White Shadow: Walking with Janet Mentgen

by Diane Wind Wardell, PhD, RNC

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Lakewood, CO: Colorado Center for Healing Touch 2000    410 pp   $25.00 

Diane Wind Wardell brings us a glowing picture of Janet Mentgen, who developed and teaches Healing Touch (HT), and established the Healing Touch International organization. Many nurses and other caregivers are using HT, which includes a variety of interventions in addition to hand and distant healing.

At the same time, this book is a marvelously detailed journal of the development of Wardell as a healer and HT teacher.

Here are a few of the many interesting observations:

My most important messages come, not from those I am drawn to, but by the gifts of others I would otherwise avoid.  They and I are unaware of our connection until it bursts upon me, the lesson learned.  Sometimes, I feel like a hammer has been poised above my head for just such times.  It has fallen again and again and I wonder when I am to replace it with a more gentle awareness.  ( p. 26)

She [Mentgen] said, “Trauma release is the opposite of the techniques we do when we come at symptoms from the emotional/mental aspect.  Energetically it really goes underneath that level and works with the physical-energetic aspect, which then supports or becomes structure for carrying the emotional-mental process.  So what we are doing in this particular case is we are connecting the etheric template back to the etheric body and we are repairing the strands.  It is really what we call fifth level work [this type of work is taught in Level IIB onward].  In this process we are connecting the cellular memory.  We are activating the memory so we can talk to that cell.  “You know, you don’t have to act this way any more.  We can release this for you.”  We do that through the release mechanism.  Just imprint the process,  1, 2, 3, release’ and the cellular memory will release as far as what the cells are supposed to do on a cellular level.  It doesn’t have to make us hurt anymore…”    (p. 33-34)

This is the sort of book one likes to dip into, ponder its lessons, and return to savor again and to chew on. The lack of index and references will hinder such deeper study.

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