1. Joachim-Ernst Berendt, Nada Brahma. Die Welt ist Klang, Reinbek, 1983, S. 28 ff; published in English as Joachim-Ernst Berendt, Nada Brahma: The World Is Sound: Music and the Landscape of Consciousness (Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1987).
2. Alfred A. Tomatis, Der Klang des Lebens. Vorgeburtliche Kommunikation—die Anfänge der seelischen Entwicklung, Reinbek, 1987, S. 173 ff.
3. Berendt, Nada Brahma, a.a.O. S. 226.
1. David Brewster, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, 1855, vol. 2, ch. 27.
1. Revisiting “Blind Men Study an Elephant”
1. Electromagnetic waves are composed of electric and magnetic fields. Light waves, radio waves, X-rays, ultraviolet rays, infrared rays, and microwaves are all examples of electromagnetic waves.
2. A nanometer (nm) is one-billionth of a meter. To visualize this, if you took 1 millimeter, which equals about four-hundredths of an inch, and divided it into 1,000 parts, and took one of those parts and divided it by 1,000 again, you would have a nanometer.
3. We perceive different wavelengths of light as different colors. For example, we perceive light of 700–635 nm wavelengths as red, 590–560 nm wavelengths as yellow, and 450–400 nm wavelengths as violet.
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1. Albert Szent-Györgyi, Nature of Life: A Study on Muscle (New York: Academic Press, 1948), 9.
2. Examples of such considerations can be found in publications at the Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the United Kingdom (www.rcpsych.ac.uk/college/specialinterestgroups/spirituality.aspx).
3. The four fundamental forces in nature are gravity, the electromagnetic force, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force.
4. Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science (New York: Harper, 1958), 30.
5. Hebrews 11:3.
6. 2 Corinthians 4:18.
7. Vladimir Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy (Moscow: Zveno, 1909), ch. 5.8.
3. Inaudible Music and the Invisible Rainbow around Us
1. Werner Heisenberg, The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory (New York: Dover, 1950), 11.
4. Major Changes in the Medical Market
1. David M. Eisenberg, Ronald C. Kessler, Cindy Foster, Frances E. Norlock, David R. Calkins, and Thomas L. Delbanco, “Unconventional Medicine in the United States—Prevalence, Costs, and Patterns of Use,” New England Journal of Medicine 328 (January 28, 1993): 246–52, doi:10.1056/NEJM199301283280406.
2. Applied kinesiology is an alternative medicine technique that claims to be able to diagnose and recommend treatment by testing muscles responses for strength and weakness. Bio-oxidative therapies are various practices in which oxygen, ozone, or hydrogen peroxide are administered, either via gas or water, to promote health. Qigong is an umbrella term that covers several different Chinese systems of energy cultivation and healing, including breathing techniques, movement, and meditation. Iridology is an alternative diagnosis technique that examines the iris to discern details about a patient’s health.
3. Tillman Durdin, “Tientsin Doctor of Acupuncture Says His Needles Cure Many Ills,” New York Times, April 28, 1971; James Reston, “Now, About My Operation in Peking; Now, Let Me Tell You about My Appendectomy in Peking…,” New York Times, July 25, 1971.
4. Boyce Rensberger, “U.S. Doctors Are Skeptical of Acupuncture in Treatment of Purely Physical Diseases,” New York Times, October 7, 1971.
5. The concept of synergetics is well explained in Haken’s book, The Science of Structure: Synergetics (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984). Dissipative structures are discussed in detail in chapter 7. Although the uncertainty principle applies to certain different pairs of properties for particles on the quantum scale, the most common example is for the momentum and position of a particle. Essentially, the more precisely you know a particle’s position, the more uncertainty you will have about its momentum, and vice versa.
1. This view was expressed by Arthur Taub, Director of the Neurosurgical Research Laboratory and the Pain Diagnostic and Therapeutic Division of the Neurosurgery Section at Yale University, in his letter “Acupuncture: U.S.-Funded Research Is Premature,” published in the New York Times, August 8, 1972.
