The U.S. edition of this book will be published in October.
“Astounding! Is energy healing truly possible? Can cancer be cured? Is there a miracle waiting to be born within each of us? The story of Dr. William Bengston's astonishing proof offers a resounding “yes” to all three questions. This assures us that to trust in the power within is not only desirable, but intelligent. The Energy Cure is the place where hope meets evidence.”
Cyndi Dale, author of Illuminating the Afterlife and The Subtle Body
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
CHASING THE CURE READING
The May 27, 2010 Toronto library reading of "Chasing the Cure" drew a near-capacity crowd and gained new fans for the work of Dr. William Bengston. Thanks to those who helped to set it up and who ventured out in the 34C (93F) heat!
Monday, May 24, 2010
BENGSTON ON YOUTUBE
TO SEE the speech Dr. William Bengston made on energy healing at the Society for Scientific Exploration 2009 convention check the site BELOW in which he indicates what he believes he has proven and the questions that still remain,
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bengston+william+bill+SSE&aq=f
FOR OTHER SSE 2009 SPEECHES on energy healing and other anomalous subjects check the site BELOW:
http://www.scientificexploration.org/talks/
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bengston+william+bill+SSE&aq=f
FOR OTHER SSE 2009 SPEECHES on energy healing and other anomalous subjects check the site BELOW:
http://www.scientificexploration.org/talks/
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
TORONTO STAR MAY 4. 2010
health
Author proves hands-on healing can cure many ailments
TORONTO STAR May 4, 2010
BARBARA TURNBULL
LIVING REPORTE
A friendship with a psychic when he was 21 has led PhD sociologist William Bengston on a 35-year exploration of energy healing.
In Chasing the Cure, published last month by Key Porter, Bengston recounts his journey — including clinical experiments on mice, which were injected with a lethal strain of mammary cancer and 90 per cent of them cured with hands-on healing. The 10 studies were conducted in four different labs in the U.S., and results published in peer-reviewed journals.
The Long Island, N.Y., resident has also treated people with cancer, including pancreatic, breast, bone and rectal, and helped many others with a wide variety of physical and psychological conditions. One person with gangrene was cured, while several diabetics were able to reduce their dependence on insulin.
Bengston, who considers himself more scientist than healer, is advocating for systematic studies to see what responds to the energy work and to what degree.
Co-author Sylvia Fraser took on the project without a publisher or guaranteed income, she was so convinced of the work’s importance. “Bill simply blew me away with his research and his proof,” says the Toronto resident.
This is an edited version of the Star’s interview with Bengston:
Q: How did you discover your talent as a hands-on healer?
A: I was working with Bennett Mayrick, watching him develop naturally into a healer, and I started to join him on the side. The two of us started to treat people together, then I went off on my own and did it by myself. I was really following his mentorship.
Q: Have you ever been cured by hands-on healing?
A: I was the first person he ever treated directly. He went from doing psychic readings (to) picking up physical symptoms on his own body and people were alleging those symptoms would leave their own body when he did that. I started connecting the dots. He put his hands on my back with an intention to help and my back has been pain-free ever since.
Q: That was something you had a problem with?
A: I used to have chronic back pain. I gave up a swimming scholarship because of it.
Q: How do you work with your hands?
A: I place my hands around the area that the person says they need help with and then I feel for a pull from the person’s body. The sensation I have is feeling a hot spot coming out of their body. I treat where the hot spot is. Their body guides me. It’s in response to need.
Q: Do you feel anything in your hands when you treat?
A: I often feel a sensation of something running through me. I sometimes feel my hand getting hot. There’s not a clear-cut pattern.
Q: You say you use a mental imaging technique. How does that work?
A: Very rapid imaging of things that are personal to me, specific images of things that I want without regard to why or how. This is not a technique of vague generalities, it’s a technique of very specific pictures that what (we) want is already achieved. This goes on as background while you’re doing hands-on.
Q: Can you summarize your scientific data?
A: In 10 separate experiments we had full lifespan cure of mice that normally have full death. So it’s not a question of whether the results are real. The next question is what do we do with the results?
Q: What diseases or ailments in people are you best at treating?
A: Malignant growths seem to respond very quickly. Benign growths don’t respond well. I think what’s happening is if you have a problem and the body recognizes it as a problem, this is when you tend to have a most quick response.
