• Corpus ID: 17318953

The Healing Connection: EEG Harmonics, Entrainment, and Schumann's Resonances

@inproceedings{Hendricks2010TheHC,
  title={The Healing Connection: EEG Harmonics, Entrainment, and Schumann's Resonances},
  author={Luke Hendricks and William F. Bengston and Jay D. Gunkelman},
  year={2010}
}

• Luke Hendricks, W. Bengston, J. Gunkelman
• Published 2010
• Physics

This study looks at interpersonal coupling or connectivity between healer and subject pairs using advanced signal processing approaches and in- stantaneous EEG phase coupling. Paired recordings of the healer and subject were done both with the subject at a distance and in the proximity of the heal- er. The EEG data were analyzed for cross-spectral coupling using the bispec- trum, as well as the more traditional Fourier-based spectral analysis and EEG waveform analysis looking at phase. The healer's EEG data showed harmonic frequency coupling across the spectra, followed by between-individual EEG frequency entrainment effects, and then by instantaneous EEG phase locking. These results suggest the presence of a connection between the healer and subject. We observed the healer producing a pattern of harmonics, consistent with Schumann Resonances, with an entrainment of the subject's EEG by the healer's resonance standing waves, and with eventual phase coupling seen between the healer and subject-paired EEGs. We speculate that Schumann's resonance-based standing potential effect might serve as a connectivity mech- anism underlying healing.