I want to tell you just a little bit about the beginning of my original research in Rolfing, since many of you are too young to have known Ida Rolf. I was a professor at UCLA. Some of my students were being Rolfed, and they came in and told me these wild things about Rolfing and asked me to explain it, and I said, “I can’t.” I’m a physical therapist and a physiologist, and when I first heard about it there was no explanation in my vocabulary to explain Rolfing. So Dr. Rolf came to town and I decided I would go listen to her. And I listened, and I came up with information that said, This is an ultimate possibility; I know the tremendous extent of connective tissue in the body and there must be something good about this. So I continued to evaluate my dance students who performed better than I had ever seen them perform before. Finally I talked to Dr. Rolf, and she arranged for me to get a sizeable research grant to handle Rolfing. Many of you have read this report; it was written in 1979; it is available at the Rolf Institute.

Of course many things have gone on since then. But I became friends with Dr. Rolf, and she said: “I’m going to Rolf you.” I said “Not until I have finished the research. I don’t want to be contaminated one way or the other.” So I finished the research and I was Rolfed by the master, Ida Pauline Rolf. It was a very interesting experience: she had hands three times the size of mine and she could cover the entire body with just a few movies. When I finally had finished the report, she read it. We met, and she said, “You know, what you have come up with will be the future of Rolfing.” This had to do with an understanding of the energy field of the human being, and how this tied in with the manipulative techniques that you people use. Many of you have moved into this area.

My talk to you today has to do with field concepts, and particularly, field concepts and the human mind. I have some goals: I want to explain on another level, a lot of the things that you have observed in Rolfing, because I think many of you have explained them on the wrong level. You have explained them on a nervous system level, on a brain level, and I am going to help you explain them on a mind level, which is much more profound. That is the level at which you are working. I want to move your role as healers into a level of transaction and not into the level of treatment. And last, I want to convince you that you have one of the outstanding roles in the treatment of individuals toward health, probably more than any other body workers I know, and I know many of the body working techniques.

There are two reasons yours is outstanding: one is that you lay on hands; in the laying on of hands, your first contact with everyone is through the field. You have already made a communication. And when I have finished you will see that this communication is mind to mind, not fingers to connective tissue, but mind to mind. Now you have experienced this, and you know what I am talking about. The second one is that not only do you have mind to mind contact which many other healers have, but you have an extra: that is, you do things to connective tissue.

Now connective tissue is more than what you have thought it is: it is the primary circuit for electromagnetic energy in the body. Connective tissue has a characteristic called piezo-electric which means it operates like an electrical system; it operates very rapidly, and as you know, it is the most extensive tissue in the human body, outside of fluid. Connective tissue that encircles every system, every cell, binds all things together, determines its direction, but it is piezo-electric: it is not purely a guy wire and a stability to allow things to happen or to make them free: it is the access point to all tissue of the body on the electromagnetic field.

Now that is my big message today: you have two things that make you unique in the treatment of human beings. I am going to see if I can’t take you into your next role. The next role is as one of the primary healers toward health, because that is where we are going. It is not merely to relieve the pain, to change the movement, to improve the posture, to improve the consciousness, it is to allow cells of the human body to come back to their normalcy.

Now I’m a physiologist, and for years I have been concerned about why, when we know that every month we get new cells, how come we get old stupid cells? How come bad back cells come in as new bad back cells? Did you ever think of that? You get a new one, you ought to have a fresh one, but you don’t, you get an old one. This has to do with cellular destruction, which means that cells no longer work efficiently; they are going downstream. We have ways of proving this, and it is primarily through the electromagnetic system that that cell goes off of its metronome. It gets sick; the sodiumpotassium pump no longer works very well; we get jammed up in that tissue, minerals, detox. problems, and we go through all of this poisonous substance, or famine in order to detox ourselves, and we don’t detox, because we don’t have there the electrical part to cause the cell to operate normally.

