I will be the first to admit that there is an awful lot of occultic and mystical and just plain nonsensical junk that is attached to energy medicine. It seems that people just lose their heads as soon as they start into the subject and start attributing all sorts of stuff to they spiritual realm that don't belong there. For instance, I read a book the other day that said:

"Numerous cultures describe a matrix of subtle energies that support, shape, and animate the physical body, called qi or chi in China, "prana" in the yoga tradition of India and Tibet, "yesod" in the Jewish cabalistic tradition, "ki" in Japan, "baraka by the Sufis, "wakan" by the Lakotas, "orenda" by the Iroquois, "megbe" by the Ituri Pygmies, and the "Holy Spirit" in the Christian tradition."

Now the person who wrote that is obviously grossly ignorant about Christian theology for one thing, or she would never have made such a foolish mistake as to call the energy in the body the Holy Spirit. Another mistake that she has made is to equate the energetic force found in the human body with the realm of spirit. To me, this is like equating the heart that pumps blood with the heart the Bible speaks of as the part of man that believes in God, or assigning mystical qualities to the central nervous system. We know that electrical energy exists in the human body. Western medicine acknowledges and uses this fact every time they hook someone up to do an EKG or an EEG on a person. Medical X rays are another form of energetic medicine that western allopathic medicine frequently uses in diagnosis. X rays have made the utilization of electromagnetic fields in medicine a commonplace procedure. What we have here in these instances is the melding of allopathic medicine, which is based on a Newtonian mechanical physics model of cause and effect, and a form of technology that utilizes an Einsteinian quantum physics model.

There are several presuppositions that I bring to the whole subject of energy medicine. The first is that the earth is the Lord's all that dwell therein. There is nothing that is outside the realm of God's oversight. The second is that if the energy system exists in the body (and I believe that it can now be proved that it does) then it was created and put there by God. Satan and his demons have no power to create anything; they only destroy and pervert what God has made. C.S. Lewis said that goodness is good in and of itself while evil can only be derived by twisting and perverting that which was originally good. I think that is what has happened to this subject. The opportunity to twist and pervert it is just too great to pass by for the Evil One.

I'll have to do some digging around to find the man's name, but I had a book that spoke of an experiment conducted by an allopathically trained doctor back in the 1930's in an effort to prove that the chinese meridians were all bunk. He injected himself with radioactive isotopes at the ends of the meridian points that the charts showed, and then used a moveable xray to find out where in the body the isotopes went. To his great surprise, every place that had a bit of radiation showing up corresponded to the
accupuncture points on the charts. Instead of disproving their existence, he proved that they really do exist. Unfortunately, he later died of radioactive poisoning as the result of these experiments. When I speak of energy medicine, I am speaking of something that physically exists and which can be manipulated and used for the healing of the physical body. It does draw upon the knowledge of these systems that were discovered by the Chinese and the Ayurvedic traditions, but I think we can use the
information about these energy pathways in the body without having to believe their explanations for it or accept their false religious presuppositions. To completely reject this information would be, imho, to throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater.

What I am attempting to do for myself, and perhaps those who read this, is re-frame the whole field of energy medicine within the realm of a Christian worldview.

I have just completed a biokinesionics course taught by a Christian without any of the mystical accretions that usually go with it. There was no chanting, no talk about becoming one with the universe, no encouragement to submerge oneself in the collective subconcious or any of the other things that go with eastern pantheism. Instead, what I did learn is comparable to finding out which light switches in the body got turned off and then using the right technique to turn them back on again. What I am seeking to do is no different than what a conventionally trained medical doctor is doing -- seeking to alleviate the pain and suffering of others. I am just utilizing a different means for doing this and trying to stay within the bounds of a Christ-centered worldview while I do so.

When a person has a headache, one can either leave it alone and hope it goes away, or take a tablet to anesthetize the nerves that makes one feel it or else cause the blood vessels to expand, take some herbs (that the pharmaceutical drugs are usually derived from), do a spinal adjustment to relieve compressed vertebral discs, or push on a few accupressure points that are also neurolymphatic or neurovascular points which increase lymph fluid or blood flow and take the pain away. Is one more lawful than the other? Is there a law of God that has been broken when doing this? I don't think so, but I am willing to be corrected on this.

Am still working on getting response thing set up. Comments can be sent to cheryl@grenon.org