This is 1 of the 10 topics from Richard van der Linde's – Bukuru founder – research into superhuman skills.The main source to be credited is www.dmtquest.com. At the bottom of the page is a link to the other topics.

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all previous centuries of its existence.”

–      Nikola Tesla

If, as a previous chapter about Wim Hof and the likes suggests, intention can be translated into changes in bodily functions, and if… suggestions can be delivered mentally (or energetically), as the previous chapter about telepathy suggests, then… it might also be possible to deliver non-verbal suggestions that change bodily functions of another person.

Whereas telepathy involves sending thoughts from one mind to another, energetic transference – the topic of this chapter – comprises sending information from one body to another.

Let’s start with a first-hand experience. In the fall of 2022, I visited a man named André Visch. Visch is an accredited manual therapist who developed an interest in the effect of consciousness on one's physical state. I contacted him to make an appointment. After having been on a waiting list for some months, I got my appointment. We had a brief talk to become acquainted. I told him that I’d like to improve my overall health and he invited me to sit on a table like you’d find at a physiotherapist or in a massage salon. Visch got seated in his chair, about 3 meters away from me, and closed his eyes. At first, nothing happened, but suddenly I noticed something strange. My body started to feel very unusual. I looked at Visch, who still sat on the other side of the room with his eyes closed. Yet, the feeling was unmistakably there. I was not making it up, that I knew for sure.

While not claiming that this was actually what happened, I felt like a current of energy had been activated within me. The feeling was similar to that of a sip of a hot beverage flowing down your throat – only, in my case, it was in the area of my belly, and the heat was moving in a circular direction. On top of that, I felt like I was in a light trance state. All the while, Visch was sitting seemingly passive in his chair, with his eyes closed.

Was this just the trick of a conman collaborating with an assistant behind the curtain who fired off electromagnetic waves or something? I don't see a motive, as his fee is quite moderate and no different from that for the manual therapy treatments of which he is an accredited practitioner. Besides, Visch has a waiting list of about two months, and he doesn't seem to be seeking any kind of publicity or attention.*

In his book Laboratorium van de Geest: En de kracht of Compassion (Laboratory of the Mind and the Power of Compassion), Visch explains that what he harnesses in his practice is a form of astral projection, which requires deep physical relaxation (motionlessness), a mobile energy system (unconditional love and a small emotional backlog), and a pure and strong intention for the desired result. It allows him to read, connect with, and stimulate chakras and energy flows (i.e., influencing the direction of prana movement). As a result, physical discomfort often resolves. He considers this to be taking place during a slow brain-wave state (alpha/theta), when the physical body is lulled into sleep but the astral body is wide awake.

Suppose for a moment that Visch was indeed able to telepathically deliver energy to me through an instruction. This uncommon ability could then explain a lot of mysterious phenomena, including the following examples.

Animal communication

I learned about this from the time I did a lot of housesitting. Every few weeks I would move to a different place, usually with pets. As a standard routine, the owners would show me around and inform me about their pet or pets – what they liked and didn’t like, any anomaly in their behavior, and often something about their background. Surprisingly, quite a few of them shared how there had been a behavioral issue at some point that they couldn’t resolve with conventional methods and how they had turned to an animal “whisperer”. It was surprising in the first place because at first appearance most of the owners did not appear to be the kind of people you’d expect this from. What was even more surprising was that they found that the behavior of their pet actually changed after one or two sessions, with apparently not much happening between the whisperer and the pet. Apparently, hundreds or perhaps thousands of people seem to have learned a way to communicate energetically to animals in such a way that behavioral or health issues resolve.

One such method is called the Trust Technique. Practitioners of this technique use their own calm state of mind (slow brain-wave state, e.g., alpha/theta) to induce a sense of calmness in the animals to which they administer. In his videos, the inventor, James French, demonstrates the effect on all sorts of animals, ranging from dogs and cats to horses and even lions.

