Thoraiya DyerCrazy Crystal People Part 3: The Shinier the Better – Light Bed Therapy
August 27th 2008 00:58
Ahhh, Crystal Light Bed Healing. It combines the best of both quackeries: colour therapy (looking at disco lights) and crystal therapy (holding pointy rocks).
Advocates of “Crystal Bed Healing” Really Long Link ) are convinced that shining coloured lights through quartz at a person’s body can result in “positive stimulation …(of) the immune system at a high level… recommended for any case of physical or psychological problems, or for anti-aging”.
Anti-aging? Really? The Wiggles are going to live forever.
But there’s more! (There’s always more. *sigh*)
Says traditionalmedicine.com.au:
“This combination of healing energies is further and GREATLY ENHANCED, by the “Healing Entities” of the Casa de Dom Inacio. These Healing Entities are the Spiritual Beings that work in and around the Casa de Dom Inacio. These are also the entities that are incorporated by the Medium Joao Teixeira de Faria, who is known as “John Of God”. The coloured light shining through the crystals is the tool that the Entities use to channel their healing energy into the individual receiving the "Crystal Bed Healing".
You expect me to believe in WHAT, now?
Healing entities from Brazil? Spiritual beings? You mean like ghosts? No, I see you mean the Virgin Mary and a dozen of her homies. And they get called into the clinic by a Medium, who promptly sets them to work balancing your unbalanced imaginary chakras?
How much does all this cost?
(I hope the Healing Entities are getting a fair cut. I bet the Virgin Mary foolishly signed an Australian Workplace Agreement. Julia Gillard is fighting for you, Healing Entities!)
At Lane Cove Natural Therapies Clinic, just your initial consultation is going to set you back $80. That’s before you see a single flashy light!
Small price to pay, though, for the Healing Entities to cross the Pacific Ocean, all the way from Brazil, just so they can possess your healer (johnofgod.com)… the site is so offensive (“He will scrape away cataracts and eye tumours with a knife, remove breast cancers with a small incision and cause the crippled to walk with just the touch of his hand… a ceiling high stack of discarded crutches, wheelchairs and braces pays silent testimony to his success… the greatest healer of the past 2,000 years”) that I refuse to read any more.
At least the Crystal Bed Therapists here in Australia clearly state that “As with many of Subtle Energy Healing Therapies, no claims can be made that any disease states can be cured.”
Thank you!
That makes you gullible, but not a dangerous criminal.
It comes as no surprise that Crystal Bed Healers don’t require registration. They don’t need to pass any exams or pay for any insurance. You can be pretty sure, if you lie under coloured lights for twenty minutes to an hour, that you’re not going to suffer any terrible side effects.
That’s because nothing is happening.
Well, maybe I’m being a bit too hasty. Something IS happening. Several things, if you think about it.
A person who is unwell gets to talk to a sympathetic, well-meaning person for as long as they like. Real doctors might be sympathetic and well-meaning, but they don’t usually have time to really listen.
That unwell person gets to lie down and listen to relaxing music in a safe, comfortable place. They are allowed to go to sleep, if they want.
The unwell person is told by previously mentioned sympathetic, well-meaning person with a false aura of knowledge and authority that they will feel better afterwards.
Why shouldn’t they feel better?
The fact that they could have done the same thing in their own home without paying $60 twice a week doesn’t occur to them, and it hardly matters. Just because real medicine could potentially help them more doesn’t cancel out the positive psychological outcome.
Oh, How Powerful Art Thou, Placebo Effect.
From, skepdic.com/placebo.htm, we learn that,
“The idea of the placebo in modern times originated with H. K. Beecher. He evaluated 15 clinical trials concerned with different diseases and found that 35% of 1,082 patients were satisfactorily relieved by a placebo alone ("The Powerful Placebo," 1955).
Other studies have since calculated the placebo effect as being even greater than Beecher claimed. For example, studies have shown that placebos are effective in 50 or 60 percent of subjects with certain conditions, e.g., "pain, depression, some heart ailments, gastric ulcers and other stomach complaints."*
And, as effective as the new psychotropic drugs seem to be in the treatment of various brain disorders, some researchers maintain that there is not adequate evidence from studies to prove that the new drugs are more effective than placebos.”
Like the skepdics, I’m not saying that the placebo effect only works for crystal light bed therapy. I’m sure it works for mainstream medicine as well. But people who have felt let down by mainstream doctors in the past and expect better things from alternative treatment are more likely to experience the fun of the placebo effect.
For me, I’ve spent plenty of time gazing at fireworks and Christmas lights. They made me feel fuzzy and warm inside. Maybe it was the Healing Entities twiddling my chakras, and maybe it was being surrounded by loved ones and the general good cheer of the holiday season.
Look what I’ve gone and invented! New Year’s Eve on Sydney Harbour With Family Therapy!
