This document discusses the relationship between faith and science in understanding life and healing. It explores ancient concepts of life energy from Egypt, Ayurvedic medicine, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Modern research has shown that living things emit light and may be influenced by quantum effects, prayer, meditation, and energy healing. The document suggests that science and faith offer complementary perspectives on life's fundamental nature and healing.

1. AGREE
Homer Lim, MD
Geriatrician, Integrative Medicine

2. Faith and Science
What is Life:
Merriam-Webster:
“Life as a principle or force
that is considered to
underlie the distinctive
quality of animate beings.”

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Ancient Egypt
 Considered as the oldest
known civilization with a
systematic medical
knowledge
 As far back as 140,000
years ago.
 “Ka” – essence of life
 “Ba” - the soul

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Ayurvedic Medicine –
74,000 years ago
 “Prana” – life energy
 Seven chakra or energy
wheels that starts from the
base of the spine to the top of
the head
 Swara yoga bears
resemblance to the meridian
systems of the Chinese
 Rasayana refers to
rejuvenation

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Traditional Chinese
Medicine
 Most probably adapted
from the Ayurvedic, by way
of the Tibetans
 Refined and improved the
meridian system
 First book on acupuncture
by the Yellow Emperor
“HuangDi Nei Jing”

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Greek and Roman empires
Hippocrates – life force as Vis Medicatrix Naturae
Galen - Facultas Formatrix

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Seymon Kirlian
 1939 – discovered that when a
person is exposed to a
photographic film in a high-
voltage electric field, multi-
colored emanations appear
surrounding the person, which
was described as aura or
biofield

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Fritz Popp
 1974 – all living things emit a
weak photon energy as
recorded in advance photon
multipliers
 The field of Biophotonics was
born, with centers in
Germany, Japan, China

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 All Living thing EMIT Light!
 Light emitted originated from
the DNA
 If light is emitted by DNA, can
light also influence the DNA?
 All living things absorb and
emit light Fritz Popp

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So what is light?
electromagneticradiation of any wavelength that travels in a vacuum with a
speed of about 186,281 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second

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Frequency (as we sense as
Light and Sound)
✴as a carrier for
information
✴Used as a therapeutic
modality

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Quantum Physics
Composed of electrons,
protons and neutrons of
which are composed of
subatomic particles and
quarks, these defy the
principles of Newtonian
physics
Atoms

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Quantum Physics in our daily lives
 Dreams
 Premonitions
 Intuitions
 ESP
 Princeton Engineering Anomalous
Research (PEAR)

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 Quantum physicists believed
that there is a certain amount
of indeterminacy in all events
 Events can be influenced by
the observer
 That all things are
interconnected by a higher
order at the subatomic level
(entanglement)

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INTERCESSORY PRAYERS
 Leibovici published an intriguing study questioning conventional notions of
time, space, prayer, consciousness, and causality.
 The randomised, controlled, double blind, parallel group study (prayer versus
no prayer) included 3393 septic patients and considered the hypothesis that
“retroactive” prayer, offered 4-10 years later, affects outcomes.
 Of the preselected outcomes, mortality was similar in both groups, yet length
of stay in hospital and duration of fever were shorter with prayer (P = 0.01
and P = 0.04).
 Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection:
randomized controlled trial. BMJ 2001;323: 1450-1.

16. Faith and Science
Transcendental Meditation
Over 50 scientific studies
• >1% of a given population practices Transcendental Meditation
•when sufficiently large groups practice the TM-Sidhi program together twice
daily
• show decreased violence, crime, car accidents, and suicides, and improved
quality of life in society.
Study published in the Yale University-edited Journal of Conflict Resolution
•an intervention by a civilian group in Israel resulted in a 76% reduction in war
deaths in neighboring Lebanon.
•Seven subsequent, consecutive experiments over a two-year period during the
peak of the Lebanon war found:
•war-related fatalities decreased by 71% (p < 0.0000000001)
•war-related injuries fell by 68% (p < 0.000001)
•the level of conflict dropped by 48% (p < 0.00000001)
•cooperation among antagonists increased by 66% (p < 0.000001)

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 Energy Healing
 Pranic Healing
 Qi Gong
 Access Energy
 Reiki
 Therapeutic Touch

21. Energy!
Faith and Science

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INTENTION