Therapeutic Touch

By: K. B. Napier

I was attending a course on advanced treatments of dementia, with the University of Wales. One morning we had talked about various methods of assessment. After lunch we strolled back to our room for the afternoon session. The tutor walked in and told us that one of our group had complained of having a headache. Would she mind if he applied Therapeutic Touch?

This was not new to us - he told us when we enrolled that the 'therapy' was one of his own personal activities, and he wanted to start a course on it soon. So, he wanted to introduce the subject to us, partly to explain the technique and partly to encourage us to become students on the proposed course.  I was immediately on guard and knew from pastoral and theological experience that the true purpose of this session was not what he said. Indeed, I doubted very much if he realised he was merely a pawn in the hands of Satan. The true purpose was, and still is, to deceive and to seduce people into accepting the occult as a legitimate means of 'treating' ill people. It is a way of opening the door to many other demonic activities and influences.

In the past I have been accused of condemning this or that error without actually having first-hand experience of the things I condemn.  As far as I am concerned, I do not need to experience them! Wrong is wrong! With this in mind, and with no prompting to leave immediately (which is my usual response), I simply prayed for protection from the seducing spirit that would no doubt manifest itself. And so the session began.

The woman went to the centre of the room and sat on a chair (which, said the tutor, had to be without arms and, preferably, backless, to allow free movement of the hands). The tutor looked at us all and said "You must empty your minds. Don't think logically because it does not come into the world of logic. It just works! Are you all willing to take part in this?"  Everyone in the room agreed to take part, but I declined. He already knew my background, and I said "There is no way I can do this. I cannot empty my mind and I never accept anything without using the thinking process. But I will take notes." The tutor smiled wryly and reluctantly accepted my refusal. Interestingly, one of the students, a CPN (Community Psychiatric Nurse) was quite enthusiastic, even though he told fellow students that he was a Christian. He attends a local church (charismatic!) and says much that is right. Yet, he jumped at the opportunity to be taught this technique. After all, it was consistent with his charismatic experience! (Note that I have warned of this ploy - Satan using charismaticism to deceive and to dupe people into using other Satanic deceptions). As I will show a little later in this paper, this is all the more remarkable since he recognised the nature of what is behind the technique!

The Introduction

My first thought was 'This is very clever - ask everyone in the room at the same time! Few folk have the courage to reject a mass appeal, so they tag along whether or not they really want to!'  I do not think for one moment that the tutor had that in mind, but Satan certainly knows how to tease and seduce! The students all willingly took part, though, because they all wanted a piece of the action - something new to 'treat' their patients with that did not use drugs. Sounds commendable. But the reality of the situation was very sinister - Satan wants to dominate people.

In the churches he recently used the Toronto Blessing and other charismatic errors as deceptions. Now he wants to cleverly mask his intentions with medicine, even though there is nothing at all medical or scientific about the technique (hereafter referred to as TT). Whenever a person subjects him or herself to the occult, he or she is 'hooked' in some way or another. Broadly, too, there is a decreasing sensitivity to the things of God. It opens the door to demonic abuse and control. As time goes by the person will experience other occultic phenomena, including psychic disturbances, depression, and so on. Ghostly phenomena are not unusual.

The tutor stood behind the woman, and began his explanation of the practical session. He gave the name of the technique - TT - and said it was also known as 'cleaning the aura'.  My friends - I tell you again...there is no need to take part in things we can legitimately condemn!  His first sentence confirmed my understanding of the technique! This is a spiritualistic technique. As he spoke his hands moved in a 'wavy' action over the woman's head, but never touching it. In a sense the name of the technique is a misnomer, for the healer never actually touches the body, but the hands are kept about six inches away. This is yet another indication of the occult nature of TT.

As he concentrated on the head, he told us that the Welsh and English national boards of nursing had fully validated TT, as has the Royal College of Nursing. So had the University of Manchester. It is also taught in Scotland and Ireland at national and local levels, so TT is rife in the UK. Friends - you are in actual danger whenever you enter your GP's clinics, a hospital or any other place where you are likely to be subject to 'therapy'!!

Practitioners want TT to be taught to carers who look after relatives at home, or carers who work for social services, and TT is already being used in this way, by many local authorities. It is even being done at Rampton hospital, one of the few high-security mental hospitals in the UK, to calm aggression or agitation. Thus violent men and women are having an occult technique used to calm them down! If ever they get out, God help the community, for their violence will be heightened by demonic influences!

The old chestnut was then given - that 'scientific tests prove...' the efficacy of the technique. Blood mixture changes, there is a reduction in stress, and it can even reduce pre surgery anxiety and post-surgery pain. I accept the claims as true.  Satan can do any of this, and far more. The same kinds of claims are made for Transcendental Meditation (TM) and other occult activities.

As the tutor moved his hands I noted how very symbolic the movements were. As his hands moved he appeared to be 'plucking' out 'energies', or grasping them in his hands. He also made a smoothing motion, as if smoothing a cat, and said that he was 'ruffling' the air (or, rather, the 'energies') around the woman, and was using 'power channels'. All through the session I was left in no doubt as to the spiritualistic nature of TT.

