Working with Energy

‘‘We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.’’

Anaïs Nin

Since 1976 when the German professor Fritz-Albert Popp at the University of Würzburg set his PhD student Bernhard Ruth the task of proving that living organisms do not emit biophotons, a very weak light, the world has not been quite the same. The shift occurred when the student proved the opposite – living organisms, including humans, do in fact emit a weak form of light – something of course that mystics and sensitives have claimed existed for ages. Perhaps this is what the mystic George Gurdjieff had in mind when he referred to organic life as “fauna, flora and phoskalia,” the last item being a made-up word meaning “creatures of light.”

Although science has recognized for a long time that electricity and magnetism are part of the composition of the human body, little attention has been paid to the interaction and interdependence between the purely physical and chemical composition of the body and these fields of energy. Over the years since 1976 there has been a steady increase in the number of techniques and systems that are based on working with the body’s energy systems. Conventional science has no place in its paradigm for such work so it is almost universally rejected, in much the same way that obstetrician Ignaz Philipp Semmelweiss working in the 1840s was laughed out of Vienna and hounded out of medicine for claiming that if doctors washed their hands fewer women would die in childbirth. The fact that his records showed he was correct did not matter; the discovery of microbes had not yet taken place … so how could a doctor washing his hands make a difference.

Even today, although a number of clinical studies make clear that the work of energy healers has a measurable effect, such studies do not get accepted by major scientific publications because of this bias. Nevertheless, the paradigm is beginning to shift with work being conducted relatively recently at major recognized institutions.

Of the many different systems that work with energy therapeutically, this site focuses on one of them – a modality called Reconnective Healing® begun by Dr. Eric Pearl in the 1990s.