Healing our cells through energy resonance

“Joyce Whiteley Hawkes, PhD is a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, with a long-standing career as a research cell biologist and biophysicist. After a near-death experience she embarked on an exploration of indigenous healing traditions and now teaches energy healing at the interface of science and spirit.

"Over the course of 15 years as a biophysicist she earned an international reputation for her scientific contributions in the field of ultra high-speed laser effects on cells, and the effects of environmental pollutants on fish. She has published 36 peer-reviewed scientific papers.

"By combining her knowledge as a research biophysicist and her experience with indigenous healers Joyce realized that it is possible to reach the deep primary structures of life – our cells – with energy to bring health and vitality. She has been teaching, writing about, and offering Cell-Level Healing in private practice for 32 years.

In her book Resonance: Nine Practices for Harmonious Health and Vitality (Hay House, 2012), she writes: “Once discounted as the placebo effect (a health benefit brought about by the expectation of improvement or the faith of the patient in the treatment), the study of complementary and alternative medicine is a field yielding new, sound scientific advances. Research findings have dispelled the idea that the placebo effect isn’t ‘real,’ focusing instead on learning more about the complex mechanisms by which the activity of the mind brings about very real changes in the brain and the body.  The National Institutes of Health now fund large studies to identify more clearly the effectiveness of biologically based practices, energy medicine, manipulative body-based techniques, and mind-body techniques. Some 40 percent of Americans use the above modalities to supplement their health care. (xii-xiii)

"Envision the energy coming to you as a nourishing flow that moves throughout your body, transmitting life and healing into every cell. What is that energy? The closest I’ve come to an answer is the theme of this book. There is a resonance that the physical body is able to make with something so far beyond our most able science that we can only call it the Mystery. When the body and Mystery unite directly, the body reacts. Religious traditions have named the resonant connection in various ways: Kundaline (Hindu); unexpected blessing (Catholic); Satori, Samadhi, Shakti, Chi, Mahamudra, Dzogchen (various types of Buddhism); fana (Sufism); mukti (Sikhism); and mystical union (Christian mysticism) to name a few.

"Whatever name is give for this state of consciousness, the description of ecstasy, bliss, and overwhelming compassion are similar regardless of culture or religion. Isn’t it astounding that we can resonate with a power greater than ourselves and that the result of that resonance is able to ignite the soul? Undeniably, the resonance of union produces profound joy. Our inborn sensitive nature can lead us there, as can our expanded sensitivity when we engage spiritual practice. Here is where we find a type of joy that bubbles up from inside and is not dependent on outer circumstances. The only way I’ve found to tap that wellspring is through spiritual practice. There has not been one and only one all-inclusive practice for me. Each sunrise brings a new opportunity and challenge to balance, to harmonize, to appreciate, to find clarity, to meet the unique day by adapting known resources and discovering new ones. (66, 169-161)

Hawkes writes: “I did not believe in past lives until I had the near-death experience and I returned with an unambiguous knowing that I had lives before and would live again." (173)

Hawkes  describes her near-death experience and how it transformed her life in a 16 minute video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyaBeHeRK6M.

Physicians counseling dying patients

Physician Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, writing to her colleagues: “We shouldn’t nail the dying to the threshold between two states of consciousness. We shouldn’t prolong their lives with medication, injections and life-support machines. We should let them go. They’re not going into nothingness. They’re entering another state of being. We must let our dead go into that world.”

David J. Darling, Soul Search: A Scientist Explores the Afterlife (Villard, 1995), 180.

Jonathan Kopel, a member of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock Texas, reporting in an article for medical colleagues: “NDEs have positively impacted the medical profession and physician-patient interactions. Counselors trained with NDE literature reduced suicidal thoughts, bereavement, and posttraumatic stress disorder among their patients.

In addition, patients who have experienced an NDE showed significant transformation in their spiritual and emotional lives, with many stating a renewed sense of meaning, existential awareness, and mystical experiences. Family and friends of patients who have experienced an NDE also reported increased comfort, hope, and inspiration.” Kopel and other healthcare professionals, arguing, “NDEs represent a growing paradigm shift beyond the naturalistic interpretations of science and medicine.”

