I took some courses in Pranic healing, advanced pranic healing and Pranic psychotherapy about 5 years ago. An instructor travelled to Nairobi for a "new age" fair, and I attended with my wife. I was not particularly attracted to pranic healing but my wife was really keen. We therefore attended the first seminar on pranic healing, and followed up by attending two more. The instructor was a young lady from the Phillipines who was well trained and skilled at teaching despsite having a limited command of English.
The course started of with meditation and an appreciation of energy. It then went on to cover in detail the energy centre's or chakras in the body which I was familiar with, and then minor chakras which I had not heard of before. There were several exercises and meditations, and sessions to build up energy, and then we practiced sensing each others energy fields. I must admit that my wife was a lot better than me and much more sensitive. After appreciating energy and chakras and some historical background, we then proceeded to do the pranic healing. For all practical purposes, the basically consisted of cleaning the chakras using visualisation and intent. The key difference between Pranic healing and other energy methods I have come across is the aspect of removing the diseased energy before applying healing energy. Very logical!
The Pranic healing itself and knowledge regarding chakras and energy was pretty interesting. The theory is based on a chinese energy model (acupuncture, Qi gong etc) combined with an enhanced chakra model. It is interesting to see how Choa Kok Sui (the grandmaster) has combined the two and also drawn heavily on Theosophical writings especially those of Alice Bailey, Powell and Leadbeater. Many of the theories that are passed in his book have been taken from the Theosophical model. The main course books all written by Choa are "Pranic Healing ", "Advanced Pranic Healing" and "Pranic psychotherapy". It is clear that Choa has made an effort to combine Chinese, Indian and Western techniques. the forward to his book "Pranic Healing" is written by a Western Doctor who claims to have had excellent results using these methods. In the introduction of the book "Pranic Healing", Choa also quotes passages and research from a book called "psychic discoveries from behind the Iron Curtain" by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, and explains these as examples (proof?) of pranic healing and the energy model. Certain statements also raise my alarms such as (paraphrase) " for the first time the eleven chakras have been revealed in this book. Some writings have hinted there are more chakras but this is the first time that this had been put in print"- Yeah Right!
This was all very well as far as learning about healing, and in fact my wife had some very good results. Pranic healing does work. However this being said, the results could easily be explained as a form of hypnosis very much like EFT and other pseudo energy healing methods. Now we certainly know that hypnosis works and whatever name its packaged as, it will still be functional. It doesn't really matter what you "hallucinate", but if you build a strong enough belief and you have INTENT, then your mind will do the rest and the body will follow the mind.
All this being said, I had no problems with the pranic healing courses, the twin hearts meditation to build your prana and a lot of the basic theories about pranic healing. However I did have a big problem with some of the things that happened after we had finished the course.
First of all, immediately after completing the courses, the instructor asked if anyone would like to become a professsional healer and one lady in particular who had just set up shop selling ayurvedic herbs was very keen. she offered her premises as a healing centre and invited the other participants to use it if they needed a place to practice. We also regularly trooped there to meditate and generally see what was going on. Our instructor also set up base at this shop and used it to promote other seminars and pranic healing in general. All seemed to be well, and one day I walked into the shop and found an argument going on between the Instructor and the proprietress of the shop. On enquiring, I was told that the proprietress had donated a sizeable amount of money to her faith ( I believe it was something like the Bahais ). The instructor was not amused and wanted her to donate the money to Choa and Pranic healing. The owner was adamant and completely refused to budge. A lot of bad "energy" was flying around and some pranic healing would have helped! Anyway it also became clear after this incident that our instructor had an agenda not only to teach panic healing, but also to promote it aggressively and look for "converts". In this particular instant, she was doing this without really taking into account the wishes of her student, and indeed trying to use coercion and guilt trips (you have learnt so much from Pranic healing and your mum was healed so you should donate to the cause). Quite understandably after this incident, the instructor and owner fo the shop soon went their separate ways, and the instructor returned to the Philipines. Its quite possible she's been back to recruit a fresh bunch of graduates since. ( I later discovered that she had trained over 300 people in Nairobi alone, but most of them (including my wife and I ) did the seminar and once the initial excitement or healing had taken place, went back to their lives to continue where they had left off.
The second thing that I also found disturbing was to do with the group meditations. There were several meditations where we were to send healing energy to various places and "troubled groups" all around the world. During meditation, the instructor would name various general groups such as "all those who were suffering" and "all those who are in pain" etc. This non-specific spread of love and light to people who haven't asked for it definitely does not ring true. Maybe a feeding ground for some lurking STS forces!
When I think about it in retrospect, Many of the persons attending the seminar experienced some form of healing or benefit. This made them "open" to Pranic healing and ready to experiment further. It is quite possible that finding a certain "teaching" or a certain "healing" so synchronously and then achieving quick results could easily signal some nefarious 4D players in the vicinity.
Pranic Healing comes across as having some grounding in truth, and having benevolent intentions, and certainly there are results to show. However, careful observation clearly indicates that this is like many other movements, teachings , chanellings and "magic bullets" that appear synchronously to rope you in when you have a need. After experiencing the initial rush and magical results, you drop your defences and ultimately you then receive one hell of a sucker punch!
The need to expand pranic healing rapidly around the world, open an office and set up centres in every country and ask for donations and support rings very much like the spread of a religion. Rope em' in now and we'll suck em dry. Does anyone see a similarity to the TM movement (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi) here?
Kinyash
