Over the last 20 years, the field of energy medicine has matured considerably due to the pioneering efforts of many dedicated researchers and educators. A few of the more noteworthy will be mentioned in this report (listed in alphabetical order) to highlight the growing scientific validity of this emerging medical field.
W. Ross Adey, M.D. (1922-2004), Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at UCLA, and later Loma Linda University, carried out extensive foundational research on cellular signaling influenced by electromagnetic fields. Ross Adey’s career in medical science spanned 50 years and brought him international repute; his specific knowledge of the effects of electromagnetic fields on biological tissues earned him world renown. One of his revolutionary concepts suggested that brain tissues are sensitive to weak, sub-thermal intrinsic and environmental fields with biochemical, physiological, and behavioral effects. These low level fields induced brain tissue changes that were orders of magnitude below those associated with classic synaptic excitation. He is well remembered for his concept of the “Biological Window,” showing that low-level electromagnetic fields with specific amplitudes, frequencies and wave forms can induce electromagnetic resonances and tissue changes. By 1976 low level electromagnetic field effects had been shown to occur across the extremely low frequency (ELF) range, peaking between about 12 and 20 Hz. The effects were seen most clearly with the ELF signals amplitude modulated onto microwaves. He wrote extensively on the danger of widespread electromagnetic pollution from cell phones and other modern microwave radiation that is modulated by these low frequency fields.
Robert O. Becker, M.D. (1923-2008) was one of the first medical pioneers to study natural electrical currents in the human body and to caution about electropollution. Dr. Becker had been active in the field of bioelectromagnetics, publishing several outstanding overviews of this field as well as popular books that included, The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundations of Life and Cross Currents: The Perils of Electropollution. He showed how our human bodies and immune systems are being adversely affected by man-made electromagnetic fields from power lines, radar, microwaves, satellites, ham radios, video display terminals, and even electric appliances. In his books, Dr. Becker pointed out that radiation once considered safe, is now correlated with increases in cancer, birth defects, depression, and learning disabilities. His research funding was eliminated when he began to suggest that magnetic fields from 60 Hz power lines could adversely affect human health.
Mae-Wan Ho Ph.D. is the director of the Institute for Science in Society in the United Kingdom (link is external), an organization that is a source of information and reflection on issues related to genetic engineering in agriculture and medicine. However, her valuable contribution to energy medicine involves the characterization of the thermodynamics of organized complexity in living systems including the energy flow in living cycles, the liquid crystalline nature of living matter, and the application of quantum physics to life involving quantum entanglement and biological coherence. Following in the footsteps of quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s 1944 classic What is Life?, Ho wrote The Rainbow and the Worm lucidly describing the biophysics of organisms, thereby offering a solid foundation for the physics behind energy medicine. She is the only non-American in this listing.
James Oschman, Ph.D. is a well-known author who has described the biophysics of energy medicine and its application to therapeutics and human performance (2000, 2003). In 2009, Dr. Oschman was also the president of ISSSEEM. He was a student of Professor Albert Szent-Györgyi and helped to popularize his understanding of the energetic basis of biochemistry and all life processes (see below). He lectures extensively on the nature of the living matrix, the body’s rapid communication system that displays semiconductor-like processes. He promotes the field of energy medicine internationally and has valuable resources available on his Nature’s Own Research Association (link is external) website.
Elizabeth Rauscher Ph.D. (link is external) is a theoretical physicist, researcher and inventor whose brilliant insights continue to offer a sound theoretical foundation for many subtle energy and energy medicine phenomena. With her late husband W.L. Van Bise, she invented a non-superconducting magnetic detector, external magnetic pacemaker, and pulsed magnetic pain control system. In her long career, she has authored more than 275 scientific papers and 6 books including a new model of relativistic physics in complex Minkowski space involving eight dimensions that expands on Albert Einstein’s well-accepted theories. Her papers with Russell Targ specifically describe how 8-space can be used to give a scientific explanation for remote viewing, ESP and precognition. All these psi sciences have been studied by the U.S. government and selected academic institutions including the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in California.
Paul Rosch, M.D. is the founder of the American Institute of Stress (link is external) and a strong promoter of energy medicine. Dr. Rosch is Editor of Stress Medicine, Associate Editor of The International Journal of Emergency Mental Health, and International Journal of Stress Management. He has organized and presided over the annual International Congress on Stress (link is external) since 1988, which has featured state of the art presentations on all aspects of stress, as well as cutting edge research in relevant areas of Bioelectromagnetic and Alternative Medicine. He is also the co-editor of the 50 chapter book Bioelectromagnetic Medicine (2003) which provides an update on cutting edge presentations over the past decade at the International Congress on Stress and features research advances in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Orient that are not well known in the U.S. Included are state-of the art reviews on rTMS (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation), vagal nerve stimulation, cranioelectrical stimulation, electroporation millimeter wave therapy, pulsed and static magnetic field applications, theories of mechanisms of action and a new model of communication in the body based on electromagnetic signaling and the concept of an “electrical circulatory system.”
Biophysicist Beverly Rubik, Ph.D., the former Director of the Center for Frontier Sciences at Temple University, is now the director of the Center for Frontier Sciences (link is external) in Oakland, CA with their laboratory in Emeryville, CA. Dr. Rubik has written extensively on the biofield hypothesis. She was the Chair of a 1992 National Institutes of Health panel that examined the efficacy of various bioelectromagnetic therapies. This was published in the 1994 report entitled, “Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons” with a chapter entitled “Bioelectromagnetic Applications in Medicine.”
Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893-1986) developed fundamental ideas about the application of the theories of quantum physics to the biochemistry, and later to cancer. He researched the subatomic properties of the protein fabric of the body and recognized that the living matrix behaved like a semiconductor. He recognized that almost all of the body formed an energetic continuum with molecules acting as vital “conductors” in the energetic dance of life. Late in life, Szent-Györgyi began to pursue free radicals a potential cause of cancer and aging. He came to see cancer as being ultimately an electronic problem at the molecular level. He inspired many researchers including Dr. James Oschman who continued to popularize his ideas.
William Tiller, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Materials Science from Stanford University, has published over 250 conventional scientific papers, 3 books and holds several patents (Tiller Foundation (link is external)). In parallel, for over 30 years, he has been pursuing serious experimental and theoretical study of the field of psychoenergetics which will very likely become an integral part of “tomorrow’s” physics. In this new area, he has published an additional 100 scientific papers and four seminal books that detail his ground-breaking experiments with Intention Imprinted Electrical Devices. His new physics paradigm, which is backed by robust scientific experiments, is in part based on a newer, higher order electrodynamic model that suggests that consciousness and intention can affect material processes and biological assays.
