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One researcher investigating that idea is Dr. Elmer Green at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. He is best known for his work investigating the physical feats of meditating yogis, who could prodigiously slow their heart rates and go into a state resembling hibernation, with greatly reduced metabolic functioning. 27 Recently, Green reported that while working with energy healer Mietek Wirkus, he was able to measure a surge of 80 volts on the wall of the electrically shielded room when Wirkus initiated a healing procedure. It would not be at all surprising if a patient experienced or showed physiological changes in response to such changes in electrical potential of a healer's hands.
There are ample reports of the successful detection of a variety of effects of energy healing modalities. Healing practitioner Paul Dong, who has co-authored a book on Chi Gong reports that Chinese scientists have detected a wide spectrum of effects from Chi Gong masters generating external chi.28 They include infrared radiation, static electricity, changes in magnetic fields, light waves, neutrons, beta rays, and two-way radiation of electromagnetic energy.29
Eventually, we may be able to document the existence of some flow or transmission of extremely low frequency (ELF) radiation that promotes healing by evoking resonance among minds in living cells (DNA). Such resonating effects in healing interactions may derive from wave properties and fluctuations, rather than the intensity of the radiation. At this time, we believe that mind-to-mind connections and loving, caring intentions on the part of the healer are the primary precursors to healing effects.
Spiritual Surgery
There are evidently many different states of consciousness that affect healing interactions. Chi Gong, Therapeutic Touch, and spiritual healing all involve aspects of transpersonal mind connections that are not understood at this time. Still another approach to psychic healing was done by Arigo, the Brazilian healer known as the ''Surgeon with the Rusty Knife." He was a peasant with a third-grade education who successfully operated on thousands of

 
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