In an example with a lion, the practitioner takes position behind the fence where the lions are generally fed. There are two lions in the frame: Susanna, a fairly calm female, and Samson, a highly agitated male. When Samson is placed with Susanna, his attitude changes drastically. By taking on a calm state and syncing with Susanna, who seems to enjoy their daily sessions, Samson finds himself in quite a strong calm energetic field – so it is believed – and eventually you seem him calm down too.

While not having been scientifically validated, there seems to be a lot of anecdotal evidence from clients of Trust Technique practitioners who’ve noticed strong positive changes in the behavior of their beloved pets.

Energy healing

Although more extensively covered in the next chapter, it should be listed here as well. The placebo effect is often offered as the reason for tangible results from energy healing, but there are quite a lot of examples recorded that might be difficult to explain for with this theory. One in particular is the case of Edgar Cayce.

At age 23, Cayce suffered a complete loss of speech. A travelling stage hypnotist visiting his hometown offered to treat Cayce. The voice would return during the trance, but disappear after the session. With another therapist, the same thing happened, but at some point Cayce gave the therapist an instruction to give him a particular instruction. Upon execution, Cayce’s throat is reported to have turned bright red for twenty minutes, and Cayce declared his own treatment finished. Interestingly, his voice then remained even after the session ended. And it remained throughout, with only a few brief relapses.

Subsequently, the therapist, Al Layne, wanted to find out if Cayce was able to read ailments and suggest cures for him and perhaps for others. It turned out he did, with the suggestions generally comprising dietary changes, specific exercises, and affirmations. Cayce would not be aware of the suggestions he gave in his trance state, nor would he accept money for his readings. And while a fair share of his suggestions didn’t have any notable effect, still many suggestions reportedly cured ailments ranging from depression to tuberculosis.

From DMTQuest:

In 1877, a man named Edgar Cayce was born. While I won’t go into the details of his life, he eventually became known as “The Sleeping Prophet”. The reason for this is because he developed the ability to put himself in a “sleeping” trance (a form of self-hypnosis/hypnagogia) in which he would be asked questions and answer them in a manner he was incapable of during his conscious waking state. Throughout his lifetime, Cayce would give a total of 14,306 transcribed readings with many of them dedicated to diagnosing illnesses.

Based on the information available, it seems as though Cayce was able to easily and consistently maintain a deep level of hypnagogia for extended periods of time. Being that he could not remember any of what he said during his trance sessions, it would appear that he could be categorized as a somnambulist.​While there are many skeptics of Cayce and his reported abilities to reach extremely detailed conclusions and resolutions for sick people.

This might just be a form of placebo, based on suggestion. Although you have to take into account that most correspondence between Cayce and the reading subjects happened through written letters. If energy healing works merely through suggestion, then could medication also perhaps be a chemical suggestion? If that’s what we assume for one practice, why not for the other, right? In the case of Cayce’s work, unlike with hypnosis, no suggestions that would change their state of consciousness were directly given to the receiver.

In 2003, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute would publish a review of 37 placebo controlled trials in regards to cancer drug development. The article would cover the response rate of placebo in terms of pain, appetite, weight gain, performance status, quality of life, and tumor response (shrinkage). There was a 2.7% (10 out of 375 patients) tumor response which included all the studies including 3 spontaneous remissions in the 1998 kidney cancer study.

While a 2.7% tumor response might be considered insignificant, it [still raises the question why there is a response at all.] Hypnosis or hypnotic-like states including mediation, Wim Hof Method, and various mindful exercises appear to have the potentiality to enhance the placebo effect based on much of what we have covered at DMT Quest thus far. It might be possible to increase the tumor response from 2.7% to 27% and eventually much higher.

Possible explanations

Many mystics are on the same page about there being a subtle body (astral body), which can be separated from the physical body. The person performing the soul flight, upon transcending their physical body and entering the subtle body and higher dimensions, perceives themselves in one of two ways, based on which mystic you refer to—either as a “disembodied awareness or a point of view” or as embodied consciousness that is remote from, but connected to the physical body through a silver cord, as in the illustration below.

Astral projection as conceptualized by Carrington and Muldoon

In his book God Speaks, Indian mystic Meher Baba gives a detailed account of a process termed involution: removing the focus of consciousness from the gross external world and turning it inwards through a channel.