We are going to make a brand-new definition of health: health of the cell, health of the electromagnetic system. If we have that, we will cure all diseases. There are whole new concepts coming in about nutrition that have to do with the curing of disease through the use of electromagnetic substances, ionized minerals-not the ones you stick in your stomach, those are not ionized and they don’t osmose across the membrane to get to the cellelectrolytes like we feed young babies who have diarrhea, or athletes who get rid of their electrolytes. This will be the frontier in nutrition in the future: it is not just the protein, it is charged protein. We have thought in the past that it was the chemicals that we put in our body rather than the electrical charges that go with the chemicals.

There has been an old model that still exists in some people’s minds, that Rolfing is a mechanical movement of connective tissue. Yes, we can loosen the guy wires, we can eliminate the pressure on nerves, we can change joint function, but it is not primarily a nervous tissue phenomenon; that is only secondary. What you are doing to people is primarily a energy field facilitation. The new model has to do with health and healing. Where you will be major in the health and healing profession-not just a unique place, but again I say I know of no body workers that do two things .One is improve the transportation system through the connective tissue of the electromagnetic field, and the other is directly feed electromagnetic energy into bodies that are without.

You have found out that when you start your Rolfing there are all kinds of emotional things that happen to these people: sometimes there are outbreaks of emotion, sometimes there are tears, sometimes there is relief, that has to do with the mind. You are in direct access with the mind. Minds are not in the brain, not the highest level, they are in the field. The simplistic idea is that the emotion comes from the brain.

As you start your Rolfing remote sensations occur that you can’t really attribute to the place that you are working. Remote things happen and you don ‘t really say why. And then you go into images and so do our people. I hope that you go into many images, because if you do, then you are reading the mind. Now if you can clarify your mind reading and not get it all garbaged up with your own problems, you have direct access to the information coming from the mind that that person doesn’t know as well as you don’t know.

Generally in the early stages of your work, you find anti-coherency occurings These are people who come in and say: How come I’m not here, I’m all upset, I don’t walk well…” Isn’t that true? You have upset a pattern that has existed for a long time. It is in the process of desorganizing in order to reorganize. We found in the study that I did on Rolfing, that sometime around the 6th, 7th or 8th time, a coherency started to happen, things start to come together.

These are some of your discoveries, and I know you have a lot more. But here are some things I have discovered: tissue has resistance. One of the things you are trying to do is overcome that resistance in some way; well, it really isn’t overcome by pressure. If you put enough pressure on for long enough you can actually fatigue, and you can start to move tissue, but it is not overcome by the nervous system either. Yes we can go into Golgi tendon reflexes, we can go into stretch reflexes, we can go all of those-they are temporary. It is overcome by the electromagnetic energy that flows out of your fingers, that is how you can overcome resistance.

You know what happens to your hands: your hands get hot. Isn’t that correct? They get very hot as you move on; the electromagnetic energy is coming out of your hands, and if you pay a little more attention to that, allow it the time, you will soften up tissue like you cannot imagine. Do you know how you soften up raw meat? Lay your hands on it, and you will soften its connective tissue; why not soften the connective tissue that you are about to manipulate and move. So wait just a little longer time with this energy that is coming out of your hands to soften up the rigidity that has occurred. What happens when you use this electromagnetic energy coming out of your hands? You become so skilled that you create a more fluid substance in the connective tissue.

Connective tissue holds fluid, you know this. This is the way in which it carries the electromagnetic field. If you can soften meat by this, you can soften connective tissue. What you are doing is filling it full of water. This electromagnetic energy from your hands, if you will but give it time, will absorb the fluid in surrounding areas and you can move the tissue much much faster. The heat that comes out of your hands is a DC magnetic energy. The direct current is magnetic, it is low in frequency and it is the energy that affects dense tissue the most. Now it doesn’t affect the mind, I can assure you. Unless you are coming in with some high alternating currents, you are not affecting the mind of this person, but you can affect the tissue per se. So there are ways of focusing your imaging directly on softening connective tissue. I can assure you that it will take you only a few minutes to soften this connective tissue. It makes it much simpler for the person to experience.

