THE FUTURE OF CONSCIENTIOUS PSYCHOLOGY
When I decided to spend the rest of my life studying, teaching, and motivating others toward conscientiousness, I wondered how best to do this. Less conscientious people might have long since given up their dream after reaching 78 years of age and not finding someone suitable to take on this challenge. However, I am pleased to say that I found a way to do it, and we are on our way!
My idea was to establish a research chair in conscientious psychology, and I approached Missouri State University (MSU) about it. I suggested that I would like to set up an endowment to the university in order to establish and fund this research position. I decided to call it the Mary-Charlotte Bayles Shealy Chair of Conscientious Psychology, so named for the most conscientious person I have known, Chardy Shealy, my late wife of 52 years. The research chair would be housed at MSU, but his or her work would also be a major focus for the Holos Building of my 501(c)(3) organization, the Holos Institutes of Health.
My relationship with both the agriculture and psychology departments at MSU has been gratifyingly cooperative, and I have been invited by the search committee for the chair to work with them to choose that person, hopefully by the time this book is published.
Chardy’s death in 2011 was the impetus to set this up in her memory, an endowment made possible through the donation of our farm to the university. My donation is 256 acres of land; the animals; all the buildings, including the 11,000-square-foot health research conference center that was completed in 2003; and a substantial additional financial gift.
I asked our three children if they had an interest in the farm, and since they did not, I am quite comfortable donating everything. I will live out my days in my home on the farm with a life-estate use of the house, as per our agreement.
MSU officially announced the endowment in January 2013 and unveiled their plans to have the William H. Darr School of Agriculture use the farm for hands-on student learning, which will include a beefalo production cattle ranch (beefalo is a hybrid between domestic cattle and buffalo). In addition, the health-research conference center, with its stunning chapel, has become a university-wide retreat center.
Coming to Terms with the End of a Conscientious Life
As I have said a few times, my wife, Mary-Charlotte, was not only conscientious, but also gifted in many other ways. In particular, she always had a deep and abiding love of horses and took up horseback riding early on in our married life. For her birthday in 1969, I gave her an Appaloosa gelding named Shadrick, and we earnestly began looking for the farm that we had wanted for so long.
We chose one in Welch Coulee—which is one of the beautiful valleys in that area of Wisconsin—with rolling hills and eventually 565 acres of land. Before long, Chardy and two friends developed a partnership, and we were breeding Appaloosas! There was no holding back my wife’s love of horses, and she had a true gift in relating to these majestic animals. Throughout her career, she became known worldwide for her unique Success-Centered Riding and Training program, a therapeutic horse-riding program for adults.
Chardy and I lived perhaps the healthiest of lifestyles on our farms, first in Wisconsin and then in Missouri. Despite that, she also had a genetic predisposition to myelodysplasia—her father, her grandmother, and an uncle all experienced similar problems. So even though we can control 75 percent of factors that impact health and longevity through conscientious living, when faced with the reality of our genetics (which control the other 25 percent), we can’t always change the overall outcome.
I had been retired from HUGS for a few years, and was focused primarily on research, when I returned home from yet another workshop trip in 2010 to Chardy telling me that her heart was racing. I checked, and clearly she had a pulse of 120. The following day we got a chemistry and blood count panel done, and we learned that she had acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), which evolved from myelodysplasia.
I knew very little about AML before Chardy’s diagnosis, and the following 13 months were a startling awakening. She refused the most radical therapy, which would have meant total destruction of her blood system with the hope that it could be coaxed back. Even if she had taken that route, the more traditional hematologist warned us that life expectancy would still be only about three months or less.
We sought further course of action and found a kind and enthusiastic hematologist in Bolivar, our county seat. He offered two less-toxic chemotherapies and gave us the success rate of each one. What we did not understand from the beginning was that his measure of success would have most likely given us only about three to six months.
