Our Foundational Framework;

An institute that thoroughly acknowledges and places at the forefront its discoveries through the frameworks or understandings of:

A self-aware or conscious universe, reality or ontological field/framework, where different focuses of itself are or yield relational experiences, or experience through or as a self-relationship;

Spirituality — an “all-is-consciousness” perspective, and Non-Duality; in which everything is Spirit in Spirit as Spirit, where aspects of human experience, such as physical, emotional, mental and even external situational are seen as different densities of consciousness, and expressions of its self-relation); subject–object inseparability, rooted in quantum-physics-informed worldviews of the double-slit experiment. One non-local quantum wave.

Participatory frameworks, in which participation continuously and inevitably changes what is participated with or perceived (being inseparable from the known, the way I engage with, direct, or respond to it can further radically alter or change it in reflection of my engagement/participation).

Biosemiotic perspectives, where meaning organises mind, body, and physiology (for example, a placebo as a meaning-based sign or orientation of receiving treatment altering physiology correspondingly, as much as a nocebo — the anticipation of a negative effect of surgery or treatment).

All of these approaches converge on a unified experiential field in which physiology, emotion, meaning, mind, and body are inseparable and mutually influencing.

Process theory — which holds that the entirety of any unfolding process is already implicit within (experience) itself—like a tree within a seed—and merely requires appropriate conditions for its development or embodiment.

Transpersonal frameworks - suggesting life unfolds along a soul-level purpose, or pre-incarnational intention, with all experiences as expressions of this underlying intention gathering itself froward in its potential embodiment or fulfilment.

Sacred Illness — where illness is not merely seen as biological dysfunction, but as a catalyst for change, deeper embodiment, and the potential fulfilment of one’s life purpose. This process or unfoldment, in line with Process Theory being different for each, as each has an inherently different and unique psycho-spiritual developmental process in reflection of their life or livelihood.

What sets us apart?

We study how (1) conscious awareness may play a potential direct role in the healing of physical illness by directly engaging with its meaning and essence for appearance or presence in one’s life, and (2) how energy-healing modalities—such as non-invasive psychic surgery, the Bengston Method, or related approaches—may alter or heal cells or illness-related physiology, including cancer, cysts, and related conditions.

We aim to study these processes LIVE, using:

• Real-time local (when possible) and general (HRV, etc.,) physiological, visual or video instrumentation

• Interdisciplinary and mixed research methodologies

• Embodied and psycho-spiritual therapeutic approaches

Some of these include:

• Energy Healing Modalities: Light Body Healings/Meditations, Psychic Surgery, Reiki, Healing Touch, The Bengston Method - In vitro (with various cell cultures - cancer cells) and In vivo

• Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy and its variations (e.g., Inner Relationship Focusing)

• Meditation, including Body Scanning

• Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)

• and more!

Our main questions;

How can embodying the engagement with (the experience of) physical illness, in light of these understandings and frameworks, alter it or change it?

Can it, or they, promote healing? And do these different approaches yield or grant different psycho-spiritual-emotional and physiological pathways, processings, and potentials in doing so?

May they promote a deeper sense of wholeness and peace (with one’s condition in one’s life)?

How, and can energy healing modalities, such as non-invasive psychic surgery, the Bengston method treat or cure various physical ailments in or with humans, as much as with (has already been demonstrated with) animals?

Related academic research or references:

Abe K, Ichinomiya R, Kanai T, Yamamoto K. Effect of a Japanese Energy Healing Method Known as Johrei on Viability and Proliferation of Cultured Cancer Cells In Vitro. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine: Paradigm, Practice, and Policy Advancing Integrative Health. 2012;18(3):221-228. doi:10.1089/acm.2011.0467

Bengston, W. F., & Krinsley, D. (2000). The effect of the “laying on of hands” on transplanted breast cancer in mice. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 14(3), 353–364.

• https://bengstonresearch.com/

Beseme, S., Bengston, W., Radin, D., Turner, M., & McMichael, J. (2018). Transcriptional Changes in Cancer Cells Induced by Exposure to a Healing Method. Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society, 16(3), 1559325818782843. https://doi.org/10.1177/1559325818782843

Broom, B. C. (2000). Medicine and story: A novel clinical panorama arising from a unitary mind/body approach to physical illness. Advances in Mind/Body Medicine, 16, 161–207.

Broom, B. (2007). Meaning-full disease: How personal experience and meanings cause and maintain physical illness. London: Routledge.

Broom, B. C., Booth, R. J., et al. (2012). Symbolic illness and “mind–body” co-emergence: A challenge for psychoneuroimmunology. Explore, 8(1), 16–25.

Goli F. Body, meaning, and time: Healing response as a transtemporal and multimodal meaning-making process. In: Nadin M, editor. Epigenetics and Anticipation. Cognitive Systems Monographs, vol 45. Cham: Springer; 2022. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-17678-4_6.

Lindsay, K., Goulding, J., Solomon, M., & Broom, B. (2017). Experience in use of a non-dualistic whole-person approach to patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria. Internal Medicine Journal, 47(Suppl), 31–31. https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.9013578

Linders, E. H., & Lancaster, B. L. (2013). Sacred illness: Exploring transpersonal aspects in physical affliction and the role of the body in spiritual development. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 16(10), 991–1008. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2012.728578

Moga, M. M., & Zhou, D. (2008). Distant healing of small-sized tumors. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 14(5), 453–459. https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2008.0100

Newman, M. A. (1999). Health as expanding consciousness (2nd ed.). New York: National League for Nursing Press.

Rozanova, Nadejda. (2010). The Effect of Energy Healing on in vitro Tumour Cells Proliferation Cell Cycle and Apoptosis-an Experimental Study. J Canc Sci Ther Volume. 2. 10.4172/1948-5956.1000017. 

Rozanova, Nadejda. (2015). Reiki influence on the cancer cells. 10.13140/RG.2.1.1003.5044. 

Rubik, B., Brooks, A. J., & Schwartz, G. E. (2006). In vitro effect of Reiki treatment on bacterial cultures: Role of experimental context and practitioner well-being. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 12(1), 9–21. https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2006.12.9

Shah S, Ogden AT, Pettker CM, Raffo A, Itescu S, Oz MC. A study of the effect of energy healing on in vitro tumor cell proliferation. J Altern Complement Med. 1999 Aug;5(4):359-65. doi: 10.1089/acm.1999.5.359. PMID: 10471016.

Yang P, Jiang Y, Rhea PR, et al. Human Biofield Therapy and the Growth of Mouse Lung Carcinoma. Integrative Cancer Therapies. 2019;18. doi:10.1177/1534735419840797

Yu CR, Radin DI, Chu CY, Shiah YJ. Effects of intentionally-treated water on cell migration of human glioblastoma cells. Explore (NY). 2025 Jan-Feb;21(1):103100. doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2024.103100. Epub 2024 Dec 13. PMID: 39700655.