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On January 8, 1990, Buck Charlson wrote:

Intuition is an innate capability, specific for each individual serving as a guide, counselor and informer. It is an abstract quality of mind, programmed with a higher level of consciousness. It is a segment of a Universal Mind from which all knowing and physical manifestations are derived. Each and all of our bodily cells and systems respond to this direction. It possesses an intelligence we use intuitively and this may be expanded if we sense and believe in it. Training for this capability is needed, just as is necessary for all exercises.

Buck Charlson is the creative genius who discovered hydraulic brakes, hydraulic steering, and held eighty-eight patents in the field of hydraulics. He had a high school diploma, no college, and yet discovered great principles of physics, which had eluded some of the most famous academic individuals.

A couple of decades ago, the International Tribune had an interesting editorial on creativity and vision. At that time, two of the great giant corporations were floundering, and the editorial emphasized that it was because of lack of creativity and vision on the part of the leaders. I realized then that all creativity and vision are really the result of intuition. Art, music, poetry, every scientific discovery, and even the Industrial Revolution are all the result of intuitive knowledge put into play. There are numerous stories of famous individuals who have had unusual relations with their creativity. Schubert is said to have slept with his glasses on and a candle lighted by his bed so that he could awaken from a dream and quickly write down a new musical score that he had dreamt. With that International Tribune editorial and having worked with Caroline Myss for several years, I felt the time had come to evaluate how easy it is to “teach” intuition. Unfortunately, there is no known psychometric test that measures intuition itself, but there are several that measure creativity. So I taught a class at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. The course attracted some two dozen students and was carried out over a full semester. At the beginning of the semester, each individual was tested with the Agor AIM survey, Alternate Uses Form C, Christensen-Guilford Fluency Test, Ideational Fluency, Association Fluency, Expressional Fluency, Guilford's Consequences Forms A1 and A2, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale. Actually, the Ideational Fluency Scale gave the best results of all, with 70 percent of the students having an increase on that particular test. The Taggart Management Style Inventory also showed that 70 percent of the students had an increase. During the course of the semester, we concentrated on the following:

• Deep relaxation training

• Creative guided imagery

• Brain synchronization techniques

• Self-hypnosis

• Music

• Guided intuitive testing

Midsemester we “tested” the students with experiential intuitive ability such as sensing the major illnesses in a given individual, and sending and receiving certain thoughts, words, or ideas from one person to another, and so on.

• Creative imagery, symbology and affirmation

The results of the semester were quite striking, with significant improvement in most of the students on at least several of the creativity tests. Following that, Caroline and I began our series of workshops, Vision, Creativity, and Intuition. Our initial enrollment was eighty-four students, and we had a plan of a four-year program with two long, weekend courses each year. Essentially, in its broadest form, Caroline and I alternated our input with Caroline giving her very broad view of the Human Energy System, Archetypes, and so on, which have been integrated into her book. I revised the “Medical Intuition, Intuitive Intuition Diagnostic Check” sheet and each month, the students were sent names of six individuals, generally with only one significant medical problem, or people who were healthy. It was obvious that the vast majority of the students would not practice. They did not send in their monthly reports, and they only wanted to come to the classes. Halfway through the program, it was therefore obviously clear that most students would not become Medical Intuitives but would develop significant skills as counselors. So we created the term “Counseling Intuitive” at that point.

Over the four-year period, the class gradually dwindled to thirty-seven individuals. At the end of that time, out of twenty-one who took the “Counseling Intuitive Exam,” only six took the “Medical Intuition Exam,” in which they were to give a true medical diagnosis on forty individuals, presented over five days, or to conduct a personal counseling intuitive session with a client provided by us. The session was observed by a member of the Board of the American Board of Scientific Medical Intuition, which Caroline and I had formed during the course of this four-year course in order to certify competent individuals. None of the students passed the “Medical Intuition Exam” with a 75 percent accuracy rate, which would have been required for certification, but all of them were quite competent and were certified as Counseling Intuitives.

I remain convinced that individuals can enhance their medical intuitive ability, but it takes great practice unless one somehow is born the rare genius to whom this comes spontaneously. Many can learn to play Chopin's music, but it is only the rare genius of a Chopin who can create it.

I have no idea whether I could pass the Medical Intuitive Exam, because I am not the least bit interested in being a medical intuitive. My own medical training and certainly my clinical skill provide me with the ability to make a diagnosis at least 99 percent of the time. On the other hand, getting across to an individual patient what the problem is and what the underlying psychological, emotional, and spiritual problems are, is often a challenge. I would like to relate just a couple of cases in which I have used Caroline Myss or Bob Leichtman to assist me.

