Message from Barb

HT Newsletter, March 2012


HANDS-ON MIRACLES
by Barbara Dahl, BSN, RN, CHTI

As I wind down a 25 year avocation as a Certified Healing Touch Instructor, I am left with a devotion to the practice and study of energy medicine. It’s been my practice to share new insights and voice opinions via this newsletter over the years and I would like to continue doing so on occasion. This is one of those occasions.

The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) recently ran an article about the “Hands-On Miracles” of William Bengston, PhD. His subjects were/are mice injected with cancer. He cured them with hands-on healing – all of them, every time. In fact, “the more aggressive the cancer, the faster it went away.” Curiously, he was unable to heal cancerous tumors previously treated with conventional therapies. He then trained two of his very skeptical students in a variety of mental imaging techniques – a faithless, belief-free system.

This reminded me of a video that Gregg Braden has posted on YouTube of Chinese healers chanting away a huge tumor while we watched its disappearance on the ultrasound screen This approach was emotional where the healers emotionally believed that the tumor was already gone. (Google Gregg Braden on Curing Cancer using our own Technology of Emotion.)

One online responder to the IONS article noted that “Cancer is at least a $1,000,000,000,000 industry.” I was struck not only by the twelve zeros but by the word ‘industry.’ An industry does not promote research that would put it out of business. Where is the incentive in Western Medicine to study Dr. Bengston’s method or any form of energy medicine for that matter? And what physician would withhold chemo or radiation to research hands-on healing? Ethically, they couldn’t.

Once again synchronicity was at work here. As I was writing this article, I talked with my friend Sharon Fletcher, CHTI, in Spokane who happened to mention that she is registered for Dr. Bengston’s workshop in Boulder the weekend of March 16th-18th. I’m excited to speak with her upon her return.

Dr. Bengston is a professor of sociology at St. Joseph’s College in New York City. He has written two books: The Energy Cure: Unraveling the Mystery of Hands-On Healing, and Hands-On Healing: A Training Course in the Energy Cure (both from Sounds True 2010).

Blessings, Barb
barbdahl@aol.com