Achterberg backs up her claim by noting that the mentally retarded and the emotionally
disturbed- individuals who cannot comprehend the death sentence society attaches to the
cancer- also have a significant lower cancer rate. Over a four year period in Texas, only
about 4 percent of the deaths in these two groups were from cancer compared to the state
norm which was 15 to 18 percent. Intriguingly, there was not one recorded case of
leukemia between the years 1925 and 1978 in these two groups. Studies have reported
similar results in the United States as a whole, as well as in various other countries
including England, Greece, and Romania.7
Because of these and other findings Achterberg thinks that a person with an illness, even
a common cold, should recruit as many \u201cneural holograms\u201d of health as possible, in the
form of beliefs, images of well-being and harmony, and images of specific immune
functions being activated. She feels we must also exorcise any beliefs and images that
have negative consequences for our health, and realize that our body holograms are more
than just pictures. They contain a host of other kinds of information including intellectual
understandings and interpretations, prejudices both conscious and unconscious, fears,
hopes, worriers and so on.
Achterberg\u2019s recommendation that we rid ourselves of negative images is well taken, for
there is evidence that imagery can cause illness as well as cure it, in Love, Medicine and

patients use to describe themselves or their lives seem to play a role in the creation of
their conditions, examples include a mastectomy patient who told him she \u201cneeded to get
something off her chest\u201d. A patient with multiple myeloma in his backbone who said he
\u201cwas always considered spineless\u201d; and a man with carcinoma of the larynx whose father
punished him as child by constantly squeezing his throat and telling him to \u201cshut up!\u201d
Sometimes the relationship between the image and the illness is so striking it is difficult
to understand why it is not apparent to the individual involved, as in the case of a psycho
therapist who had emergency surgery to remove several feet of dead intestine and then
told Siegel, \u201cI\u2019m glad you\u2019re my surgeon. I have been undergoing teaching analysis. I
couldn\u2019t handle all the shit that was coming up, or digest the crap in my life.\u201d8 Incidents
such as these have convinced Siegel that nearly all diseases originate at least to some
degree in the mind but he does not think this makes them psychosomatic or unreal. He

prefers to say they aresom a-s ignificant, a term coined by Bohm to sum up better the
relationship, and derived from the Greek wordsom a meaning \u201cbody\u201d. That all diseases
might have their origin in the mind does not disturb Siegel. He sees it rather as a sign of
tremendous hope, an indicator that if one ha the power to create sickness, one also has the
power to create wellness.
The connection between image and illness is so potent, imagery can even be used to
predict a patient\u2019s prospects for survival. In another landmark experiment, Simonton, his
wife, psychologist Stephanie Matthews- Simonton, Achterberg, and psychologist

G.Frank Lawlis performed a battery of blood tests on 126 patients with advanced cancer.
Then they subjected the patients to an equally extensive array of psychological tests,
including exercises in which patients were asked to draw images of themselves, their
cancers, their treatments, and their immune systems. The blood tests offered some
information about the patients\u2019 condition, but provided no major revelations. However,
the results of the psychological tests, particularly the drawings, were encyclopedias of
information about the status of the patients\u2019 health. Indeed simply by analyzing patients\u2019
drawings Achterberg late achieved a 95 precept rate of accuracy in predicting who would
die within a few months and who would beat their illness and go into remission.9

As incredible as the evidence culled by the above-mentioned researchers is, it is just the
tip of the iceberg when it comes to the control the holographic mind has over the physical
body. And the practical applications of such control are not limited strictly to the
matters of health. Numerous studies conducted around the world have shown that
imagery also has an enormous effect on physical and athletic performance.
In a recent experiment, psychologist Shlomo Breznitz at Hebrew university, Jerusalem
had several groups of Israeli soldiers march forty kilometers (about twenty five miles),
but gave each group different information. He had some groups march thirty kilometers,
and then told them they had another ten to go. He told others they were going to march
sixty kilometers, but in reality only marched them forty. He allowed some to see distance
markers, and provided no clue to others as to how far they had walked. At the end of the
study

non-local aspect of the phenomenon is further underscored by the fact that some psychics
don\u2019t even to resort to psychometry in order to tune into the past. The famous Kentuckian
clairvoyant Edgar Cayce could tap into the past simply by lying down on a couch in his
house and entering a sleeplike state. He dictated volumes on the history of the human
race and was often startlingly accurate. For example, he pinpointed the location and
described the historical role of the essence community at Qumran eleven years before the
discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (in the caves above Qumran) confirmed his
prouncements.10
It is interesting to note that many retro cognitive individuals can also see the human
energy field. When he was a child Ossowiecki\u2019s mother gave him eye drops in an attempt
to get rid of the bands of color he told her he saw around people, and McMullen also can
diagnose a person\u2019s health by looking at their field. This suggests that retro cognition
may be linked to the ability to se the subtler and more vibratory aspects of reality. Put
another way, the past may be just one more thing that is encoded in Pribram frequency
domain, a portion of the cosmic interference patterns that most of us edit out and only a
few tune into and convert into hologram like images. \u201cMaybe in the holographic state -in
the frequency domain - four thousand years ago is tomorrow\u201d says Pribram.11

The idea that the past is holographically recorded in the cosmic airwaves and can
occasionally be plucked out by the human mind and converted into holograms may also
explain at least some hauntings. Many ghostly apparitions appear to be little more than
holograms three-dimensional recordings of some person or scene from the past. For
example, one theory about ghosts is that they are the soul or spirit of the deceased
individual, but not all ghosts are human. There are numerous cases on record of
individuals seeing phantoms of inanimate objects as well, a fact that belies the idea that
apparitions are discarnate souls. Phantasms of the Living, a massive two-volumes set of
the well-documented reports of hauntings and other paranormal phenomena compiled by
the Society for Psychical Research in London, offers many such examples. For instance,
in one case a British military officer

and his family watched as a spectral horse-drawn carriage pulled upon their lawn and
stopped. So real was the ghostly carriage that the officer\u2019s son walked up to it and saw
what appeared to be a female figure inside, the image vanished before he could obtain a
better look, and left no horse or wheel tracks.12
How common are such experiences? We do not know, but we do know, that in the
United States and England several studies have shown that from 10 to 17 percent of the
general population have seen such an apparition, indicating hat such phenomena may be
far more common than most of us suspect.13
The notion that some events leave stronger imprints in the holographic record than
others is also supported by the tendency of hauntings to occur at locations where some
terrible act of violence or other unusually powerful emotional occurrence has taken place.
The literature is filled with apparitions appearing at the sites of murders, military battles,
and the kinds of mayhem this suggests that in addition to images and sounds, the
emotions being felt during an event are also recorded in the cosmic hologram again it
appears that that it is the emotional intensity of such events that makes them more
prominent in the holographic record, and that allows normal individuals to unwittingly
tap into them.
And again, many of these hauntings appear to be less the product of unhappy
earthbound spirits, and more just accidental glimpses into the holographic record of the
past. This too is supported by the literature on the subject. For example, in 1907, and at
the prompting of t poet William Butler Yeats, a UCLA anthropologist and religious
scholar named W.Y. Evans-Wentz embarked on a two year journey through Ireland,
Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany to interview people who had allegedly
encountered fairies and other supernatural beings. Evans-Wentz undertook the project
because Yeats told him that, as twentieth-century values replaced the old beliefs,
encounters with fairies were becoming less frequent and needed to be documented before
the tradition was lost completely.
As Evans-Wentz went from village to village interviewing the usually elder stalwarts of
the faith he discovered that not all of the fairies people encountered in the glens and
moon-dappled meadows were small. Some were tall and looked like normal human being