I'm not sure if you should try this... It might be one of those cases like on children's TV where they say, "Please do not try this at home!"

A psychic friend phoned, excited. "Allan, you know I let clients ask three questions?"

"Yes."

"And I try to channel the answer?"

"Mmmm."

"Well, a few months ago, a man asked how to cure his baldness. Guess what?"

"Your answer cured him?"

"Yes! But guess what the cure was!"

Oh dear, boring. Psychics always think you know what they're about to say. "Tell me," I said. 

"I told him to mix green tea with diet cola, and rub it on his head 3 times a day! Guess what happened?"

"His hair's regrown?"

"Yes! He can't thank me enough. We're excited."

Of course, I thought after she put the phone down, placebo, could make his mind heal unconsciously. She'd need to cure many more bald men to claim that green tea and diet cola is a miracle compound. 

But then my thoughts turned to other "miracle" or "placebo" cases of people being cured by psychic advice. 

The classic for me is Edgar Cayce, a brilliant psychic from the 1930s, who gave 14,000 readings. About 10 years ago, I visited his memorial centre, the Association for Research and Enlightenment. His 14,000 readings are cross-referenced. You can visit and check how to help your health. 

By the end of his life, Cayce was a celebrity. He felt his most important work was healing the sick.

One reading I saw said not to take tea or coffee with milk - it causes negative chemical reactions in the stomach. I was astonished seeing that, because I'd also channelled that many years previously, so never have milk in tea or coffee. 

But the most astonishing thing is, that a few years ago, scientists published evidence saying the same thing - if you add milk to tea or coffee, there's a negative reaction in the stomach!

At last, science catches up with psychics!

If you have an illness that doctors say is incurable, don't give up. One option is to check Edgar Cayce's database for suggestions.

You never know, you might be lucky. You might be cured, and scientists may catch up later! :-)    

As I turned on the car radio yesterday, a scientist introduced herself. 
"... and my current job is to count all the bubbles in the oceans of the world."

Wow. I love creative jobs. Even though many seem frivolous or wasteful, chosen just for fun.

The best job I ever heard of was the sister of a friend in Norway, Frank. We co-authored a book, Usui's teacher. 
(If you like Reiki, it's a powerful 1904 book, written by the tutor of Dr Usui. It teaches how to use different energies for specific illnesses, how to develop psychic ability, and how to reach enlightenment. Click here for new website.)

Anyway, when I met Frank's sister, she was just catching a plane to Australia to start her PhD. 
"What's your PhD on," I asked. 

She grinned. "How people greet each other when they meet. I'll visit lots of bars, shops and clubs, and see how people say "Hello." I'll start saying hello to people in Australia, and slowly travel around the world, saying hello in as many countries as possible!"

"That's not a PhD," I said. "That's a fun holiday."

"Ah yes," she laughed. " But it's a branch of science - human sociology. I'm just extending the boundaries of sociology."

It was the same with the scientist on the radio.  Others on the panel laughed incredulously that she spent her time travelling the world's oceans to count bubbles. 

"I'm just extending the boundaries of my science," she laughed. "There are two types of job. One is where you're stuck in a rut, with no progression. It's a dead end. It leads nowhere except, as there's little else to explore, it'll lead to you having a closed mind. 

"The other type of job is where you explore, be creative, try to understand more about the world, push boundaries. I prefer to explore, to understand more than is already known."

Her comments set me thinking about this blog, and understand a little more why I often call it a "weird" blog.. 

Healing, psychic intuition, and angelic or spiritual enlightenment overlap. Learning one subject often automatically leads to  exploring one or both of the others. 

For healers, psychic, and spiritual seekers, it's simply either 
1. exploring one of those three fields in deeper and deeper ways or
2. exploring all three of the fields in wider and wider ways.

Eventually, we're no different to the extremes of creative, boundary breaking science. Like shaking hands and counting bubbles, we push boundaries to understand more about helping ourselves or others on Earth. 

