Energy Medicine and Energy Fields

Is Acupuncture "energy medicine"?

"Energy medicine" pertains to a method of treatment designed to address all of the components and complexities of a complete human being. In contrast to "trauma medicine," which is focused on the alleviation of symptoms due to trauma, energy medicine focuses on the restoration of the natural balances which predate and inform the body in all of its manifestations. The two approaches work, to the extent that each works, based upon fundamental and conceptual differences in the very definitions of "human being" and "trauma;" that is, differences not only in the definition of the object upon which a medical approach is to be applied, but also definitional differences which determine the applicability of the particular approach. In other words, the two approaches could not be more different. These differences give each of them differing strengths and weaknesses. From everything I have observed and learned of the two approaches, the practice of acupuncture aligns with the very definition of energy medicine: providing a means to balance the energetic fields of the body, consequently supporting the body's own bias to restore and maintain health.

Do we need Kirlian photography to prove the aura exists?

Kirlian photography is a photographic process that captures the auras of persons or objects within the photograph. It was itself developed in order to photograph these multicolored, glowing emanations known as auras. Therefore, we do not need Kirlian photography to prove the aura exists, since the desire alone to develop this process would ipso facto prove the aura exists, since otherwise there would have been no desire to develop a method to capture and record it. (Is this reasoning too "West"?)

What evidence can you find for the Biofield and Morphogenic Fields?

Four things come immediately to mind: The fact that the Western sciences fail in their self imposed roles of "explaining it all;" the life I knew of my Grandmother (see below, Synchronicity); my own experiences with acupuncture and massage; and looking into the eyes of a human being.