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"Lucid dreaming is more colorful and seemingly more real than waking time; it is more fantastic, more memorable, and can even be described as a spiritual experience—all of which is shamanic in nature. The scientific community has recognized lucid dreaming as verifiable and continues to explore this dreamtime phenomenon. Daydreams Daydreaming is another way of accessing the spirits of the plants and is the most natural avenue to other dimensions, yet it is the least commonly used. Unfortunately, in Western culture daydreaming has become demonized." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Consequently, the scientific community's interest in discovering the mechanism for how the body cures itself of cancer remains almost non-existent. These "miracle cures" seem to happen most frequently in certain types of malignancies: kidney cancer, melanoma (cancer of the skin), lymphomas (cancers of the lymph), and neuroblastoma (a nerve cell cancer that affects infants)." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Human clinical trials are coming and great excitement lies ahead in the scientific community. If probiotics can in fact prevent or treat food allergies, a great number of people will be helped. Fatty Inflammation Dietary lipids, especially long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, e.g., omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, control immune function. These fats may change the ability of microbes to attach to the intestinal mucus lining. Good fats in the diet are another way to help control immune reactions associated with allergies, and promote a healthy intestine." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "Which specific strains are best for antibiotic-associated diarrhea has not yet been conclusively determined by the scientific community. However, species of both the Bifidobacteria and Lactobacilli genus have shown promise as supportive tools in reducing the loss of immune strength in the intestinal tract during health challenges, including antibiotic use. As such, probiotics are a possible way of preventing antibiotic-associated diarrhea. The relative lack of side effects makes probiotics even more attractive in the use of antibiotic-associated diarrhea." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Powerful voices in the scientific community, such as Sir Martin Rees, professor of astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, suggest that we have only a "50/50" chance of surviving the 21 st century without a major setback.9 While we've always had natural disasters to contend with, a new class of threats that Rees calls "human induced" now have to be taken into account as well." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "And it's for that very reason that the scientific community has viewed the power of belief so skeptically. When we talk about the power of "invisible forces" such as belief, to many scientists we've crossed the line that separates science from everything else. Maybe it's precisely because this line is so hard to define that we often learn about it only after we've already crossed it. My personal belief is that by relaxing the boundaries that have traditionally kept science and spirituality separate, we'll ultimately find the power of a greater wisdom." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Publication of Kirlian's first study in 1964 further attracted the scientific community.25 Lying for months in his bed, Korotkov realized that if he was going to discover more about how to capture this mysterious light Kirlian claimed was so vital to health, he was going to have to give up his day job. He knew that the involvement of a well-established quantum physicist such as himself would lend the technique scientific legitimacy and his technical ability might also help advance the technology. Perhaps he could even devise a means of depicting the light in real time." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "But among the mainstream scientific community, his research was disparaged as ludicrous, largely because he was not a traditional scientist, and he was ridiculed for what became known as "the Backster Effect." In 1975, Esquire magazine even awarded him one of its 100 Dubious Achievement Awards: "Scientist claims yogurt talks to itself."6 Nonetheless, over the next thirty years Backster ignored his critics and stubbornly carried on with his research, as well as his polygraph business, eventually amassing file drawers full of studies of what he referred to as "primary perception." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "The orthodox scientific community could easily pick holes in his study. He had to create a laboratory barren of any other living things besides the plants to ensure that the plants would not be, as it were, distracted. The only way to achieve this was to automate the experiment entirely. But he also needed a potent stimulus. He tried to think of the one act that would stir up the most profound reaction, something that would evoke the equivalent in the plants of dumbfounded horror. It became clear that the only way to get unequivocal results was to commit the equivalent of mass genocide." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "Backster, who knew he would be ridiculed if he presented findings like these to the scientific community, enlisted an impressive array of chemists, biologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and physicists to help him design an airtight experiment. In his early experiments, Backster had relied upon human thought and emotion as the trigger for reactions in the plants. The scientists discouraged him from using intention as the stimulus of the experiment, because it did not lend itself to rigorous scientific design. How could you set up a control for a human thought—an intention to harm, say?" - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"He was not only willing to stick his head above the parapet in choosing to publish in one of the most conservative journals in the whole of the scientific community, but then, when they doubted him, he eagerly snatched up the gauntlet they'd thrown down by agreeing to their request to reproduce his results at his laboratory." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "It would take some 25 years for him to gather converts from among the scientific community. Slowly a few select scientists from around the globe began to consider that the body's communication system might be a complex network of resonance and frequency. Eventually they would form the International Institute of Biophysics, composed of fifteen groups of scientists from international centres all around the world. Popp had found offices for his new group in Neuss, near Diisseldorf." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Instead of waiting for the book to be published, I decided to write about medication spellbinding for the scientific community and designated it by the more technical term intoxication anosognosia.u The term anosognosia means "ignorance of the presence of disease."12 More simply, it means not recognizing something obvious that is physically wrong with you, such as a paralyzed limb or a poorly functioning memory." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Nobody in the American scientific community would take ESP or clairvoyance seriously. It was the CIA's view that if they didn't, the Russians would probably gain an advantage that the US would never be able to overcome. The agency had been scouring around for a small research lab outside academia that might be willing to carry out a small, low-key investigation. SRI ?and Hal's current interest ?seemed perfect for the job. Hal even checked out as a good security risk since he'd had experience in intelligence in the Navy and had worked for the National Security Agency." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"In fact, people in the scientific community are now calling on researchers to stop spending money on vitamin-supplement trials because we know these products are either useless or harmful in terms of health." