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Human Energy Fields: A New Science and Medicine Paperback – March 10, 2009

by Colin A. Ross (Author), M.D. (Author)
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In Human Energy Fields, Dr. Ross describes a hard science and medicine with applications, testable hypotheses, and instrumentation. The core proposition of the science is: the human energy field, called chi, the human aura, the life force, or the human spirit in different philosophical systems, and the electromagnetic field of the body are the same thing. Dr. Ross outlines practical applications of the science in many different fields including anthropology, medicine, agriculture, weapons development, security systems, physiology, and psychotherapy. He describes three specific devices that can be used in the study of human energy fields, and proves scientifically that, in one specific instance, western science is wrong about what is scientific and what is paranormal (contrary to western science, the human eyebeam is real).
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Colin A. Ross received his M.D. from the University of Alberta in 1981, and completed his specialty training in psychiatry at the University of Manitoba in 1985. He is the author of over 135 papers in professional journals. In previous books including Songs for Two Children, Spirit Power Drawings, Northern Canada and Literary and Anthropological Studies, Dr. Ross has described the experiential and philosophical aspects of his study of human energy fields.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manitou Communications, Inc. (March 10, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 119 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0982185103
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0982185100
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.5 ounces
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Colin A. Ross, M.D. received his degree from the University of Alberta in 1981 and completed his psychiatry training at the University of Manitoba in 1985. Dr. Ross is an internationally renowned clinician, researcher, author and lecturer in the field of traumatic stress and trauma related disorders. He is the founder and President of The Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma. Besides his work at UBH Hospital in Denton, Texas, Dr. Ross consults to Trauma Programs at Forest View Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Del Amo Hospital in Torrance California. He has authored over 200 professional papers and 28 books. He has reviewed for numerous professional journals and is a Past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. In addition, Dr. Ross has served as expert witness in over 50 court cases, consulted on several cable, movie and video productions and has produced six educational DVD's and CD's for mental health professionals on the treatment of trauma based disorders. Visit his web site at www.rossinst.com.

The video posted on this page is the first five minutes of a 56-minute film produced by Dr. Ross, which is narrated by Chris Costner Sizemore, the Real Eve of The Three Faces of Eve. Dr. Ross has just released an updated version of his biography of Chris Sizemore under a new title, The Control of Eve.

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Zachary Zwiebel
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Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2015
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Harrison Koehli
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun and rational
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2013
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I'm a big fan of Colin Ross's work. The thing that strikes me about him is that he isn't afraid to think outside the box, speculate, and come up with ideas that are unconventional but rooted in totally rational thinking. He kind of reminds me of Rupert Sheldrake in that regard. Whether it is his work in psychiatry on the nature of dissociative illnesses and trauma, including work on schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder, or his willingness to seriously look at reports of ritual abuse or mind control (his book on MKULTRA and mind control in general, The CIA Doctors, is so fact-based it's almost boring, and I mean that as a compliment!), his writing is always clear and his thoughts well-developed. This book is no exception.

Human Energy Fields (****) collects and distills Ross's four decades of work on the subject. He argues that what other cultures and religions have called the soul, aura, spirit, chi, etc. is actually the human electromagnetic field. He acknowledges that it's almost impossible to think about such things using a Western, scientific framework or language. In order to see the parallels and develop his theory, he had to do a type of philosophical cognitive therapy on himself, rooting out the cognitive errors he had taken for granted. So in the first chapters, Ross shows the deep inner contradictions of materialism, reductionism, and the Cartesian dualism out of which they were born. In short, dualism posits an interaction between two substances that cannot interact. And reductionism posits a worldview in which consciousness and sentience do not exist. (If there is no distinction on the chemical level between animate and inanimate matter, and reductionism is true, there is no distinction between 'living' and 'dead.' By speaking of 'living' processes or even life in general, reductionism introduces a kind of back-door dualism that contradicts its own philosophical implications.) To smooth out the logic, only two possibilities remain: either everything is dead, and there is no difference between you and a corpse, or all things are alive or sentient in some way. To say that life 'emerged' is similarly to introduce dualism. If 'life' or 'mind' does not exist among physics at a basic level, saying that it emerges from physics is unintelligible. Ross thus concludes that some form of animism must be true (i.e., panpsychism). As he puts it, mind is a general property of matter.

He identifies this property as the electromagnetic field. (EEG when alive, no EEG when dead.) Just as organizations of matter become more complex, so do types of mind. So-called inanimate objects will have a certain EM signature, as will humans. Ross then gets into the scientific background, e.g., known instances of biological systems being affected by sources of electromagnetism (e.g., bird migration, honeybee dances), hypothesizing that similar processes may apply to humans.The implication, of course, is that any source of EM might affect human minds and/or bodies, including the earth's field, the solar wind, atmospheric wind, EM radiation, etc. He then describes his first empirical test: that the brain's EM field, measurable by EEG, is stronger in front of the eyes and may be able to be directed. This might account for the 'sense of being stared at', and Ross has developed technology to show that such a process is scientifically sound. He shows a similar process may be involved in 'gut feelings,' again sharing results from his own research and tests.

Next he makes a series of predictions, relating his ideas to medical problems like heart attacks, seizures, migraines, cancer, CFS, Parkinson's, phantom limbs, mental disorders, as well as 'fringe' practices like acupuncture, meditation, OBEs, aura reading, 'energy work', massage, chiropractic, and yoga. As he points out, there are therapeutic potentials in this practices, and it's possible that they are all pre-scientific ways of describing a real phenomenon, the EM field and the ways it interacts with the world to promote health or disease. Some practices and practitioners may be exposed as having no real effect, but others may not. Such an idea may also be able to account for 'pre-scientific' beliefs in such things as telepathy, fertility rituals, prayer, etc. Lastly, Ross looks at the potential future research possibilities in fields such as agriculture, medicine (diagnosis and treatment) and technology. I'm not sure if Ross's theory can account for all the things he proposes (e.g., I don't think an EM-based theory can account for all the phenomena in the psi literature), but it will be interesting to see how his research progresses and what comes out of it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars exciting, though controversial, on human energy field
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2011
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I have read a lot of dr. Ross earlier books, both on Dissociative disorders and on the scary CIA experiments in psychiatry. I liked those a lot. This book is quite different in many ways, but dr. Ross looks at both the energy field and the forces invoved in staring from an scientific angel, and make the theme quite exciting. I can recommend the book for people, both layman and scientiests, who are openminded enough to dare to look into some "new" perspectives on quite old themes connected to the "Aura", energyconnection between people and the diagnostic and treatment possibilities for a lot of conditions. Dr. Ross don't mention the Heartmath technology and methods, but there are some interesting overlapping on electromagnetic fields in the body.
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in the blue
1.0 out of 5 stars its all in reverse
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2010
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It would seem that Dr. Ross has the cart before the horse....the Spirit as a manifestation of the body...when the real truth seems......the Body/matter....is an aspect and manifestation of ....Spirit.....
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Napoleon lV
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 16, 2018
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The author gets lost in his writing, transposing different science disciplines, and it is unclear whether device for reading human energy fields ever got of the drawing board
An easy read apart from some random ramblings, this book is not to be considered as a science text.
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