1. BIOETHICS: Love of life through the Knowledge of Chanting for Health and Peace by Chutatip Umavijani PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT, LIBERAL ARTS, THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY BANGKOK, THAILAND

2. LOVE OF LIFE AND KNOWLEDGE Darryl Macer’s Bioethics is Love of Life: An Alternative Textbook Socrates: “Virtue is knowledge.” Knowing is doing.

3. Chanting for Health and Peace -Sound vibrations affect man physical, mental, emotion and spiritual -Man’s love of life can use the effectiveness of sound vibration to heal. -The attributes of each chant with its sound and power, why each is effective.

4. -What is the essence of words in relation to man’s mind? -Do our minds work like a computer that collects all the data we receive? -How can we maintain peace through chanting?

5. India: Swami Sivananda: Om = repeating for 20 min. relaxes every atom in the body.

6. China: Chinese 5 musical notes form the 5 elements system comprising a pentatonic scale that has been used as a basis of musical composition and improvisation Melody with emphasis on particular elements = healing for various organ systems of the body.

7. Doctors and Scientists Dr. Richard Gerber and Dr. Andrew Weil’s Vibration Medicine Chanting and vocalizing sacred words = magic healing Patients who suffered from strokes are exposed to fifteen min. of key sound frequencies, their bodies start to stabilize.

8. Nicole La Voic produced sound frequency tapes called Sound Wave Energy (SWE) to harmoniously stimulate and balance various biological elements associated with the first chakra and related to physiological functions.

9. Scientific aspect: Vibration treatments are related to Einstein’s theory of substance and energy whereby man generates complex energy in dynamic equilibrium to develop the soul.

10. Buddhist Chanting: Sound vibration Verses have different meanings and purposes = praise the Buddha who discovered the truth of life. = teaching virtue and wisdom = compassion and good will = Parita Katha…Phoochangka Parita (the seven wisdoms that enable one to become enlightened.)

11. Pra Achan Singdhon Narasapo’s Plang Rangsi Dhamma ( The Power of Dhamma ) Buddhist Chanting: Pali and Sanskrit Sound Vibration affect Physical and Mental Pali sound -> special organs of body Sounds stimulate the 7 Chakra (centers of energy in yoga) ‘eeoo’ = lung, ‘aueo’ = liver, ‘chee’ = bladder

12. Why effective? The truths of wisdom = impact on the listener -> strength and compassion Fugimoto Noriyuki: conducted an experiment to differentiate the energies affect water. Observed molecules of water from different places. Human brain compiles data = affect body, mind and spirit. Right data.