Level 1 Seattle. May 17-19, 2012. Instructor: Keela Marshall. Contact Keela at 206 545 7387 or kwellness@earthlink.net
Level 1 Portland. May 19-20, 2012. Instructor: Linnie Thomas. Contact Linnie at 503 454 0469
Level 1 Yakima. June 2-3, 2012 Instructor: Anna Marie Newman. Contact Anna Marie at 509 899 0099 or meadowrose9@gmail.com
Level 1 Tacoma. June 8-10, 2012. Instructor: Dawn Warnaca. Contact Dawn at 253 847 6914 or dwarnaca@msn.com
Level 1 Seattle. July 13-15, 2012. Instructor: Keela Marshall. Contact Keela at 206 545 7387 or kwellness@earthlink.net
Level 1 Olympia. July 28-29, 2012. Instructor: Sherri Cote. Contact Sherri at 360 753 2276 or healingessence@comcast.net
Level 1 Eatonville. August 17-18, 2012. Instructor: Dawn Warnaca. Contact Dawn at 253 847 6914 or dwarnace@msn.com
Level 2. Ellensburg. June 22-24, 2012. Instructor: Keela Marshall. Contact Anna Marie Newman at 509 899 0099 or meadowrose9@gmail.com
BOOK REVIEW
by Barbara Dahl, BSN, RN, CHTI
The Energy Cure: Unraveling the Mystery of Hands-On
Healing
by William Bengston, PhD
What was your introduction to energy medicine? Therapeutic Touch in nursing school? Weekend Reiki workshop? Healing Touch treatment after surgery? William Bengston learned how to heal from an
evolved healer; a complex man who cleaned houses for a living and who had a
natural gift for healing. He vaporized
clouds and cured cancer the same way.
Over time, Bengston, a sociologist and researcher, developed a program
to teach his student lab assistants this healing technique. In spite of their skepticism, or because of
it, they healed their subjects, mice injected with an aggressive form of
cancer. Furthermore, the mice were immune
to cancer when reinjected.
The Bengston method involves a process of image
cycling. After identifying 20 things you
want and attaching an image to each one you then create a fast moving picture
show with those images and run this film during hands-on healing. The intention is to get the ego out of the
way; to become irrelevant, “to distract the conscious mind from the healing
work of the hands and allow them to move naturally, instinctively,
unconsciously.”
Bengston declares that his method is not faith-based. “Faith usually comes with a lot of dogmatic
baggage.” His religion is science. However, he refers to the Source of energy
with a capital “S” and considers himself a vehicle for Universal Energy. He acknowledges that he is in touch with an
external source of power.
Semantics? Some would call that
God. He notes near the end of the book
that he is a recent student of Buddhism thus following the spiritual path of
personal growth of most healers. He even
divulges that on occasion he calls upon guides or the “Fellows” as he calls
them for help because he’s seen them whereas he hasn’t seen God.
Holding a cage containing the infected mice on his lap and
with hands on both sides, he found that the mice would gravitate to his left
hand, “even laying their tumors against it.”
Was this his sending hand or were the mice actually feeling the cancer
being drawn out by his receiving hand?
In his work with humans, he found that his method did not
achieve cure with those clients who had gone through chemotherapy and
radiation. He acknowledges that, “My
belief that I can’t cure anyone who had had radiation or chemo may be a
self-limiting one. Perhaps as a healer I
have crippled my own mind through negative thinking.”
Bengston’s research with mice and his work with human clients
has produced exciting findings, all rejected so far by Western medicine. He continues with research studies that have
pointed to a strong connection between healing and the immune system.
This reader questions the necessity of Bengston’s rather
complex imaging cycle if the goal is to distract from the work. A student once asked Janet Mentgen, founder
of the Healing Touch Program, what she thought about when she was doing “the
work.” She replied, “Nothing.” Was she focused on the work or totally
distracted? As with other energy healing modalities, there
is considerable overlap with Healing Touch and Bengston makes no claim that his
way is the only way. He is clearly
contributing to the science of energy medicine with his research and his book
is worth reading, even worth a second read.
Trans-Scalar Healing
A Workshop For All Healers
An experiential workshop for accelerated
spiritual development and working with Healing Angels for dramatic healings on
all levels, presented by Howard Batie, Director, Evergreen Healing Arts Center,
Chehalis, WA
An Opportunity …
- To step into your own Mastery as a powerful
Spiritual Healing Practitioner
- To Help a large base of
clients tap into their thirst for a true spiritual healing experience
- To learn how to conduct
your own classes and workshops, and to teach your students how to provide
Self-Healing & both Local and Remote spiritual healings for others
To Learn How To…
- Consciously dialog with
your own Higher Self, Spirit Guide, and White Light Healing Angels
- Facilitate a true spiritual
healing for yourself and others, including Soul Retrieval
- Deliver higher-dimensional
healing energies for healing your clients and Mother Earth.
The workshop will be held May 12, 2012
at The Gem Clinic, 3435 Martin Way Olympia , WA 98506 Evergreen Healing Arts
Center 57 W. Main St., Suite 165 , Chehalis , WA 98532
