Geopathic Stress and…???
Now here’s a thing.
Regular readers here will know that I quite like dowsing. In fact, I think it’s pretty close to being the bee’s knees. You will also know that I like strange things like earth energies and intuition. Well chaps (and chapesses) I can also admit when I come across something along these lines which seems to me plain wrong, inadequate or simply ill-thought out.
Therefore, I present to you today the American Chronicle’s contribution to poor scholarship.
Entitled “Geopathic therapy” ( a term I’ve never heard of and I’ve been involved in this stuff for a good few years), it attempts to tell you that the magnetic field of the earth, when disturbed, can cause illness and so on.
I have never heard of the author (Rick Hussey) but I assume he is well-intentioned and could blame the constrictions of a newspaper column for the article’s sweeping generalizations and lack of detail. Why, for example, was it that “earth energies were probably easier to detect in the preindustrial age”?
Anyway, the main point I wish to dispute is at the end of the article…
Geopathic therapy aims to relieve geopathic stress. Practitioners detect these negative energies either by dowsing (using a pendulum
or rods), or with kinesiology, or by “sensing” or “seeing” them. They then advise on how best to avoid these energies. This may be by moving a bed or a favorite chair away from an affected area, by deflecting the energies with mirrors, or by trapping them in crystals or coils that can then be washed clean.
Now, the idea of moving furniture away from some areas is not something that most practitioners I’ve met and talked with suggest anymore. It used to be the standard practice, certainly in the 70’s and 80’s. Also, as the whole argument was to do with negative energies and their natural origins, how can such things be trapped in crystals etc (and then washed clean??).
OK, so maybe I’m nitpicking. Maybe I’m being a spoilsport and acting superior. But the thing about it is this…if you read the whole article (which is short!), you’d get the idea that all this stuff is natural and easy to clean up and it’s not that bad.
Actually, from experience with clients I can tell you that it is NOT this simple, sometimes it’s difficult to clean it up in one swift ‘go’ and that the effects of geopathic stress can be dramatic and even life-threatening.
So, if you leave the article with the sense that geopathic stress is easy to deal with, and not that bad to suffer from, you’re in for a nasty shock.
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