| Electricity moves through all living things. A charged | | | | science. The information was given by some universal |
| atom is called an ion. Ions are created when two | | | | power but it was proven effective, and they |
| atoms form an ionic bond. An Ionic bond is when one | | | | understood why it was effective. This balance in |
| atom donates one or more electrons to another atom | | | | religion and science prevailed throughout the western |
| so that they both will be stable. This causes one atom | | | | world, as well, until the middle ages. Then the Christian |
| to be positively charge and the other to be negatively | | | | church began to label certain scientific explorations as |
| charged. The opposite charges attract each other and | | | | heretical. Alchemy was the primary science during the |
| hold the atoms together. This bond is easily broken in | | | | middle ages and it acknowledge a fundamental life |
| solvents such as water where they then become free | | | | force but it was prosecuted by the church because of |
| ions. In the human body ions move through all of the | | | | different beliefs about what gave rise to this life force, |
| tissue assisting in many physiological functions. They | | | | and what it was and who had power over it. |
| are often referred to as electrolytes. Any time there is | | | | This was the birth of mechanism and vitalism. |
| a surge of ions of the same charge in the same | | | | Mechanism is the belief that life is no different form |
| direction there is an electrical current and so an | | | | non-life and that the laws of physics and chemistry |
| electromagnetic field is created. | | | | could explain everything. Vitalism holds to that |
| As all living things have an electromagnetic field and | | | | everything can't be explained by science and that |
| electromagnetic fields extend infinitely, all living things | | | | there is a mysterious life force that separates life from |
| are connected in a very physical way. We are all | | | | non-life. This continued into the renaissance. Galileo |
| moving through each others fields. Because | | | | who considered priesthood before going to medical |
| electromagnetic fields affect all electrically charged | | | | school was excommunicated for denying that the sun |
| particles all of the fields we are in are affecting our | | | | moved around the earth as the Bible said. He was one |
| bodies and so our thoughts and emotions and | | | | of the founders of the scientific method used today. In |
| electromagnetic fields. The photons of carrying away | | | | modern times the absurd resistance to science by |
| the energy from someone else's brain activity come to | | | | religions is matched by an equally absurd and perhaps |
| your body and change the molecules of you. | | | | much more powerful resistance to spirituality in |
| The history of these discoveries is tedious and | | | | science. Fortunately some advancement in science, |
| frustrating. In ancient India and China, where energy | | | | such as quantum theories and string theories are |
| was first used as a healing modality it was considered | | | | bringing about a bridge between the two worlds. |