Whether or not someone has a physics degree would be irrelevant with regards to CST in general based on the available scientific evidence.
Having a degree in anything is relevant because you can immediately tell when someone is misrepresenting themselves as knowledgeable in your field when in fact they are not. It is very common in alternative medicine for therapists to portray themselves as having a working knowledge about quantum physics and that their treatments are based on quantum physics. They will spout some gibberish about vibrating energy fields, superpositions and quantum this and that in order to convince you that their shitty crystals and magic hands can somehow cure diseases. There are several reasons why they do this:
1. Quantum physics sounds exciting. Everyone has heard stories about how cats can supposedly be dead and alive at the same time, that particles can be several places at once and that nature doesn't exist when you're not looking at it or whatever. They have heard about parallel universes and so on. It's all very sci-fi and engaging which just goes to show how easily people can be led to believe things about the world that aren't even fucking true. Which leads to my next point:
2. The general public's knowledge about quantum physics is piss poor. You can say all sorts of plausible gibberish by randomly stringing some science-y words together knowing that the likelihood that someone is going to arrest you for it is very low, and even lower for someone who is interested in alternative medicine in the first place. It's so easy in fact that you did it just now. Please, go on about "the interconnectedness of our environments and potential emotional states". That's so profound I might even puke. How's that for interconnectedness.
3. Lastly, the general public have a perception about quantum physicists as very intelligent and competent. Because it's supposedly so weird and full of complicated math it can only take a genius to understand it. Name-dropping quantum physics is literally the number 1 go-to when some dumbass with no grip on reality wants to act like they're smart. "I know quantum physics, therefore I am smart." "Quantum physics reveals how there is much more between Heaven and Earth than we think, therefore you should totally believe in my craniosacral horseshit."
"Quantum physics" does, as a matter of fact, NOT reveal "how things can resonate and interact with each other much more than we think". The term "quantum physics" refers to the set of phenomena that happens at atomic scales. In order to observe these phenomena you have to do experiments, something that Julian in his latest post is trying to bullshit himself out of. The only thing that is true in physics are outcomes of experiments. They are the be-all, end-all of physics. Outcomes of experiments are numbers. Like, how long did it take for the ball to hit the ground? Perhaps it took 6 seconds. If whatever bullshit idea you have about the world predicts anything else than 6 seconds outside of reasonable accuracy then it is wrong. If you are unable to demonstrate to others that your bullshit idea can predict the outcome of experiments, then it is wrong. If your bullshit idea somehow gets the outcome right, then it is the temporarily best description of that particular phenomenon. That is, until your bullshit idea fails to get the outcome right or another less bullshit idea comes about.
One such idea is quantum
mechanics. It is quite literally a set of rules that you follow in which you input the information you have about a system and get predictive results as output. It doesn't say anything about what the system is; YOU define what the system is. It's on you to create a model which accurately represents the system you're trying to describe. The system may or may not have anything to do with the real world, but the reason anyone actually cares about quantum mechanics is that it has been successfully applied to systems of electrons orbiting atomic nuclei. It doesn't say anything about what electrons are or how they interact; again, that's on you. So the claim that quantum physics reveals how "things" interact is plain and simple bullshit. Instead it reveals how Julian likes to talk about things he knows nothing about. You'd think that this guy does it for a living or something.
A feature of quantum mechanics is that as the size of your system grows it gets crazy complicated really fast. At the molecular level you're already forced to abandon it in favor of effective descriptions like Newtonian mechanics; the same that you'd use to calculate the time it takes a ball to hit the ground. At larger scales quantum mechanics becomes utterly irrelevant. That's why the general public doesn't need to know quantum mechanics. Your doctor doesn't need to know quantum mechanics. Researchers in medicine don't need to know quantum mechanics. Susan Shore does not know quantum mechanics. When Julian pokes at your head with his magic hands or whatever it has nothing to do with quantum mechanics. Literally the only reason this dumbass has to mention quantum anything is to deceive you.
The scientific method applies to physics as well as to any kind of therapy. If you are unable to demonstrate that your snake oil, craniosacral money sucking straw out of sick and desperate people's pockets actually works, then you can take the straw and get bent. You can't go "therapy is therapy and science is science" and then have the audacity to sign with "Someone who is actually helping others get better". This guy is a pathological liar and gaslights people for a living. He portrays himself as this pure soul who just wants to help, who is the victim of the violent wrath of the naysayers, and also made sure to advertise his book and his shitty app. It is textbook charlatan behavior.
Actually, I dare you to give this prick your money. See what happens.
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