The only difference between boundary pushing scientists, and healers, psychics and angelic or spiritual beings is - the latter three push boundaries in the University of Life. 

"Love" is the most difficult word to understand. Because in most languages you "love" your lover, parents or children, "love" your neighbour or colleague, "love" your job or hobby, "love" your home or holiday, "love" chocolate or God. You can "love" anything under the sun - including the sun!

But there's a problem...   

Different "loves" usually have different feelings! You feel different loves for your lover, mother, chocolate or God. Yet you say you "love" them all.

Recently an attractive stranger approached me in the street. "I love you!" she said.

Taken aback, I said, "That's a bit quick. I don't know you yet! Why do you love me?"

"Because I often see you smiling. I love that."   

"I'm glad you love me for being naturally happy," I smiled. "So you didn't mean you actually love me, like a partner?"

It was her turn to feel taken aback. "No, not at all. I just love the way you always smile. Aren't you ever unhappy?"

"I'm human, so get unhappy too. But there's too many positives. I love everything and everyone, everywhere. Even though sometimes," I added, "people I love act unlovingly towards me."

"I agree," she said. "Love is a difficult word. I love your smiles, you love everyone, and so do I. But so many people I love are bad to me. They never tell me why. So I just love them anyway, from a distance."

"So some people don't understand your love either?" I asked.

"No. Maybe love is a negative word. If you tell an abused person you love them, they can't accept your love because they relate it to abuse."

"So true," I agreed. "Many of my patients were abused and can't understand love." 

"Three of my family were abused," she said. "They can't understand my love either. They think my love is negative."

As if reading my mind, she smiled. "It's our angelic burden. "We can never adequately explain different types of love for different types of people. We just share love. And pray one day, people in our lives understand."

We walked off in different directions, not smiling as much. It was our serious thoughts for the day. How can we show people we love them, when they reject the type of love we offered? Why can't they see our beautiful motives of love?

Maybe as in Sanscrit, languages could use different words for the love of a parent, child, chocolate etc. 

Then the word "love" could not be construed as negative. Love could mean one specific, positive thing. 

Such as LOve is the highest, most perfect, ideal, unconditional LOve of God and the angels. 

"Why don't you go ghost hunting," my friend said. "A new ghost-hunting organisation are seeking new members." 

Why on Earth, or off-Earth, would I want to do that, I thought.I don't need to hunt them, they hunt me. 

"I deal with 1,000s of possessions, hauntings, and lost souls," I replied. "Why would I need to hunt?"

"Because the "Ghosthunters of Seaford Town" want to prove they exist - scientifically!"

Ah, that's different. "The problem is," I said, "already online you can read countless witness testimonies of ghosts, hear many voice recordings of spirits, see a myriad photos of spectres, and watch countless videos of apparitions. Highly significant evidence already proves they exist. We don't need more evidence. People just have to believe existing evidence."

She wouldn't listen. One of those cases of, "It doesn't matter how many people see a ghost, even all my friends. Until I see one, I won't believe it!" 

I tried to explain the evidence again, but she was adamant not to believe. "Never. I'll never believe anyone. Not unless I see a ghost myself.."

"And how do you hope to do that?"

"I might join them and be a ghost hunter too."

Later, I searched their website. They seem a refreshingly professional bunch with clear scientific objectives. 

I'll mention a few bits from the Ghost Hunters website. Who knows, you may want to join? :-)

Intelligent Haunt: When the spirit of a person who has passed on remains in a property. Investigators may have “conversations” with intelligent spirits by using various pieces of equipment. 

Residual Haunt: When the essence of a person has been caught in a room/property/object. It is like a tape recorder playing on a loop and will happen if anyone is there or not.

Fear Cage: A confined area in a location that is surrounded by and filled with a high electro-magnetic field. 

Cold Spots: A spirit needs to draw energy from the air, consequently making the air surrounding it colder.

EVP: (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) A disembodied voice not heard at the time by the human ear imprints onto an audio recording device.

