"What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing"

"Book Review: Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing by Horowitz and Bowers" - http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-zoobiquity-what-animals-can/

"Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing by cardiologist Natterson Horowitz and journalist Kathryn Bowers is about the commonality of disease processes in humans and the animal kingdom.

The authors discuss such things as how the dinosaurs suffered from brain cancer and gorillas experience depression. They note that the heart rate of white-tailed deer slows down in response to the presence of danger;such as wolves.

The authors document that smoke, alcohol, excess sunlight and obesity alter the DNA sequences to yield various types of cancer. Large species like blue whales have a lower incidence of cancer due to Peto's Paradox. The DNA replication in large animals protects them from cancer according to this principle.

Animals like wolves have an inherent instinct for self preservation even if intolerable pain is one of the choices. For instance, a wolf will gnaw off a paw to be freed from a hunter's snare.

The authors show how severe stress is known to alter the heart chemistry through a process called takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Examples are neurogenic myocardial stunning, stress-induced cardiomyopathy and transient left ventricular apical ballooning. Physicians understand takotsubo because the heart communicates with the brain, starting from the womb.

Obese humans have greater numbers of firmicutes in the intestine;whereas thin people have greater bacteroidetes there. The firmicutes are all gram-positive bacteria;whereas proteobacteria which are gram-negative. Mice experience a similar phenomena as obese humans. Therefore, diet and exercise are not the only factors influencing weight gain or loss.

Koalas get diseases also found in humans such as chlamydia. Animals also commit suicide; such as those with terminal parasitic infections.

Zoobiquity is an excellent book which explains the commonality between human and animal disease processes. The book is well researched. Samples of research citations are the Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the Spanish Journal of Psychology and theInternational Journal of Eating Disorders.

The authors believe that understanding disease processes in animals will benefit humans, as well as animals." - http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-zoobiquity-what-animals-can/

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Interspecies Communication, Sympathy, Empathy

"In a stunning display of interspecies connectedness, a herd of wild elephants was recently seen mourning the death of their friend and savior, Lawrence Anthony. Anthony passed away on March 2, 2012......Elephant Whisperer....." - https://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/wild-elephants-mourn-death-of-elephant-whisperer/

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Remote Viewing....Let Your Mind Do the Walking...

Found this site, thought you all might be interested....http://www.irva.org/index.html

"IRVA is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the responsible use and development of remote viewing. We are an independently formed member organization of scientists, remote viewing professionals, students, and other interested persons. For more information, read the Letter of Invitation from Russell Targ, President Emeritus of IRVA.

Remote viewing is a novel perceptual discipline for gaining information not available to the ordinary physical senses. Used extensively by so-called "psychic spies" during the Cold War for classified military projects, it has a long history both as an intelligence gathering tool and as the subject of research and applications in the civilian world. Remote viewing has now taken a long step into the public domain with the formation of a professional association to educate, research, propose standards, test performance, and promote public awareness of this unique human mental capacity."

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Tom Sez - I'm particularly interested in how hypnosis might enhance remote viewing....hmmmm?

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Make Your Own Mind Machine- Little Known Information About Mind Computer Interfacing

"Many people are working on Brain Computer Interfacing (BCI) these days. Few people, however, are working on Mind Machines.....http://voices.yahoo.com/make-own-mind-machine-11337514.html?cat=15

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I wrote this article to stimulate amateur innovation and experimentation in using science to record intuition.

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"BRAIN SCANS REVEAL WHAT DOGS ARE THINKING" - Inter-species Communication

"BRAIN SCANS REVEAL WHAT DOGS ARE THINKING"..."Emory University’s Center for Neuropolicy in Atlanta has developed a new way of scanning the brains of alert dogs with the aim of getting a more accurate understanding of how they think. According to the center’s director and lead researcher Gregory Berns:

As far as we know, no one has been able to do this previously. We hope this opens up a whole new door for understanding canine cognition and inter-species communication. We want to understand the dog-human relationship, from the dog’s perspective.

The dog involved in the experiment was trained to walk up to the MRI machine and hold his head still while her brain was scanned. The research is further deepened by analyzing how the dog’s brain patterns change in response to hand signals and vocal cues. This will flesh out insights into canine cognition, social cognition of other species, interspecies communication, and provide a deeper understanding of the human-canine relationship.

Watch the video below for more detail on this experiment...." - http://www.psfk.com/2012/05/brain-scan-dogs.html

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Tom sez - Could this technology be used to find out how dogs can sense someone's sickness?  Dogs can smell cancer before doctors can detect it.  Why can't we figure this out?  Maybe this new tool will help.