You know those people where it is like a cup of tea, you just slide the connective tissue, it moves, you separate it-and then you get these others that have so much rigidity; these are the ones the hands need to there longer, the pressure needs to be there less, until this area has filled with fluid. It becomes more mobile at that time. I am talking about how to cut the resistance now.

Energy enters the body from your hands and from the outside environment by way of the acupuncture spots. This is why acupuncture is so effective: it is because they have a direct access by way of the acupuncture spots. It does follow meridians, but we found that its primary resource is the connective tissue.

Now we found this in a very odd experience. Do you know what a “mu” room is? Well it is a room in physics, there are only two or three in the world, it is a closed area in which you can manipulate the magnetic energy of the environment, so you can put in energy or you can take out energy. You can put in primarily magnetic energy, you can take out magnetic energy; you can put in electrical energy, you can take out electric energy. I conned the physics department into letting me come in there and play. I put Rosalyn Bruyere and Emilie Conrad in this box-can you imagine those two? I stayed outside. Then it looked like so much fun that in the afternoon I went in too.

In the center of the room there is a piece of instrument that will actually suck out and absorb parts of the electromagnetic energy. So we took out the magnetic part of the electromagnetic spectrum, down to an ambient state, which means that there is not much magnetism in there, and we lost coordination. You say coordination is the nervous system? Coordination is the nervous system in a magnetic field. There will be a time in which all of our neurologically disturbed people will be educated in a room with high magnetism.

When we increased the magnetism, we could stand on our tiptoes without toe shoes; we could lean to impossible levels and angles. Some of the stuff that Emilie Conrad is doing today was formulated in a “mu” room. When we took the magnetic energy out, we couldn’t find our nose; we could hardly stand up. When we put it back, we could do coordination things that we had never been able to do before. The strong magnetic field facilitates the neuromuscular system. It is the electromagnetic part of this energy that I am talking to you about of changing the resistance of the body.

Then when we manipulated the electrical part, we got in deep trouble. We started to weep; we had emotions that were connected to apparently nothing. Rosalyn was reading the aura inside this room: the energy would jump from Emilie to me and back and forth because it was the only electrical energy in the entire room. We had to go and take it off of someone else. We went into extreme emotional disturbance without the electrical part of the electromagnetic energy.

Now that is pretty heavy duty stuff. I said I was going to shock you a little. I told Ida Rolf that I would be back some time. She said: “This is the frontier.” and I said, “I know, and I’ll be back to give it to them.”

So we find out that as soon as the energy enters the acupuncture spots, its direct access is connective tissue and in the “mu” room, we were able to look into the body as we are not ordinarily able to. We saw this magnificent flow of energy in connective tissue. We couldn’t film it because we were seeing it through our eyes and not through a camera lens. Rosalyn said: “What is that? It’s like the most intricate mesh you can imagine.” That’s where the energy was flowing. Remember, it is a tissue tract. It is like a nervous system only this flows through connective tissue.

The NIH has come up with a phenomenal discovery, called neuroceptides. They are protein substances that lie on the surface of all cells. Some cells have three or four, some cells have sixty or seventy. It is the instantaneous communication system in the human body; you think the nerve is fast? It is a slow dud. This is instantaneous.

Here the electromagnetic energy comes in through the acupuncture spots, is transmitted through the connective tissue to cells, because connective tissue surrounds all cells, binds all cells and all systems. It is now at the neuropeptides. Then the neuropeptide-it is the immediate communication system of electromagnetic fields. It is so fast that they have found that by stimulating a neuropeptide in the brain or in the little finger, it instantaneously gives information to a neuropeptide in the big toe. There is no time delay, no lag. There is nothing in human dense tissue that doesn’t have a lag; this has no lag, it is instantaneous. So if we get more electromagnetic energy into these cells, we have communication everywhere in the body. This is what is happening when you are Rolfing someone’s hip and the person feels something in their eyeball. It is because as soon as that energy starts flowing it instantaneously flows everywhere in that body.

Candice Pert has done this research at the NIH, and she is floored by what has happened. We have immediate communication systems.

