Preface

by Richard Gerber, M.D.
Vibrational medicine or energy medicine may be considered to be the use of energy, in various waveforms or frequencies, to either diagnose or treat illness. Energy medicine is an innovative approach that is only gradually finding acceptance by doctors and health care professionals as we enter the end of the 20th century.

Albert Einstein and his famous equation E=mc2, helped scientists to begin to understand the ramifications of an energy and matter unity at the beginning of the 20th century. It is only now that we are beginning to integrate the physicists' understanding of the energy/matter relationship into the way we view biology and medicine. In a way, Vibrational Medicine is Einsteinian Medicine because it builds upon the principles of the human body (matter) as a kind of structured energy field. This was one of the conclusions to come out of the discoveries of Einsteinian and Quantum physics.

The conventional aspects of Vibrational medicine encompass forms of healing with electromagnetic fields including electricity to suppress pain (via TENS devices), pulsed electromagnetic fields to accelerate the healing of broken bones (bone stimulators), sound waves to destroy kidney stones and cataracts (shock wave lithotripsy and ultrasonic phacoemulsification) and full spectrum light to treat depression (SAD/Seasonal Affective Disorder). These energy healing modalities are used in hospitals throughout the world. Yet the doctors who utilize them do not associate such healing via energy devices with the concept of Vibrational Medicine.

The less conventional or alternative side of Vibrational Medicine incorporates modalities that employ the use of what has come to be known as subtle energy. It is possible that the frequencies of energy in this spectrum fall outside of what we normally consider energy when describing the electromagnetic spectrum. In fact, this type of energy may be what has been called vital energy or life force. The existence of vital energy may have actually been predicted by Einstein's relativistic equations. Like electro-magnetic energy, subtle energy has different forms and frequencies but it also has very unique laws and principles that distinguish it from the known forms of electromagnetic fields. It is magnetic in nature, negatively entropic in character (creates increased order and organization), and is exceedingly difficult to measure directly. However, subtle energy can be indirectly measured and its existence can be documented by the effects that subtle energy has upon living and nonliving systems. The forms of Vibrational Medicine that utilize or affect the flow of this subtle energy in living systems include acupuncture, homeopathy, flower essences, and Therapeutic Touch (laying-on-of-hands healing).

Conventional electromagnetic healing approaches often tend to directly affect cell membranes in the body by altering the flow of different types of ions (electrically charged particles) in and out of cells and by affecting the electrical charge (or membrane potential) and the physiological functioning of cells. Slightly different frequencies of electromagnetic energy will promote very different cellular effects. The body possesses amplification systems which magnify the tiny chemical and energetic signals normally (or unknowingly) entering the body so that small energy/chemical inputs can sometimes cause major physiological changes.

However, when dealing with subtle energy healing approaches, the energy input signals may cause changes by completely different mechanisms. For instance, acupuncture, the placing of fine needles into specialized skin regions of the body (known as acupoints) may work, in part, by rerouting circuits of life energy flow within the body (sending energy to deficient areas and removing energy from overly-charged areas). Seen from this perspective, the acupoints and meridians (lines of life energy flow) of the body can be viewed as components of a large integrated circuit, with acupoints being tiny amplifiers of signals. The acupuncture meridian system is but one of the body's many energy regulatory systems that actually oversee and control the known chemical and cellular processes that contribute to bodily health or illness.

Acupuncture and other subtle energy systems of healing can also provide structured information to the body. When acupuncture is used to heal illness, the final configuration of needles inserted into acupoints throughout the body may actually trigger a healing response in the body. Stimulation via acupuncture may also allow the body to respond (at certain energetic levels of information processing) in a more health promoting fashion.