Q: You have trouble treating people with cancer after they’ve had chemo or radiation. Why is that?
A: Speculatively, I think the approach I have is contrary to the approach they have in conventional treatment. In conventional treatment the intent is made to kill a cell or kill a tumor and in my treatment the goal is to restore health.
Q: You say many who consider themselves skeptics are really believers?
A: I’m a skeptic, in that I don’t understand all of this and I’m following the data. People who have their minds made up are believers. Do you believe cancerous animals are cured using this technique? Well, they are cured. It’s not a belief question. The interpretation of it is more open-ended, but the fact that this occurs is pretty much nailed down. I am skeptical, that’s one of the reasons I did the thing 10 times. It was very difficult to accept this.
Q: So it’s not about positive attitude, belief or religion?
A: Oh, no. Every single time that I do an experiment I’m amazed at the results because I don’t begin as a believer. And the only people I’ve ever trained to repeat the experiment have been extremely skeptical people. Certainly, you don’t need to be a believer in the positive sense.
Q: Can anyone learn to be a healer?
A: Don’t know. My guess is that there’s a natural variation in the amount of talent out there, as there would be for anything else. But I suspect — and I’m speculating here — that anyone could be taken from the natural ability they have and be given a little bit more.
bturnbull@thestar.ca
Author proves hands-on healing can cure many ailments
TORONTO STAR May 4, 2010
BARBARA TURNBULL
LIVING REPORTE
A friendship with a psychic when he was 21 has led PhD sociologist William Bengston on a 35-year exploration of energy healing.
In Chasing the Cure, published last month by Key Porter, Bengston recounts his journey — including clinical experiments on mice, which were injected with a lethal strain of mammary cancer and 90 per cent of them cured with hands-on healing. The 10 studies were conducted in four different labs in the U.S., and results published in peer-reviewed journals.
The Long Island, N.Y., resident has also treated people with cancer, including pancreatic, breast, bone and rectal, and helped many others with a wide variety of physical and psychological conditions. One person with gangrene was cured, while several diabetics were able to reduce their dependence on insulin.
Bengston, who considers himself more scientist than healer, is advocating for systematic studies to see what responds to the energy work and to what degree.
Co-author Sylvia Fraser took on the project without a publisher or guaranteed income, she was so convinced of the work’s importance. “Bill simply blew me away with his research and his proof,” says the Toronto resident.
This is an edited version of the Star’s interview with Bengston:
Q: How did you discover your talent as a hands-on healer?
A: I was working with Bennett Mayrick, watching him develop naturally into a healer, and I started to join him on the side. The two of us started to treat people together, then I went off on my own and did it by myself. I was really following his mentorship.
Q: Have you ever been cured by hands-on healing?
A: I was the first person he ever treated directly. He went from doing psychic readings (to) picking up physical symptoms on his own body and people were alleging those symptoms would leave their own body when he did that. I started connecting the dots. He put his hands on my back with an intention to help and my back has been pain-free ever since.
Q: That was something you had a problem with?
A: I used to have chronic back pain. I gave up a swimming scholarship because of it.
Q: How do you work with your hands?
A: I place my hands around the area that the person says they need help with and then I feel for a pull from the person’s body. The sensation I have is feeling a hot spot coming out of their body. I treat where the hot spot is. Their body guides me. It’s in response to need.
Q: Do you feel anything in your hands when you treat?
A: I often feel a sensation of something running through me. I sometimes feel my hand getting hot. There’s not a clear-cut pattern.
Q: You say you use a mental imaging technique. How does that work?
A: Very rapid imaging of things that are personal to me, specific images of things that I want without regard to why or how. This is not a technique of vague generalities, it’s a technique of very specific pictures that what (we) want is already achieved. This goes on as background while you’re doing hands-on.
Q: Can you summarize your scientific data?
A: In 10 separate experiments we had full lifespan cure of mice that normally have full death. So it’s not a question of whether the results are real. The next question is what do we do with the results?
Q: What diseases or ailments in people are you best at treating?
A: Malignant growths seem to respond very quickly. Benign growths don’t respond well. I think what’s happening is if you have a problem and the body recognizes it as a problem, this is when you tend to have a most quick response.
Q: You have trouble treating people with cancer after they’ve had chemo or radiation. Why is that?
