maret began in Munich with a visit to the clinic of internist Dr. Knut
Pfeiffer who was the first German doctor to apply the Pulsed Signal Therapy
technique developed by Dr. Markoll to treat various forms of joint disease.
There are now 600 doctors in 250 clinics in Germany using this
electromagnetic therapy that was developed in part in the U.S. but has not
found much application in the U.S. due to the difficult federal regulatory
environment for this type of healing modality. The PST machines are now
built and distributed in Germany and interest in this form of
electromagnetic therapy is growing.
Dr. Pfeiffer stated that many studies of the technique‚s efficacy have now
been completed in Germany, Italy and other European countries. In his
clinical practice he sees an 80% success rate in the elimination of
osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis symptoms within 3 months after an
initial series of nine 1-hour treatments over 9 sequential days. The cost
per treatment is DM 144 or about $72 for a total treatment series cost of
DM 1296 or about $650. That is extremely cheap considering the high
morbidity costs associated with these diseases. The PST devices come in
several sizes including devices for treatment of the upper extremities,
knees, neck and spine. A device for treating specific regions of the
spine exists wherein the patient lies supine and the electromagnetic coils
are moved to the region to be treated.
These devices should definitely become available for investigational use in
the U.S. since they could have a significant impact on health care costs.
The science of how they affect joint repair and healing is quite advanced
and the symptom relief from the treatments lasts from one to several years
with many reported cases of complete long term cures. Dr. Pfeiffer reports
that many patients have been spared the need for joint replacement surgery
and his practice is now quite busy with these modalities through the use of
5 of these machines. There are no side effects and treatments are
painless.
Next followed a two day visit to composer Peter Huebner and his colleagues
near Dortmund. This group has created Medical Resonance Therapy music over
the last 13 years which is now sold in 2000 German pharmacies and
recognized by the German health ministry as effective musical therapy for
stress reduction and a variety of medical conditions including migraines,
immunological disorders, gynecological disorders, neurodermatitis, anxiety,
depression, hormonal imbalances, premature labor, sleep disorders, among
others. It has been studied extensively in Germany, Russia, Belarus and
the Ukraine by teams of scientists and medical doctors. There is an
extensive web site (
www.medicalresonancetherapymusic.com) which lists the
advantages of this music.
18 basis CDs and an additional 15 supplemental CDs have been created that
can be used to help normalize the internal physiological and hormonal
rhythms in listeners while assisting in psychophysiological stress
reduction. Endocrinological studies have shown a reduction of cortisol
levels, elevation of endorphins and normalization of sex hormones. In
Belarus, this music is now mandated for treatment of premature labor since
the incidence of prematurity there decreased from 14% to 6.7% after musical
listening programs were introduced to pregnant woman at risk.
The music is structured based on Mr. Huebner‚s research into the Microcosm
of Music and the Laws of Harmony. These exacting musical laws that were
first researched in the West by Pythagoras but have been known in the East
for a long time. The Chinese are now using this music extensively since
they found that their Chi Gong and other martial arts internal exercise
practices showed an apparently 6-fold increase in effectiveness when the
music is also utilized.
The music is not at all like traditional „relaxation music‰ commonly
available; indeed the listener may initially be disturbed and may report
disliking the music; this being more common if specific or greater number
of internal rhythm imbalances exist. After continuing to listen to the
medical music, listeners generally report a greater tolerance for the music
and soon report really liking it. The music stimulates a harmonizing and
healing effect on the whole system which initially may be accompanied by a
type of „healing crisis‰. Many doctors have found deep and lasting
positive personality changes in themselves as well as their patients if
they persist in listening to the music consistently over several weeks to
months. The CDs are sold individually as well as in sets (with between 6
to 10 CDs per set) that are listened to sequentially over as many days.
The cost of the CDs is comparable to commercially available music CDs. Dr.
Maret will begin to make this music available to interested doctors and
individuals in the U.S.
Next followed a visit to Dr. Fritz Popp at the International Institute of
Biophysics (IIB) in Neuss, Germany. Dr. Popp, a biophysicist, is one of
the foremost experts on biophoton research and has partnered with 14 other
universities and research institutes internationally to conduct studies in
this field. Biophotons were first described by the Russian scientist
Gurwitch in the 1920s and then referred to as mitogenic rays since they
induced mitosis in onion roots. Since then, there have been many books
written and several conferences held concerning biophotons. Most research
collaborators active in this field are in Germany, China and England.