It turned out both of these therapies failed, and even he gave up in October 2010. He was completely satisfied with our plan to use huge dosages of vitamin C, given through an IV two to three times a week, combined with a variety of other alternative approaches, including assistance from several healers and the prayers of hundreds.
Up until the Monday before her death, we fully expected Chardy to recover. That day she awoke and said, “I think we better go to the hospital.” She did not return home to us.
I am most grateful to that small hospital for their superb care. The oncologist was pleased with himself, telling me that he thought her 13-month survival was great. That’s when my heart sank even further, as I realized that he never believed she’d recover. Now I remain in recovery since her death in 2011, dealing with this crushing blow and a monumental loss that I still feel in my heart.
Life Continues with Each New Dawn
Notwithstanding all of this, the sun still rises every morning, and so do I. The farm comes alive at dawn, and I am up at five each day to exercise and feed the chickens.
It soothes my heart to take in the sweeping view that we have here of the rolling Missouri countryside, and I live to breathe in the fresh country air. Once the chores are done, I catch up on my reading, writing, and research, plus checking e-mails. A few hours later, when the rest of the country is just starting its day, I check in with the staff over at NOB (the building so named because it is the “New Office Building” on our property). This is where we process and fulfill online and phone orders for products through Shealy Wellness; it’s always busy over there.
I sometimes see an occasional patient at the urging of a friend and at no charge, but I have not had a regular practice since 1999. On Thursdays, I drive 14 miles over to Springfield for my call-in radio show on KWTO, Dr. Shealy’s Wellness Hour. This is a habit that I’m very happy to continue—I look forward to it each week, and I know the listeners do, too. I also have another two hours of call-in radio, when I join my friend Vincent Finelli on his USA Prepares show.
I’ve traveled most of my life, so I am no longer keen to be away all the time, but I do participate in about 18 or so meetings each year, and I occasionally do workshops on energy medicine or medical intuition. It’s nice because I can just pick the things I like to do—there’s no pressure to be everywhere at once the way it used to be. I am also doing a number of training workshops on transcutaneous acupuncture for health professionals.
But mostly I just do what I love, which is research. In fact, in addition to completing this book and continuing my own research on conscientious psychology, I am also studying insomnia and diabetic neuropathy. For the past ten years, my research was conducted at the Holos health research building that we built on our property. And I have agreed to write three more books immediately after this one.
A Unique Building Made for Research
The Holos building is a uniquely built structure with common rooms, offices, a boardroom/library, and a large multipurpose chapel on the main floor. Then there is another library downstairs, with a kitchen and various other rooms and devices that have been connected to my research efforts in holistic and alternative healing.
One of the unique gems of this health building is the chapel, complete with a built-in Navajo labyrinth; 20 specially lighted stained-glass hangings; a marble altar with inlays from the quarry from which the Taj Mahal was built; carvings and statues of Krishna, Tara, Buddha, and Shiva; and a magnificent mandala that was created for the great theologian Marcus Bach and given to me by his widow. There are also magnificent paintings of Christ by RoZelma Brown and Into the Light by Karla Brandt. The chapel is really the heart and soul of the building.
Downstairs there is a quartz room, which has four walls made from one ton of quartz crystal. For most people, sitting in this room quiets the idle chatter of the mind. We have a room with a vibratory bed set up with what looks like a jungle gym overhead. There are several speakers placed above the bed and ten actually in the bed that make the mattress vibrate. This is so patients can feel the music, which we’ve proven over the years has a much greater therapeutic effect than just hearing it.
In another room, there is a bed located over one ton of gold iodide crystals. Claude Swanson, Ph.D., a quantum physicist, says that this produces pure yin energy that is maximally relaxing. There is also a bed over one ton of mica crystal, which Claude says is pure yang energy, or maximally energizing. Another feature we added is a hot tub that is embedded in six tons of energizing mica crystal. And of course, there is a meditation grotto with a solid quartz bench.
