They particularly seek to learn to harness the power of the mind to heal, and increasing amounts of scientific research have supported this approach. In this, New Age is clearly building on New Thought, which began with Quimby 's use of the power of the mind to heal, frequently with absent healing. New Age is fascinated with the new physics, and New Thought shares this interest. Both movements are philosophically idealistic, and the findings of the new physics support idealism. Physicists are starting to sound like metaphysicians.
Research moves so fast that results are obsolete before they can appear in print.
Scientists have repeatedly demonstrated the mind's ability to affect the body, beginning with biofeedback and extending into studies showing that white blood cell count varied according to whether subjects thought happy or unhappy thoughts. Bell's Theorem led to experiments showing that paired particles remain mysteriously connected even after they fly apart, another example of the nonlocality that Dossey mentions in connection with Era III medicine. Neuroscientist Karl Pribram's research on holograms suggests that the universe may be a giant hologram in other words, we are all one. And Differences But New Thought and New Age do differ, whether or not both are viewed as religions. One big difference is interest in the occult.