Human health is one of the most popular topics and most challenging issues in the new millennium. This is prompted by an aging baby boomer population, the growth of cancer cases, rapid worldwide spread of HIV/AIDS, return of the once-overcome pulmonary TB, and the increasing new drug-resistant virus and bacteria strains produced by antibiotics or antibacterial drugs. Although pharmaceutical therapy based conventional medicine has had great success and achievements in combating acute or infectious diseases and improving people's health, it failed to find effective cures for many chronic diseases. In fact, it may have brought more suffering and serious adverse drug reactions to patients. It is an alarming reality that annual U.S. mortality from adverse drug reactions exceeds the combined mortality of breast cancer and auto accidents. Both patients and medical practitioners are now desperately searching for more effective and safer alternatives.

Reports from around the world suggest that there is an effective alternative -self-healing- or mind-body medicine. Research indicates that the most powerful healing substances are actually located within the human body. One after another late-stage cancer patients recovered without medicine; many irreversible chronically diseased patients experienced spontaneous remission; some being labeled "clinically dead" suddenly awoke under the love of their friends and family; some HIV infected persons developed natural immunity to AIDS; and more and more "incurable" diseases were defeated by natural therapies and drug-free healing. Categorizing, studying and discovering the rules and reasons behind these "miracles" are the inspiration and motivation of scientific development, and they are also the motive and purpose of this international symposium on self-healing and consciousness power.

This unique research-oriented symposium will provide a forum to showcase ongoing scientific research involving the study, categorization, and discovery of the rules and reasons behind the effectiveness of self-healing, mental ability and biofield, as well as the methodology and practice issues in various self-healing therapies. With exchange and communication like this, hopefully we will document more efficiently the progress in mind-body medicine, and promote more research and understanding in the mainstream scientific research on self-healing and biofield therapies. The Symposium is also intended to provide a forum to foster interdisciplinary and international collaboration in the study of self-healing, mental ability and biofield healing.

The symposium will also explore the nature and range of human self-healing, and offer the scientific community and medical practitioners a unique opportunity to observe and verify some rare extraordinary human latent abilities and mind power. Keynote speeches and invited demonstrations of drug-free healing and extraordinary human latent abilities will be presented in addition to regular scientific and panel discussions. These demonstrations and verification of some extraordinary human or paranormal abilities, such as using intention to shrink a breast tumor, are not intended as entertainment, but for demonstrating the potential power of human intention or biofield and the need to learn and understand such an inner force in the human body.