Down the hall is another room with a wall covered with a large span of copper. In the early 1990s, I began experimenting on the effects of having individuals sit near the copper with a magnet placed over their heads. We found that it helped people release unfinished anger or depression, which gave them unique insights into their unresolved issues.
Releasing is much easier once we know what we’re dealing with, and we saw many patients heal from their mental, emotional, and physical problems through the numerous therapeutic approaches we introduced them to. All these accessories make the Holos health building ideal for faculty meetings, retreats, and small conferences, which are increasingly used by MSU.
Honoring Those Who Came Before: Ambrose and Olga Worrall
The Holos building also houses a tribute to Ambrose and Olga Worrall, which I set up in honor of my dear friends and their roles as holistic pioneers. I began this quest in 1984 when I first recognized that Olga was becoming somewhat frail. I established a division of Holos Institutes of Health called the Ambrose and Olga Worrall Institute for Spiritual Healing.
I was so pleased that Olga was able to come for the formal inauguration, but unfortunately it was her last trip from Baltimore to see me. Her health deteriorated so rapidly that she died less than two years later.
I visited her a few months before her passing, but quickly learned that watching someone so close to me suffer was overwhelming for me. Before she died, Olga arranged to have Holos inherit much of her memorabilia, including her meditation bench and 15,000 testimonial letters from her healed patients. Later, I also received the wonderful painting of Ambrose and Olga, which had been a prominent feature in her living room, and another painting of Olga from earlier in her life.
The Healing Power of Copper Pyramids
Since divine insights can come at any time and in any number of ways, I was not too shocked one morning while jogging to suddenly have a vivid image of a copper pyramid on top of copper walls. When I got back to my room, I drew a sketch. About 36 hours later, my angelic guide suddenly came into my consciousness and asked me, “Norman, where do you think that image you received yesterday came from?”
I replied, “I thought it was mine.”
He laughed and said, “I put it there. And you are to work on it.”
On several other occasions, I discussed this concept with the same guide. He assured me that most of my intuitive hits were messages from him that came subliminally. How can I argue when these inspired innovations have helped improve the lives of thousands of patients and have given me 12 patents? I accept that they are the result of my spontaneous knowing of information sent from the divine.
Of course, when I returned home, I built the copper “room within a room” as he suggested—with the pyramid on top. I got permission from our institutional review board to treat 75 patients in this room while a Tesla coil was connected to the copper.
The results were outstanding. Not only did virtually all individuals report feelings of deep relaxation and peace by just sitting in the activated copper space of the pyramid, but 75 percent of them who had rheumatoid arthritis (who had failed conventional medicine) experienced marked improvement. We saw that 70 percent of the people with chronic lower-back pain improved, too, as did 70 percent of the depressed patients, who experienced a significant improvement in mood.
Using the same human DNA frequencies (54 to 78 billion cycles per second at 75 decibels of energy), we later demonstrated that individuals with diabetic neuropathy improved by 80 percent. In addition, 75 percent of those who were suffering with migraines improved.
The Telomere Connection to Longevity
If conscientiousness can help us live longer and more healthier lives, and our genes are good, what other things might sideline us on our way to living until, say, 110 or 120 years old? One thing I came across that seems to be a significant factor in aging is the reality of telomeres in our body.
Since becoming interested in this aspect of life, I am happy to say my research into telomeres still continues. Think of telomeres as little bookends at the ends of our chromosomes (a chromosome is a long strand of DNA). Telomeres keep chromosomes protected at the ends and also play an important role in cell division and reproduction.
We are born with telomeres in full size and strength, but they shrink by about 1 percent each year from birth onward, and the human body itself seems to be programmed to die at about 100 years of age. It simply wears out, and scientists feel part of this has to do with telomeres. You can think of them as getting shorter each time a cell divides, sort of like a pencil eraser that gets smaller each time it’s used. Our cells stop replicating when telomeres get too short.