Another subtle energetic form of healing is homeopathy. In homeopathy, solutions of dissolved herbal, mineral and other substances are prepared in the form of very weak dilutions. These very weak dilutions are ingested and appear to have powerful therapeutic effects if the correct remedy is selected for the particular patient's ailment. Unlike conventional or allopathic medicines that can produce either intended or negative side effects in the body in a direct dose-dependent fashion, homeopathic medicines will only work if curatives are selected to match the patient's exact illness/symptom complex. Scientists are just beginning to understand why homeopathic dilutions heal in this way, but the best explanation of the homeopathic effect may have to do with a phenomenon known as resonance.

Everything has its own resonant frequency. If one supplies energy in the resonant frequency of a particular system, there is maximal absorption of that energy. That energy transfer can be destructive as in the case of the singer who shatters the wine glass by loudly singing the resonant note of the glass, or it can be constructive as in the case of homeopathy. It appears that homeopathic remedies may provide a frequency-specific subtle energetic signal that is stored in water which is used to prepare homeopathic dilutions. Each homeopathic remedy contains the vibrational signature of the plant or other substance that was used to prepare the remedy. The energetic signal of each remedy may do one of two things. The signals may provide a resonant energy that supplies the catalyst or activating energy to push the body into resolving the illness on its own. In addition, the energetic cue may transmit a type of structured information to the body (in an energetic form) which assists the body in processing and discharging the toxicity of the illness. In a sense, the information contained within a homeopathic remedy may be viewed as an energetic pattern utilized by the body in restructuring itself at a molecular level while the body moves toward a level of greater inner order and organization. Most illnesses lead the body toward states of increasing cellular disorder.

Therefore, moving the body toward states of increased (physiological) order would naturally be associated with greater health and cellular harmony.

The information the body needs for healing can exist in a variety of forms. It appears that healing instructions may actually be coded in particular geometric patterns which the body utilizes at a subtle energetic level in order to create cellular (and molecular) order. There is evidence to suggest that water has the capacity to store various subtle energetic forms and vibrational/ energetic signatures. Water may have a tremendous capacitance in this respect. It has been shown that water in a sealed glass jar can store energy from a healer's hands. The charged water can then be used to promote plant growth. Conversely, water held by psychotically depressed patients has been shown to retard plant growth.
(Gerber, R. Vibrational Medicine: New Choices For Healing Ourselves, Bear & Company, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1988, (1-800-932-3277).)
The energetic storage properties of water may also be involved in grabbing onto and holding the energetic signature of plants which are used for making homeopathic remedies. Recent theoretical models in physics even suggest that water may achieve permanent electrical polarization when incorporated into certain alternative healing modalities.
(Del Guidice, E., Preparata G., & Vitello, G. Water as free electric dipole laser., Phys. Rev. Lett., 61:1085-1088).

It seems that energetic patterns stored in water are transferred to the body when a homeopathic remedy is taken internally. There are numerous European studies validating the effectiveness of homeopathy in treating ailments. Homeopathy is particularly well suited to acute disorders, and there are many versions of homeopathic first aid kits that contain remedies that may be helpful with a variety of symptoms and health problems.

This brings us to Don Gerrard's book, The Paper Doctor. Within the pages of this book are the geometric energy patterns that are associated with many homeopathic first aid remedies as well as with a variety of other vibrational remedies. The concept presented here is unique among books and treatises on vibrational healing approaches. The geometric energy patterns on each page are a symbolic representation of the actual subtle energy contained in specific alternative healing remedies. The fact that symbolic representations can sometimes be as effective as the actual vibrational remedy is an unusual concept to most linear, logical thinkers. In order to give a better idea of how this healing approach can be conceptualized, I suggest an interesting computer analogy.

I am writing this preface on an Apple Macintosh computer. Several years ago, a company called Cauzin Systems came out with an interesting device called The Softstrip System that allowed someone to store computer programs on paper.