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Two papers that fueled the controversy appeared in 1986 and caused a stir in the popular press and in the scientific community. In a fascinating, but brief, letter to The Lancet, Blundell and Hill [155] reported that the ingestion of aspartame caused an increase in hunger ratings in human subjects, and in another paper, Stellman and Garfinkel [156] reported that women who consumed the sweetener saccharin were more likely to gain body weight than nonusers of saccharin." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Much work would have to be done in order to elicit a sufficient consensus in the scientific community to make the use of such indices persuasive, but lacking that effort, the field has no good way to assess the multiplicity of system effects that is characteristic of nutrients. Such indices for vitamin D and calcium seem a good place to start since their components represent already established end points. Thus, experimentation with the index will be a test of the concept, not a test of the nutrient (i.e." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Although the scientific community was originally skeptical of the claims that a high-protein, high-fat diet could cause a weight loss, controlled studies clearly confirmed the effectiveness of a diet high in protein and low in carbohydrate to produce a reduction in body weight [99, 172-185]. The skepticism by the more orthodox nutritionists stemmed from four arguments. First, the deleterious health effects of eating a diet high in fat, particularly high in saturated fat, are well known. Second, foods containing large amounts of protein are usually accompanied by large amounts of fat." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"How could this popular antioxidant increase such risks, much less fail to offer hoped-for protection? The scientific community is still trying to find answers to that question, but some point to the fact that many of the studies used alpha-tocopherol supplements, which are one particular form of vitamin E. Apparently, alpha-tocopherol supplements decrease levels of another form of vitamin E, gamma-tocopherol, which some researchers suspect may play a big role in many processes in the body." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Within the scientific community, debate rages about what science means and how conflicting theories provide alternative explanations about how the natural world works. SCIENCE AS COMPETING IDEAS As quantum mechanics developed in the early- to mid-twentieth century, it became clear that it had to be joined with relativity theory if it was going to go the distance in describing nature. This was accomplished through QED, which grounds itself in Schrodinger's wave equation, which describes waves as having both quantum and relativ-istic properties." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Mahendralal's defection was revealing in another way: he was, and continued after his homeopathic turn to be, a vocal proponent of science and 'scientific' medicine, founding in 1867 the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science to promote the growth of an indigenous scientific community, and the creation of scientific knowledge by and for Indians.25 He promoted homeopathy through the Calcutta Journal of Medicine he founded a year later, as a scientific and modern system." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Most studies are ignored by the scientific community. A few become quite important. The more prestigious the journal, the greater the likelihood that its contents will become part of generally accepted knowledge—part, in other words, of standard practice. Journals that are official publications of scholarly or professional societies are also influential. Even more important than articles are editorials, which carry the official imprimatur of the journal. It is to these editorials that we turn to if and when they are available." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Nevertheless, the larger medical and scientific community generally failed to recognize such niceties of difference and tended instead to dismiss the entire drama of provoked waking sleep—however achieved—as chicanery and unworthy of scientific and scholarly attention. Then, the French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, one of the most charismatic and internationally respected figures in the medical profession at the time, proposed that it was time to take hypnosis seriously." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Meanwhile, the wider scientific community has come on board as multiple studies at other institutions around the world have supported Harley and James's original findings. One recent study supporting the link between Epstein-Barr and lupus shows that African Americans who test positive for Epstein-Barr are five to six times more likely to have lupus. Not surprisingly, genes play a specific role in the connection between Epstein-Barr and lupus as well." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Another recent study caused a stir within the scientific community by finding that even the low level of mercury used in vaccines preserved with thimerosal can trigger irregularities in immune-system cells in test-tube experiments. Even so, if there is an interplay with mercury, top scientists in the autoimmune-mercury field caution that there is probably no one single environmental trigger that is causing autism, just as there is no one single gene that is causing it." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "The very idea that by killing off the fugitive T cells that cause type 1 diabetes damage you could encourage a healthy pancreas to regenerate was considered so far-fetched that Faustman's team was met with scathing skepticism from most of the scientific community. Scientists throughout the world openly questioned her claims. Despite her breakthrough, Faustman could not convince drug companies or major diabetes foundations to offer research funding." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Currently, the scientific community has not agreed on guidelines for their use or whether such testing ultimately does a better job than the traditional physical exam with cholesterol panels and blood glucose testing." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"As soon as the scientific community realized he had discovered a cure for cancer, he would be one of the most celebrated scientists of his day. It was his first foray into a new area of science, and it was going to land him the Nobel prize. Popp, after all, was used to accolades. Up until that point he'd won nearly every prize you could be awarded in academic life. He'd even picked up the Rontgen prize for his undergraduate diploma work, which consisted of building a small particle accelerator." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Scott has been privileged to see his revolutionary ideas about natural health move from complete disdain by the scientific community to widespread acceptance and agreement during his own lifetime. This could only be made possible by his determination to pursue demonstrably exact science. The essence of Dr. Scott's philosophy and work is best capsulized by his lifetime motto ?Profound Simplicity. Dr. Vivian Virginia Vetrano and Natural Hygiene Dr. Vivian Virginia Vetrano is one of the world's leading health experts today." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"I was also the only psychiatrist at that time who was willing to stand up to the company in court and in the media, as well as in the scientific community.15 I was literally the biggest threat to the company's most important source of revenue, Prozac. Over the ensuing years, I have tried my best to communicate what I know about Prozac and Eli Lilly's cover-ups, for example in 1994 in Talking Back to Prozac, and then in 1997 in the original edition of Brain-DisablingTreatments in Psychiatry, and with an updated edition in 2008." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

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