ISSSEEM Science & Energy Medicine Task Force Seeks Volunteers

The ISSSEEM Board of Directors recently approved a plan to form a new working committee to actively link the organization with healing and energy medicine research activities around the world.  The idea for the Science and Energy Medicine Task Force grew out of the successful Research Symposium held at the last two ISSSEEM Annual Conferences.

The goals are to provide ISSSEEM members with up-to-date information about the rapidly expanding scientific exploration of and theorizing about healing and energy medicine phenomena and connect ISSSEEM with the active scientists in the field.  The task force organizational effort is led by Past-President and Board Member Jerry E. Wesch, Ph.D.  An active, committed group of ISSSEEM members will be needed to bring the project into reality.

Initial goals for the Science and Energy Medicine Task Force include:

• Collecting current bibliographies of published and presented healing and energy medicine research and theoretical papers.  These would be collected in a central resource bank/database and eventually posted on the ISSSEEM web site as a resource to the membership (and the cyber community at large).  Both citations and full-text documents will be sought, as well as links to other collections.

• Linking with the research committees of other like-minded organizations.

• Identifying and listing currently active subtle energy and energy medicine research projects and investigators world wide.  As projects are completed and published, reports and publications can move to the bibliography database.  These projects and investigators are possible sources for conference presentations and journal submissions.

• Collecting information on sources for research funding and current opportunities for funding (RFA’s/RFP’s) that are of interest to the ISSSEEM membership.

• Creation of a “Science and Energy Medicine” section on the ISSSEEM web site to contain information on historical and current efforts to explore and understand subtle energy and energy medicine phenomena via the scientific method.  This might include FAQ pages, overview and summaries of the data so far, a moderated “Discussion” area to hold member cyber-discussions regarding science and healing topics, pages on theories of subtle energy and energy medicine phenomena from both a scientific and experiential view point, etc.

Possible future developments:

• Regular “Science and Energy Medicine” column in Bridges.

• Development and publication of a “Energy Medicine Research Handbook” for beginning researchers.

• Coordination of the annual “Research Symposium” at the ISSSEEM Annual Conferences in Boulder, CO.

• Workshops at the annual conference on research design and analysis in healing and energy medicine.

• Hosting a conference on subtle energies and energy medicine mechanisms and theory development.