Dr. Popp described the application of biophoton research to the
investigation of subtle regulatory influences in and between cells and how
new models of biophysics and quantum physics elucidate the important
regulatory role of these quanta of living light inside the body. Dr. Maret
was able to record an excellent video interview in which Dr. Popp outlined
potential quantum physical mechanisms of the effectiveness of small
signals, including homeopathic remedies, biophotons or nonthermal
electromagnetic fields, on the organism‚s homeostasis. The work of Dr.
Popp in the past has been more oriented to fundamental biophysics without
immediate clinical application. However, he then described a new
initiative of the IIB planned in March 2001 which will bring together
leading groups of European (mostly German) clinicians and researchers in
Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The purpose of this meeting is to
discuss a closer research and clinical collaboration between basic
scientists and clinicians so that this innovative research can have greater
impact on health care delivery. To that end, they are planning to host a
series of 10 formative seminars this year to be held monthly for groups of
around 30 doctors interested in the scientific basis of CAM. The seminar
topics will include:
Scientific Foundations of Complementary Medicine
The system of ground regulation (non-specific mesenchymal regulation)
Homeopathy
Acupuncture
Alternative tumor diagnosis and therapy
Agriculture and quality assessment of foods
Water and its importance
The Environment in its wholeness
Body, Soul and Spirit
Ethics in medicine and society
Dr. Popp expressed a sincere desire to cooperate with American scientists
and clinicians in furthering biophysical research and educational
initiatives in CAM. Their web site which gives a good insight into their
work is (
www.datadiwan.de/iib/ib_000e_.htm)
Dr. Maret also visited with Dr. Roeland van Wijk, another key scientist at
IIB, who will soon be retiring as professor of biological research at the
University of Utrecht. Dr. van Wijk has been widely respected for his
basic science research in the field of biophotons, homeopathy and cellular
communications. Recently he has carried out research with single-celled
acetabularia studying biophoton emissions from these organisms in response
to various environmental stimuli including the effects of intention and
consciousness.
The IIB has also been involved in studying the quality of foods and
nutrients by quantitating biophoton emissions after various methods of
agricultural production, processing and storage. Recently the institute
has moved into new facilities in close proximity to an artistic community
with many new social initiates supported by a local philanthropist.
Next Dr. Maret visited with Norbert Veel at his recording studio in
Holland. Mr. Veel has developed a unique recording facility that utilizes
a special bioresonance recording techniques. This approach creates superb
musical reproduction with a palpably recognizable emotional content of the
performing artist reproduced in the recordings. Mr Veel, a trained
recording engineer, has an very sensitive perceptive ability with regard to
sounds as well as being very skilled as an electronics designer. He
modified all the studio electronic equipment to eliminate phase distortions
and other musical discolorations while maximizing specific „nonlinear
acoustic elements‰ that allow sound to be recorded and reproduced with
extremely life-like character. Philips Corporation in the Netherlands as
well as Sony and Warner Brothers have offered him very lucrative contracts
to either divulge his technology or build studios for them. However, he
has to date refused all these offers because of his personal interest to
use these technologies in the service of healing and the artistic and
consciousness development of humanity. He is interested in collaboration
with scientists and artists that are motivated to advance the fields of
healing and the development of human potential using these new acoustic
technologies.
Then followed a visit to the Imaging Laboratory sponsored by the Fred
Foundation in Hilversum, near Amsterdam. This small research laboratory is
interested in biophoton research (in association with Dr. van Wijk), water
research and sound research. Dialogs were held with Saskia Bosman, Ph.D.,
a biologist who has done some interesting research with the creation of
„earth gates,‰ a type of earth acupuncture, in which metallic geometrical
resonance structures were placed in various locations around the world and
activated by groups of people through sound and intention while monitoring
geocosmic parameters such as magnetometers, Geiger counters, normal and
infrared phtography and the like. They were able to photograph light
spheres on both normal and IR film as well as show changes in local
magnetic fields during the activation of these gates. Dr. Bosman also
presented a proposal for a holistic research project involving the pineal
gland including an extensive literature survey of this gland and how it
might be studied as a sensitive detector for torsion fields and other
scalar wave field phenomena. She would like to collaborate with American
scientists in this effort and the proposal is available from her or Dr.
Maret for review.
The coordinator of the lab, Guusje Hogendoorn, who works for the Fred
Foundation, described their work in the qualitative research of imaging
different types of water. The lab uses the unique imaging procedures
developed by David Schweitzer (Albert Schweitzer‚s son) of London, England.
This qualitative photographic approach makes visible rather beautiful
resonant patterns in water treated by various modalities including physical
treatment in various places or with different devices, as well as
investigating the effect of healers, emotions and conscious intention.