EMF Detector: Looks for fluctuations in the electromagnetic field. It is very rare to get a concentrated spike in one location and not track it to a natural source. The investigator might ask the spirit to pass by or stand beside the K2 metre and make the lights go from green to red to indicate a ‘yes’  response to a question.

Franks Box/Ghost Box, White Noise Generator: Continually scans radio frequencies and generates continuous white noise. Entities will have something to draw from to make a sound or a voice. Conversations have been held by asking questions of the spirits and gaining responses through the white noise.

Perhaps this new ghost-hunting organisation is good for people like my disbelieving friend. It won't take long with modern instruments, readings, photos and videos to prove ghosts exist. 

And she won't even have to see one to believe in them... :-)

Searching for a quiet coffee bar to sit and type, I met the less than quiet John Lawson. Looking up his name on the Internet after, I found he was a kidnapper, torturer and extortionist! One of those cases of, "If only I knew then, what I know now!"   

John didn't seem that bad, apart from the size of his muscles and scars. 

"I was in prison." he said matter-of-factly, "A Christian came in and prayed for us. It changed my life. I now travel the world helping prisoners."

Respect. 

Here's his page on a Chriistian website. 
http://www.avantiministries.com/about/team/john-lawson/
A tougher story is tough to find - especially with such a beautiful ending. 

More respect.

Back in the 90s I worked in UK prisons as a trainer for complementary and alternative therapists. We helped prisoners and staff release negative emotions, attitudes, and states of mind. Immensely successful outcomes were achieved - every negative we measured, reduced significantly. But that's another story...

In the outside world it's tough for prisoners to be helped. If they go to a therapy, yoga, or meditation class, drugged-up buddies scoff - or worse.

It's easier to help while they're inside prison. 

John emailed me this striking photo - he took it himself, with permission, of prisoners asleep in Gambia, just before he spoke about Jesus and love. 

Hopefully he changed at least one of the prisoners lives in this photo?

My work means I'm often asked to help someone's health, life path, or situation. It's amazing how issues become resolved fast, often with unexpected synchronicity. Helpful Destiny often seems to be at work...

Last week I published a new article on this site, Elderly people - can you afford not to help them. (See under 'Articles.') A brilliant medical doctor friend in Mexico, Dr Pepe Valencia emailed. He's published eight books on palliative care and been a live-TV advice doctor. He wrote a heartfelt plea to all his friends to fund his Foundation helping the elderly. 

Certainly I don't have enough money to fund a large Foundation. The best I thought I could do was publish his article online, and see if someone responds... It was a sort of prayer to readers, and to God and the spirit world, to see if something can be done to help.

Yesterday something amazing happened. Pepe Skyped me for the first time this year. As we chatted, another Mexican friend, Martha, messaged for only about the 3rd time this year. As I waited for Pepe's message reply, I typed Martha a question, asking about her new job. 

Have you guessed it...? 

She works for an organisation that helps Foundations raise funds! :-)

So she and Dr Pepe are in contact...

Of course this could be yet another coincidence. But... Synchronicities in my life, unexpected solutions to people's problems, occur too fast, too regularly, and too strangely... 

It's as if focussed love, a powerful intention to help and achieve a good deed, creates a space in the atmospheric fabric to behold requests for those good deeds in a special Light. And that Light can be "viewed" by God, angels or spirits and consciously acted on. Or "felt" by relevant people and unconsciously acted on. 

As Kayce, a lovely friend from Malaysia said once, "Allan, you're scary!" She'd phoned me two hours before, saying her Malaysian cousin had tried for 20 years to find a lost uncle in England. Two hours later, after a truly weird "coincidence", I phoned her with his address and phone number.  

Yesterday Kayce asked me to find her a partner. She loves England and visits regularly. How on Earth can I find her a partner, I thought. But... Immediately after she asked, the first friend I spoke to said her ex-husband would like to meet an Asian woman... Synchronicity...? Watch this space... 

And remember, a beautiful and perfect God-given synchronicity could be just around your next corner...