A mid-forties-aged woman who was overweight and diabetic presented with pain in her throat. She actually had total numbness on the right side of her throat with no gag response whatsoever. This is one of the complications of diabetes, a neuropathy of a cranial nerve in this particular case. With her permission and with the patient sitting in the room but not listening to what I was saying on the phone, I called Caroline. Caroline stated, and this was the first time she had ever mentioned a past life, “I see this being related to a past life. She died with a blunt object across her throat. Do a past-life therapy session on her.” So without telling the patient anything other than that Caroline had recommended a past-life therapy session, I did the session. She gave me a vision of seeing herself as a teenage Polynesian girl who was kidnapped by pirates. She was in the bottom of a ship when the pirates were attacked by another pirate ship. The ship began to sink, and as it did, a beam came lose and struck her across her throat, killing her in that way. Following the session, the patient admitted to me that she had had a serious concern that her husband was sexually molesting their two sons. She divorced her husband and both her pain and the numbness in her throat disappeared completely. By medical standards, that is a miracle.

On another occasion, a woman came in wanting me to help her with her problem of excessive and prolonged menstrual bleeding. I did a complete workup and history, and at her request, called Caroline. Caroline asked, “What did she tell you about her two abortions?” The patient had never mentioned the two abortions, and when I asked her about that, she got up and ran out of the room and was not interested in any further therapy. Denial is not a river in Africa!

On an earlier occasion, I was working with a fifty-year-old man who had severe, chronic, low back pain. Physically, he had had surgery on his lower back at the fourth and fifth lumbar discs, which was where, along with the upper sacrum, he experienced pain. Theoretically and medically, the pain should have come from the facet joints on either side, between L4 and L5. But, when I needled those areas, it did not reproduce his pain. I called Bob Leichtman, and he said, “I think you ought to try at L2.” When I put the needles onto the facets at L2-3, the patient said, “That's it, Doc,” and I was then able to relieve his pain by numbing those two joints.

Finally, and perhaps this is one of the most striking cases that I treated, was a man in his early sixties who was exquisitely depressed. He had some pain but depression was much more of a problem than the pain. His history was that he had been driving along an interstate highway, came up over a hill, and ran into a car that was actually parked across his path. The man in the car was already dead, having hit five head of cattle before my patient arrived there; and although the police and coroner determined that the man in the car had been dead before my patient hit that car, he had extreme guilt. I tried everything in my power to help him out of his depression, with no success. So, I called Caroline, again with the patient present, as I have always done, and she said, “If he does not come out of this funk within a year, he will have bowel cancer.” That was in July. He had no symptoms, but in November of that year, he was operated on for cancer of the bowel. He recovered. He was still depressed the following February, and I called Caroline again. She said, “If he does not come out of his depression, he will die in August.” After my discussion with Caroline, I told him exactly what she said. I shook him and told him that he was going to be sitting next to a widow if he didn't come out of it and did not respond any more than he had to everything else we had done. August of that year came, and the patient was admitted to the hospital with a pulmonary embolus, a blood clot from the legs to the chest, but he did not die. One year later, on August 31, he died. I had not asked her which August!

These are striking examples of excellent intuitive medical diagnoses. I would like to discuss my own major intuitive ability, which I think is creating scientific solutions to various health problems. In the late 1970s, I was invited to drive from La Crosse up to Minneapolis to discuss consciousness with Buck Charlson, the wonderful genius of hydraulics, with which we began this chapter. Once a month I would drive up for a long afternoon of discussions about the broad field of consciousness. In 1982, when I moved form La Crosse to Springfield, those visits ceased, but in 1987, Buck wrote a letter, stating, “If you would do a study to determine whether crystals could be helpful in healing, I will fund it.” I spent almost a year and one half wondering how to study crystals, and then, with sudden intuitive insight, it was obvious: quarts crystals are piezoelectric. Piezoelectric means that when you put physical pressure on a substance, it responds with an electrical current. Quartz crystal is one of the premier piezoelectric materials, but our skeleton, muscles, tendons, and even intestines are also highly piezoelectric. I reasoned that if we gave individuals a programmed quartz crystal, it would help keep them out of depression. We already knew by that time that one of my earlier intuitive hits would treat depression with great success.