A: Speculatively, I think the approach I have is contrary to the approach they have in conventional treatment. In conventional treatment the intent is made to kill a cell or kill a tumor and in my treatment the goal is to restore health.
Q: You say many who consider themselves skeptics are really believers?
A: I’m a skeptic, in that I don’t understand all of this and I’m following the data. People who have their minds made up are believers. Do you believe cancerous animals are cured using this technique? Well, they are cured. It’s not a belief question. The interpretation of it is more open-ended, but the fact that this occurs is pretty much nailed down. I am skeptical, that’s one of the reasons I did the thing 10 times. It was very difficult to accept this.
Q: So it’s not about positive attitude, belief or religion?
A: Oh, no. Every single time that I do an experiment I’m amazed at the results because I don’t begin as a believer. And the only people I’ve ever trained to repeat the experiment have been extremely skeptical people. Certainly, you don’t need to be a believer in the positive sense.
Q: Can anyone learn to be a healer?
A: Don’t know. My guess is that there’s a natural variation in the amount of talent out there, as there would be for anything else. But I suspect — and I’m speculating here — that anyone could be taken from the natural ability they have and be given a little bit more.
bturnbull@thestar.ca
Sunday, May 2, 2010
DR.BERNIE SIEGEL ENDORSEMENT
Dr. William Bengston recently received another terrific endorsement for his healing work. I remember encountering Dr. Siegel's books in the late 80s and being extremely impressed by his courage in bucking the medical establishment, to which he certainly belonged, by recognizing the power of the mind to heal the body.
"In both my professional and personal lives, I have witnessed what Dr. William Bengston shares about energy medicine, and so I can accept and believe what he presents in The Energy Cure. Human beings have enormous healing potential built into them, and they, like all forms of life, can survive a great variety of illnesses—without traditional medical intervention."
Bernie Siegel, MD author of Faith, Hope & Healing and Help Me to Heal
"In both my professional and personal lives, I have witnessed what Dr. William Bengston shares about energy medicine, and so I can accept and believe what he presents in The Energy Cure. Human beings have enormous healing potential built into them, and they, like all forms of life, can survive a great variety of illnesses—without traditional medical intervention."
Bernie Siegel, MD author of Faith, Hope & Healing and Help Me to Heal
Thursday, February 11, 2010
"CHASING THE CURE: An Effective Alternative for Treating Cancer and Other Diseases" by William Bengston PhD with Sylvia Fraser
TO BE PUBLISHED: March 13, 2010 by Key Porter Books in Canada and by Sounds True in the US in the fall of 2010
“Very infrequently, a scientist comes along whose work leads to a quantum change in the quality and significance of research in some field. Such a scientist is William Bengston who is responsible for such a change in the recondite field of anomalous healing. His results are so extraordinary as to eclipse all previous work in that field. Bengston would be a prime candidate for a Nobel Prize in Alternative Medicine, if such an award existed” - nuclear physicist Peter Sturrock, emeritus professor of applied physics at Stanford University
"Great advances in science and medicine often occur at the edge of knowledge, where things don't fit in. Often the misfits are dismissed by conventional thinkers without a hearing. Where William Bengston's work is concerned, this would be a profound mistake, because many precise scientific studies now confirm that healers and healing are real. Somewhere along the line, physicians forgot how to heal, and ‘healing’ became an embarrassment. Bengston is a harbinger of a marvelous trend: the return of healing to medicine" - Larry Dossey, internist and author
******
Over the past 35 years, WILLIAM BENGSTON PhD has cured a wide variety of cancers, along with other life-threatening diseases, using an original hands-on technique which is noninvasive and produces no side-effects. Many of his cures have been supported with blood tests, X-rays and CT scans. To his knowledge, no person he’s cured of cancer has ever experienced a reoccurrence.
Frustrated by having his cures dismissed as “too good to be true,”.Bengston turned to the laboratory to validate his method. In his first experiment, conducted by skeptical biologists at Queens College, City University of New York, mice were injected with mammary cancer guaranteed to produce 100 per cent fatality within 27 days. Through hands-on healing, 100 per cent of the mice survived to live a normal two-year lifespan! This experiment, with minor variations, was successfully replicated nine more times at five biological and medical laboratories. Just as astonishing, re-injected mice did not get cancer, suggesting they’d developed an immunity, sparking hopes for the discovery of a cancer vaccine.
