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Vibrational Medicine: The #1 Handbook of Subtle-Energy Therapies

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Dr. Gerber comes across as an enthusiastic, articulate, knowledgeable, perceptive, open-minded, and well-intentioned guide to a host of subtle-energy therapies ranging from flower essences to radionics. This reviewer found of special value his discussions of Electroacupuncture According to Voll, experiments with healing hands and magnets, and the neurophysiology of kundalini. His characterization of homeopathy as an energy therapy certainly seems on target. He also sprinkles intriguing insights into the psychology of healing throughout his general exposition of the commonly argued theoretical framework of energy medicine.

So this book offers very readable, rich fare to scientists, medical practitioners, and ordinary people who want to learn about the entire field of energy medicine, including the underlying scientific and psychological theory and the interconnections among the various modalities.

However, four deviations from perfection must be noted. First, this is a monoglot and provincial book. Even though the author refers to healing practices around the world, he exhibits a strong tendency to favor the North American versions. The narrative shortchanges the major contributions of the Russians, although ironically Kirlian is termed a Russian instead of an Armenian.

Second, the science of biophotonics (chemiluminescence) and the well-documented practice of Biophotonic Therapy (Photoluminescence), the treatment of the blood by light, are central to an understanding of energy medicine. Yet the book simply doesn't discuss the findings in the extensive biophotonics and BT literatures.

Third, aside from an inadequate concluding chapter, the book is rather dated. Most of the references are to the literature of the 1970s and early 1980s, but plenty of interesting research has been done since then.

Fourth, the reader will want to take with an appropriately sized grain of salt Dr. Gerber's assertions regarding the proclivities of the healer caste of Atlantis, the validity of "channeled information" from psychics (a key source), reincarnation as a source of physical ailments, and the reality of various astral and higher spiritual life forms. Nonetheless, he deserves great credit for the effort and intelligence with which he has assembled and explained the therapies and theories of this fascinating and vitally important field.

This book is one of the best I have read in the past several years! Dr. Gerber takes an honest and open look at what is behind the movement towards energetic healing therapies. His research, and coverage of other people's research, helps explain why energy healing works, how our bodies are vibrational energy patterns, and opens the door to understanding this new look at the world of medicine and healing. Dr. Gerber's book helps bridge the gap between the metaphysical world of "Energy Healing" modalities and the western world's scientific view of medicine. This book will convince you that these two worlds need to come together if we are to really address the world's health and healing problems facing us in the 21st century. In nearly 600 pages, this book is not a gloss-over of the subject, but a detailed look at human energy structures and ways of treating physical manifestations of energetic imbalances. Highly recommended reading!- Mark Greenia, Author of "Energy Dynamics: Conscious Human Evolution."

VIBRATIONAL MEDICINE is a classic reference book for anyone seeking a comprehensive overview of the field of energy medicine. Weighty in both content and physical heft, it manages to be quite the page-turner, by virtue of maintaining effervescent enthusiasm for the subject throughout. While some books discuss one or two relatively narrow aspects of energy medicine, VIBRATIONAL MEDICINE covers a vast assortment of energy healing methodologies.

What I love most about VIBRATIONAL MEDICINE is the way so many experimental details are included for the scientific studies it cites. It's easy to gain a big picture overview of how scientific research is steadily progressing in the field of subtle energies. I also love the way that VIBRATIONAL MEDICINE strikes an easy balance between sharing ancient esoteric spiritual teachings, newer vibrational therapies, and scientific research. Some of the most recent developments in vibrational medicine, such as homeopathy, flower essences, and sound healing have deep roots in the past, at the same time as they offer us a welcome array of new options on the road to better health. Readers who are intrigued and open-minded to studying all these areas will find this book an absolute must-read.

VIBRATIONAL MEDICINE introduces some key concepts early on that weave their way throughout the rest of the book, such as the principle of resonance. Resonance has been associated with telepathy between individuals, and also with bringing about healing for individuals who have energy imbalances. There are profound benefits to be gained from correctly assessing what kind of frequency will bring about optimal healing, and VIBRATIONAL MEDICINE provides all the juicy details!

I highly recommend VIBRATIONAL MEDICINE to anyone interested in a more complete understanding of the energies related to optimal health.

-- Cynthia Sue Larson, author of "Aura Advantage: How the Colors in Your Aura Can Help You Attain What You Desire and Attract Success"

Please do not be put off by "reviews" from people who do not understand homeopathic principles or vibrational medicine. There are now photographs of the molecular structure of water exposed to various stimuli that show that an "etheric" or energetic imprint does NOT require actual plant matter or other substance to be present in order to effect a change (research by Masaru Emoto is currently published in three separate books from Hado Publishing). This supports homeopathic dilution and other vibrational medicine techniques. You may or may not buy into the theories of Atlantis, Lemuria, channeling, etc., but just as we don't thoroughly understand electricity and still find it useful, vibrational medicine does not need to be explainable with our current level of knowledge to be useful. This book is one of many fascinating reads and while much remains to be learned, it should at least be read before being dismissed.

