HEALING ENERGY


 William Bengston (2010). The energy cure: Unraveling the mystery of hands on healing.


Bengston is a sociologist, skeptic, science based researcher, and healer. He tells a story of how he met a healer, tried to disprove them, became a believer in their healing abilities, journeyed with them on many healing adventures, and eventually became a healer himself. While there are many case studies of healings with humans described in the book, Bengston wanted to know how and why these laying on of hands healings happened so he completed many controlled laboratory studies on mice with an aggressive type of cancer and found that laying on of hands healing as he describes it can heal mice of cancer. The mice were completely cured (which no one had ever been able to do with any kind of drug therapy), and the cancer didn't come back, they even showed immunity against being reinjected with cancer. This healing technique was taught to others in the lab setting, including skeptics/disbelievers, who also cured mice of cancer...amazing! The closest thing to a theory that Bengston provides is that healing information travels on energy waves that are sent from the healer to the person needing healing, and that this stimulates the person's own natural healing process. That is, we don't do the healing, the person ultimately heals themselves. Informally, the healer jump starts the process, perhaps providing information needed to get the healing process going.


The practical advice for hands on healing is too complex to discuss in detail here. I recommend reading Bengston's book and then taking his audio cd course (i'm in the middle of the course as i write). The general principle for the healer, after gaining consent to heal, is to cycle images while applying hands on the person while, at the same time, imaging a flow of energy moving from one's of our hands, through their body, and back into our body through our other hand. This continues until the healing flow stops and/or the other person is "cured."

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