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| Jim & Nora with Dianne Ladd (left) at NFAM celebration, 11/16/02. Photograph by Tamara Stuchlak. |
Jim and Nora Oschman are directors of Natures Own Research Association in Dover, New Hampshire. Jim is one of the
few academic scientists who has focused on the scientific basis for various complementary or alternative medicines.
Jim and Nora have written dozens of articles describing the physiological and biophysical mechanisms involved in a wide variety
of therapeutic approaches. In a series of articles published in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies,
and in a book, Energy Medicine: the scientific basis (2000), Jim has reviewed the science underlying concepts
of concept of healing energy in relation to health care in general and bodywork in particular. The evidence he has summarized
verifies much that has previously been dismissed as unproven. Therapists from a variety of schools and traditions have
found the articles and the book illuminating. Specifically, the writings clarify the sources of subtle sensations of various
therapists that they have previously thought were inexplicable. As a naturalist, Nora has contributed valuable
insights into the workings of nature at all levels.
A new book, Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance, was published by Butterworth Heineman in
June, 2003. This book breaks new ground by documenting the existence of a high-speed communication system that
extends throughout the human body and that responds to the energetic environment. This system provides the regulatory
circuitry that maintains a high level of functioning for healing or obtaining optimal performance. Diseases and injuries
compromise the regulatory circuitry. This communication system is the substrate
for systemic cooperation. Learning how to
achieve more as a therapist, performer or team involves increasing the cooperative interactions within the network that reaches
all parts of the body and affects all systems. An understanding of energy field interactions between organisms accounts for
the beneficial effects of a variety of hands-on and hands-off therapies.
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