Conference hydra::dejavu

1928.0. ""Biocircuits" and Reiki" by DWOVAX::STARK (Todd I. Stark) Mon Apr 04 1994 14:14

    For anyone else who has come across 'Biocircuits,' such as in the 
    Tools for Exploration catalog, and wondered about them, here is
    something I received about them on a mailing list late last year
    (mailing list [email protected]).
    
    1st message, from "[email protected]" "Stephan A. Schwartz"  
    1-OCT-1993 05:46:50.52 ...

On 3 Sep 1993 [email protected] wrote:

> 
> so has anyone used the biocircuits? are they hype? 
SAS:

Sorry it has taken me so long to respond to this.  The biocircuits (and I
am assuming here your reference is to the devices sold by Tools for
Exploration, are not hype.  While I was editor of Subtle Energies (now
sadly changed from its former standards I fear), I published a very
interesting double blind study done under an excellent protocol.  The
results were significant. (A Double Blind Study of the "Biocircuit" a
Putative Subtle Energy Based Relaxation Device. Julian Issacs and
Terry Patten.  Subtle Energies v. 2. no. 2. pp 1-28)

-- Stephan

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    2nd message, from "[email protected]" 1-OCT-1993 11:19:53.47

"The Human Body Electric" generates a weak EM field that has some
large-scale currents, and microscale currents are used to direct
platelets and erythrocytes to wound sites, according to <book by
Scandanavian doctor whose name I forget, with title something like
_Large-Scale Biological Currents in the Human Body_>.

This field can be changed by interacting with conductors (like the
biocircuit pads) or other fields (such as the hands in a Reiki
session). I have experienced the latter but not the former. This
indicates that these things may do _something_ to the body; it will
take longitudinal studies to establish that they do something
_beneficial_.

-- [email protected] (Freeman Craig Presson)
[email protected] (Freeman P. Craig)
LP of AL, LP US, NRA, ExI, ISGS, Clan Gordon

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Third message, from [email protected] (Freeman Craig Presson)
    
In <Pine.3.05.9310011233.B6309-c100000@uqbar>, "Stephan A. Schwartz" writes:
|> On Fri, 1 Oct 1993, Craig Presson wrote:
[...]
|> > SAS:  Thanks for the reference.  The biocircuits, are not electrical; 
|> that is there is no power source.  More than anything they remind me of
|> the Cayce dry cell appliance.  The putative relaxation does not appear to
|> be placebo (since the controls were visually identical.>

I'll see if I have the exact citation written down at home. The
biocircuits are _electrical_, it's just that they are passive, not
active.

I know a lot of people like to talk about Qi or "subtle energy" as if
it is something paranormal, but I'm pretty sure it's just an emergent
property of the complex electrical nature of the body. After all,
every nerve and muscle cell in the body actively uses ionic transport
and generates measurable currents -- that's a lot of activity down on
a low level, and by superposition you get -- the body electric.
Whitman was not just being poetic :-)

However it works, I recommend trying a session with a Reiki master --
it's at least relaxing, and if you are an active meditator you may
find that it's a bit more. Some of the maneuvers are biocircuitish in
that they involve holding one hand over one part of the body and the
other hand over another.

-- Craig