Gerber provides a new scientific paradigm that strongly supports what spiritual healers have known for millennia. It explains this knowledge of the energy body in scientific terms that permits us to make a graceful transition from the Newtonian concept of health to the wholeness of the Einsteinian quantum worldview. As such it is a serious investigation of the etheric and a development of an etheric material science to balance the current physical material science. Based on the fact that the body consists of electrical vibrations, Gerber's theories act as a conceptual bridge between allopathic and subtle-energy medicine. It includes an exhaustive treatment of homeopathy, Bach Flower Remedies, acupuncture, crystal healing, electrotherapy, radiology, radionics and psychic healing. Chapters include: The Einsteinian View of Living Systems; X-Rays and the Beginning of Vibrational Medicine; Frequency and Subtle Planes of Matter; Subtle Energy Systems and their Relevance to Ancient Approaches to Healing; Modern Investigations into Psychic Healing; Healing Qualities of Gems and Stones; The Chakras; Holistic Healing and Paradigm Shifts; Recent Developments in Vibrational Medicine, including Healing with Sound, and Electromagnetic Healing Devices. Not only is this book a welcome new approach to modern healthcare, but at the same time a wonderful reference work on energy healing. It concludes with a glossary, recommended reading list, resource guide, list of diagrammes and an index.

My degree is in Physics, and I believe strongly in SOME alternative healing practices. I was asked by a relative who is a vibrational healer to read and review this book. I found it fundamentally disappointing.

Gerber's grasp of Physics is childish, at best. He makes broad assumption based on pop-science myths, and doesn't bother to do any of the hard math to validate his claims about interference patterns, probability waves, or electromagnetics... if he did, he would have seen that his theories could not possibly explain how vibrational healing works... if indeed it does.

He uses analogies of holography when fractals make much more sense, and ignores (or is ignorant of) the complexities of quantum physics that make most of his claims completely unsupportable by what we currently know.

He also tries hard to impress (or confuse) the reader by dropping the names of physical phenomena, esoteric and impressive medical technologies, and needlessly abstract analogies. He speaks as someone would when they know NOTHING about a subject, in an attempt to get as many bonus points as possible for being a 'deep thinker,' without having to produce anything substantial.

His grasp of the scientific method isn't much better. Instead of analyzing all research on the matter of vibrational medicine, he picks and chooses the few studies that demonstrate a minor effect, and focuses hard on them as ultimate proof. Never mind that these studies are the minority, and other researchers have difficulty reproducing any results at all.

Vibrational medicine may or may not work... Ive seen no real evidence either way. But if there actually is some fundamental phenomonon behind it, dont expect to learn anything about it from this book.

Read my review - and then reread the one bad review listed here:(*----) "Fundamentally disappointing, December 27, 2004"
Reviewer: Brian Huff "bex" (Minneapolis, MN, USA) "the guy with the physics degree...."
is very typical, disappointingly misleading and a prime example of the closed mindedness the documented scientists in the following books are facing as they peer into a window that shows a startling new universal picture of the ALL, not a machine broken down into pieces that are analyzed separately and incorrectly isolated from one another . Here is another "degree" who has all the answers and all else is incorrect and childish. I surmise it may be a PhD "piled higher and deeper" mentality who wrote this as he begins the critique with his degree in hand as a child hugs a security blanket! God forbid there should be something he doesn't understand or doesn't fit in his square peg hole! Maybe Newton or Einstein was the hero not to be de-throned. But those are the teachers that allow these men and women take the next steps because "they stood on the shoulders of giants". The student should surpass the teacher, or perhaps the teachers have failed....because it is a slow-evolving process....such is science.

For anyone interested in keeping up to date with the discouragingly courageous efforts of those who are seeking the next paradigm shift in our window of the all (health notwithstanding), this book is excellent reading.

I have read this book and "The Holographic Universe" at the same time and it is awesome to find that some insightful people are seriously seeking answers to how the all is related and functioning. Do read both if not at same time (excellent cross reference), but at least check out both together. Some seriously intelligent and insightful people are working on puzzles and concepts that indeed boggle the mind and make for stranger than fiction, King-size Kudos to those doing the work and those trying to get the word out on this exciting new realm of understanding.

Most advanced physicists have overlooked these theories and have a difficult time understanding them once they are exposed to them - and sure, it is theory because they will only be confirmed as our technology advances far enough to allow certain experiments only possible to think about at this time. This is analogous to the fact that penicillin was available way before it was possible to use the technology needed to preserve and allow dispensing it to the masses. Before that technological process became available, it could be made by the incredible man who discovered and researched it but the time of tech was not right and up to speed to allow it to be stabilized for distribution.