A few years ago, I developed a theory claiming that in order to live healthily up until 120 years of age or more, we would need to regenerate the telomeres in our bodies. This can be done by exposing ourselves to an electromagnetic field of 54 to 78 billion cycles per second at one-billionth of a watt per centimeter squared. I proved that it could be done using a Tesla coil attached to copper; when exposed to this current, the telomeres stopped their natural decline and began to regenerate themselves at an average of 4.5 percent each year instead of shrinking by a percent. Mine have now grown almost 20 percent instead of shrinking the “expected” 6 percent.
For practical use, I decided to try putting a pure copper screen in the center layer of a mattress and scattering on top of that one pound of crushed sapphire crystal. This was put in between two one-inch pieces of polyfoam. I was partial to sapphire, because my guide had once told me that crushing and putting it over the heart would circumvent the need for bypass surgery. Using the energy in this way is really electrical homeopathy, and it is safe because it is 1,000 times lower than any risk level.
When people would lie on this mattress for 30 to 60 minutes a day or night, 70 percent of those tested experienced a regrowth of their telomeres at a rate of 4.5 percent per year. The results are fantastic, and so the project continues. In fact, with the benefit of transcutaneous acupuncture, I now have a number of individuals using Fire, Earth, and Crystal Bliss, which I intuitively believe will also regenerate telomeres.
Finding Your Ultimate Purpose
In December 2012, I turned 80. I did not expect to be here on my own, but life dealt me that card. However, I still get up with passion every day—my work is not “work,” per se. It is joy; it is bliss. Even though I faced the hardest loss of my life when Chardy died, I did not give in to depression and sorrow. I may have the occasional low day, as we all do, but I continue to get up each morning and focus on my purpose.
For example, I feel a need to be on the radio each week—listeners count on me to return their e-mail questions and continue to cheer them on. My voice is known all over the Ozarks, and I know people find it comforting. Just about every time I walk into a store or public place around here, the minute I open my mouth to say anything, someone in line will turn and say, “Your voice! You sound just like Dr. Shealy on the radio.” It makes them smile so brightly when I tell them that I am Dr. Shealy, and that makes me happy, too.
I am a very fortunate man. Each day I get to fulfill my lifelong dream, which is to help people heal and stay well. I am committed to keeping a positive attitude more than 90 percent of the time, and to be flexible enough to change quickly when necessary.
I have decided to do this 365 days a year, and I personally choose to keep moving and be productive until the day I die. It is my fervent desire to stay out of the pit of grief from the loss of the most important part of my life, Chardy.
I know I can do this—rise up each day—because I was grounded with outstanding nurturing from my parents, teachers, and wonderful friends. Plus, whenever I need a reminder, I have the Air Bliss essential oil blend and the Ring of Air to lift my spirits.
The Future of Conscientious Psychology
I see only tremendous potential for further research advances in the age-old field of energy medicine and through the newly endowed chair in conscientious psychology at MSU, which will be filled before the fall of 2014.
I believe that we have more than enough evidence for the benefits of conscientiousness; in my mind, conscientious psychology as a field of study should then focus on developing more proven tools for increasing self-esteem and conscientiousness. We need to extol the virtues of living this type of life and provide more practical tools and more education about what it entails; when we do, we will all be happier and healthier!
I hope that you will take the main lessons from this book into your own heart and soul. Find your purpose. Do it through conscientiousness. Even if you weren’t nurtured as a child, you can be kind now and nurture yourself. If you need help to jump-start yourself out of depressive thoughts or anxiety, try Air Bliss and the other lifestyle changes that I’ve offered.
Collectively, the actions that I have described provide the essential foundation for living a purposeful, conscious, and conscientious life. Autogenic training is particularly powerful, and once you are eating well, sleeping soundly, and exercising five times a week, you will notice your energy level soar and your life improve. When you do good for yourself, you will have the energy to do good for others.
Remember, it is worth taking the effort to do these things each day; you are worth the effort! No one has to live in pain and depression. Take action, and you will thrive—you, too, will find your Bliss!