2023-05-29 11:12:32
That’s the big question! What are the skeptics or people who have never had recourse to a healer more likely to ask themselves than those who have already done so and have passed this question. Obviously, you won’t find a scientific explanation. The art of the healer is exercised on a subtle plane, which still eludes rational measurements and determinisms. Whatever…
The hands, an essential tool
A majority of healers practice primarily using their hands. They serve as a means of detection or “reading” of painful areas of the body. Some establish contact by laying their hands on the patient, others practice imposition without touching. The hands would translate, according to the practitioners, a heat or a density, sometimes a color or even a tingling.
“somesthesia” or the sensitivity of the body
We have more than three million neurons and receptors sensitive to pressure, stretch, variations in temperature or speed of movement. Distributed throughout the body, including the hands and the soles of the feet (Pacinian corpuscles), they might explain, at least partially, both the sensitivity of the therapist to “capture” the ailments of his patient as the latter’s rebalancing and self-healing reactions.
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Magnetite at your fingertips
We owe to two Americans, the geophysicist Joseph L. Kirschvink and the ethologist and biologist James L. Gould, and to an English biologist, Robin Baker, the demonstration of magnetite crystals within the tissues of many living beings; insects, birds, fish, mammals, as well as in humans. They have found it in the necks and brains of pigeons, on the bellies of bees like most insects, in the heads of whales, killer whales and dolphins. These crystals would intervene in the sense of orientation in migratory species. In humans, it is found in the brow bones, the nape of the neck, the knees and… the hands, in particular the fingertips.
These magnetite crystals would function as micro-magnets, reacting to magnetic fields or very weak potential differences, and possibly inducing them. One of the most famous French scientists, physicist and mathematician Yves Rocard (1903-1992), Michel Rocard’s father, became very interested in it – following he officially retired. Passionate dowsing1, he saw in these magnetite crystals the explanation for the sensitivity of dowsers and the skills of magnetizers. An interest which, in spite of his immense career, earned him the jeers of his former scientific colleagues, for whom all this might only come from rantings.
The Electromagnetic Man
Electric potential differences are one of the primary means, along with biochemistry, which living things use in their innumerable biological processes. Moreover, the human body emits an “energetic” field of an electromagnetic nature, certainly very weak, but measurable and being established at approximately 10-6 Gauss. Variable intensity depending on the individual: studies2,3 have found in some people levels more than a thousand times higher than the average. Magnetite crystals not being evenly distributed among individualsit is probably the individuals who possess a greater than average quantity of it who would be best disposed to the art of dowsing and healing magnetism.
Cryptochrome enters the equation
Twenty years following the death of the physicist Yves Rocard, a new element has interfered4 in the question of magnetism: le cryptochrome. This photoreceptor, located in the eyes and participating in the circadian rhythm, seems to be involved in receptivity to magnetism. According to a French study5, this phenomenon would represent a general response to sensitivity to electromagnetic fieldsexplaining that the latter are pathological when they are of high power (as under a very high voltage line), or therapeutic when weak (such as the pulsed magnetic fields used to relieve osteoarthritis).
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All this for what field of application?
A healer or a magnetizer cannot do everything, as is the case with a doctor, for that matter. It’s not a miracle worker, although sometimes it looks a bit like it. Magnetism deals with relatively high success rates (in the range of 70-80%) skin problemssuch as eczema, warts, shingles, burns and even angiomas, as well as osteoarticular pain, including lumbago, sciatica, sprains or torticollis. It also works on nervous ailments, including migraines, insomnia, anxiety, difficulty in having a child, hypertension or neuralgia. Cystitis, menstrual disorders, functional digestive disorders and ulcers also fall within the therapeutic field of magnetism. For Professor Rocard, this is not the case for fractures, infectious diseases or even cancers, although a healer can help relieve pain or strengthen the patient’s vitality. Healers themselves, moreover, generally do not venture into this field, no doubt aware of their limits, but also of the problems that such an overflow might bring upon them.
Effects put into perspective
Different surveys relate the feelings of the treated as to the effects induced by the healer; feeling of relaxation, renewed energy or severe fatigue, feeling that you are lifting a weight, crying or laughing… and sometimes nothing, no effect. It seems difficult to fix the origin of these effects, or of their absence, because, as in conventional medicine, the patient’s beliefs, his psychology and his conditioning prior to treatment are decisive in the outcome of the therapeutic process. The results should also be analyzed from the healer’s discourse, according to Deborah Kessler-Bilthauer, socio-anthropologist of health at the University of Lorraine. Because in case of failure, the latter can impute it to the patient, on the pretext that he would not have followed his instructions or was not in a good mood.
Also mind healers
The healer’s care does not always stop at the border of the physical body alone. The body and the mind being closely intertwined, intervening on one generally has repercussions on the other – in particular by the powerful vector of emotions. It is also not inconceivable that the very nature of the care provided, which generally includes a “spiritual” (a prayer) or mental (an intention) dimension, might immediately find an echo in this register in the patient, according to the principle of synchronicity (vibration in unison), for example. We might also invoke quantum physics, which suggests that particles are capable of communicating with each other by freeing themselves from distance and space. When a healer treats an area of pain, emotions can come to the surface, resulting in an unblocking or release from a past “trauma”. Phenomena likely to manifest themselves both during a session and in the hours or days that follow.
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Science refutes, but…
The healer remains perceived, by most doctors and institutions, at best as a (nice) mystifier; he brings comfort and reassurance to the patient, who comes to him with a hope or a faith likely, in any case, to have already done half the job. Perfect circumstances for promote suggestion and the placebo effectand which, in the eyes of rationalists and skeptics of all stripes, are sufficient to explain the positive effects without the need to look any further.
The authorities would gladly tax healers (in the broad sense) with the illegal practice of medicine or pharmacy, an offense in relation to which risk-taking is almost permanent. Nevertheless, the medical profession seems to have opened up, in particular thanks to the craze for alternative medicine, so much so that healers are generally better tolerated, sometimes even solicited, here by a family doctor, there by a hospital. Like hypnosislong considered bluster before brain imaging shed light on its functioning, magnetism and the art of healing differently perhaps, one day, it will be better understood and accepted.
The fact remains that as a potential customer, Care must be taken in choosing the practitionerbecause the profession is not regulated, it cannot fail to count a few black sheep in its ranks.
The divine supplanted by the magico-therapeutic
With the decline of the Christian faith, the last generations (practitioners as well as patients) seem to have detached themselves from the “divine” dimension traditionally associated with the work of the healer. Even when prayer is still present in the ritual, the audience receives care less from the angle of divine gift than from that of esotericism, or at a pinch psychosomatics. But as long as it works…
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