Date: Fall 2000

Source: Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 14, No. 3

Summary: A groundbreaking research study published under the title 'The Effect of the “Laying on of Hands” on Transplanted Breast Cancer in Mice' observed the effects of an energy healing technique first referred to as "laying on of hands", and later renamed "Image Cycling", and its effects on healing in mice. The experiments were done at laboratory facilities at St. Joseph’s College and Queens College in NY.  Mice injected with mammary adenocarcinoma were observed, which had a 100% fatality-rate between 14 and 27 days of innoculation. The mice were treated with an energy healing technique for 1 hour per day for 1 month and compared to a control group receiving no treatment. The volunteers hands were placed on the outside of the cages of the treated mice, and not even directly on the mice to produce the observed effects. 

The results: cancerous tumors on the experimental group developed a “blackened area,” then ulcerated, imploded, closed, healed, and the mice lived their normal life spans. Control mice sent to another city died within the predicted time frame. Three replications using skeptical volunteers produced statistically similar results, with an overall cure rate of 87.9% in 33 experimental mice. 

Distance healing experiments were also performed in cities around the world with similar results.  Although healing was taking place, post histological studies indicated viable cancer cells were still present through all stages of remission. Re-injections of cancer into the mice in remission did not take, suggesting a stimulated immunological response to the treatment.

Conclusions of the study revealed the following: "Belief" in energy healing or the healing technique is not necessary in order to produce the effect; there is a reproducible and predictable stimulated immune response to treatment; and the mice retain an immunity to the same cancer after remission. Future work is necessary to test various diseases and immunological studies of treatment effects.

Laying of the hands is powerful in its effects on healing. The volunteers in the study were skeptical and didn’t believe in the healing strategy and yet it still worked.  The experimental mice weren’t informed and didn’t understand what was happening and miraculously they healed, while the untreated control group of mice all died within the predicted time frame.  What’s amazing is how this interaction between the volunteers in the study and the mice produced clear immunological responses, with full cancer remission and retained immunity for 29 out of 33 mice tested.

This healing technique has been researched and taught to thousands of practitioners over the past 20+ years with phenomenal results.

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