Time to get myself listed in the Yellow Pages and start raking in the big bucks. Maybe we don’t even need fireworks. Maybe just the reflections of the city lights in the harbour will do.
The shinier, the better.
Advocates of “Crystal Bed Healing” Really Long Link ) are convinced that shining coloured lights through quartz at a person’s body can result in “positive stimulation …(of) the immune system at a high level… recommended for any case of physical or psychological problems, or for anti-aging”.
Anti-aging? Really? The Wiggles are going to live forever.
But there’s more! (There’s always more. *sigh*)
Says traditionalmedicine.com.au:
“This combination of healing energies is further and GREATLY ENHANCED, by the “Healing Entities” of the Casa de Dom Inacio. These Healing Entities are the Spiritual Beings that work in and around the Casa de Dom Inacio. These are also the entities that are incorporated by the Medium Joao Teixeira de Faria, who is known as “John Of God”. The coloured light shining through the crystals is the tool that the Entities use to channel their healing energy into the individual receiving the "Crystal Bed Healing".
You expect me to believe in WHAT, now?
Healing entities from Brazil? Spiritual beings? You mean like ghosts? No, I see you mean the Virgin Mary and a dozen of her homies. And they get called into the clinic by a Medium, who promptly sets them to work balancing your unbalanced imaginary chakras?
How much does all this cost?
(I hope the Healing Entities are getting a fair cut. I bet the Virgin Mary foolishly signed an Australian Workplace Agreement. Julia Gillard is fighting for you, Healing Entities!)
At Lane Cove Natural Therapies Clinic, just your initial consultation is going to set you back $80. That’s before you see a single flashy light!
Small price to pay, though, for the Healing Entities to cross the Pacific Ocean, all the way from Brazil, just so they can possess your healer (johnofgod.com)… the site is so offensive (“He will scrape away cataracts and eye tumours with a knife, remove breast cancers with a small incision and cause the crippled to walk with just the touch of his hand… a ceiling high stack of discarded crutches, wheelchairs and braces pays silent testimony to his success… the greatest healer of the past 2,000 years”) that I refuse to read any more.
At least the Crystal Bed Therapists here in Australia clearly state that “As with many of Subtle Energy Healing Therapies, no claims can be made that any disease states can be cured.”
Thank you!
That makes you gullible, but not a dangerous criminal.
It comes as no surprise that Crystal Bed Healers don’t require registration. They don’t need to pass any exams or pay for any insurance. You can be pretty sure, if you lie under coloured lights for twenty minutes to an hour, that you’re not going to suffer any terrible side effects.
That’s because nothing is happening.
Well, maybe I’m being a bit too hasty. Something IS happening. Several things, if you think about it.
A person who is unwell gets to talk to a sympathetic, well-meaning person for as long as they like. Real doctors might be sympathetic and well-meaning, but they don’t usually have time to really listen.
That unwell person gets to lie down and listen to relaxing music in a safe, comfortable place. They are allowed to go to sleep, if they want.
The unwell person is told by previously mentioned sympathetic, well-meaning person with a false aura of knowledge and authority that they will feel better afterwards.
Why shouldn’t they feel better?
The fact that they could have done the same thing in their own home without paying $60 twice a week doesn’t occur to them, and it hardly matters. Just because real medicine could potentially help them more doesn’t cancel out the positive psychological outcome.
Oh, How Powerful Art Thou, Placebo Effect.
From, skepdic.com/placebo.htm, we learn that,
“The idea of the placebo in modern times originated with H. K. Beecher. He evaluated 15 clinical trials concerned with different diseases and found that 35% of 1,082 patients were satisfactorily relieved by a placebo alone ("The Powerful Placebo," 1955).
Other studies have since calculated the placebo effect as being even greater than Beecher claimed. For example, studies have shown that placebos are effective in 50 or 60 percent of subjects with certain conditions, e.g., "pain, depression, some heart ailments, gastric ulcers and other stomach complaints."*
And, as effective as the new psychotropic drugs seem to be in the treatment of various brain disorders, some researchers maintain that there is not adequate evidence from studies to prove that the new drugs are more effective than placebos.”
Like the skepdics, I’m not saying that the placebo effect only works for crystal light bed therapy. I’m sure it works for mainstream medicine as well. But people who have felt let down by mainstream doctors in the past and expect better things from alternative treatment are more likely to experience the fun of the placebo effect.
For me, I’ve spent plenty of time gazing at fireworks and Christmas lights. They made me feel fuzzy and warm inside. Maybe it was the Healing Entities twiddling my chakras, and maybe it was being surrounded by loved ones and the general good cheer of the holiday season.
Look what I’ve gone and invented! New Year’s Eve on Sydney Harbour With Family Therapy!
Time to get myself listed in the Yellow Pages and start raking in the big bucks. Maybe we don’t even need fireworks. Maybe just the reflections of the city lights in the harbour will do.
The shinier, the better.
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