In 1975, I discovered that one of the electrical stimulators, called the Pain Suppressor, developed by Saul Liss, created a sense of a visual flicker when applied transcranially. We did studies on it and demonstrated that this stimulus significantly raised both serotonin and endorphins. At the same time, we were using photostimulation to help such patients relax, and we found that in more than thirty thousand patients, when we combined the Liss stimulator transcranially and the photostimulation (which later became the Shealy RelaxMate), we could get 85 percent of patients out of depression successfully within two weeks without drugs. So, we put the patients through our typical treatment for depression, daily stimulation with the Liss stimulator, and education of the various aspects of stress management, and so on. At the end of the two weeks, at least 80 percent of the patients were out of depression. On the last day, in a double-blind study, they were given either a quartz crystal or a glass crystal. They programmed the crystal by passing it through a flame, to get rid of any stored energy, and then blowing into the crystal three times while imagining their ideal of being free of depression. They also used a short healing phrase, not more than six words, which we had worked with them on during the two-week program. They went home with no further therapy. At the end of three months, they came back. Seventy percent of those who had quartz crystals, but only 28 percent of those who had glass crystals, were still out of depression. That is statistically significant at the 0.001 level. Over the next ten years, Buck continued to fund research projects that grew out of that particular one and led to my discovering that 90 percent of individuals are deficient in magnesium; initially we gave everyone intravenous magnesium. Much later, I discovered through my own intuition that magnesium chloride is absorbed through the skin better than it is orally. We discovered that virtually all depressed people are deficient in 1 to 7 essential amino acids and 86 percent are deficient in taurine— one of the most important amino acids— which works synergistically with magnesium to maintain the electrical charge on cells.

In the early 90s, I was told by a guide with whom I had verbal communication that “within five years you will have tools to regrow an eye, a limb, or the spinal cord.” Now, you know you are crazy when you get that kind of message! Shortly thereafter, I was invited to go to Kiev in the Ukraine to study microwave resonance therapy, which they had been using since 1982, treating more than 200,000 patients with a wide variety of disorders. They stated that they had “discovered” that human DNA resonates at 54 to 78 billion cycles/second, or Giga Hertz (GHz). I was trained in their technology, but they wanted $700,000 for fourteen of the devices to bring back to the United States. When I got home, I called my friend Saul Liss, an engineer, and asked him how to produce giga frequencies. He said that all you have to do is pass a high voltage through a spark gap. Here again is how intuition works. In that instant, I suddenly recalled the work of Georges Lakhovsky, which I had read back in the 70s. At least twenty years earlier, I had had his book The Secret of Life (published originally in this country in 1935). I looked it up and saw the Lakhovsky multiwave oscillator, which consisted of two coils of coiled copper tubing, placed three feet apart, looking like a maze. He attached to that a Tesla Coil and treated more than three hundred patients between 1939 and 1942. He reported great success in curing cancer and other illnesses. He was killed in 1942 and the work had never been restarted.

Shortly after that, while I was in Holland doing a couple of workshops, I was out jogging and suddenly had an image of a copper pyramid above a small copper room. The next night my guide came and said, “Where do you think that image you got yesterday came from?” I replied that I thought it was mine. The guide replied, “I put it there.” When I got home, I got permission from our Institutional Review Board to treat seventy-five patients in a small room that I had constructed with copper on the lower walls and a copper pyramid above, with quartz and amethyst at the top of the pyramid. Then the copper pyramid was activated by a Tesla Coil attached to the copper tubing. We treated seventy-five patients; twenty-five each with chronic back pain, rheumatoid arthritis, or depression—all of which had failed conventional therapy. We had them sit in the pyramid for one hour, five days a week, for two weeks. At the end of that time, 70 percent of them were remarkably improved; but my thinking at that point was, well, this is all great, but we would never get this approved by the FDA! Coupling this with my information from the Ukraine, I set about constructing a modern, solid-state electrical stimulator to reproduce the output of one of the first electrical stimulators in this country, the Electreat, patented in 1919. It turned out that it was not only very successful in treating pain but also in producing human DNA frequencies of 54 to 78 GHz, the exact same frequency and intensity as the devices from the Ukraine—50 to 78 decibels. The copper room and pyramid produced exactly those same frequencies when a Tesla Coil was turned on.

