Brief,History,Energy,Healing,h health A Brief History of Energy Healing

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I have paidonly casual attention to the other energy healers because most of theirsupporting evidence -- as presented in books and seminars -- is anecdotal,whereas my own obsession is with the underlying fundamentals of healing.Many of thesehealers trace their lineage back to a single revered teacher. Reiki (Japanesefor "life force") was founded by Mikao Usui, who reportedly receivedhis healing powers in 1922 after three weeks of fasting and meditation onJapan's Mount Kurama. Reiki healers, possibly numbering in the millionsworldwide, channel universal energy, which is said to be infinite andintelligent. They channel this energy through their palms, which are placed onor near their clients to stimulate the client's own self-healing. Some Reikimasters say they can not only heal at a distance, but also backward and forwardin time.TherapeuticTouch (TT) is a Western-based healing system that has been taught to anestimated seventy thousand professional caregivers and is offered to patientsin some North American hospitals. It evolved from experiments that DoloresKrieger, a professor of nursing at New York University, did with psychic OskarEstebany, demonstrating that hands-on healing significantly increasedhemoglobin in the blood of sick people, suggesting an immunological response.As with Reiki, TT practitioners hold or move their hands a few inches fromtheir patients, with the intent of activating their immune system.In the West,the most popular hands-on healing tradition is founded in the miracles of JesusChrist, as written in the New Testament in John 14:12. After restoring sightand curing the lame, Jesus told his followers: "He that believeth in me,the works I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall hedo."Among earlyChristian cults, healing was an ordinary part of preaching, often utilizing oiland water. European kings like England's Edward the Confessor, who claimed torule by divine right, exercised the royal touch to heal their subjects. EvenNapoleon was said to have tried his skills, to little avail.Today, faithhealing remains a popular part of the Christian Evangelical movement. It's alsoendorsed, with caution, by the Roman Catholic Church, which expects miraclesfrom those traveling the path to sainthood. I have sometimes thought of howconvenient it would be for me to reclassify myself as a faith healer,especially when I'm asked in a doubting voice, "If you can do what you sayyou can, why haven't you won a Nobel Prize?"The practiceof hands-on healing as a medical rather than a religious or magical rite goesback at least as far as the ancient Greeks. Hippocrates (circa 460 BCE) wasknown as the father of Western medicine because of his reliance on keenobservation and the principle of cause and effect. He summed up his extensivehealing experience this way: "It has often appeared, while I have beensoothing my patients, as if there were some strange property in my hands topull and draw from the afflicted parts aches and diverse impurities."In thesixteenth century, Dr. Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim -- known historicallyas "Paracelsus" -- spoke of a magnetic, healing, solar force thatswept in waves throughout the Universe. "Munia," as he called it,radiated around the human body in a luminous shield, and could be transmittedat a distance. Despite the many healings attributed to him, Paracelsus was notonly derided by his peers, but also negatively immortalized in the epithet"bombastic," based on his birth name Bombastus.Inspired byParacelsus, Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) was also credited with manystartling cures, such as ridding a Munich scientist of paralysis and aprofessor of blindness, simply by passing his hands over them. When hisdisciples discovered hypnotism through experimenting with his techniques,Mesmer's cures were dismissed as the power of suggestion. In the spirit ofscientific Enlightenment, Mesmer's name came into derogatory usage through theword "mesmerize" with its connotation of undue influence.AfterEuropean medicine moved into the laboratory, a universal energy, often withmagnetic properties, was rediscovered many times.In 1791,Italian anatomy professor Luigi Galvani, an early experimenter in electricity,wrote of a life force similar to electricity and magnetism, which seemed toradiate from the sun. It had an affinity for metal, water, and wood. Itpermeated everything, pulsated through the human body by means of the breathand streamed from the fingertips.In thenineteenth century, German scientist and industrialist Karl von Reichenbachrisked his reputation as the discoverer of creosote and several other chemicalswhen he declared evidence for a new universal energy, which he called"od" after the Viking thunder god Odin. Od was in free circulationthroughout the Universe, and it permeated everything. It radiated in a luminousglow from the human body and was vital to health. It was concentrated in iron,sulfur, magnets, and crystals, and conducted by metal, silk, and water. Thoughconfirmed by researchers in Britain, France, and Calcutta, od was eventuallydismissed by orthodox science as a blemish on von Reichenbach's otherwiseoutstanding reputation.In 1903,French physicist René Blondlot claimed to have discovered a vital force, bothbiological and universal, which he called "N-rays." This finding wasalso confirmed experimentally by other French researchers, who noted its manysimilarities to od. Like his forerunners, Blondlot was ridiculed by his peers.In 1936, OttoRahn, a bacteriologist at Cornell University, noted a biochemical radiationfrom living cells that played a significant role in growth, cell division, andwound healing. As he stated, "It may be surprising that radiations havenot been recognized and proven conclusively before this. The reason may besought in their very low intensity. The best detector is still the livingorganism."Around thesame time, biologist Harold Burr of Yale demonstrated that all living systems-- from trees to mice to men -- are molded and controlled by invisibleelectro-dynamic force fields that can be measured and mapped with standardvoltmeters. He called them "fields of life," or "L-fields,"and believed their voltage could be used to diagnose physical and mentalconditions before symptoms developed. Burr validated his theory by comparingthe L-fields of mice injected with cancer to control groups of healthy mice.Burr'scolleague, Dr. L.J. Ravitz, extended these findings to demonstrate that emotionwas energy in motion. He described this energy as electrical, and found aconnection between low-energy states and diseases such as cancer, asthma,arthritis, and ulcers.In theseventies, Fritz-Albert Popp, a German physicist, discovered that all livingorganisms constantly send out tiny currents of light, which he called"biophoton emissions." These were stable in their intensity unlessthe organism was sick. Cancer patients, for example, emitted fewer photons, asif their batteries were going dead. He also found that organisms used theselight emissions as a form of communication.AfterKonstantin Korotkov, a Russian physicist, developed sophisticated equipment formeasuring Popp's bioenergy fields, Russian doctors began using his tests todiagnose illnesses such as cancer. When Korotkov measured the coronas ofhealers while they transmitted energy, he discovered remarkable changes in theintensity of their emissions, consistent with what Ben Mayrick and I discoveredwhile working with a crudely constructed Kirlian photography device.Copyright ©2010 by William Bengston, Ph.D., and Sylvia Fraser. AllRights Reserved. Please feel free to duplicate or distribute this file as longas the excerpt has not been changed and this copyright notice is intact. ThankYou!