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"Animals' Sixth Sense Saves Lives"....Future Medical Diagnostic Tool?

"Canada's Heroic Pets Honoured: Animals' Sixth Sense Saves Lives"...." Animals are gifted with an extraordinary sense of sight, smell, sound and touch. They also seem to have a sixth sense, or intuition, that allows them to pick up on illness and medical emergencies earlier than humans are capable of detecting. While researchers are at odds about this sixth sense, many argue that the stronger the bond between pet and owner, the more apt they are to notice changes in their smell, mannerisms and appearance".... http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/07/4471853/canadas-heroic-pets-honoured-animals.html

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Tom Sez - Animals can sense, maybe we can too, but we've lost the ability or suppress it.  

Maybe good research project for university?....glean the science out of this?....equip dogs/pets with sensors to map out the responses when they "intuitively" know a person is sick?  Galvanic Skin Response Sensors?  Eye movement?  Sniff sensors?   etc.....

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Wanted - Dream Telepathy Device

Recently found this article...."Stanely Krippner, parapsychologist even James Randi likes" - http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/stanely-krippner-a-parapsycho.html...it involves "dream telepathy".

Here's a few other links....

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_telepathy
• http://www.psicoanalisi.it/psicoanalisi/psicosomatica/articoli/psomaing1117.htm
• http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Telepathy-Experiments-Extrasensory-Consciousness/dp/1571743219

Here's the search string I used....dream-(telepathy OR esp OR extra-sensory-perception)

What do you think? Any experience with this?  Got any circuits, schematics, software programs for this?

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Thoughtography or Nensha....Interesting!

"Nensha (Chinese: 念写; pinyin: niànxiě; literally "sense inception"), better known to English speakers as thoughtography or projected thermography or nengraphy, is the ability topsychically "burn" images from one's mind onto surfaces, or even into the minds of others. It is common in fiction, and made noteworthy by the recent Ring/The Ring media franchise. While the term "thoughtography" has been in the English lexicon since 1913, the more recent term "projected thermography" is a neologism originating from the 2002 U.S. remake of The Ring....." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nensha

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Tom sez - The link below came up on my internet alerts and thought it was of interest.  Maybe worth exploring...what do you think?  I think there's enough science/technology for me to explore further.

"THOUGHTOGRAPHY – Ted Serios’ Interview with Mi Stress Henry"-  http://theendofbeing.com/2012/04/18/thoughtography-ted-serios-interview-with-mi-stress-henry/

Anyone Know of Actual Instrumentation for Inter-Species Communication? Looking For Devices...How to Make...How They Work, etc.

Starting with the "Backster Effect", I've been exploring some related books.

Not so much so far, but I'm not giving up.  Here's what I've done and found...

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(paranormal) - Backster Effect
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdish_Chandra_Bose - Read books by Bose....
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescograph - invented by Bose
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleve_Backster - Cleve Backster - Good and I've improved on the design - stay tuned -  http://voices.yahoo.com/did-know-plants-read-mind-10929661.html?cat=15
• http://books.google.com/books?id=CNJUAAAACAAJ&dq=the+secret+life+of+your+cells&hl=en&sa=X&ei=quVUT_PUNsipgweSpJDPDQ&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAA - Secret Life of Your Cells - Similar to Backster's work
• http://www.silvamentaldynamicscenter.com/store/books/secret-life-of-your-cells - Silva Method as mentioned in Secret Life of Your Cells - maybe helpful in the future as communication catalyst...no instrumentation though
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Saxton_Burr - Harold Saxton Burr, Blueprint for Immortality - Good...more to research here...
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Field - L-Field as described by Burr above...looking for instrumentation here....I'll let you know what I find....

That's about all I've got so far.  I'm only interested in tools to facilitate inter-species communication, e.g. human-plant, human-animal, human-alien, etc.  I'm especially interested in electronic or computer devices.  Please let me know if you know of anything...any leads...
 

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New Blog - Seeking Communication with Life Forms, Alive, Dead, or Whatever

Hello All – Have you ever thought there must be more to life than what we see and hear?  Do you ever wonder what pets are thinking?  Are you interested in what some call Fringe Science or Pseudo-Science?  

Well, this new blog focuses on ways to communicate with the world in and around us.  SETI searched for life outside our universe.  This blog is seeking enhanced communication with those life-forms around us that we "can't" talk to .  Who says we can't?

Topics might include Inter-Species Communication, Plant Talk, Talking to the Dead, Chatting with God or other Good Spirits.  Of course Alien discovery is also welcome here too.  Who knows what we as a people might find.  If Science isn't interested, that does not have to hold us back.  Onward!

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