Jonathan Kopel, “Near-Death Experiences in Medicine,” Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent), 2019 Jan; 32(1): 163-64.

As a physician, Carl G. Jung explaining: “I made every effort to strengthen the belief in immortality, especially with older patients when such questions come threateningly close. For, seen in correct psychological perspective, death is not an end but a goal.”

C. G. Jung, On Death and Immortality (Princeton University Press, 1999), 3.

Objective evidence of shared death experiences

Neuropsychiatrist Peter Fenwick verified these objective experiences of a patient’s death, as reported by a nurse in a hospital in England . . .

We had a male patient in a side ward: his prognosis wasn’t good, although death wasn’t deemed imminent. He had two relatives who had decided to stay the night, in case his condition worsened. They retired to an overnight room reserved for relatives.

Around 3:00 AM, I was chatting with another nurse at the nurse’s station, which was illuminated by a single light. When I saw a white mist at the end of the nursing station. It was there and it was gone. I immediately thought of a fire, perhaps from the kitchen a little way down the corridor. I walked to one end of the ward and my colleague went to the other end. She checked the side rooms and hurried to find me to say the man in question had died, seemingly only just.

We hurriedly phoned the Night Sister to rouse the sleeping relatives. While waiting for them to appear, more relatives of the deceased arrived. They told us they had woken suddenly at home and just felt the urge to visit the hospital, feeling something was wrong

Raymond A. Moody with Paul Perry, Glimpses of Eternity: An Investigation into Shared Death Experiences (London: Rider, 2010), 128-129.

Objective and subjective anomalous knowing

In his 2012 book Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the After Life, Raymond Moody reminds us that those sharing in the death experience, as caregivers or loving relatives, are not experiencing the body and physical brain damage that may interfere with the normal brain functioning of a dying patient. While we may presume both caregivers and relatives are emotionally involved while experiencing in diverse ways the dying of a patient, there is no reason to conclude their perceptions or memories were physically impaired. Moody, therefore, asserts: “Some parts of these experiences are objective (for instance, people’s claim that the room changed shape or that they saw a bright light that drew them toward it), while others are subjective (as in witnessing a dying person’s life review that reveals previously unknown secrets).

Raymond A. Moody with Paul Perry, Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife (HarperCollins, 2012), 236.

Often the evidence from a shared near-death experience is both objective and subjective. The mother of a newborn boy named Jason, who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) a week after his mother had a surprise visit from her deceased father . . .

I was sitting in my living room reading a paperback book. The baby was asleep in his crib, and I was resting because I had been up half the night with his fussiness. As I was sitting there in the quiet, I had the feeling that I was not alone. I wasn’t afraid, I just wasn’t alone.

I looked up and there was my father. He had been dead for a year, but there he stood. For some reason I wasn’t surprised at all. He was just there for a second or two, but I heard him tell me, “Jason is coming with me.” I knew exactly what he meant. He meant that my baby was going to die.

Melvin Morse with Paul Perry, Parting Visions: Uses and Meanings of Pre-Death, Psychic, and Spiritual Experiences (Villard Books 1994), 66.

Physicians hear laughter after patient dies

Dr. Paul Sanders was a family physician before retiring. He told Dr. Janis Amatuzio of his own personal experience that was extraordinary.

I had just arrived home from work one evening when the phone rang, and the nurse told me that Dad had suffered a cardiac arrest. Those were the days before the patient directives and do not resuscitate orders were in place.

Dr. Sanders rushed back to the hospital and to his Dad’s room. He recalls: As I got to the doorway something quite extraordinary happened. I glanced to my left and saw my father’s motionless body lying in bed, ringed by nurses with their backs to me. Dr. Seacamp was on the other side of the bed, intently doing CPR. He glanced up quickly as I stopped in the doorway. 

 

And just at that moment, I was startled when to my right I heard more than sensed the absolutely unmistakable sound of my father’s booming laugh. It was bold, gleeful, and joyful, that wonderful sound I hadn’t heard in so many months as he suffered with his disease. My heart jumped with joy.