There is a new one that I don’t have good research on yet. It has to do with microtubules. This has been found in the University of Arizona. These are tiny little tubes that are within the cytoplasm of each cell. This also is receptive to electromagnetic energy. I am not talking about biochemical energy, because it has to be transferred somewhere and this takes time, as nerveenergy does. These are instantaneous things. They think these are the internal resonators, various forms of electromagnetic energy. I am sticking to the first three, saying I will play with microtubules.

Let me tell you some of my conclusions: The primary effect of Rolfing on the total organism is electromagnetic, first; and secondly it is mechanical and biochemical in its effect upon the connective tissue. Now both go together. If you have one without the other you don’t have the completeness because the connective tissue is making the tracks of the transportation of electromagnetic energy free. It is probably one of the greatest mechanisms by which we come to the area of health.

If you believe this, it says to you have to make some changes in some of the older Rolfing techniques. You have to add a little bit more. Because now you are going to be after a different goal. The different goal is going to be the ultimate health of the human being, because that is where it is going to happen.

What is bioelectric activity or energy? We call it the aura, but that is a very limited construct because the aura i hanging on the outside of the body. The interesting thing is how come the aura doesn’t dissipate like smoke? It is because of electromagnetism. The surface of the body is positively charged and the electromagnetic energy that radiates from the body outward because of the atoms is negatively charged. You have a positive and a negative charge, they hang together.

Now if you get Sant’ Anna winds, or winds coming down a canyon that are very hot, it is a very positive charge. What happens? Your aura splits off of you and you feel miserable. This happens all over the world where there are mistrals, there are hot winds coming down. The electrical, negative part goes off to the positive charge in the environment.

One of the ways we keep this field very strong is to come into tumbling water. Tumbling water has a negative charge. As a result, you don’t get rid of the negative charge. The second one is altitude: the negative charge is higher than in the deserts or flatlands except where there are high minerals. This is why we feel refreshed once we get over the fact that the oxygen is a little thin.

Wherever we increase the; negative charge, we will in-crease the size of the field.; When you go to the ocean,. tumbling water, the field gee’ bigger and bigger. That is w makes contact with every piece of information in the outside environment. First it go through the electromagnetic field of the aura. If you have a small antenna, you don’t get much information; if you have a big antenna all around you get a huge piece of information. You may not want that much. Sometimes when it gets noisy I don’t want my aura very big.

In addition to that, it is an insideoutside deal. This energy field goes through every piece of tissue in your body. It is not outside. Some of it is created inside. As the electron pins around the nucleus, it throws off negative ions. That ,negative ion is thrown off and reabsorbed by other atoms, or it is thrown off into the field. Now this leaves a bunch of positive ions hunting a buddy, which are called negative ions. These are free radicals. When you have lost your ionization, and you have a bunch of positive ions running through cells hunting for a negative. This is one of the aging problems of the world and we don’t have to have it because we can provide enough negative ions.

It is inside and it is outside and it is beginning to change our whole concept of what is life. If you go back into the history of physiology, life is said to have started from a chemical soup. This doesn’t do it. Unless there is an electrical charge, you still have chemical soup. When electrical activity starts, you will then start life processes and cellular development. So we are beginning to say life is electrical.

We know something about death now. Some of our researchers from Scandinavia have found that when they say the soul leaves the body there is a charge of 10 to 100 times the spark of light that leaves this body. When it leaves the body, the cells then disintegrate. Death is not the stopping of the breathing or the stopping of the heart because we can return from that near death experience. If the energy charge is gone, we cannot return.

It is not just energy out there, it is organized. It has body to it, not dense like material substance, but body. What organizes that stuff? I have found in my research that it is emotion. Emotion organizes the field; now you know it organizes the physical field, and the emotion there is to protect or embellish the body, or the self or the ego. On the higher consciousness level it is to embellish or protect the soul and the higher consciousness.

I am going to tell you some of the experiences I have had in opening the mind field and seeing the emotional blockages that we have. Now most of you know that when you come into these major blockages in the body it is emotional in origin. We haven’t known exactly how to get at these except to allow them to be expressed and to freely come forth. The energy then dissipates but it doesn’t eliminate it.

