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OK, so as promised, here's my story on QT:
So last November, at a Thanksgiving party on the roof of a friend's apartment, I meet this rather interesting fellow. He tells me that he's an Electrical Engineer and that he writes code for microchips that will be going into GM's fuel cell car. I find this quite interesting, and then he tells me (quite seriously) that he also does Chinese "no touch" energy healing. I smile and nod, but on the inside I can't help but see a gaping chasm between these two fields. At time time I was quite a staunch Atheist, and it was hard to me to swallow that someone as "smart" as an Electrical Engineer would also be interested in something as "silly" as energy healing.
So I asked him if his energy healing interest was related to his spiritual background, and he replied,
"No, I've been an Atheist most of my life, but I was walking on the beach one day when a man approached me and started talking to me about energy work. He held out his hand and I could quite clearly feel strong heat coming from his hands. I was curious, so I took his course. Now in my spare time I run a successful energy healing practice. My biggest problem though is that usually I'm able to take care of whatever problems my clients have with one session, and they don't come back!"
So the rest of the afternoon passed without event, but this odd set of happenstance piqued my own curiosity in what this stranger was jabbering on about. I'd always tried to keep an open mind when I could help it, so I started Googling around on "Energy Healing", and found this guy named Richard Gordon who was teaching something called "Quantum Touch". I thought the name was rather cheesy, but the process looked interesting enough, and they advertised a book for sale teaching the process, which I promptly found and downloaded a PDF of online.
The book was, much to my surprise, quite down to earth, and mostly free of the "new age mumbo jumbo" I had feared it might contain, despite the unappealing title. The book focused almost entirely on the process of the work rather than anything else, which was quite appealing to me.
Also, much to my surprise, I found that in one evening, from skimming the various chapters of the book, I was able to make happen what the book described. In fact, quite easily. Basically, through directing focus on different parts of the body, breath-work and a few other tricks, I was able to generate this strong tingling feeling in my hands, on-demand. Sort of like the feeling one would get if their foot fell asleep, but in a more outward way, like I was sort of pushing something from my hands.
This was all well and good, but just because I was able to make my hands tingle certainly didn't mean I was doing anything out of the ordinary. I had read that because of the way energy healing works, that the proximity of the "target" doesn't really matter all that much. So with that in mind, I decided to call my friend living ~2000mi/~3200km away, who wasn't into this stuff, but had an open mind, so I knew he wouldn't think I'd gone off my rocker.
I told him I was reading a book on Energy Healing, and that if he'd humour me, I'd like to try to send him some "energy" to see if he'd get it. To my surprise he was quite interested in the notion, and was curious himself.
So I thought of my friend, thought of where he lived, pictured him in my mind, and started to "run energy", as the QT book calls it, from my hands. It seemed to flow quite freely from my hands this time, as if it had a place to go. I asked my friend, "Can you feel anything?"
"Actually, I think I can. I feel this very warm tingling sensation in my left shoulder that wasn't there before."
Hmm. That was somewhat interesting, but it certainly could have been my suggestion that caused him to feel anything at all, so I decided to set up a miniature, semi-scientific test over the phone. I explained to him that as we talked, I would either be sending him energy, or not, and that when I asked, he would have to ascertain whether he thought he could feel anything.
So, we chatted for a good couple of hours, and every so often, I'd ask him, "Can you feel anything now," and he'd reply with something like, "No. Nothing" or "Yes, in my right wrist". For whatever reason the positive answers always ended up being his shoulder or his wrist. I was just sending energy to the general domain of my friend, and according to what I'd read, it would make its way to where it was needed most.
So over the course of our conversation, I asked him around 25 times if he could feel anything, doing my best to try to make sure the tone in my voice didn't lead him to answer either way.
He got the "test" right 24 out of 25 times. I was floored. On top of that, the one time he got it wrong, for whatever reason I wasn't able to build up a tingling feeling in my hands.
That phone call really rocked my boat. There definitely seemed to be something there. This was, at least in my mind, no longer the domain of delusion or wishful thinking. Or was I now the deluded wishful thinker, along with the rest of them? It took a good week or so to wrestle with that paradigm interrupting event.
I decided that there definitely seemed to be something to this whole "energy" phenomena, and it was worth taking a closer look at. I suddenly had more respect for this stranger I had met on Thanksgiving, and I gave him a call, and told him a bit about my experiences. He laughed at how similar they were to his own intial experiences, and told me about this new type of energy healing he'd found called "Matrix Energetics". He said it was much different compared to the types of work he'd done before, and said if I was interested in the whole phenomena, that I should consdier going to the seminar they were holding in February.
I decided that would probably be interesting, because if I was able to make what I supposedly made happen just by reading a PDF in an evening, I couldn't imagine what I might be able to do with a weekend seminar with live teachers.
As it would turn out, I was not be disappointed in the least... |
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