Thursday, June 22, 2006

Remote Healing: Miraculous Alternative or Mystical Nonsense?

By Claire Crighton,
The McGill Daily


Put down this newspaper. Hold your hands five centimetres apart from each other, with the palms facing in. Try to visualize your hands pushing toward each other – but don’t actually move them. You’ll feel a resistance, like repelling magnets. Change the distance between your palms and continue to sense the resistance. See how far you can move your hands apart while still being able to feel your energy.

Your capacity to become conscious of the energy flowing through your body is what — bear with me here — a 19-year-old pre-med student thinks can change the face of healing in the western world.


Adam, who has chosen not to publicly disclose his surname, was a regular middle-class kid growing up in the suburbs of Vancouver. Adam had an ordinary childhood — joining sports teams and doing well in school. But he gradually began to realize that he was different from his playmates.


“As a kid, hide ‘n’ seek was not a game that I enjoyed . . .. I just couldn’t figure out the point of the game. Someone might be hiding behind an object such as a tree, but they would still be visible to me. Their aura would show beyond the tree’s outline. It was as ludicrous as a large man trying to hide behind a broomstick,” writes Adam in his first book, Dreamhealer, which he published at 16.


In high school, Adam discovered that he had the ability to heal others’ ailments through visualization. By picturing himself inside the body of another person, Adam claims he can remove the energy blockages that prevent the individual’s body from functioning properly.


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