We were told that after a session a patient might sleep for about 20 minutes or more. He insisted that "There is no energy coming from me!" (i.e. 'channelling') but that he was merely tapping into the person's own energy. His hands stroked the air, downwards, around the woman. As his hands reached the temple area, they stopped temporarily and moved in and out from the temple, very slightly, as if there was a blockage between hand and head. He said he could 'feel' the power fluctuation, which was a sign of energy disruption caused by the headache. Then he moved his hands over the rest of the body - or, rather, he smoothed the air, working downward toward the floor. The aim was to brush the energy until it was 'smoothed out'. He brushed it toward the floor because the collected energy would then be brushed out of the feet!

As he brushed the air in longish strokes, he ended each stroke by 'flicking' his hands. The purpose was to 'shake off any excess energy' coming from the person. Most people, he said, see a blue aura or light during sessions, and feel 'warm air' on the body and heat coming from the hands. This is exactly like the sensations felt at Toronto Blessing 'healing' or 'zapping' sessions! It is also exactly the same as sensations felt in spiritualistic/psychic sessions - so the conclusion is obvious...both are occult. The effects, we were told can last about two days.

Own Energy Patterns

As the tutor worked, students asked him questions. He said that each of us has his or her own 'energy pattern' and it is this energy pattern that is used to 'get in touch' with the 'energy pattern' of others. Almost like creating an electrical field that joins to make one field. He said that a bonus was that TT also made the healer feel well for several days.  He insisted that there was nothing spiritual about TT. But he contradicted himself later, as we shall see.

The tutor said TT was much like something called 'Neurolinguistic Therapy' (NT), in which pain was visualised as a 'bad' colour, and then the 'bad' colour was altered in the mind to a 'good' colour. As the colour changed so did the pain. When the colour completely changed, the pain disappeared. Note that visualisation is both a charismatic and a psychic technique. There is no difference between the two. So, to get rid of a headache in NT terms, a band of colour is 'seen' around the head, and the healer concentrates on the colour, 'changing' it to another colour in his or her mind. The tutor said that TT works in a very similar way.

TT, he said, could also be used to alter the 'atmosphere' or 'mood' in a hospital ward or in any room. This is done by perceiving the 'mood' when entering a room or ward, and/or by 'seeing' a particular colour in the air. The healer then 'smoothes' the air in the room and gets rid of the prevailing bad mood. Thus, friends, a so-called TT healer can use an occult practice without you even knowing it!

Back to the 'Christian' in the group.... he stopped the tutor and remarked that the technique appeared to be using eastern mystical and occult techniques. At last, I thought - he has recognised what is going on! The tutor smiled and openly said that the originator of TT (in the USA of course!) had "deliberately westernised the words used in TT so as to make it acceptable to the west!" He admitted that it came from the east, and that the original words included 'shakra' etc...all words used in demonic activities. ('Shakra' is a word used to describe a psychic demon 'snake' that lives in the spinal column. In the east the 'snake' is invoked and encouraged to move up the spine, so as to remove pressure and pain etc., But if it is moved too far it can kill the patient!!).

Thus, TT has been developed by a highly respected nurse, as a means of introducing occult/spiritualistic/psychic practices at every level of the health services around the world. It is spreading like wildfire - helped by the need to cut financial budgets drastically! Anything that does this will receive support from the various authorities. On top of that nurses and others 'feel' wonderful because they can personally affect the health of patients in a 'positive' way.

I urge all readers, especially health professionals and social workers, to research the effects of being involved in occultism - especially the short-term benefits which often return the victim to a worse state of health than before. Also, note the decline - often swift - into spiritual deadness and fear, depression, psychic phenomena, etc. See how the terms used in TT have been deliberately altered so as to hide the root of occultism! Tell nursing and medical friends what is happening. Other names have also been changed - 'aura' and so on - so as to mislead people.

Although the 'Christian' sitting next to me recognised the root of TT, he nevertheless enthusiastically embraced it, and joined in the session! I was flabbergasted! But, this is how I envisage other Christians, as they jump on the bandwagon so easily drawn by charismatic leaders! After all, TT is just an extension of Toronto Blessing demonosis, so what is the difference?

The actual introductory class (which followed the 'healing' of the woman) is a typical first teaching session: I have broken it all down into numbered sections for ease of reference...the session itself, of course, was one fluent activity. The quotes were made by the tutor. Everyone was told to sit comfortably (except for me - I sat upright with a writing pad at the ready!). I concentrated on reporting so that I would not be influenced by what was a very seductive method.

There is further proof that TT is occult. We were told that a practitioner need not even be in the room or near a person. Just by visualising or thinking, he/she can effect a change. When entering a room, if the practitioner 'feels' a bad mood or atmosphere, he/she can 'calm down' the room by 'wafting' the hand over/in the room. If a room is full of agitated people, this can be used to calm them all down. That is, using 'energy fields within energy fields'. A kind of 'knock-on' effect! By calming the 'room' the people within it are calmed. This is, without doubt, an occult practice. Shamans use it in tribal cultures. Voodoo doctors use it. Psychics use it to get rid of poltergeists. It is used in many other spiritualistic fields, too, as well as in hypnosis (see relevant BTM article on this subject).