The Wai-wai tribe comprises a group of Carib-speaking Indigenous people living in Guyana and northern Brazil. Shamans of this tribe, called yaskomos, are believed to have the ability to “perform a soul flight”[3] to distant mountain caves and deep riverbeds for several purposes: healing, consulting cosmological beings to name newborn babies, praying for abundance of game, etc. The corresponding healers among Inuit people (Eskimo groups in Greenland, Alaska, and parts of Canada) are called angakkuq.

Adopting a purely scientific viewpoint, some people have ventured into offering possibly rational explanations for energetic transference, which are very similar to those we covered in the chapter on telepathy.

John Chavez cites the example of practitioners of the Wim Hof Method (WHM), who, as we saw in an earlier chapter, have apparently developed the ability to control their body temperature, manipulating the autonomous nervous system to send heat from brain to limb. When minds are synchronized, the same kind of protocol could be applied to a part in someone else’s body. That might be the case for muscle control through telepathic suggestions with a subject in the hypnotic state, as in the experiments of the Russian scientist L. L. Vasiliev which we saw in the previous chapter. But, if Wim Hof Method practitioners can control their own autonomic nervous system, including their respiration rate, this ability might help in explaining how energetic transference would take place:

the most effective ways for people to verify if we are indeed capable of “telepathy” is to utilize the information presented and test the theory out themselves (you will need a willing partner). Take the “woo” out of it and create the optimal physiological conditions necessary for it to work. It seems rather obvious that the worst conditions to be successful would comprise of active thinking/problem solving (Beta brain wave), bright light conditions (daylight, electronic usage), and increased CO2 levels (food digestion, shallow breathing, & body movement).

It’s a bit funny that the average lifestyle of the morning alarm clock, rushing to work, scarfing down food, working 12 hour days, helping the kids with homework, and watching television several hours at night before jumping in bed would seem the complete opposite of the environment needed to tap into these faculties.

Colin Wilson, in his book Magic, states that most people “fail to put enough energy into perception; their attention is a feeble trickle instead of a powerful jet.”. He goes on to explain that “the subconscious is not some remote and inaccessible [mountain] … all we have to do is deliberately increase the ‘intentionality’ of perception and to become accustomer to the higher level of effort; our deepened sense of reality will do the rest.” He also posits that abilities such as telepathic and energetic transference are good indicators of our inner freedom, when he states that “an increase in inner freedom involves a natural increase in psychic powers”.

What Wilson seems to convey is that the key to faculties such as telepathy is in the training of a focus of attention – not the ordinary kind of focus involving narrowing our consciousness, but rather the passive focus John Chavez often mentions, which seems quite similar to what André Visch likes to call astral focus. This is a widening of the consciousness and is actually more difficult, according to Visch, especially after one has been engaged in physical focus. Wilson illustrates this with an example: In the 1970s, Les Fehmi, Ph.D., director of the Princeton Biofeedback Centre in Princeton, New Jersey, discovered how this shift in attention from narrow to open focus changes brain waves. Fehmi, a pioneer in attention and biofeedback, was trying to find a method for teaching people how to move their brain waves from beta (conscious thought) to alpha (relaxed and creative). The most effective way to make the shift, he discovered, was by directing people to become aware of space or nothingness—adopting what he called open focus.

Conclusion

Perhaps the biggest challenge in telepathy is overcoming this seeming paradox of focusing with less focus. But a seeming paradox often means a conflation of multiple realms or levels of magnification, which requires some testing and contemplating, like judo involves the alternation of pushing and pulling at the right moment.

But is it worth your attention? That depends on how you feel about the potential validity of what you just read.

*In my first session with Visch, he indicated that only one of my chakras was blocked and that this could be resolved in two to three sessions. In my second session, Visch didn't mention the chakra from the first session and informed me he worked on one of the other chakras. I didn't make any new appointments after the second session. When I contacted him six months later with an interview request, he refrained from reacting, despite two reminders which were both forwarded by his assistant, like my initial request.