Bengston’s science-based method has nothing to do with faith-healing. Tests with fMRIs and EEGs prove that when he begins to heal, the brainwaves and hearts of human patients in different rooms synchronize with his. He has published his cancer research in prestigious peer-reviewed publications in the alternative medical field and was enthusiastically interviewed by New York cardiologist Dr. Mehmet Oz on Oprah & Friends. Dr. Oz considers energy healing to be thecutting edge of medicine of the future.
Eastern healing practices, such as acupuncture, are based on the belief that an invisible energy field pervades the human body. Today millions of people are turning to alternative healing because of disenchantment with Western drug and techno-based medicine. Bengston is not a medical doctor. He is a tenured sociologist at St. Joseph’s College in New York. This is typical of energy healers since medical doctors in many jurisdictions could lose their license for practising alternative medicine.
The story of how Bengston discovered, and proved, his healing talent against a mountain of prejudice is a fascinating one. In taking this journey with him, you will meet his eccentric mentor, Ben, along with patients like 4-year-old Ryan, diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a nasty cancer usually leading to removal of one or both eyes, followed by brain tumours and death.
******
"Bill Bengston is a ...criminologist, sociologist, statistician, college professor, cancer researcher, energy healer. An expert in all these fields! I have been in Bill's orbit observing him engage others in rich dialogue. The consistent effect of his thesis of life challenges even brilliant minds to rethink their foundational assumptions. Bill's mesmerizing memoir reads like a novel."
- Francesca McCartney, PhD Founder & President, Energy Medicine University and Author of "Body of Health: The New Science of Intuition Medicine."
*****
“I believe that energy healing’s time will come in the next ten years and that William Bengston’s work will be seen as a milestone in that process. We’re already experiencing a meltdown of faith in materialistic systems, and that includes the grip of the profit-driven pharmaceutical industry on medical practice” - Dr. Edward Mann, Canadian sociolgist and energy healing historian
***
“Professor William Bengston is shaking the foundations of medical research. What is at stake is the entire clinical trial process. In carefully carried out experiments Professor Bengston showed dramatic healing of cancer tumors in mice using energy medicine. By tracing the path of healing intention he has found that it follows surprising turns and is not easy to control. The simple model of a controlled study does not work in medicine. Bengston’s story is one of breakthrough discoveries and a fascinating tale that is not yet complete.” - Garret Moddel, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering, University of Colorado.
****
"Bill Bengston has all the creds and talent to make it big-time in main-stream academia, but he also has the guts to stick to what he sees and knows, and tell us about it, even if it is way out of the box. Here we have his very exciting adventures in healing with decidedly anomalous results. It is to Bill's great credit that he tells it like it is and sustains the contact with this mind-bending material so that it is neither distorted, ignored, or blown out of proportion. Really excellent work!" - Richard A. Blasband, M.D., formerly on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Yale Medical School.
****
"Bengston's research on the healing of cancer in mice is an eye-opener, both for its direct implications and for what it says about the difficulty of gaining acceptance for unconventional results no matter how well documented. His methodology is clear, his results are unambiguous, and several experiments strongly suggest that his healing technique is teachable. Whether you're a healer, a doctor, a biologist, or simply an interested citizen, you owe it to yourself to find out what Bill has been learning over the last two decades." - York Dobyns - Princeton physicist
TO BE PUBLISHED: March 13, 2010 by Key Porter Books in Canada and by Sounds True in the US in the fall of 2010
“Very infrequently, a scientist comes along whose work leads to a quantum change in the quality and significance of research in some field. Such a scientist is William Bengston who is responsible for such a change in the recondite field of anomalous healing. His results are so extraordinary as to eclipse all previous work in that field. Bengston would be a prime candidate for a Nobel Prize in Alternative Medicine, if such an award existed” - nuclear physicist Peter Sturrock, emeritus professor of applied physics at Stanford University
"Great advances in science and medicine often occur at the edge of knowledge, where things don't fit in. Often the misfits are dismissed by conventional thinkers without a hearing. Where William Bengston's work is concerned, this would be a profound mistake, because many precise scientific studies now confirm that healers and healing are real. Somewhere along the line, physicians forgot how to heal, and ‘healing’ became an embarrassment. Bengston is a harbinger of a marvelous trend: the return of healing to medicine" - Larry Dossey, internist and author
******
Over the past 35 years, WILLIAM BENGSTON PhD has cured a wide variety of cancers, along with other life-threatening diseases, using an original hands-on technique which is noninvasive and produces no side-effects. Many of his cures have been supported with blood tests, X-rays and CT scans. To his knowledge, no person he’s cured of cancer has ever experienced a reoccurrence.
