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Newsletter of Project Renaissance and Win Wenger
published formerly as Capitol Ideasmiths
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December 2002 (premier edition)
* Project Renaissance News/Prize
* Feature Article by Najma Beresford
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Welcome to this first issue of Project Renaissance's new format of its
periodic newsletter, and welcome to all new members who have joined us
recently. We hope to hear from you, and we hope to give you much food
We invite your letters and comments, and we may publish the most
interesting in future editions of this Newsletter.
The free monthly meetings of High Thinktank are usually held at the
Upcounty Regional Services Center, Room 2 -- 12900
Middlebrook Rd., Germantown, MD. Open to the public. Check the Project
Renaissance website calendar for details and directions, at
http://www.winwenger.com/events.htm .
We're looking for a catchy new name for this newsletter, something
relevant to Image-Streaming and the work of Project Renaissance. Send
your suggestions to Win Wenger at mailto:wwenger101@aol.com . Or, if
you like "The Stream", you can suggest we keep that name.
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PROJECT RENAISSANCE NEWS -- AND WIN A PRIZE!
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If you hear one of the GENIUS CODE commercials and advise us when (date
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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second,
it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
--Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher, 1788-1860
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For centuries, love has been the domain of mystics and saints, romantics
and fools. While a good bedside manner was always appreciated,
scholastic virtue has long been more valued. Fortunately, as the edge
between art and hard science began to blur with the introduction of
quantum physics, many people, doctors included, began to recognize the
The scientific community learned that all things, from matter to
emotion, hold a signature frequency and emit a bio-electric vibration.
At last love was measurable, folk lore quantified. Haven't we all heard
of the little old woman whispering fondly to her lush jungle of house
plants? And many of us have heard of orphan babies, starved of touch,
who wither and die. In a now famous experiment with Harlowe's monkeys,
when deprived of their mother they would soon die, but when given a
large and warm toy (it had to be fuzzy, hence the derivation of 'warm
and fuzzy'), the infant monkeys continued to thrive. They had a
In humans, blood drawn immediately prior to a hands-on healing, or
'love' session, is visibly different from blood drawn immediately after.
Cells that are limp, and/or contracted, are suddenly seen as plump ...
more vibrant. Nowhere are a healer's benefits more noticeable than in a
recovery room, where monitors signal rapid feedback.
So what is a healer doing? A healer is channeling love. Most healers
have begun clearing the energetic veils that cloud or encrust the heart,
there is indeed a landscape to the heart, and there are systems (e.g.
Sufism or meditation, etc...) that map the territory. Many of these
veils can be seen as personality traits. But by far the most important
thing a healer can do is to set their own personality aside, making room
for loving energy to flow. Most healers are quick to say that they are
but transmitters of this energy, this seemingly Universal force.
The most exciting thing about this mode of healing is its easy
availability to all of us. If we can access love, we can heal ourselves.
I am certainly not suggesting that anyone forego doctors, or their
advice. What I am suggesting is that, many many times, we can amp their
helping services with our own rocket fuel.
Perhaps the second most important skill is the ability to attach a
laser-like focus to your patients' Divine Blueprint, wherein you see
them as already healed. This, in effect, directs healing energy. While
the notion of a Divine Blueprint may seem far-fetched, it derives from
the principle that, for any imperfection to exist, there must be at
least the concept of corresponding perfection. When I say, 'Divine', I
am simply honoring the hugeness of the picture, and the smallness of my
part. I cannot begin to claim understanding of the Infinite nature of
the Universe, but from personal experience, I have found that, while not
necessary, this step can be very helpful in facilitating a more rapid
All pain, all illness, and some would say all accidents, are caused by
disruption in the human energy field or system. All healing is restoring
equilibrium in some fashion to the compromised system. The disruption
may occur on various levels -- a physical level, a mental level, an
emotional level, or a spiritual level.
Do start on simple things, say a headache, or maybe even a broken bone
(obviously AFTER allopathic diagnosis and treatment). Begin by gently
opening your heart, desire your own healing. Send love to your ailment.
Love the way you are loving yourself; if this is a stretch, simply be
happy you have started to nurture yourself. If you don't immediately
feel the love, no big deal, just pretend. The imagination is a great
Depending on the location of your ailment, you may be able to gently
cover it with your right hand. Create a circuit by laying your left
hand, generally your 'receiving hand', over your heart. Coordinate your
breathing: slowly, smoothly, silkily ... until your breath is breathing
you, your focus always on expanding your feelings of love...watch for
any resistance, for example to the pain. While you do not need to love
HAVING the pain, it can be useful to emotionally embrace and love the
part of your body feeling the pain.
It is helpful to remember there are no failures when it comes to
healing: every healing is another step that deepens your understanding
of what is helpful or what is less than helpful. ~~~
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Some Support for Najma Beresford's Thesis
-- Entirely aside from the fact that she has successfully performed
healings on many people, and even entirely aside from my own fairly
parallel experiences in healing others and myself....
Some researchers have characterized all illness as some form of
constriction of flow or circulation. I don't know about "all," but
certainly a good many instances can be seen in that light, and one of
the possible "cures" is to normalize all such flows and circulation. Put
this thought together with another set of facts --
Salesmen, especially in real estate, are often reportedly trained to
watch for when the pupils of their customer's eyes expand. These open
wider when that client is pleased with something, and then is the time
to close the sale, even if you have some of your case arguments yet to
make. This pupillary phenomenon, in turn, is part of a wider set of
phenomena: when we are finding pleasure, satisfaction, or even love, we
open up. In absence of perceived goodness, we tend to close down and
We know on an inbuilt genetic, bioevolutionary basis the correctness of
Najma's thesis that love heals and that lack of feeling loved leads
toward illness. Presumably we are all descended from those among our
ancestors who did instinctually love and caress and support one another
through illness and difficulties -- those of our ancestors for whom that
was not the case, mostly didn't get to be our ancestors.
A second consideration new to some reading this, but not new to others
of you, is life force energy. This is not abstract, this is not theory
even though its effects are readily measured in laboratory experiments;
this is tangible to your senses. I will, in some future edition of this
Newsletter, spell out step by step for you some specific ways you can
make this immediately tangible to YOUR senses. From there you can play
with the effects and let feedback from that play teach you more than any
guru can teach you. For now...
For now, whether we call it "chi" or "pranha" or any of many other
names by which life force energy is familiar in almost every human
culture but our own Anglo remote-don't-touch culture, consider that in
your basic high school science you learned that any chemical reaction is
also an electrical reaction, the transfer of electrons. The same is
true for biochemical reactions and psychochemical reactions. Change the
energy environment of a chemical reaction and you change that reaction.
Every living thing, our cells and tissues included, in order TO live is
a maze of ongoing electrical reactions. You can't exist without
generating, and being affected by, life force energy. What I'll share
with you in a future issue of this Newsletter is simple ways to make
this force tangible enough to your senses that you can act upon it and,
where need be, redirect it. Call that love, call that healing, call that
whatever you please, but it's simply there as a force of
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COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS PROJECT:
If this email has sparked emotions in you, positive or negative, please
pray, meditate, visualize or concentrate, for at least 10 seconds, on
the best possible outcome for Humanity and Earth.
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An article in Wired Magazine tells of a doctor, Elisabeth Targ, who
tested AIDS patients in a famous double-blind study with healing through
prayer, then became a test subject herself when she developed a fatal
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/prayer.html
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