Dr David Hamilton. Scientist for the Psychics

[lucan]

Dr David Hamilton who could be consider the scientist for the Psychics. His web site is here.
www.drdavidhamilton.com/index.html
This is a person who can get £300 per person for a 4-Day Mind Over Matter & Quantum Field Healing Workshop
I have been wanting to do an article on him but have not found the time yet but I feel it is know time his theory's should be seen by Sceptics.

Using his scientific knowledge he will tell you (for a lot of your money) how:
Can You Erase Pain With Your Mind
Scientific Evidence for Hands-on Healing
Hope and Faith Change the Brain
Positive People Live Longer
The Quantum Body
Let it Go
Mind Over Matter & Virtual Reality
Performance Enhancing Placebos
Strengthening Muscles with the Mind
Your Plastic Brain
Meditation Changes the Brain
Meditation Affects DNA (Harvard Study)
A Calm Mind Makes Wounds Heal faster
Written in the Stars
Expectation Vs Conditioning in the Placebo
The Nocebo Effect
Motherly Care & DNA
What's the Time?
The Healing Power of Belief
The Quantum Mind
Visualisation Changes the Brain
The Power of Intention
Destiny, Free Will and Attraction
It's the Thought that Counts
The Science of Mind over Matter
Why Astrology Works
Think Yourself Well - visualisation evidence
Loving Kindness Meditation builds relationships
Visualisation Alters Brain & Body

David is 37 years old. In 1992, he gained a first class honours degree
in chemistry from the University of Strathclyde, specialising in
biological and medicinal chemistry. He gained a PhD in organic chemistry
in 1995 from the same University.

In 2005, he self-published his first book, It's the Thought That Counts,
which was published by Hay House in 2006. In 2007, Hay House published
his second book, Destiny vs Free Will, and his third book, How Your Mind
Can heal Your Body, is scheduled for release by Hay House on 27th
November 2008. It's the Thought that Counts is scheduled for release in
the USA on 1 st February 2009.

David currently gives talks and runs workshops in the UK and around the
world.

[tomroberts]

Well, I bet he makes more dosh from b*llocks than he would do from chemistry.

[bobdezon]

It seems his career choice outside of his area of expertise (chenistry) is one huge Argumentum ad Verecundiam. Nobody would even pay him a moments notice if he was a builder (but knowing the woos, they probably would now that I think of it).

The only thing on that list I can agree with really, is the known power of placebo, and maybe the changes to brain chemistry during meditation. The rest seem a bit rupert sheldrake.

[tomroberts]

Apparently he is famous for

QUANTUM FIELD HEALING

Quantum Field Healing works symbolically at the source level of an illness or disease. The main principle in QFH is to look at a disease or illness not as a physical thing but as patterns of energy waves (or vibrations) that can be changed, just as you could change a wave on a pond by dropping a stone in it. The stone, in QFH, is a thought.

The Quantum Field Healing visualization
Let’s say that you have a specific disease (or illness, condition, pain, etc.). Visualize the body part or organ and then imagine going inside it, as if you were taking a camera inside so you could see the bones, muscle, flesh, tendons and joints. Now go inside the part until you see the cells that it’s made of. Now go inside a cell and see the proteins, enzymes and DNA inside. Go inside the DNA and see the atoms that it is made of. Pick an atom and go inside it. See the subatomic particles – protons, neutrons, electrons and others. Imagine them as stars in the night sky.

The quantum field is a field of energy from which particles condense, analogous to the way in which raindrops condense from clouds. The particles begin their life in the quantum field. So, rather than imagining you are going inside the particles, go to their source – the quantum field itself.

You can read more here, if you really want to....

www.cygnus-books.co.uk/hamilton-david-quantum-field-healing-a574.html

I wonder if it works for appendicitis, or pneumonia, or cancer?

[lucan]

How Dr David R Hamilton works in most cases is to take a sliver of scientific rational and surround it with complete b***cks.

[julia]

Just for a minute there I thought "Diddy" David Hamilton had embarked on a new career.
I'm so disappointed.