This technique reveals geometrical patterns reminiscent of Moire or wave
interference patterns that appear very interesting and are certainly
distinctive.
They are now attempting to replicate a fast freezing technique developed in
Japan by Masaru Emoto to study the ice crystallization patterns of water
with a microphotographic technique. A book on the qualitative study of
these photographed ice crystals has recently been published with the title
„The Message from Water‰ and was presented by the lab to Dr. Maret. Much
of this work at the lab is being carried out by Jan Souren who worked
formerly with Dr. van Wijk at the Universityof Utrecht and has set up the
biophoton research facility at the Imaging Laboratory. In addition, the
lab is investigating technical and software improvements of the Automated
Meridian Instrument (AMI) originally developed by Dr. Motoyama in Japan to
study acupuncture meridians.
Henk Kooij, a sound healer and psychologist, who is also associated with
the lab explained his interests regarding sound healing approaches which he
has begun in association with Norbert Veel as well as Ibrahim Karim of
Cairo, Egypt. They are waiting for the improvements in the AMI as well as
the ice crystallization technique to study the effects of specific acoustic
patterns on people as well as on water.
Dr. Maret also met with Mr. Fred Matser who founded the Fred Foundation, a
Dutch philanthropic foundation, that has developed many initiatives and
spawned various other philanthropic impulses including a Sarajevo Peace
Park, the Green Cross foundation with Michael Gorbachov to positively
impact environmental remediation, among others. Mr. Matser was interested
in the question of how charitable initiatives can become more accountable
and create a more effective and completed cycle of gift giving.
Specifically he was interested in the development of a system which would
allow the philanthropists to be more energetically involved in the gifting
process while simultaneously encouraging the receiver of donated funds to
become more self-sustaining in their charitable activity. What he would
like to see developed is an interactive expert information system that
could keep all parties more actively involved as an energetic philanthropic
ecosystem. Dr. Maret proposed to investigate the applicability of new
integrative database systems used by the oil industry as a new expert
system as well as exploring with Silicon Valley philanthropic organizations
that are also seeking new accountability models in the Third Sector
(philanthropy as opposed to the business or governmental sectors).
While in Amsterdam, Dr. Maret also visited the architectural firm of
Alberts and Van Huut which are engaged in the development of a new hospital
design based on organic architectural principles. This firm had been
instrumental in designing innovative office buildings based on energy
efficiency and organic architectural principles including the famous bank
headquarters of the ING Bank in Amsterdam. They were also responsible for
designing the peace park in Sarajevo funded by the Fred Foundation.
A trip to Paris was then undertaken to meet with Jacques Benveniste and see
their laboratory. Dr. Benveniste is a famous French immunologist whose
work several years ago unleashed a firestorm of controversy when he
published immunological proof of the effectiveness of homeopathic high
dilutions in the journal Nature. Following an unheard of persecution of
Dr. Benveniste by Dr. Maddox, editor of the journal Nature, to frankly
prove that Benveniste‚s work was not possible, which included sending in a
professional magician named Randi into his state-run French research lab,
the lab was subsequently down-sized. At present the lab includes 4 lab
techs, secretarial support, and a very competent research partner and lab
director named Didier Guillonnet whose background is in software and
hardware engineering. Their work continues to be on the cutting edge and
recently they have had a series of breakthroughs.
Dr. Benveniste had succeeded several years ago to impress pharmacological
and homeopathic signals into water using an electromagnetic coil around a
well into which test water was placed. These electromagnetic signals in the
audio range (20 to 20,000 Hz) are able to structure pure water so that they
are able to influence a Langendorff isolated heart preparation and create
blood perfusion effects that are indistinguishable from pharmacological
agents. They have now advanced their assays even further to create a
stand-alone automated in vitro assay system that allows them to assess the
efficacy of water imprinted with electromagnetic heparin signals and
consistently demonstrate the inhibition of clotting of sheep serum using
optical density measurements. This robotic autoanalyzer technique
completely eliminates human intervention during the 96-well experimental
run and has proven the validity of electromagnetic imprinting of heparin
signals in water. The experiment is now going to be duplicated using this
robotic analyzer in several other labs in Europe and the U.S. Dr.
Benveniste hopes that if this work can be replicated by several labs (it
has already been duplicated with this new machine in one French lab) and
these combined studies be properly published in a reputable journal, that
this field will finally become acceptable to the broader scientific
community.