Think about this: Here you have this field of energy out around you and when I lecture mine gets very big because you people feed me. I feed you, you feed me and we have an ongoing kind of relationship here. As you feed your Rolfing subjects and they feed you. But every single piece of information that comes to your brain has to first go through the field. You can’t see anything without seeing through the field; you can’t hear anything without first hearing the sounds of your own body, and you do have body sounds. You can’t touch anything without experiencing the touch of what touches, which is your own body. So when information comes into you it is already colored by your field. It is not pure. The clearer and purer your field is, the more dynamic and the truer is the sensory information that eventually gets to your brain.

Actually the field responds and analyzes before the brain ever knows what is going on.

I tried in the laboratory, when I was experimenting on magnetic fields-I found that the mind responded before the brain got anything. If something that happened, a person came and laid on hands, or they went into a meditation or there was a noise outside, the field responded very rapidly. I had these great swings or changes in the field, and the brain came after the fact, it came later. By the time it got inside, or through the sensory nerve endings, the field had already responded, sometimes very violently.

I decided to experiment with this. I put a number of subjects in a room, put instruments on them and I went back and started to clap. The field started to respond before my hands came in contact with each other. That will blow your mind, won’t it? A person’s thought will change a field.

We are talking about far out stuff, but we are talking about the real stuff, and not the mechanical stuff.

I went clapping, we put a timer on my hands; there was no sound and it had already responded because a field had been set up.

Then another experiment: It occured to me that dolphins probably don’t respond and learn by the words we use and the gestures that we have to train dolphins. They probably respond by thought. So what I did is I took Emilie Conrad and I asked her to go into a of higher consciousness in which she was not here so to speak, and Rosalyn Bruyere and I thought, and we changed her field. We put it in such a way that there was a metronome and we thought a thought and Emilie’s body responded. Emilie didn’t even know what was going on. We thought such things as love and embrace. Now we had an action with the thought; we were going to tell these fish that we would love them and embrace them and see what would happen; and we had hate and attack. Emilie’s field went crazy on a thought; we didn’t say a word. You know what you are doing to your people if you come in with certain kinds of thoughts, you are fouling them up.

I tried another one: I got behind a person and I got a feather and I tickled their field; I got a response in the field. Nothing contacted the body; the brain never got the tickle. So even little light and gentle things.

Then the one that I have done many times since: I put people back to back, having made enough racket in the laboratory that they didn’t even know what was going on. I had them blindfolded, set them back to back, not even too close, and watched the transaction between two fields. It was phenomenal. There was nothing going on, they were not speaking; they don’t even know that anyone is back there. Sometimes I found two fields that stayed exactly where they started. They made contact, there was a barrier, nothing happened. It was already in the mind of that field that they were not going to interact with this other kind of field. Sometimes I put two together and the one person’s field totally changed while the other stayed the same. So you had a transaction going one way; sometimes I had a transaction going the other way; and sometimes I had total transaction which meant both fields changed into something that was greater and different than either one. This is by way of saying that I am talking about a very volatile thing, one that is so sensitive that if you can tap into this level, you can become some of the greatest healers in the world, cause you are doing two major things.

I want to talk about three kinds of processing: one is called reaction. If you put oxygen, gasoline and fire together, you are going to have an explosion. That is a reaction. If you put oxygen and water and hydrogen together you will have an interaction and you will create water. But when we come to the energy fields, these are so dynamic with human beings, you don’t have reaction and interaction, you have transaction. Transaction means that there is selection. Reaction is predictable: you put two or three things together and you can expect exactly what is going to happen. Interaction means that there is a change of both things that you put together. A transaction means that the dynamic field makes a decision on one level about whether it is going to interact with that other level. This is what happens between healees and Rolfers, is that there is a transaction. Unless you can get a transaction, you will not have a field phenomenon occur; you have a barrier response.

This means that that person can change his field real fast.