I knew in an instant that he was fine, and I turned to Dr. Seacamp, saying, “Let him go.”

Oh, so you heard him, too! Dr. Seacamp, replied.

I knew something extraordinary had happened and that we had witnessed a miracle. I miss my father greatly, but I will never forget the sound of his laughter and the experience of awesome joy as I walked into that room. 

Janis Amatuzio, Beyond Knowing: Mysteries and Messages of Death and Life from a Forensic Pathologist (Novato, CA: New World Library, 2006), 160-161.

Bedside of the dying offers view into eternity

Psychiatrist Raymond Moody in his 2010 book Glimpses of Eternity documents “shared death experiences” involving physicians, nurses, and hospice workers. A hospice psychologist in North Carolina writes of her experiences: 

The deathbed scene is not fully in this world. And although I am not religious, hospice work has awakened me to a spiritual dimension of life.

In my opinion, everyone who works with the dying long enough must have some awareness of these experiences. I believe the spiritual experiences of dying people somehow leak out and pervade the area around them. If you step into that area with the right temperament, you will receive, I feel, a sense of the sacred in the presence of the dying.

I have experienced the room taking on a different configuration a number of times. The only way that I can describe it is that moving energy pulses through the room. I often feel something that I can’t name.

The bedside of the dying offers a view into eternity. Like looking through a window into elsewhere, from time to time I see lights and twice have had clear views of what appear to be structures. On both occasions I saw patients leave their bodies in a cloud form. I saw them rise out of their bodies and head toward these structures.

I would describe these clouds as a sort of mist that forms around the head or chest. There seems to be some kind of electricity to it, like an electrical disturbance. I don’t know if I see it with my physical eyes, but it’s there all the same. There is no doubt in my mind that you can sometimes see people depart for the other side.

Shared death experiences may confirm communication between the living, dying, and dead. A sergeant at Fort Dix in New Jersey sharing his experience, which was verified by his physicians:

I was terribly ill and near death with heart problems at the same time that my sister was near death with a diabetic coma in another part of the same hospital. I left my body and went into the corner of the room, where I watched them work on me down below. Suddenly, I found myself in conversation with my sister, who was up there with me. I was very attached to her, and we were having a great conversation about what was going on down there when she began to move away from me.

I tried to go with her but she kept telling me to stay where I was. “It’s not your time,” she said. Then she just began to recede off into the distance through a tunnel while I was left there alone.  When I awoke, I told the doctor that my sister had died. He denied it, but at my insistence, he had a nurse check on it. She had in fact died, just as I knew she did. (90-91)

 

Raymond A. Moody with Paul Perry, Glimpses of Eternity: An Investigation into Shared Death Experiences  (London: Rider, 2010), 102-03. 90-91.

Dream of a dead loved one

After Dr. Amatuzio published a book with the title Forever Ours, about her patients’ extraordinary experiences, colleagues began to share with her their experiences. Susan, who worked in the county jail, told Dr. A, as she was known to her colleagues, about dreaming of her Grandpa Dewitt.

Two nights after I read your book, I had a dream; Grandpa Dewitt came to visit me. He looked wonderful, and he was so happy. He took me by the hand and we went down to the pond with the fountain in it, at the nursing home he had just been moved to. We sat there and had the best talk ever, about all sorts of things. I remember being so incredibly happy. In fact, when I awakened, I felt we had actually talked, it was so vivid; I felt like he had really been there.

I decided to call him right then, that morning, and go with him to see that pond and fountain for myself. As I reached for the phone, well, you know what happened, don’t you? It rang! I was even more startled when I heard my girlfriend’s voice on the line. Susan, she said in a tearful voice, I got a call from the nursing home this morning, just now. Grandpa Dewitt died last night! They found him in bed; they said he just died in his sleep! 

 

Janis Amatuzio, Beyond Knowing: Mysteries and Messages of Death and Life from a Forensic Pathologist (Novato, CA: New World Library, 2006), 93-94.