They have formed a company called DigiBio (web page:
www.digibio.com) and
see many cost effective applications of their technology. In the
biotechnology field this includes the development of bacterial and virus
detection assays, the capability of determining the presence of genetically
modified foods (GMOs) with signals that can be sent to the testing lab
remotely using standard computer communication technologies, detection of
BSE (Mad Cow disease) markers, and so on. They also have the capability to
detect with accuracy whether homeopathic remedies have actual potency and
are what they claim to be using their sensitive assay method. They are
looking for further investment money to advance their research and it may
soon reach a stage of commercial viabilty.
Upon returning to Munich, Dr. Maret visited with Dr.med Manfred Doepp, an
ex-nuclear medicine specialist, who has been one of Germany‚s foremost
experts on electromagnetic medicine including a variety of technologies for
automated acupuncture meridian assessment. He demonstrated the Prognos
device that has been in use by over 400 German doctors and naturopaths for
functional assessment of the human energetic system. This device was
originally developed by Professor Dr. Zagriadskij for the Russian space
program and was successfully deployed from 1984 to 1995 on the Russian MIR
space station. During its use on the space station by the resident doctor,
all astronauts were measured consistently and treated based on their
assessed 12 acupuncture meridian balance. No cosmonaut got sick on the
space station while the Prognos device was used to test them and they were
treated with software-calculated balancing acupuncture protocols according
to the method of Dr. Mussat in France.
The device has been extensively improved by the German software team. The
interface that measures the 12 bilateral acupunture meridian endpoints on
the tips of all fingers and toes is manufactured by Siemens. Because only
a small signal is used (a constant current of 0.4 microamperes with 400
serial measurements per point completed in 400 milliseconds) there is no
apparent stimulation of the acupuncture meridians by the brief measurement
and a complete 24 point evaluation can be completed in less than 2 minutes.
After the baseline functional state of the meridian system has been
determined, the effectiveness of various interventions such as
pharmacological agents, herbs, vitamins or homeopathic remedies can be
quantitatively assessed (including the worsening of the energetic balance
with inappropriate remedies).
The software consistently shows all meridians graphically and allows the
energetic status to be quantitated and displayed as line or bar graphs.
Problems with teeth, root canals, latent infections etc. can easily be
shown if they have a bearing on the functional state of the test subject
making this also a valuable assessment tool for dentists.
The company marketing this device is planning to make this device widely
available to physicians in Europe and Asia and has in mind to make a
self-testing interface available to the general public as part of a
subsciption health maintenence approach using the Internet or a cellular
phone interfaces. According to Dr. Doepp, this device is stable and
repeatable and has been validated in double blind studies to show its
accuracy. He shared many examples of how a physician can accurately assess
the efficacy of a drug or natural substance on a patient‚s energetic system
including finding the right combination of remedies for the client. The
promise of this approach is that it might finally allow both Western
trained physicians and alternative health care providers to work
cooperatively to find the best remedies for their clients. Further, it may
be developed as a preventive medicine self-assessment tool for the general
public so they may get rapid feedback via their computer or cellular phone
screens of the energetic effect of their lifestyle choices. It remains to
be seen if this vision can be realized as intended.
Dr. Maret then went to the Black Forest region to meet with Professor Dr.
Konstantin Meyl, an electrical engineering physics specialist known in
Germany for his insights into electromagnetic theory including longitudinal
wave or scalar physics. Dr. Meyl developed the concept of the potential
vortex as a way of making Maxwell‚s equations of electromagnetism
consistent as a set of field equations. This work has important
implications for energy generation and transmissions as already proposed by
Nikolas Tesla over 100 years ago. Dr. Meyl has written several books in
German that are being translated into English that could significantly
impact our understanding of how subtle energy processes are mediated in
biological systems. He has an extensive lecture schedule and works with a
dedicated group of students at a small technical institute to show
experimental proof for his ideas.
He pointed out that Maxwell‚s 4 equations of electromagnetism were not
consistent field equations as originally envisioned by Faraday, who
discovered induction and pictorially visualized these fields. Maxwell‚s
equations are based on the laws of Gauss, Faraday and Ampere regarding
electromagnetic phenomena. Maxwell developed a consistent set of
mathematical expressions that were describing electromagnetic fields and
allowed him to prove that the nature of light was electromagnetic. However,
his work in the 19th century was before quantum physics was invented by
Planck in the 20th century. Once quantum physics became Wide spread, it
became apparent that only 3 of Maxwell‚s four equations were wave equations
describing a general field, the fourth equation based on Gauss‚ Law is
essentially a quantum equation which suggests that the field is caused by
charged particles (the quantum approach). What Meyl is suggesting is that
this fourth equation be reexamined to make it a wave equation so that all
of Maxwell‚s equations are pure field equations and that thus the field is
primary and causality, one of the true cornerstones of physics, again
becomes restored.