2. Boyce Rensberger, “Acupuncture Likened to Placebo,” New York Times, June 19, 1975.
3. Xiang-Long Hu, et al., Modern Scientific Research in Acupuncture Channels and Collaterals in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Beijing: People’s Hygiene Publishing House, 1990) (in Chinese; ISBN 7-117-01415-6).
6. Blind Scientists Discover the Rainbow
1. Hu, Modern Scientific Research, 189.
2. C.-E. Overhof, “Über das elektrische Verhalten spezieller Haubezirke” (dissertation, Fakultät für Maschinenwesen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 1960).
3. Author’s personal communication with Konstantin Zioutas, and Changlin Zhang, “Skin Resistance versus Body Conductivity: On the Background of Electronic Measurement on Skin,” Frontier Perspectives 11:2 (2002), 15–25.
4. Z. X. Zhu, et al., Biophysics for Acupuncture (Beijing: Beijing Publishing House, 1989), 323 (in Chinese).
5. Hiroshi Motoyama, “Before Polarization Current and the Acupuncture Meridians,” Journal of Holistic Medicine 8 (1 and 2: 1986), 15–26, https://www.cihs.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Before-Polarization-current-and-acupuncture-meridians.pdf.
1. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Application Database, http://goo.gl/QzOSeB.
8. Standing Waves and Wave Superposition
1. Author’s personal communication with Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann.
9. Wireless Communication inside a Body
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1. Eric Allen, Airliners in Australian Service (Western Creek, Australia: Aerospace Publications, 1995), 155.
2. Claude Elwood Shannon and Warren Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1949.
3. Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics; or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. New York: J. Wiley, 1948.
4. Cyril W. Smith, “Homeopathy: How It Works and How It Is Done,” Hpathy Ezine, January 16, 2008, http://hpathy.com/scientific-research/homeopathy-%E2%80%93-how-it-works-and-how-it-is-done-1/.
5. See Brenda J. Dunne, Roger D. Nelson, and Robert G. Jahn, “Operator-Related Anomalies in a Random Mechanical Cascade,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 2:2 (1988), 155–79, doi:0892-3310/88; and Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research, http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/publications.html.
6. Paul Pojman, “Ernst Mach,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (winter 2011 ed.), Edward N. Zalta, ed., http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2011/entries/ernst-mach/.
7. Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy, 30.
8. Hebrews 11:1.
1. A spectrophotometer measures the intensity of the different wavelengths of electromagnetic waves entering it, telling researchers the amount of electromagnetic waves at each wavelength. In this context, “absorption spectra” refer to a graphical representation of the intensities of the different wavelengths of electromagnetic waves in the sample. The intensity of each wavelength is shown on a vertical scale.
2. See Chris Cook, Andrew S. Powell, and Andrew C. P. Sims, eds., Spirituality and Psychiatry (London: RCPsych, 2009); and Royal College of Psychiatrists, Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group, “Publications Archive,” http://goo.gl/SrMWyk.
3. Stefan Lovgren, “Dogs Smell Cancer in Patients’ Breath, Study Shows,” National Geographic News, January 12, 2006, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0112_060112_dog_cancer.html.
1. Karl R. Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (New York: Basic Books, 1962), ch. 1.
2. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, ch. 1.
13. How Much Beauty Is There in a Ballet?
1. Changlin Zhang and Fritz-Albert Popp, “Log-Normal Distribution of Physiological Parameters and the Coherence of Biological Systems,” Medical Hypotheses 43:1 (1994), 11–16; Changlin Zhang, “Mathematical, Physical and Physiological Background of Normal Distribution, Delta Distribution and Log-Normal Distribution,” International Journal of Modeling, Identification and Control 5:3 (2008), 200–4.
14. Measuring the Invisible Rainbow
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15. Coherence in Medicine and Health Care
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1. “Einstein Is Found Hiding on Birthday: Busy with Gift Microscope,” New York Times, March 15, 1929.
2. Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy, 30.
3. Lenin, Materialism, ch. 5.8.
4. John 9:1–4.
5. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, ch. 1.
6. John 1:1.
7. John 1:14.
1. Albert Einstein, Prologue to Max Planck, Where Is Science Going? Trans. James Vincent Murphy (New York: W. W. Norton, 1932), 7.