Measuring the Immeasurable

Spirituality Research: Measuring the Immeasurable?

The rising popularity of spirituality is accompanied by a flood of research in numerous disciplines to probe its relationships with health, wellness, and countless other topics. Initially subsumed under religion, especially Christianity, and still overlapping with it, spirituality is increasingly treated as a distinct topic that applies to all religions and to persons who have none with their d...

Recently published papers: Asking the unanswerable – measuring the immeasurable and decontaminating the infected

As 2003 marches on one is left reflecting on yet another year in which the intensive care literature has continued to challenge the accepted tenets, and as always one continues to be surprised by the results. The study conducted by Finney and coworkers [1] illustrates well how our increasing knowledge leads to more questions. Since the study by van den Berghe and coworkers [2] was reported, muc...

Curing the Incurable by Measuring the Immeasurable: Mapping the Invisible Body by Bio-Cybernetics

Is it possible to map the invisible body? In Germany, there is an emerging bio-medical discipline called Bio-Cybernetics which has been measuring the invisible, energy field of the human body. BioCybernetics is a key component of the broader field of Energy Medicine in Europe. It is actually not a new idea but an old concept that has been given a new name. A bio-cybernetic matrix is a modern te...

Artistic Light and Capturing the Immeasurable

ABOUT THE COVER " A fter school, I would often go down on Chestnut Street to see the pictures in Earle's Galleries, " Henry Ossawa Tanner recalled about his early years (1). He was especially drawn to the marine subjects of T. Alexan-der Harrison (1853–1930). " After drinking my fi ll of these art wonders, I would hurry home and paint what I had seen, and what fun it was " (1). When at age 12 o...

Immeasurable inequality in the European Union