This blog post details the next phase of our correspondence
Correspondence with the Authors
So, on April 1, I replied,
Thank you for your prompt reply. I may have underestimated you.
Distance healing may be an option. I'd also considered working with flower remedies and also intuitively over skype. (The healing work is not one-size-fits-all so if we go forward, I would look at a specific plan for you).
I'd be interested in monitoring the experiment objectively but for my part the monitoring would also need to be subjective.
When you say objectively monitor, what did you have in mind?
If you have not already, please take a look at my on-line spirituality journal - http://spontaneousmystic.blogspot.com. I'll will be posting the
last portion of the book review today. The full review(as well as other information on the blog) should give you some idea of why this issue is of interest to me.
Sincerely,
Ahnday Meweh
I thought I'd done a pretty good job of laying out my thoughts. I waited enthusiastically for the doctor's replied letting me know the parameters he wanted to use for the scientific monitoring he suggested!
On Friday, April 1, Dr. Ernst replied,
why don't you tell me how you would conduct this experiment and what you would conclude from its results.then i can tell you whether this is, in my view, a viable concept.
regards, e Ernst
His use of the term “viable concept” tipped me off – as if he were wondering whether my offer were a fetus capable of life outside the womb. I suspected that the good doctor might be looking for a reason to back out. However, hope sprung eternal within me . Thinking there still might be a chance, on April 1 I wrote:
Mr. Ernst,
This is what I suggest: You and I work together for 12 sessions over the course of 6 mos to one year. In these sessions I treat you as I would any other client with the exception that you be willing to record your subjective experience of the situation and share it with readers. This would mean focusing on a need of yours - anything from chronic pain in the body to grief or even a research question you'd be interested in testing on yourself ... whatever together we decide is appropriate. It would mean dialoguing with me and following through on suggestions.
I have done distance healing and am willing to do this if it is something you are interested in testing objectively, however, my first instinct is that distance healing should not be the totality of what we do. I anticipate that we will need to discuss what both subjective and objective monitoring will look like. In this respect, we'd design the experiment together.
I am not so much interested in "proving" anything as in creating a partnership that allows us to dig deeper into a topic that interests many - the interface of science and alternative medicine. I am also interested in exploring the theme set forth in Trick or Treatment - the question of how to discern truth. This is interesting in part because science views the highest truth as objective. Spiritual healing views the same as subjective.
If we can come to together, my hope is that we will gain a greater appreciation for each others position.
Depending on how we design the experiment suggested modalities might include, but are not limited to:
(1) distance healing
(2) flower/stone remedies (I either put these together and mail them to you or direct you to sources for purchase)
(3) intuitive information and guidance sessions (via skype)
As with any client, modalities would be determined through a two-step process. Step 1: I consult spiritual beings to determine what is needed, Step 2: you and I would discuss the information received, your comfort with recommendations, and how to implement recommendations in a way that is consistent with experiment design. ....
(for more, see next post)
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