Energy Healing/Denver Snuffer/NDE and apostasy within the church

[JohnnyL]

The Energy Cure [book] includes numerous case studies. Bengston and Mayrick discovered various effects of hands-on healing, which they named after the patients who exhibited the effects. They also experienced what Bengston calls “the boggle effect,” the rejection of scientific data on the grounds that it is too good to be true. Mayrick once treated a woman who had cancerous tumors. Afterward, tests showed no sign of tumors. A cure is a cure, right? The patient chose to be obedient to the rule-book and took a treatment her doctor recommended for a tumor condition; the treatment killed her. Another time, Mayrick cured a patient of gangrene. Unlike cancer, gangrene does not remit. The patient’s doctor told her, “If I accept this, I’d have to throw out my medical training. What I’ve seen here is impossible.”

Bengston’s experience in pure and applied science is expansive. He has taught research methods, criminology, and the sociologies of religion, science, and the paranormal. “I went into the lab to verify and gain insight into a procedure that I had already successfully used to cure many people of a variety of medical problems, especially cancer,” he says. Mayrick was reluctant; Bengston continued.

His research has produced the first successful full cures of transplanted mammary cancer and induced sarcomas in experimental mice by hands-on techniques that he helped to develop. Bengston says, “Mice bred for research were injected with a particularly lethal strain of mammary cancer that had always resulted in 100 percent fatality within fourteen to twenty-seven days. Through hands-on healing, these results were completely reversed: 100 percent of the mice survived the disease to become cancer free and to live a normal two-year life span!” He also found that treated mice, re-injected, didn’t take cancer—they had developed immunity.

Modern health care is controlled more by tradition, money, and politics than by scientific data. No wonder Bengston is confounded by the refusal of so many people in the medical profession to even look at evidence that suggests they may not have all the answers. He is clear about this: Energy healing does not dispute the value of Western medicine. “In attempting to find a cancer vaccine based on energy healing, I’m not wishing to debunk Western medicine. I’m simply trying to find a way of making what I have experienced fit together with what more conventional researchers do, thus opening up new fields of discovery.”

What if doctors and scientists, and patients could be trained to understand that energy healing can be effective? Could they see it as a complement, rather than a threat, to traditional science? Could they release the protective hold on their orthodoxies for the betterment of their fields? Even in the world of energy healing, there is division between clinicians and researchers, those who embrace practical and academic work. Even someone who taught Bengston’s technique (in an official curriculum) to medical students did not use it to treat her own cancer. What was her energy doing, if not demonstrating the difference between intellectual acceptance of energy healing and the willingness to defy the societal bias against it?