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Very infrequently, a scientist comes along whose work leads to a quantum change in the quality and significance of research in some field. Such a scientist is William Bengston, who is responsible for such a change in the recondite field of anomalous healing. His results are so extraordinary as to eclipse all previous work in that field. Bengston would be a prime candidate for a Nobel Prize in Alternative Medicine, if such an award existed.
PETER STURROCK, emeritus professor of applied physics at Stanford University
Great advances in science and medicine often occur at the edge of knowledge, where things dont fit in. Often the misfits are dismissed by conventional thinkers without a hearing. Where William Bengstons work is concerned, this would be a profound mistake, because many precise scientific studies now confirm that healers and healing are real. Somewhere along the line, physicians forgot how to heal, and healing became an embarrassment. Bengston is a harbinger of a marvelous trend: the return of healing to medicine.
LARRY DOSSEY, MD, author of Healing Words
I believe that energy healings time will come in the next ten years and that William Bengstons work will be seen as a milestone in that process. Were already experiencing a meltdown of faith in materialistic systems, and that includes the grip of the profit-driven pharmaceutical industry on medical practice.
EDWARD MANN, Canadian sociologist and energy healing historian
Bill Bengston is a criminologist, sociologist, statistician, college professor, cancer researcher, energy healer. An expert in all these fields! I have been in Bills orbit observing him engage others in rich dialogue. The consistent effect of his thesis of life challenges even brilliant minds to rethink their foundational assumptions. Bills mesmerizing memoir reads like a novel.
FRANCESCA MCCARTNEY, doctor of energy medicine, founder and president of Energy Medicine University, author of Body of Health: The New Science of Intuition Medicine
Professor William Bengston is shaking the foundations of medical research. What is at stake is the entire clinical trial process. In carefully carried-out experiments, Professor Bengston showed dramatic healing of cancer tumors in mice using energy medicine. By tracing the path of healing intention, he has found that it follows surprising turns and is not easy to control. The simple model of a controlled study does not work in medicine. Bengstons story is one of breakthrough discoveries and a fascinating tale that is not yet complete.
GARRET MODDEL, professor of electrical engineering, Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado
Bill Bengston has all the creds and talent to make it big-time in mainstream academia, but he also has the guts to stick to what he sees and knows, and tell us about it, even if it is way out of the box. Here we have his very exciting adventures in healing, with decidedly anomalous results. It is to Bills great credit that he tells it like it is and sustains the contact with this mind-bending material so that it is neither distorted, ignored, or blown out of proportion. Really excellent work!
RICHARD A. BLASBAND, MD, former faculty member of Yale Medical School
Bengstons research on the healing of cancer in mice is an eye-opener, both for its direct implications and for what it says about the difficulty of gaining acceptance for unconventional results, no matter how well documented. His methodology is clear, his results are unambiguous, and several experiments strongly suggest that his healing technique is teachable. Whether youre a healer, a doctor, a biologist, or simply an interested citizen, you owe it to yourself to find out what Bill has been learning over the last two decades.
YORK DOBYNS, physicist, Princeton University
This book is dedicated to all those who have sought to push intellectual boundaries through rigorous scientific inquiry.
It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there were some strange property in my hands to pull and draw away from the afflicted parts aches and diverse impurities.
HIPPOCRATES, the father of medicine
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
MAX PLANCK, the father of quantum physics
Acknowledgments
I first met Sylvia Fraser at a workshop I was giving in Toronto. She had been told about the workshop by a mutual sociologist/friend, Ted Mann. Someone there had warned me to be careful with my delivery because there may be a reporter in the audience, though I wasnt sure what to be worried about. In any event, before the opening talk Sylvia introduced herself to me, and asked if it was okay to record the workshop. I agreed. About an hour into the talk, I mentioned to the audience that the data I was about to discuss had not yet been published, and so I requested that they exercise discretion. The next thing I heard was the click of Sylvia turning off her tape recorder. I was impressed.
A few weeks after the workshop, Sylvia approached me with an offer to cowrite a book on my story. She said that she believed it was an important story, and that I could write it, but probably wouldnt. She also said that if I wrote it in my academic style, no one would read it! And so a partnership was born.
It has been a wonderful partnership. Sylvia is a professional par excellence. In addition to her obvious talents as a wordsmith (eleven books to her credit), she is focused, detail oriented, and persistent. The many hours we spent in interviews passed not only painlessly, but were actually enjoyable. Her mastery of the many facts and chronologies that went into the writing of this book was impressive, to say the least. If I ever need to know anything about myself ... well, you get the picture. And so for whatever may come of this venture, Sylvia must be acknowledged as the prime mover of this book. I am deeply grateful for her integrity and commitment to the research described here.
There are so many people who have shared the ongoing journey about which you will read in this book that it is impossible to credit them all. And so, in advance, apologies to those omitted, and pardon to those mentioned who might have preferred anonymity. The most obvious person to acknowledge is Bennett Mayrick, who despite the occasional turbulence reported here, is clearly among the dominant influences in my life. His talent and uniqueness have had a profoundly lasting effect on me. I have also recently reconnected with Bens son Stuart, who has generously provided insight and illumination about his dad. Appreciation also goes out to the people who have been treated by the techniques reported here. All their names have been changed to protect their privacy, but their obvious courage has often inspired me and helped me understand the complexities of the alternative medicine world.
I would like to emphatically thank those who have helped me in my pursuit of data and research, which I consider to be the most fundamental part of this story. I was first introduced to quality research on healing by reading the incredible pioneering work of Bernard Grad. All of us who do research in healing should forever be grateful to the path he blazed at McGill University against enormous opposition. He will always be the Great Grad to me, in addition to becoming my friend and supporter.
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