Marcela Lobos and Alberto Villoldo  

Marcela Lobos and  Alberto Villoldo

Alberto Villoldo and his wife, Marcela Lobos, run the Center for Energy Medicine in Chile as well as the U.S.-based Four Winds Society, which trains people in the practice of shamanic energy medicine. We featured them at our first International Gathering of Eden Energy Medicine three years ago, where they were a great hit, and a good number of our students have also been involved in their trainings.

When we were writing the final chapter of The Energies of Love, which reflects on the spiritual dimensions of a relationship, we wanted to interview a couple who were highly conscious about their relationship as a shared spiritual journey. We were very fortunate that Alberto and Marcela agreed to share their story.

From the start of the interview, it became clear that conventional concepts are too limiting to permit an accurate understanding of the way Alberto and Marcela experience their partnership. For instance, one of the practices we found to be the most remarkable is that they have cultivated the art of "lucid dreaming" and are sometimes able to find the other and enter his or her dreams. During lucid dreams, people are aware they are dreaming and are able to exert a degree of control over the experience, exploring or directing the way the dream unfolds. This is well-documented and is an ability that many people have naturally or have developed. Entering one another's dreams, however, takes lucid dreaming into yet another dimension. In the morning, when they describe their adventures together in the night, they find that their stories match!

You can see the rest of this fascinating conversation in The Energies of Love, but you may also be interested in Alberto's important new book, One Spirit Medicine. It is a powerful synthesis of ancient and modern healing modalities into an engaging read and a user-friendly program. David recently reviewed it for the International Journal of Healing and Caring. You can read the review by clicking here.

Robert Becker's 1998 classic keeps seeming more and more true.

Physicists in research laboratories in the U.S., India, and Japan have found that the material that forms the infrastructure of living cells is capable of exchanging information wirelessly via electromagnetic waves! A summary of this research can be found in Calcutta's The Telegraph.

This provides support for the paradigm leap that is fundamental to Energy Medicine, from organs to energy as the fundamental focus for healing. When you pass your hand over another person's body in a healing context, the electromagnetic energy emitted from your hand is having an effect on the information processing system in every cell. Someday we will be able to scientifically describe exactly how this impacts healing. For now, the new findings point to the information processing mechanisms that may be involved.