Even if we remove the spiritual aspect, the practice is suspect. What we have are people doing things to other people without their knowledge. This contravenes present best practice of freedom of choice, and replaces patient's resident consent with the power-wish of a single person. Nurses can do this at any time, so the tutor said. He gave examples of nurses in hospitals calming patients by standing behind them and applying TT without the patients' knowledge! If the patients were rational would they have consented to this practice? They might even abhor occultism and would reject any occult involvement of any kind! Yet, nurses are applying occult techniques without so much as an indication of their presence.  TT can be applied as a nurse is walking with someone - such as a demented person in a corridor. This is done by 'centering' yourself and 'seeing them as calm'. (Visualisation).

The tutor said that the "best way to win someone over is to show them the benefits".  Well, I was shown the 'benefits' and I rejected TT totally! This is a very one-sided way to do things. There is no discussion of oppositional statements and no discussion of side-effects, or even of the validity of the technique itself. There are claimed to be "no harmful side-effects". I take issue with this claim, for there is no way of knowing if there are no harmful side-effects.  If observers do not know what they are dealing with and they do not know how it works, then how can they know if there are no harmful side-effects? What do they interpret as 'harmful'? In what time period? Under what circumstances?

Also, note this chilling fact - TT can even be used without anyone at all knowing about it! The tutor sat alongside a patient who was shouting. He simple sat with his eyes shut and 'visualised' his hands smoothing away her 'bad' energy. This had the same effect as if he had used his hands. That, friends, is spiritualistic occultism! (And similar to some charismatic practises).

The creator of TT, Margaret Rogers of the USA, speaks of 'different dimensions'. She might have altered the terms of reference, to make them 'more acceptable to the West' but she cannot alter the definite occult nature of TT.

If non-Christians wish to tamper with the occult, that is up to them. However, nurses (and doctors, social workers, etc.) who use TT have a duty to present the known facts to patients/residents/relatives. This would include the fact that TT works, but it is not known how; that the words used have been changed from those used in eastern mysticism/spiritualism/witchcraft to make the technique more acceptable; that Christian thinkers in particular reject TT totally and condemn its use as dangerous; that it has spiritual 'side effects' (according to Christians) even if none are found in a broad medical sense (see above objections to findings). Any findings in a medical sense have to be broad and 'loose'.

The use of TT in the case of dementia has grave implications which this author cannot condone. By reason of his or her dementia a resident/patient is in the care of nurses etc. That person cannot think reasonably or come to any reasoned conclusion. Therefore, consent to practices cannot be obtained in the usual sense. It is, then, unethical to apply TT to that person. Consent obtained from a relative is highly suspect in the ethical, and possibly the legal, sense. The patient/resident may not have given consent in his pre-dementia days, whether or not he is a Christian. Now, there is no way of knowing. Certain dementias allow limited lucidity at times, but there is no way of knowing if consent obtained in a 'lucid' moment is genuinely the product of a reasoned decision. TT is to be rejected by Christians. It is occult.

Readers are recommended to oppose TT wherever it is found. And not just TT. Other occult techniques are being introduced into nursing homes and hospitals, clinics etc., under the guise of 'alternative therapies'. Some are more dangerous than others. For example, aromatherapy. The oils used are natural essences derived from flowers and other plants. They have been used successfully for thousands of years and their efficacy is entirely due to their physical properties. As oils they are useful. But if linked with spiritualistic incantations, prayers etc., they become occult tools and cannot be used. The oils themselves are legitimate. But TT is entirely psychic/spiritualistic and thus it is to be shunned by Christians...and by anyone who understands the nature of tampering with spiritual 'forces'.

If your relative is in a nursing home or hospital, then you ought to question the people in charge. Ask if they use 'alternative therapies', including TT. If they do, it is up to you to remove your relative or not, depending on the answer. You can certainly demand that they are not used on your relative. The problem arises when they are not used on your relative - but are used extensively on everyone else! That means your relative is surrounded by occultism...demonic influences. This is just as dangerous as taking part. One Home I knew of was led by a spiritualistic couple, well-known mediums, and they used their techniques on residents. People who visited or worked there spoke of the 'weird' atmosphere there and of definite feelings of discomfort in their presence. Others referred to the 'evil' the couple exuded. All this without knowing who they were.

For myself I oppose any move to introduce occultism into any nursing area I work in.  I have that right, ethically and spiritually. TT is an attempt to swamp whole nations in occultism by the 'back door'. Be aware of what it is and what it can do. If you are a Christian nurse, shun it totally and take no part in it - even if it embarrasses you to reject it when fellow nurses are enthusiastic. Do not even take part in 'introductory classes'.

There are many things we can do for our patients/residents without resorting to occult practices and without losing our faculty of reasoning. Be suspicious of any practice that demands an empty mind! Nurses who resort to these things are using superstition and millennia-old occultism - all the professional progress they have made this century will be negated. As Christians we must heed the warnings in scripture concerning witchcraft and other spiritualistic phenomena.

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