Old Mermaids Healing Works

I have talked to trees, rocks, birds, and “imaginary” friends since I was a child. When I was a girl, I never asked for proof that any of these “people” heard me or cared what I said. I never asked for proof of their existence.

Yet I was (and am) a scientist at heart. I am a storyteller and practitioner of the healing and visionary arts, too. It is a mix that blends quite nicely, thank you very much. Every healing practitioner I know wants to use only methods that actually work.

I love research. I love experiments. I want to know what healing modalities work and how long they work. Perhaps quantum physics can explain why sometimes one method of healing helps and another doesn’t, depending upon the person or the time of the day! How can a particle be at point A and then (seemingly) instantly arrive at point B? How can light be a particle and a wave? How can a healer send healing long distance to a client who then gets better because of that healing? Could all of these questions be answered by the quantum idea that we are all linked or “entangled?” “

Physicist Niels Bohr discovered that once subatomic particles are in contact, they remain influenced by each other even after they are separated—no matter how far apart they are in space or time. They call this “quantum entanglement.” Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance,” and he didn’t believe such things could happen. Yet many scientists today take “quantum entanglement” for granted at the subatomic level. What if these instant connections also occur beyond the subatomic?

Recently, mainstream scientists have been taking more interest in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The research hasn’t always been easy. The variables seem endless and the results are often confusing. For instance, the results of various research studies indicate that prayers help patients, prayers can actually be detrimental to patients, and prayers have no efficacy at all.

Yet new technologies have made some experiments easier. In one recent study, Reiki practitioners were asked to try and heal E coli that had been heat shocked almost to death. At first, the data seemed to indicate that the Reiki healers made no difference in the viability of the bacteria.

When the researchers examined the data more closely, however, they realized that the healers got better results on certain days. The researchers gleaned from the data and further testing that the healers were more effective on days when they were happier and healthier; they also did better after they had been working on a human being. Apparently trying to just heal E coli didn’t get their healing mojo going enough.

Lynne McTaggart looked at much of the recent CAM experiments and wrote about them in her book The Intention Experiment. In one study, scientists were able to detect “significant fluctuations in very low pulsations of a magnetic field” from the hands of “master healers” and Reiki practitioners.

“A huge increase in oscillations in the magnetic field occurred whenever a healer began to run energy,” McTaggart wrote. “The control group of people who were not trained healers did not demonstrate the same effect.” Researchers have also proved that electromagnetic fields and geomagnetic storms can affect various healing modalities, dreams, cardiac rhythms, and psychic abilities.

In the 1970s, German physicist Fritz-Albert Popp discovered that all living things emit a constant current of tiny particles of light. He came to believe that these “biophoton emissions” were the communication network for our cells. Popp constructed a machine that was able to capture these light photons and count them. He discovered healthy organisms had more photons than unhealthy organisms.

Years later, psychologist Gary Schwartz figured out how to make images of these photons. Once he was able to take photos of this light, he wanted to see if the healing intentions of healers made a difference: Would their hands emit light? Schwartz had the healers “run energy” through their hands, and then he took photographs. Lynne McTaggart writes that the “images were breathtakingly clear: a stream of light flowed out of the healers’ hands.”

If this is all true, what an amazing visual for the healing arts! It becomes even easier to imagine filling up with light as the healer places her hands on us.

Each and every day we meet each other. We hug. We kiss. We avoid one another. We dance. We fight. We play. We work together. We are entangled with one another whether we like it or not.

If we are all entangled, if we influence each other even when we’re apart, it make us look at each encounter differently, doesn’t it? Each moment of our lives can become a healing for ourselves and everyone we’ve encountered in our lives. We can each become the healer who is dancing the entanglement tango with joy, grace, silliness, ecstasy, and love.