Have you ever been somewhere where you don’t like the vibes? If you don’t like the vibes you can change your field so the vibes don’t even get to you.

There are people who say I wrap myself in white light, I do all of these crazy things. Well if you are very dependent, don’t do it, but if you aren’t your field will say, I don’t like that, I’m not going to transact and you don’t transact.

If you change your field you will have a transaction and that means that the energy will flow from you to that body and that connective tissue for the health of that person. Then we have personal fields. We can temporarily change these fields so that they are more coherent.

What is the ideal field I can have most of the time? Number one it is strong; it is not a weak little thing that meanders around and has no push to it; it has a complete spectrum of frequencies. It’s down to the lowest frequencies, the middle frequencies and the higher frequencies. What happens to a lot of people who go into the consciousness movement is that they are way up here; they are no earthly good to anybody. They have almost lost their humanness. They aren’t grounded, they can’t make a living; all they can do is fluff about it. I was up in Oregon with the woodsmen, not that there is anything wrong with them, but they don’t have a very high field. It is grounded, it is oriented toward the earth, it is red bloody meat, no vegetables. This is the way they live. The kind of work they do, they better have some of this, but for living and enjoying being human, I hope they get some of the other to go with it.

Schizophrenics are truly split in the electromagnetic field. They have very low frequencies, very high frequencies but they can’t put the two together. We work on getting the middle frequencies. We have techniques both electrically and with imagery, to walk them down the hill til they get to the low frequencies and then walk them back up the hill so that they know that they are really not split between the two. We need the full spectrum, we nee( the dynamic one and we nee( the strong one, and we nee( one that can adjust frequently.

This field carries information; it is not just electromagnetic per se; it carries information about this person, bolt immediate and longterm.

The mind as a field. The highest level of the mind is no in the brain, but we’ve never found a place for it. In material things we’ve got to put the mind somewhere, so we know it is in the head. Do you know that historically, we have had more problems with brains and minds than probably any philosophical concept we’ve eve( had. We still haven’t straightened it out. Pythagorus had an idea and Aristotle had an idea and Hippocrates had an idea and we have been putting it together and taking it apart for all of these centuries. Well, I’m going to put it in another place, and I have information that says that this is where it belongs. The highest level of the mind is in the electromagnetic field which is inside and outside the body, and it carries the history of this soul in all of its grandeur.

When you put your hands in that electromagnetic field you are into the deepest level of the mind of a human being. Treat it gently and know what you are doing.

Let me tell you some new. thoughts that have come from our neurophysiologists. This, started way back with’ Sherrington, in the early part; of this century; it came then£ with a man named Penfield; he was a neurosurgeon who charted the brain (The Mystery they Mind). He came up with these dichotomies. He would operate and put the brain down where nothing was happening; the person came out of the surgery and knew everything at had happened in the sorry. Now that is weird. If thing is taking place in the rain, how can you get a memory? The mind never stops, it doesn’t sleep. This is a why you dream. The mind is ?forever as long as the soul is in [the body. You can’t anesthetize the mind.

Penfield made some conclusions that I go along with: The mind experiences and the; brain records. The mind is a repository of all information . this soul has ever experienced. It is an amazing thing.

I have worked 20 years now on opening the mind. I have people coming from all over the world. Some of them ‘are emotionally disturbed, some of them are physically disturbed, some of them are some of your great consciousness educators who wish to move to the highest level of their own evolution. We can open the mind.

The mind concludes and makes decisions; the brain cars vies them out. The brain doesn’t make decisions, it just has a bunch of recording device in there, but the mind makes decisions.

We cannot explain human consciousness with the mind as matter. The only way we can explain is it the field. As you read some of the frontier thinkers in the field today, this is where they are coming. I say the mind is soft-wired-like telemetry-this is always a high AC current, very high in frequencies and very dynamic; you can’t predict it. You cannot predict the mind of man; you can predict the brain of man. You can put in certain things in the brain, and if you put them right into the brain itself, you can predict what is going to happen. The mind is an open system, that is what you have your hands in when you start Rolfing.