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Quantum mechanics as a medical strategy

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Feb-March, 2005 by Jule Klotter

Analog Medicine--A Science of Healing

by Ronald L. Hamm, DVM

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Paperback, ISBN 1-4107-1042-4, c. 2003, 377 pp., $19.50 (paperback)/$5.95 (e-book)

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At the 2003 American Holistic Veterinary Conference in Durham, North Carolina, Ronald L. Hamm, DVM, presented a session on sound vibration and energy healing. He spoke about his collection of over 80 Lakota-style flutes, each made from a different wood, and how he noticed that each type of wood created a similar effect on listeners--regardless of the notes played. As he worked with the flutes, Dr. Hamm discovered that each wood produces vibrations in specific areas of the body and along specific acupuncture meridians. His talk and demonstrations with flutes and crystal bowls made me very curious about his book Analog Medicine--A Science of Healing. I got a copy, hoping to learn more about sound and healing. While the book contains details about his work, Analog Medicine is primarily an illuminating discussion of Dr. Hamm's quest to understand the process of healing and how it correlates to our understanding of physics

The veterinary college that Dr. Hamm attended--like other medical schools--emphasized a scientific approach based on Newtonian physics. Newtonian physics views matter and energy as separate and immutable. Its principles work in the lower four dimensions in which energy, moving at or below the speed of light, manifests as measurable electromagnetic waves. But Newton's premise that matter and energy are separate and distinct begins to fall apart as man investigates extreme speeds and subatomic matter. Instead of dealing with a predictable world of cause and effect, quantum mechanics, developed by subatomic physicists, offers possible options instead of certainties. In this realm, focused attention from an observer (thought energy) affects outcome. Dr. Hamm explains, "Quantum mechanics describes implicated reality as an amorphous, vibrating, timeless unity. Consciousness appears to be the organizing force that determines what manifests for us out of that reality." The concepts of prana and chi, found in Eastern medicine systems, and the power of intention may be understood from a quantum mechanics view, but they cannot fit into the Newtonian paradigm. As long as Western medicine adheres solely to the Newtonian view, it has no way to understand the concept of subtle energy.

By focusing on the chemical and mechanical and ignoring the energetic dimension of reality, Western medicine limits its understanding of healing. Newtonian logic and methods work for disorders that have physical origins, such as trauma, deficiencies, poisonings, and infections. But physical illness can also stem from energetic dimensions that are affected by emotions, thoughts, and beliefs. "You can not actually correct any emotional, mental, or spiritual problems with strictly material remedies or physical manipulations," Dr. Hamm writes. "Their physical effects or symptoms can be temporarily masked however." Dr. Hamm says that disorders need to be treated from the same or a higher dimension level than the level where the dysfunction originates: "For example, spiritual solutions best resolve mental problems, and rational understanding more effectively resolves emotional problems." When a condition is treated from below the originating level, negative side effects, complications, and unexpected relapses arise.

Analog Medicine offers practical advice for practitioners as they venture into the use of alternative medicine and subtle energy healing. First, Dr. Hamm emphasizes the importance of maintaining "analog mode focus" while engaging in healing work. Analog mode and binomial mode describe the two ways in which the mind works. Binomial describes the goal-oriented, analytical, active, judgmental part of the mind. Analog is the passive, non-temporal, nonjudgmental mode that we tap into during meditation. Analog mind takes binomial messages literally and does not hear negations. This mode responds to affirmation and intention. "To heal yourself or help a patient heal," says Dr. Hamm, "you must access and stay in your higher implicated dimensions by focusing on analog qualities.... The healing mode is a nonjudgmental, present tense, passive focus on that individual patient's being or energy profile. It is focusing from the consciousness of the mind, rather than the senses of the brain."

Secondly, Dr. Hamm urges practitioners and patients to give a patient's physical body time to respond to a readjustment of the energy system. Dr. Hamm defines healing as "the process of a higher dimensional implicated blueprint, template, or code, remanifesting itself in the lower physical explicated dimensions of reality." Treatments for balancing the energy template, such as homeopathics, Reiki, and sound, have an instantaneous effect on this quantum reality level. Physical results, however, may take time. Dr. Hamm warns against performing additional energetic treatment before the first one has had a chance to affect the physical level: "You are planting a seed of healing and it needs time to sprout and grow. Don't plow it up with a second planting before it has a chance to manifest." In addition, he emphasizes that interventions at lower dimension levels (e.g., diet change, mental reprogramming, a different occupation) are often necessary in order for the rebalanced template to have a noticeable effect.

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Quantum mechanics as a medical strategy

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Feb-March, 2005 by Jule Klotter

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