ENERGY HEALING
In the area of alternative
medicine, energy healing, energy flows and chakra-stabilization often come up.
They are some of the cornerstones of alternative medicine and common also in
the Oriental religions. For example, such cures as reiki, acupuncture,
acupressing, shiatsu, polarity therapy, homeopathy, zonal therapy and bioenergy
treatment are all based on energy currents.
These methods
are based on the idea that the power of life or cosmic energy that is
everywhere or in us is transferred to heal the sick. It is thought that there
are different kinds of canals in our body in which cosmic energy flows, but if there
is a block in the flow or they are in imbalance, energy from the outside is
needed. This extra energy will then balance the energy reserves of the person
who will thus be healed. Balancing can also be done by means of massage,
meditation, and yoga that open the chakras of the body so that the energy can
flow freely.
Is there neutral energy in
this field?
When it is a question of
energy healing, people are often led to understand that it is some neutral
energy, such as bioenergy or the power of life through which we can be healed.
It is thought that this energy is everywhere in the nature and transferring it
to our use could lead to the renewal of our body.
However, there
is reason to doubt this theory. If we study this issue in the light of the next
points, we can see that there is no
neutral healing energy, but that it is a question of the same factors as in
spiritual healing.
Mere energy cannot heal all
kinds of illnesses. Firstly, it is good to understand that mere energy cannot
heal hundreds of different illnesses.
In some skin diseases, the heat of the Sun can be useful, it is true, but if,
for example, the genotype of a cell is incorrect, it cannot be healed by energy
flow – no more than you can fix a computer's programming error by increasing
the electric current or a broken can by additional electricity. It is certainly
a misunderstanding to believe that a mere increase of energy could lead to the
healing of several different illnesses:
Almost 5,000 hereditary
diseases are already known. Scientific medicine tries to correct a mistake in
the genotype by using gene technology. Unfortunately, the cell cannot ‘be
healed through bioenergy flows’, just like a computer cannot be fixed by
directing more amperes through it.
If we enlarge
one human cell to a billion times its size, a city opens in front of us with a
volume of a thousand cubic kilometers containing biochemical factories.
(...) We can
only begin to understand the finesses of its technological solutions as only
0.5% of its programming has been mapped. It is an impossible thought that, for
example, the activity of a liver cell could be improved by ‘color or jewel
therapy’, wearing an emerald necklace, even though the thought is very
fascinating. (2)
Spiritual life. The second reason
to doubt energy healing being neutral is that the energy flow may often have
been interrupted when a Christian has started to pray during the treatment. If
it was a question of mere neutral power from the nature, this would not occur.
For example, Kurt Koch tells in his book Onko paholainen olemassa, p. 68
(Between Christ and Satan), about a certain woman, who prayed before her turn
to see a well-known healer doctor called Trampler. The doctor told this woman, "You
I cannot help.”
It might also
happen that if we go onto the wrong areas, our faith can be blockaded and it
might be difficult for us to pray and believe. We may get depressed and feel
that a wall has come between us and God. If it was a question of neutral elements
of the nature, this would not happen:
Example 73. One woman went to
see doctor Trampler in Munich. The doctor successfully dealt with her back
problems. During the treatment, he told the patient to keep her fingers up as
antennas to receive cosmic powers, as the doctor explained. When the woman went
back home, she noticed that her organic trouble had healed, but something
restrained her spiritual life. It was now impossible for her, as for many
others, to pray, and she felt as if an impenetrable wall had risen between her
and God. (3)
The background of the
healers. One reason to doubt the neutrality of the energy flows is also the
background of the energy healers. Even though many of them believe that they
mediate neutral energy or even act with the power of the Holy Spirit and God,
their background usually lies in occultism and the New Age movement, including
things that are typical in occultism and especially in wrong anointment (the
effect of evil spirits). This may include the next issues, which are quite
typical for many energy healers, especially those who have worked longer and
more intensely in the area:
- There has been occultist
experiences (fortune telling, clairvoyance, spiritual healing, etc.) in the
family
- Meditation and passivating
one's mind.
- Spirits as guides
- Seeing to the spiritual
world
- Frequent out of body
experiences
- Reincarnation, karma and
other beliefs of the New Age movement
- Gaps in consciousness and
memory
- Being totally exhausted
after the anointment
- Increased compulsive
actions