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I have only paid occasional attention to the other energy healers because most of their supporting evidence, as presented in books and seminars, is anecdotal, while my own obsession is with the underlying fundamentals of healing.

Many of these healers trace their lineage back to a single revered teacher. Reiki (Japanese for “life force”) was founded by Mikao Usui, who reportedly received the healing powers from it in 1922 after three weeks of fasting and meditation on Japan’s Mount Kurama. Reiki healers, possibly numbering in the millions worldwide, channel universal energy, which is said to be infinite and intelligent. They channel this energy through their palms, which are placed on or near their clients to stimulate the client’s own self-healing. Some Reiki masters say that they can not only heal from a distance, but also backwards and forwards in time.

Therapeutic Touch (TT) is a Western-based healing system that has been taught to some seventy thousand professional caregivers and is offered to patients in some North American hospitals. It evolved from experiments that Dolores Krieger, a professor of nursing at New York University, did with psychic Oskar Estebany, showing that practical healing significantly increased hemoglobin in the blood of sick people, suggesting an immune response. As with Reiki, TT practitioners hold or move their hands a few inches from their patients, with the intention of activating their immune systems.

In the West, the most popular practical healing tradition is based on the miracles of Jesus Christ, as written in the New Testament at John 14:12. After restoring sight and curing the blade, Jesus said to his followers: “Whoever believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also, and greater than these he will do.”

Among early Christian cults, healing was an ordinary part of preaching, often using oil and water. European kings like Edward the Confessor of England, who claimed to rule by divine right, used the royal touch to heal their subjects. It is even said that Napoleon tested his abilities, without success.

Today, faith healing remains a popular part of the evangelical Christian movement. It is also cautiously backed by the Roman Catholic Church, which expects miracles from those on the path to sainthood. I have sometimes thought how convenient it would be for me to reclassify myself as a faith healer, especially when I am asked in a dubious voice, “If you can do what you say you can, why haven’t you won a Nobel?” reward?”

The practice of practical healing as a medical rather than a religious or magical rite dates back to at least the ancient Greeks. Hippocrates (circa 460 BC) was known as the father of Western medicine because of his reliance on keen observation and the principle of cause and effect. He summed up his extensive healing experience this way: “It has often seemed to me, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there were some strange property in my hands to draw out and draw from the afflicted parts various pains and impurities.”

In the 16th century, Dr. Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, known historically as “Paracelsus”, spoke of a magnetic, healing solar force that spread in waves throughout the Universe. “Munia”, as he called it, radiated around the human body in a luminous shield and could be transmitted from a distance. Despite the many healings attributed to him, Paracelsus was not only ridiculed by his companions, but also negatively immortalized with the epithet “bombastic”, based on his birth name Bombastus.

Inspired by Paracelsus, Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) is also credited with many amazing cures, such as mounting a Munich scientist from paralysis and a professor from blindness, simply by running his hands over them. When his disciples discovered hypnotism by experimenting with his techniques, Mesmer’s cures were dismissed as the power of suggestion. In the spirit of the scientific Enlightenment, Mesmer’s name became a derogatory usage through the word “hypnotize” with its connotation of undue influence.

After European medicine moved to the laboratory, a universal energy, often with magnetic properties, was rediscovered many times.

In 1791, Italian anatomy professor Luigi Galvani, one of the earliest experimenters with electricity, wrote of a life force similar to electricity and magnetism, which seemed to radiate from the sun. He had an affinity for metal, water, and wood. It pervaded everything, pulsating through the human body through breath and pouring out of the fingertips.

In the 19th century, German scientist and industrialist Karl von Reichenbach risked his reputation as the discoverer of creosote and several other chemicals when he declared evidence of a new universal energy, which he named “od” after the Viking god of thunder. Odin. The Od circulated freely throughout the Universe and permeated everything. It radiated in a luminous glow from the human body and was vital to health. It was concentrated in iron, sulfur, magnets, and crystals, and driven by metal, silk, and water. Although confirmed by researchers in Britain, France, and Calcutta, orthodox science ultimately dismissed the od as a blot on von Reichenbach’s sterling reputation.

In 1903, the French physicist René Blondlot claimed to have discovered a life force, both biological and universal, which he called “N-rays”. This finding was also experimentally confirmed by other French researchers, who noted its many similarities to od. Like his predecessors, Blondlot was ridiculed by his peers.

In 1936, Otto Rahn, a bacteriologist at Cornell University, observed a biochemical radiation of living cells that played an important role in growth, cell division, and wound healing. As he put it, “It may be surprising that radiations were not conclusively recognized and tested before this. The reason may be sought in their very low intensity. The best detector remains the living organism.”

Around the same time, Yale biologist Harold Burr showed that all living systems, from trees to mice to men, are shaped and controlled by invisible electrodynamic force fields that can be measured and mapped with standard voltmeters. He called them “life fields” or “L fields” and believed that their voltage could be used to diagnose physical and mental conditions before symptoms developed. Burr validated his theory by comparing the L-fields of mice injected with cancer with control groups of healthy mice.

Burr’s colleague, Dr. LJ Ravitz, extended these findings to show that emotion is energy in motion. He described this energy as electrical and found a connection between low energy states and diseases such as cancer, asthma, arthritis, and ulcers.

In the 1970s, Fritz-Albert Popp, a German physicist, discovered that all living organisms constantly emit small streams of light, which he called “biophoton emissions.” These were stable in intensity unless the organism was diseased. Cancer patients, for example, emitted fewer photons, as if their batteries were running low. He also discovered that organisms used these light emissions as a form of communication.

After Konstantin Korotkov, a Russian physicist, developed sophisticated equipment to measure Popp’s bioenergy fields, Russian doctors began using his tests to diagnose diseases such as cancer. When Korotkov measured the healers’ coronas as they transmitted energy, he discovered remarkable changes in the intensity of their emissions, consistent with what Ben Mayrick and I discovered while working with a crudely constructed Kirlian photography device.

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