Dan Wilson           

If all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.
                                                            - Abraham Maslow

A friend of the Association for Therapeutic Healers recently arranged for me to sit in on a homoeopathic clinical tutorial. I ended up being mightily impressed with what homoeopathy was achieving through the invisible power of its psychic tradition and half-dismayed, half-amused, at the way the structured use of intuition (in the form of dowsing) kept trying to break through via the students and being fended off, at least officially, by the tutors.

One tutor admitted to me "we do it, but we don't teach it. It leads you right off classical homoeopathy". Meeting a novice homoeopath from another college, I asked him about this and he said that half their tutors openly practised body sensing and half were strongly antagonistic, so it had not so far become a respectable thing to talk about.

I wangled myself a visit to a practical seminar for students of McTimoney chiropractic. McTimoney differs (it says, though practitioners are so different that the distinction must be blurred) in being notably gentler than classical chiropractic. There's a dainty little move its therapists do in an 'adjustment' where the hands are thrown up in the air like a pianist finishing a party piece. I asked about this quaint little manoeuvre and was told sternly that it was a necessary part of 'the energy'. Here too intuiton was rattling the windows and not being let in. Students have to sense numerous bone positions after each move and were told "after 20 years at this, you will just know which ones to go to and check". I pursed my lips, because I had just found (somewhat to my surprise) I could anticipate the student by half a minute in simply knowing without touching which bones would now be found out of position - and I know that once you've got this kind of faculty yourself you can teach it to a committed learner in a weekend. Mind you, as the homoeopath said, once you're on that road you're not sure you should be that kind of therapist anyway.

* Slightly modified editorial from 'The Therapeutic Healer', reproduced with the kind permission of Dan Wilson, editor of this newsletter of the Association for Therapeutic Healers.
 

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