Virtual Testing & Virtual Healing

© Copyright 2003 by Foreign Correspondent Dr. med. Reimar Banis, M.D., N.D.; Austria, Translation by David M. Fogg
(Explore Issue: Volume 13, Number 1)

Anyone who begins to get involved with energetic medicine and, say, takes a stroll through a naturopathic convention or esoterica fair, will be confronted with a truly bizarre collection of diagnostic methods and miracle cures at the various booths and exhibits. Techniques such as remote divination (swinging a pendulum), Radionics from England, Körbler’s Homeopathy, etc., can give the uninitiated the impression that precise diagnoses lie hidden by occult powers, just waiting to be called forth by adepts with their bags of tricks and paraphernalia. According to the exhibitors, you just need the right technique—the method they are marketing, as it turns out—to work diagnostic wonders. The therapeutic possibilities are reportedly just as miraculous, their efficacy substantiated by fabulous sounding case histories.

The question is: just how reliable and thorough are these methods? As a physician and naturopath who has been using energetic medicine for nearly thirty years, I have over time amassed numerous experiences and insights, consisting (as so often in life) mainly of painful disappointments and costly mistakes—these I either committed myself or I was forced to watch as colleagues committed them. I would like to save the reader this “tuition” in the ‘School of Hard Knocks’ by sharing my own experiences when dealing with certain critical aspects of energetic medicine. However, I’d like to emphasize right at the outset that it is by no means my intention to discredit any particular procedure or its adherents, but rather to encourage the reader to think about these issues critically and rationally. Later on, I will talk about how to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Let me approach the topic with an example involving geopathic stress zones, and what is known as shielding. This involves what proponents claim is the neutralization of geopathogenic radiation by means of shielding mats, pyramid energy, minerals, magnets, interference suppressor chips, and copper wire, as well as certain symbols, such as Egyptian stones (see Figure 1, an illustration of positive-polarity pyramid stones). Using testing procedures such as kinesiology, Nogier’s pulse diagnostics, one-handed rod and the like, it can be demonstrated that when the shielding device is used, the harmful radiation seems to vanish like magic—because in fact the rod no longer dips, or some other diagnostic test is now negative. The diviner who applied the shielding device then claims to have eliminated the problem.

However, the harmful geo-radiation is still present—and in fact the illness is often reinforced by lying on a shielded bed, because the shielding gradually builds up a charge that can eventually cause severe long-term damage (including cancer). As fate would have it, I happen to know two very well-known naturopaths (who shall remain anonymous) that have just these kinds of diseases, who for some time had recommended these shields to their patients and in articles—and who had, unfortunately, themselves used them. In another case, I attribute the cancer death of a renowned spiritual teacher to his use of shielding mats. I looked into his case posthumously and I, reluctantly, had to report to his widow, just a few days ago, that his bedroom’s highly aggressive geopathy was not only not eliminated by the shielding mats, but was in fact reinforced by them. Thus, the problem with shielding is that it suppresses a rod dip—but nothing about the actual problem has changed.