Quite a bit about what is discussed, elementary info, is covered in chem. 101 and physics 101 is valid, but the theories and their repercussions touch on new age and metaphysical aspects of the unexplainable in life, which is where the walls of ignorance and arrogance of conventional critics begin being built.

Most of the world renown scientists admit we should not close our minds to possibilities that are at this point incomprehensible by the man-child, mankind. Take a look at history and you will know what we have seen from critics in the past, whether the elite educational institutions or the vile penalizing church censorships.

A physics degree is nothing in comparison to the work the men and women in these chapters of this book and "the holographic universe" are doing and the lone (with few associate visionaries) journey fraught with adversity and ridicule.

Read these books - they may change how you look at life and the energies you are part of and influence hour by hour!
Don't let closed minds without specific data contrary to these theories close your mind or deter you from exploring the marvelous mysteries of the world and universe outside of conventional close mindedness. The people who are the first to throw credentials and titles at people to intimidate them into being part of the masses that follow the piper and say the emperor has clothes on!

Get a history degree and vow not to support the repetition of our errors through ignorance and ignorance - that is my advice to one-star critic.

May the Force(s) be with you ALL! ;-)

VIBRATIONAL MEDICINE, THIRD EDITION
The # 1 Handbook of Subtle-Energy Therapies
by Richard Gerber, M.D.

Richard Gerber is both a physican and metaphysician, as well as a best-selling author.
Vibrational Medicine, Third Edition combines the best of both worlds and connects
them as a bridge spans two islands...the physical self and the spiritual self.

Dr. Gerber writes, "Medicine is at the threshold of discovering a hidden world of unseen
energies that will help to diagnose and heal illness as well as allow researchers to gain new
insights into the hidden potentials of consciousness". This exploration of energy
(vibration) as it relates to modern medicine...the Newtonian viewpoint and the Einsteinian
viewpoint, combined with Dr. Gerber's keen writing abilities, offer the reader a deeply
esoteric look at the future of medicine.

Further, Vibrational Medicine, Third Edition discusses the efficacy of such ancient
treatments as acupuncture, radionics, healing with crystals, Bach flower remedies, chakras,
meditation and psychic healing. We learn about the relationship between higher vibrational
energies and physical matter to understand the patterns governing the flow of the life-force
through the physical body.

The marriage of homeopathy and modern medicine signals the verge of a major paradigm
shift in the sciences. "Ideally", writes Dr. Gerber, "each therapeutic option offered by the
different schools of thought might be used to complement and augment the effectiveness
of the others, as opposed to relying on any single technique. This integrated model is one
which may eventually be extended towards treating all forms of disease in a
multidisciplinary fashion".

Vibrational Medicine, Third Edition, is a look at the future as it will affect our lives
individually as well as globally. Richard Gerber, M.D. has given us an eye-opener that
redefines diagnostics and healing...and offers solid evidence of the progression of

alternative medicine!

Richard Fuller
Senior Editor

I cringe when I read, "As a scientist..." or "I have a physics degree, therefore..." as total lead-in balony. The most fundamental problem is that so-called scientists, physicists, and mainstream medical practitioners know absolutely ZERO about what this book introduces and tries to explain. Apparently all these brilliant people are quite satisfied with the fact that the USA ranks near last in every relevant category relating to health amongst First World countries, despite throwing the most money at "health care", having the most modern medical technology, counting the most doctor visits, and being the most medicated people on Earth. Perhaps the Newtonian view should be challenged then, if we can ever cut through all the greed, corruption, and politics involved in "modern" Western Health Care. Vibrational medicine is clearly the answer in one from or another (because it's best for the people, not the doctors and corporations obviously) and the irony is that there is very good "scientific evidence" that many of our truly ancient cultures discovered and perfected it as their primary healing therapies. Homeopathy is probably the best example of a vibrational medicine that is consistently skewered and mocked, but yet continues to out perform allopathic medicine by a wide margin for a fraction of the cost. It's a shame that "medical science" is so bought and paid for, and for such a long time. So I'll let the physics guy scribble equations on a note pad any day; I prefer to uncover, understand, experiment, then practice vibrational medicine (in its various forms) on my very appreciative patient base and then observe the tremendous results. This book is a great starting point on what's out there within the vibrational world.

Does homeopathy work? What are gem elixers? What are flower essences? What exactly are chakras? How does accupuncture work? What is Healing Touch? What is Reike? How can I use crystals or magnets to improve my health? What's the big deal about meditation? Do any of these things work, and if they do how?

If you were ever wanted answers about so-called "New Age" medicine and its effect on the health of the body/mind, this is the leading edge answer! If you want all the latest research on vibrational or energy medicine, this book provides that as well.
Richard Gerber brilliantly and clearly explains the body/mind/spirit and how it is all connected. From physics to physiology to the latest research, no stone is left unturned.

Read this book, you will come away with a new perspective and the knowledge to powerfully change your health and your life.