Transform your body, heal your soul, and alter how you live and die with ancient Indigenous techniques mixed with modern neuroscience courtesy of medical anthropologist Alberto Villoldo’s Four Winds Society and Light Body School.
Villoldo’s teachings emphasize the distinction between curing and healing, which he defines as the removal of toxins from the Luminous Energy Field (LEF). Methods may include advanced soul retrieval, divination and crafting and altering internal maps that define reality.
Integrative Energetic Medicine
Integrative Medicine utilizes all tools in its toolbox – conventional medicines as well as complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Integrative medicine’s philosophy stems from its belief that the body has the capacity to heal itself naturally; by supporting natural processes with evidence-based therapies.
Integrative medicine primarily emphasizes emotional and spiritual aspects of wellness. This approach draws from ancient philosophical texts as well as recent medical research which highlights that comprehensive healthcare must address mind and spirit equally, not just physical needs.
Integrative medicine offers an approach to healing that encompasses techniques like meditation, herbs and supplements, movement therapy, acupuncture massage therapy and resilience coaching. Furthermore, an integrative physician does not just support conventional treatments without question or uncritically endorse alternative therapies; instead, an integrative doctor will offer informed opinions based on best available evidence.
Scarlet Soriano, MD is a board-certified family physician and holistic wellness consultant, dedicated to uniting science and spirituality through her writings, workshops, coaching services and coaching services. As an expert on mind-body connection issues as well as consciousness’ role in health and healing processes.
Energy medicine or EM involves harnessing subtle energy fields to therapeutically assess and treat energetic imbalances within physical systems in order to return them back into homeostasis. Energy medicine is often employed alongside allopathic treatment as an additional strategy that addresses root causes of issues more effectively.
Energy healing practitioners typically assert that there exists an electromagnetic sphere of energy around our physical bodies known as the biofield. Recent research has verified this theory; human bodies do indeed possess this energy field that serves all physical, mental, emotional, and etheric functions of life. It consists of four energetic bodies: soul body, mental/emotional body, etheric body.
Practitioners of Energy Medicine work with each energy body in the body to restore balance and harmony within it, strengthening immune response while encouraging healing. The process has been likened to entering a transcendent or non-ordinary state of consciousness found during deep prayer or meditation; here, biofield becomes more coherent while flow of information across body systems becomes streamlined, making the body more open to healing interventions of any sort.
Neuroscience of Enlightenment
As contemplative neuroscience has experienced exponential growth and become more integrated into basic neurosciences, psychology, and clinical sciences, researchers are discovering an unprecedented opportunity to scientifically investigate altered states produced by meditation or psychedelic use. Thanks to these advances we now have insight into how meditation practices that aim at transcending self-suffering work within our brains.
Andrew Newberg is an Haverford neuroscience alumnus and uses brain-scan data in his new book How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation from Avery. In it, he explores both moments of realization during meditation practice as well as permanent life changes induced by what he calls “big enlightenment,” permanent life changes that lead to freedom from pain and suffering. Newberg currently works at Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia as an associate professor in psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience while also serving as director of research for Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine from Jefferson Neurological Institute.
JB: Enlightenment’s subjective phenomenology makes it challenging to create an operational definition and framework that will enable systematic inquiry, yet our recent survey of people’s experiences suggests there may be certain common characteristics that can help define enlightenment: feelings of oneness, increased clarity of perception, emotional intensity and sensual intensity, permanent shifts in some core aspect of one’s existence as well as surrendering oneself to higher forces are some such indicators of enlightenment.
Scientific approaches to these experiences lie within various disciplines, including Buddhism and advanced mindfulness-based meditation techniques. There is a natural synergy among these fields which can be leveraged to make possible the first systematic scientific investigation of enlightenment. Centralized support for intense collaboration between contemplative scientists, Buddhist scholars and practitioners could pave the way for groundbreaking scientific exploration of enlightenment – a central tenet of Buddhism which many people believe can foster human flourishing – as an experience. This would represent a new frontier in neurotheology – an emerging field which blends tools of both neuroscience and religious studies in order to examine questions at the crossroads between science and religion.
Dreaming the World Into Being
Hyacinth is a full time shaman who works to empower others to unlock their full potential through energy medicine healing, adaptogenic plant medicine and cacao ceremonies. She collaborates with Alberto on Grow A New Body Detox programs as well as traveling the country sharing her healing, cacao ceremonies and shamanic wisdom. Hyacinth serves as an advisor and holds sacred space for those she serves – she’s fluent in both Spanish and English languages as well as being the author of two best selling books: Shaman Healer Sage: The Shamanic Way to Ultimate Wellness; Neuroshaman: A Brain Based Approach to Psychosomatic Health and Enlightenment
Healing the Luminous Energy Field
The Luminous Energy Field (LEF), also referred to as Light Body, Halos or Aura is an invisible matrix of light and energy surrounding us, much like how iron filings are organized by magnets. It encases our physical bodies like an invisible cocoon; less than one molecule thick in its center it holds information about our past, present and potential future selves.
Non-integrated energies often reside within the Luminous Energy Field and can cause pain, fatigue, digestive and G.I issues, migraines, fibromyalgia and chronic depression. Once they’re eliminated, health and vitality typically return.
Don Jicaram, Alberto Villoldo’s mentor, discusses in his book ‘Dance of the Four Winds’ the 9 chakras found both within and external to human bodies, which help manage life energy (known as “qi”) called vital force or vital energy in some traditions.
