Margaret M. Moga, PhD

Bio

My research background is the neuroanatomy of circadian rhythms and the central autonomic nervous system. My current research focus is developing scientific measures of ‘energy healing’ and other bioenergetic phenomena, and studying the exceptional experiences of healers. In working with healers, I have observed a unique magnetic field waveform associated with energy healing, with ‘charge-discharge’ characteristics of Reichian orgone. As a complement to my research, I have completed training as a practitioner in Healing Touch, an energy-based biofield therapy. I am active on the Council of the Society for Scientific Exploration, promoting the Frontier Sciences.

Key Publications

Bengston, W.F., and M. Moga (2007) Resonance, placebo effects, and type II errors: Some implications from healing research for experimental methods. J. Altern. Compl. Med. 13: 317-328.

Moga, M.M., D. Zhou (2008) Distant healing of small-sized tumors. J. Altern. Compl. Med. 14(5): 453.

Moga, M.M., B. Mowery, R. Geib (2008) Patients are more likely to use complementary medicine if it is locally available. Rural Remote Health 8(2): 1028.

Li, H., G.N. Waite, M.M. Moga, P. Lam, and R.W. Geib (2010) Balance improvements after a week-long Tai Chi workshop as determined by dynamic posturography. Biomed. Sci. Instrum. 172-177.

Moga, M.M., W.F. Bengston (2010) Anomalous magnetic field activity during a bioenergy healing experiment. J. Sci. Exploration 24(3): 397-410.

Moga, M.M. (2014) Magnetic field activity during psychic healing: A preliminary study with Healing Touch practitioners. Journal of Nonlocality 3(1): http://journals.sfu.ca/jnonlocality/index.php/jnonlocality/index

Caswell, J.M., Carniello, T.N., Tessaro, L.W.E., Sidorov, L., Dotta, B.T., Vares, D.A.E., Moga, M.M., Pitkanen, M., Millar, B., Bajpai, R.P., Tressoldi, P., Kokubo, H., Lake, J., Burns, J.E., Lehman, B., Baer, W., Rouleau, N., Schumacher, D., Juden-Kelly, L., Jarosek, S., Ooi, K.H. (2014) Conditioning of Space-Time: The Relationship between Experimental Entanglement, Space-Memory and Consciousness. Journal of Nonlocality Round Table Series, Colloquium #4, 3(2).

Moga, M. (2014) Healing Waves. Energy Magazine, Sept/Oct. http://www.healingtouchprogram.com/energy/issues/sepoct2014.pdf

Moga, M.M. (2017) Exceptional experiences of healers: A survey of Healing Touch practitioners and students. Journal of Exceptional Experiences and Psychology 5(1): 24-34.

Titles & Appointments

Associate Professor of Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology

Education

1988 PhD Loyola University Chicago

1977 BA Knox College
Research

My research interests are, 1) to develop scientific measures of ‘energy healing’ and other bioenergetic phenomena, and 2) map exceptional experiences of healers and the subtle anatomy of the human body. The sorts of questions that I am interested in: How do we measure the “putative energies” involved in biofield therapies such as Reiki, Qigong and Healing Touch? How do healers build-up charge in their bodies? What experiences lead individuals to become energy healers? How do healers perceive the chakras?

My goals are, 1) to understand the energetic component of human psychophysiology, and 2) to create the foundation for future medical devices that detect and/or deliver "natural healing waves". Currently, I am studying the heart rate variability of energy healers, and the effects of healing on the immediate environment, as measured by magnetic field activity and random event generator output, and I am doing qualitative online surveys of healers and their experiences.
Publications

Magnetic field activity during psychic healing: A preliminary study with Healing Touch practitioners
Moga, MM Journal of Nonlocality 2014

Acute effects of tai chi exercise on cardiac autonomic function in healthy adults with tai chi experience.
Kalsaria P; Li H; Waite GN; Moga MM; Kingsley DJ; Geib RW; Biomedical sciences instrumentation 2012

Balance improvements after a week-long tai chi workshop as determined by dynamic posturography - biomed 2010.
Li H; Waite GN; Moga MM; Lam P; Geib RW; Biomedical sciences instrumentation 2010

Patients are more likely to use complementary medicine if it is locally available.
Moga MM; Mowery B; Geib R; Rural and remote health 2008 Jun 26

Distant healing of small-sized tumors.
Moga MM; Zhou D; Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) 2008 Jun

Annexin 7-immunoreactive microglia in the hippocampus of control and adrenalectomized rats.
Moga MM; Dempah D; Zhou D; Neuroscience letters 2005 Feb 3

Alternative treatment of gallbladder disease.
Moga MM; Medical hypotheses 2003 Jan

Delayed loss of p75 neurotrophin receptor-immunoreactivity in the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus and intergeniculate leaflet after binocular enucleation.
Moga MM; Neuroscience letters 1998 Sep 11

Magnetohydrodynamic wave resonance and the evocation of epileptiform activity by millitesla DC magnetic fields.
Alvager T; Moga MM; The International journal of neuroscience 1997 Jun

Organization of neural inputs to the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the rat.
Moga MM; Moore RY; The Journal of comparative neurology 1997 Dec 22

Efferent projections of the infralimbic cortex of the rat.
Hurley KM; Herbert H; Moga MM; Saper CB; The Journal of comparative neurology 1991 Jun 8

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis: cytoarchitecture, immunohistochemistry, and projection to the parabrachial nucleus in the rat.
Moga MM; Saper CB; Gray TS; The Journal of comparative neurology 1989 May 15
Professional Organizations

American Association of Anatomists

Society for Neuroscience

Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE)
Awards

Org: Indiana University
Desc: Trustees Teaching Award
Scope: University
Date: 2014-06-01

Org: Indiana University
Desc: Trustees Teaching Award
Scope: University
Date: 2007-06-01

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