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organism. Possibly living systems may even be regarded as funda- mentally electromagnetic in their nature. Complementary medical diagnostics and therapies that are modalities of subtle intervention comprise the third area that has captured the Center’s attention. Some of these, such as acupunc- ture, homeopathy, and infinitesimal drug doses, and healer inter- ventions, are older systems of medicine that remain largely incomprehensible in terms of the accepted biomedical model. Others, such as electroacupuncture and various other electro- magnetic interventions, are relatively new. Collectively all of these have also been referred to as “energy medicine” or “soft medicine” and include electroacupuncture, observed biological effects of extremely high dilutions (Davenas et al. 1988) and homeopathic preparations (Ferley et al. 1989; Reilly et al. 1986), a DC device with a small voltage to penetrate soft tissues and pro- mote scarless regenerative healing (Becker 1990), therapeutic touch (Wirth 1989), and laying on of hands with intention to heal (Rubik 1992). Evidence is mounting from many different areas of research in complementary medicine that living systems are highly nonlinear and that subtle interventions in the form of very small stimuli can lead to significant beneficial effects without side effects. Such effects are unanticipated by the conventional medical model. The paradigm-challenging facts cited here, taken collectively, seem to fit together somewhat like pieces of a puzzle and are beginning to give shape to the rudiments of a new scientific world view. One of the strategies of the Center is to draw connec- tions between seemingly disparate anomalies in these three areas toward building a larger framework, a new paradigm that would accommodate both conventional and frontier sciences. Although the universe is a seamless whole, conventional science has elabo- rated on smaller and smaller fragments without much regard for the whole picture. What is sorely missing is an interrelationship between the parts that comprise the whole. With its interdiscipli- nary scope and focus on the big questions, the Center attempts to contribute to the large-scale scientific picture to help restore a sense of wholeness. The world is suffering from serious chronic problems—AIDS, increased cancer and other chronic degenerative disorders, over- population, rampant hunger, endangered species, pollution, holes in the ozone layer, dwindling energy resources, and possi- ble climatic changes. Creative breakthroughs to solve these prob- lems are long overdue. What is needed is a dialogue between the frontier scientists who offer the possibility of new perspectives and those in the mainstream majority. The Center is committed to bridge-building from frontier to mainstream and to engender- ing new ways of seeing. In this way, solutions to larger human concerns may arise. For example, scientists in the East and the West have been vir- tually isolated from one another for decades due to difficult polit- ical relations. The collapse of the Soviet Union has fostered an open exchange of information. Such informational exchange is of paramount importance in the frontier areas of science where cross-fertilization can give rise to new approaches and interna- tional collaborations. The Center has hosted a number of events thus far that include international roundtable meetings with invited scientists and scholars on key topics within the scope of our three main frontier science areas of interest. It also hosts monthly colloquia or symposia at Temple University. Distinguished pioneers, including scientists of international reputation, are invited to speak and lead discussion. I have published several general-inter- est articles on the frontier sciences with a view to increasing the level of public comprehension of science in the U.S. Scientists and scholars throughout the world who identify with frontier issues in science have become affiliated with the Center and form an extended global network of serious, open- minded scholars and researchers. Communications via mail, tele- fax, telex, bitnet, and telephone expand daily. The Center’s semi- annual journal, Frontier Perspectives, has a worldwide distribu- tion of 5,000. More original contributed articles are being includ- ed to reflect the variety of opinions, divergent approaches, and splinter groups characteristic of the frontier sciences and to por- tray a good example of open system dynamics by incorporating a wide variety of viewpoints. The three areas in which the Center is concentrating will have a significant impact on the future. The seemingly anomalous findings from each, taken collectively, point toward new views of the cosmos, and especially of life, that encompass more features than the old. Life may now be seen as more dynamically respon- sive to subtle external influences, more interconnected, and more interdependent. Recent work on the origin and evolution of living All of life may be regarded as conscious or cognitive in a rudimen- tary sense, having the capability of sensing and responding to the smallest environmental changes. systems shows that they evolve in unison with all of nature and exhibit a nonlinear interconnectedness. The role of consciousness moves from a position of insignificance in the dominant para- digm to one of active participation in both the biological and physical realms. Mind, nonlocal interactions, and electromagnetic field interactions may now be seen as critical to the functions of living systems. The new paradigm remains unfinished. The ques- tion also remains whether the new findings can be accommodat- ed by science as we know it today. Some of the experimental results from consciousness research challenge our usual notions of objectivity and causality. New developments may pave the road toward a new postmodern science. It has been said that one can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back. What will be the response to a collective group of sci- entists challenging mainstream ideas? Just as cooperative or coherent phenomena in nature have unusual strength and stabili- ty, frontier science researchers coming together gain a collective strength that is not easily dismissed. The Center for Frontier Sciences provides a unique opportunity for them to gather together with mutual support under a university umbrella and to join together in the challenges that await at the edge of science. “The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well it will grow a new one...” —lIvan Turgenev iii --- PAGE 4 (OCR) --- HEMI-SYNC® JOURNAL References ‘Ader, R. 1983. Developmental psychoneuroimmunology. Dev. 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