Eventually, with the help of several individuals, we were able to develop the Shealy Pain Pro. While I was working on that over a period of five years, my guide gave me five specific electrical circuits in the human body. Actually, the beginning of this goes back to another earlier intuitive hit. In the early 90s, I had become quite interested in DHEA, or dehydroepiandrosterone. It is the most important hormone in the body and the most prominent, in terms of concentration, and one which decreases from age twenty-five on. The average eighty-year-old has less than 10 percent of the average twenty-year-old. My intuition said that if we would use natural progesterone cream, it would raise DHEA. We did the experiment in seven men initially, and it raised DHEA from 60 to 100 percent. But if you start with only 100 nanograms/deciliter and you need 750 or more in a man to be optimal, doubling doesn't do a great deal. One day I sat down and asked the question, What else can I do to raise DHEA? My guide said, “If you stimulate the acupuncture points that connect the kidneys with the gonads, with the thyroid, adrenals, and the pituitary, through a Window of the Sky acupuncture point, it will raise DHEA.” Having practiced acupuncture since 1967, I knew a great deal of the meaning of what I was told. Kidneys, in Chinese cosmology, are the area where you concentrate your ancestral “chi,” or energy. My response was that there was no acupuncture point for the pituitary. The guide said, “Find one.” So I got out my acupuncture atlas and chose Governing Vessel 20 to activate the pineal because it directly overlies the pineal gland, which then controls the pituitary. The points I chose were Kidney 3, bilaterally; Conception Vessels 2, 6, and 18; Master of the Heart 6, bilaterally; Large Intestine 18, bilaterally; and Governing Vessel 20. I asked the guide whether these were right, and he said, “Try it.” We did our initial experiments and found that, over a three-month period, with stimulation of these points, three minutes per pair of points daily, DHEA was raised an average of 60 percent with some individuals, getting an increase of up to 100 percent.

Shortly after that, I began to receive from the guide more descriptions of circuits, including the Ring of Air, which he said would stimulate simultaneity of thought or holographic thinking (which I consider intuition). Next came the Ring of Water, which he said would open the crystological heart, or help balance emotions. Next came the Ring of Earth, which he said would recreate the physical body; and finally, the Ring of Crystal, which I was told would lead to actual regeneration. Now I was not told the names of the points to use—I had to develop those points based upon general physical sites that the guide mentioned, and I was given no further information about the chemistry involved. That required work and intuition on my part.

We found that the Ring of Air strikingly increases neurotensin, a brain-produced neurochemical that is a neuroleptic. That means that it really allows one to detach from the body and feel somewhat spacey but very alert. The Ring of Water significantly normalizes aldosterone, the adrenal hormone that controls water and potassium metabolism. The Ring of Earth controls or raises calcitonin up to several hundred percent. Calcitonin is a thyroid hormone that is essential for depositing calcium in bone. And, finally, the Ring of Crystal, stimulated three days in a row with the Shealy Pain Pro, reduces free radicals an average of 85 percent. This led to my writing the book Life Beyond 100, because I felt that if, when I had completed the work on the five circuits, individuals could restore their DHEA and calcitonin and keep free radicals low, the average person with good habits could live an average of 140 years. And I still believe that to be true, but when I started presenting this to the public, I learned that most people do not want to live to be 100, let alone 140; and they would not take the twenty minutes or so a day necessary to stimulate even one of the Rings.

In January 2007, I awoke at 4 a.m. with an image of the old copper pyramid on top of a copper wall. I knew this was a message from my guide that I had not completed the work on that approach, so we reconstructed the pyramid without the walls and just put a copper mat under the pyramid. We began to measure telomeres, which are the end of the DNA. Telomeres are key to both health and longevity. They ordinarily shrink by one percent every year of life, starting at birth, and those with bad habits have them shrink much faster. We had six individuals who agreed to participate in the project and use the pyramid with a Tesla Coil for a minimum of thirty minutes, five days a week. At the end of three months, we found that their telomeres had regrown by one percent. That was very exciting, but as I began talking with individuals about it, most people didn't want a pyramid in their house. I then intuitively felt that the only alternative was to create the giga frequencies needed in a mat that could go on top of a mattress so that the whole process could take place while you were sleeping. We created this mat and named it the RejuvaMatrix®, as I had already been calling the copper pyramid that. The six individuals then used the mats instead of the pyramid over the next seven months. At that time, telomeres had grown 2.5 percent, which would have averaged a bit over 3 percent in a year, and I was very excited. We now have some fifty individuals involved in a five-year study of telomere regrowth. To date the RM is leading to an average of 2.6 percent regrowth of telomeres per year.

I have gone through my own process of intuition in some detail because I think each individual has his or her own unique ability. If you “listen,” you are aware of symbols and messages that come spontaneously or in dreams; then vision (images) becomes creativity, which is the fruit of intuition. Every individual has the ability to strengthen creativity by observing, using, and honoring intuition.

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