This could be the biggest news about our solar system - ever!! 

NASA’s rover Curiosity has detected that Mars's atmosphere contains methane gas... maybe from a life-form!!

The detected methane is unlikely to be from past volcanoes, because methane only last for 300 years. So it could be from living organisms! 

Also, the amount in the atmosphere varies, suggesting a non-geological origin!  

Martian organisms may be alive and well today, perhaps living under the surface! Wow!

Washington State University's Schulze-Makuch confirmed the biology potential. He said, "Methane is quite a rare gas in hydrothermal/volcanic exhalations; thus a methane detection with the rover would be exciting and could point to biology,"

The space scientist Chris McKay, who is also a Mars specialist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, said to SPACE.com, "What was surprising in the Mars Express results was the variability. Methane 
should have a lifetime of 300 years." (That means this methane discovery isn't from a long-forgotten past geological or biological source - it's from a current source...) 

Astronomy graduate, Malynda Chizek, of New Mexico State University, used the NASA/Ames Mars Atmospheric General Circulation Model, and unexpectedly found the methane varies in abundance quickly. The amount of methane in the atmosphere may also fluctuate seasonally, which "might suggest some sort of biological origin."

"About 95 percent of the methane in Earth’s atmosphere is a product of biology (such as cows)," Chizek said, when she showed her findings at the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS). "The number of cows required to equal the amount of methane on Mars is about 5 million cows."

Unless different data or another explanation is found, the only questions remaining are, what type of life form lives and Mars, and where...

Post coming soon!

On my beginner therapy training classes, I teach that therapists can achieve about 30% success rate due to some patients having a placebo effect. 

(Placebo is a response to therapy or treatment that has no active ingredient, like a sugar pill, or pretend healing.) 

I then explain the percentages of success I expect from students at higher levels of knowledge and ability - almost 100% success with certain conditions. Which shows successes my students achieve are not all placebo.

Now, the journal PLUS ONE says genes may cause some people to have a placebo effect. In patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) it was found that those with a type of COMT gene saw improved health after pretending to be given acupuncture.

Edzard Ernst, the University of Exeter professor of complementary medicine, said: "This is a fascinating but very preliminary result. It could solve the age-old question of why some individuals respond to placebo, while others do not. And if so, it could impact importantly on clinical practice."

A director of the Program in Placebo Studies and Therapeutic Encounter at BIDMC, Ted Kaptchuk said: "You can really see the advantage of a positive doctor-patient relationship."

I would add that, if doctors can't help a patient, and the patient is likely to die or be chronically ill for life, then why not send them to a Reiki or other alternative or complementary therapist?! 

If we can help 30% of patients by placebo, who would complain?

Especially when we achieve much higher successes for many conditions anyway.  :-)

Michelle Roberts, Health Editor of BBC News Online, published an article today showing exercising in your 70s 'may stop brain shrinkage'. In the Journal, Neurology, Edinburgh University experts say exercise also stops signs of ageing connected to dementia.  
 
People over 70 who were more physically active had more matter in parts of the brain where messages originate - and more matter in the brain's wiring that transmits messages round the brain, 

Strenuous exercise is not needed - it's enough to walk several times a week. The FREE exercise program, Tri-Dynamics can easily be used at home, and takes only minutes day to exercise most muscles in the body.

But doing mind workouts, tricky crosswords, socialising, or reading had little impact. 

Head of research at Alzheimer's Research UK, Dr Simon Ridley, said: "This study links physical exercise to fewer signs of ageing in the brain. Exercise in middle age can lower the risk of dementia later in life." So Tri Dynamics could help middle-aged persons too... 

Age UK provided funding for the research. Head of research, Prof James Goodwin, said, "It really is never too late to benefit from exercise. It is crucial that, those of us who can, get active as we grow older."

Get active, and get friends and relatives active where possible.

Findings are good news because Tri Dynamics exercise is something you can easily do to boost your health in just a few minutes a day...