Frustrated by having his cures dismissed as “too good to be true,”.Bengston turned to the laboratory to validate his method. In his first experiment, conducted by skeptical biologists at Queens College, City University of New York, mice were injected with mammary cancer guaranteed to produce 100 per cent fatality within 27 days. Through hands-on healing, 100 per cent of the mice survived to live a normal two-year lifespan! This experiment, with minor variations, was successfully replicated nine more times at five biological and medical laboratories. Just as astonishing, re-injected mice did not get cancer, suggesting they’d developed an immunity, sparking hopes for the discovery of a cancer vaccine.
Bengston’s science-based method has nothing to do with faith-healing. Tests with fMRIs and EEGs prove that when he begins to heal, the brainwaves and hearts of human patients in different rooms synchronize with his. He has published his cancer research in prestigious peer-reviewed publications in the alternative medical field and was enthusiastically interviewed by New York cardiologist Dr. Mehmet Oz on Oprah & Friends. Dr. Oz considers energy healing to be thecutting edge of medicine of the future.
Eastern healing practices, such as acupuncture, are based on the belief that an invisible energy field pervades the human body. Today millions of people are turning to alternative healing because of disenchantment with Western drug and techno-based medicine. Bengston is not a medical doctor. He is a tenured sociologist at St. Joseph’s College in New York. This is typical of energy healers since medical doctors in many jurisdictions could lose their license for practising alternative medicine.
The story of how Bengston discovered, and proved, his healing talent against a mountain of prejudice is a fascinating one. In taking this journey with him, you will meet his eccentric mentor, Ben, along with patients like 4-year-old Ryan, diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a nasty cancer usually leading to removal of one or both eyes, followed by brain tumours and death.
******
"Bill Bengston is a ...criminologist, sociologist, statistician, college professor, cancer researcher, energy healer. An expert in all these fields! I have been in Bill's orbit observing him engage others in rich dialogue. The consistent effect of his thesis of life challenges even brilliant minds to rethink their foundational assumptions. Bill's mesmerizing memoir reads like a novel."
- Francesca McCartney, PhD Founder & President, Energy Medicine University and Author of "Body of Health: The New Science of Intuition Medicine."
*****
“I believe that energy healing’s time will come in the next ten years and that William Bengston’s work will be seen as a milestone in that process. We’re already experiencing a meltdown of faith in materialistic systems, and that includes the grip of the profit-driven pharmaceutical industry on medical practice” - Dr. Edward Mann, Canadian sociolgist and energy healing historian
***
“Professor William Bengston is shaking the foundations of medical research. What is at stake is the entire clinical trial process. In carefully carried out experiments Professor Bengston showed dramatic healing of cancer tumors in mice using energy medicine. By tracing the path of healing intention he has found that it follows surprising turns and is not easy to control. The simple model of a controlled study does not work in medicine. Bengston’s story is one of breakthrough discoveries and a fascinating tale that is not yet complete.” - Garret Moddel, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering, University of Colorado.
****
"Bill Bengston has all the creds and talent to make it big-time in main-stream academia, but he also has the guts to stick to what he sees and knows, and tell us about it, even if it is way out of the box. Here we have his very exciting adventures in healing with decidedly anomalous results. It is to Bill's great credit that he tells it like it is and sustains the contact with this mind-bending material so that it is neither distorted, ignored, or blown out of proportion. Really excellent work!" - Richard A. Blasband, M.D., formerly on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Yale Medical School.
****
"Bengston's research on the healing of cancer in mice is an eye-opener, both for its direct implications and for what it says about the difficulty of gaining acceptance for unconventional results no matter how well documented. His methodology is clear, his results are unambiguous, and several experiments strongly suggest that his healing technique is teachable. Whether you're a healer, a doctor, a biologist, or simply an interested citizen, you owe it to yourself to find out what Bill has been learning over the last two decades." - York Dobyns - Princeton physicist
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