The system consists of two parts. The first part is special software that translates computer code into a graphical black and white pattern that is printed on paper. The patterns that are printed on ordinary computer paper are complex geometric grid patterns (sort of like thousands of adjacent micro-crossword puzzles) encoded as individual, one inch stripes of data. The patterns printed onto paper could then be read into any Macintosh computer equipped with a device called a Softstrip Reader. Light from the Softstrip Reader is reflected back from the tiny black and white strip-like patterns and is translated by the computer (using special software) back into the binary language of computer programs. (At a more simplistic level, this is the same technology which is now used by the bar-code readers in many supermarket check out lines.) Thus, data is changed from something that first existed as magnetic memory information in the computer to paper black and white symbols and then is changed back into magnetic information again on a floppy disc or hard drive. The information stored in a Softstrip can be anything from a word processing document to an entire software program that lets the computer do something special.

The interesting thing about the Softstrip System is that Xerox copies of the black and white geometric strip patterns are just as effective as the originals in transmitting the information to computer users. For a short period of time, one (now defunct) computer magazine included Softstrips on a central page that gave free computer programs to any reader who had the Softstrip system. The fact that copies of symbolic representations of computer programs are just as effective in running computers (equipped with Softstrip) as the original programs brings us back to Don Gerrard's concept of publishing geometric symbolic patterns of remedies in book form.

The patterns in this book are graphic representations of energy field patterns of vibrational remedies. They represent a symbolic form of bioinformation that is integrated by the body at a subtle energetic level first and at the cellular level secondarily. The vibrational storage potential of water is utilized by imprinting the geometric pattern of the remedies onto water using a magnetic source that is included with each book. Each created remedy is the magnetic subtle energy equivalent of a sunprint using sunlight, a natural energy source, to imprint photographic paper with the outline and shape of a leaf. The bioinformation exists as coded vibrational patterns in the water that are transferred from the geometric patterns on paper Just as the Softstrips are coded vibrational patterns on paper). The subtle energy system of the human body possesses a transducing system that is capable of transforming symbolic bioinformational messages into computer programs that run on the human computer. The body possesses the bioenergetic equivalent of a Softstrip reader which can be plugged into any Macintosh computer to read Softstrip encoded programs.

It is no surprise that messages and information encoded in one form are translated into other forms by the body. When a human finger touches a hard surface, pressure receptors in the finger translate mechanical deformation of the specialized receptor into changes in cellular membrane potentials (electrical charge). This electrical charge causes nerves to fire. The firing of one nerve causes the message to be changed into a chemical neurotransmitter released into a synaptic gap which is then retranslated by another nerve cell to transmit the message to the brain. The rapidity of the nerve firing determines whether the person interprets the pressure against the finger as hard or soft. The point is that a message changes forms many times from the time of input to the time of translation of meaning and integration by the system. What is truly amazing is that symbolically encoded information can be therapeutically healing to the human body!

The concept of using paper geometric patterns (along with weak magnetic fields) to encode water with therapeutic properties is nothing short of revolutionary. Many will find this a difficult concept to believe. Don Gerrard suggests some interesting experiments for the reader/user to try as personal validation of this healing theory.

As in homeopathy, there must be proper matching of the remedy with the patent's symptoms for a resonant transfer of energy and a therapeutic effect to occur. Those who try the remedies just to see their effect will find none if they are without symptoms. However, if instructions are followed, the chances for healing benefits are great. Perhaps Don Gerrard's unique concept will eventually provide further validation of homeopathic first aid and give support to the idea that energy can be stored and transmitted through the use of geometric patterns. Here is an entire vibrational science waiting to be fully researched and validated. The principles demonstrated by the remedies in this book, and by the original homeopathic (and other vibrational) tinctures still await validation in the larger context of orthodox medical science. When we have adequately done this research, through the creation of an international healing research center, we will have successfully birthed 21st century medicine into being. The labor pains of this growing subtle energy science will be heard loudly during the next decade. Although the Paper Doctor is not intended to replace appropriate medical care, it attempts to create a unique Vibrational First-Aid Kit that will find increasing importance in the years to come.

Richard Gerber, M.D. Author of Vibrational Medicine: New Choices For Healing Ourselves November 29, 1990

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