The Energineers

The Energineers They can work with a lock of your hair or a line of your handwriting and heal you from a thousand miles away. Arpi Shively tunes in to Radionic energy healing and turns on a wave of wellbeing. As we turn into the driveway of Bering Radionics, I’m frankly disappointed. Instead of the glittering glass and steel tower of my imagination (too many Bond movies), the pretty whitewashed villa nestling in its tidy garden looks almost too normal. Then I spot the peculiar red-tiled roof, topping the house like a plateful of puddings. It’s reassuringly strange and I take heart. A moment later, the front door opens, and four pairs of the bluest eyes I’ve ever seen are beaming a welcome. They belong to Radionics practitioner Kaj Bering and his dedicated team. And as I’m about to find out, this neat little house is full of surprises. According to the Radionic Association, based in Oxford, radionics is a method of healing transmitted through energy using a kind of extra-sensory perception (ESP) called “radiesthetics”, and working with specialised equipment. Developed in the early twentieth century by American neurologist Dr. Albert Abrams, radionics is based on the concept that that the earth itself and every life form on it has its own electromagnetic field. In fact, radionics even sees organs, diseases and remedies as having individual frequencies or vibrational ‘signatures’. Radionic equipment captures these vibrations in “rates”, also known as ‘ohms’ or units of electrical resistance, which can then be used to precisely analyse and treat patients. Peter Carey emphasizes: “Radionics is a complementary therapy, working to enhance conventional medicine whenever possible, rather than substituting for it.” Unlike a doctor of conventional medicine, the radionics practitioner explores beyond visible symptoms to analyse underlying physical and emotional problems in an individual’s electromagnetic field or ‘subtle energy body’. This is the level on which the various chakras, or spiritual energy centres, are located, and on which many Eastern and alternative therapies are based “Every one has their own subtle energy field, which is both unique and also links the individual to the collective, universal energy field we all share,” says Kaj. “A trained practitioner can locate, analyse and rebalance disturbances in the normal rhythm and balance of the body’s subtle energy vibrations.” Through the collective energy field, practitioner and patient can be many miles apart and still give and receive effective treatment. A lock of hair or even a sample of handwriting can supply sufficient energy information to work on. In fact, says Kaj’s partner, Greta, “one lady in Austria sent us her daughter’s name by fax, and we were able to treat her successfully using just that!” 1 Kaj, who is Danish by birth and Canadian by citizenship, runs one of Europe’s busiest radionic practices, seeing or treating over 300 patients a year – including four-legged health seekers such as horses and dogs who often respond particularly well to the therapy. Today I’ve asked him to treat inflamed joints in both my thumbs, which often give me symmetrical aggravation, especially in cold or damp weather. Kaj invites me to the seat beside his consulting table, and asks me to write my name on a slip of paper. He inserts the paper into a machine that dominates the desk. Anybody remember the ‘technology’ in the kids’ adventure series ‘Lost in Space’? Well, this contraption looks older than that. It’s basically a wooden board covered with dials – 108 of them, in fact. Kaj’s left hand flies around the board, turning dials left or right as he does a whole body analysis, his other hand travelling continuously across a copper- based touchplate which ‘sticks’ visibly when it comes to an energy block. He’s not even looking at me, as the essential me has been reduced to a scrap of narrow-ruled A4 pad. It’s a humbling thought. “Some MI28, but a lot more MI38,” he murmurs to assistant and pupil Peter Carey. For a moment, I wonder if I have anything really exotic that might go down well as an icebreaker at dinner parties, but in fact these codes refer to specific health problems. Peter thumbs through a huge textbook in which all the codes are listed, together with the correct vibrational value to treat each particular problem. Kaj readjusts the dials and tells me that my treatment – soundless, invisible, tasteless and odourless – is now taking place. Eccentric? So was turning people into pincushions 25 years ago, yet today, acupuncture is often prescribed by GP’s for a wide range of chronic conditions in which conventional treatment may have little to offer. Additionally, radionics is non-invasive, environmentally friendly and has no side effects. “The worst that can happen is that if the wrong frequency is sent, it simply disperses harmlessly,” says Kaj. Typically, radionics patients are recruited by word of mouth recommendations from friends, or by reading articles about the therapy. “I ask them to complete a case history form and return it with a “witness”, a small lock of hair or a sample of handwriting,” says Kaj. Fees for an initial full body analysis are around £50, with subsequent treatments at around £40 per session. How many treatments are needed depends on the complexity of the underlying problems, though in most cases improvement is detected between one and three months after beginning the sessions. Conditions that respond well to radionics include asthma, allergies and chronic joint problems such as rheumatism and arthritis; anxiety and depression can also be treated. Radionics is also used to treat animals, especially horses, and even crops. Predictably, attitudes to radionics in the scientific/medical world range from discreet acceptance and use, through cynicism to outright rejection. In America, its licensed use 2 is confined to animals and crops. However, in Britain, radionics has been used for decades as an alternative therapy, and is regulated by its own Association, whose members adhere to a strict code of conduct that protects patients’ interest. Rebecka Woods of the Radionic Association says that as well as publishing a professional Code of Conduct, it offers a structured three-year training program based on the CBQ (UK Competency-based Qualification) system, with a mixture of theory exams, practical casework and independent assessment. Candidates have to have a grounding in scientific topics, “and there’s a certain attitude and personal philosophy, an openness to alternative ideas” that is also essential, she says. Having completed an initial assessment, students from all over the world learn to channel their intuitive skills and develop their expertise in using the equipment, before working on patients under supervision from qualified practitioners. Once qualified themselves, practitioners can adapt their knowledge to complement other alternative therapies they might already offer, such as homeopathic and flower remedies, gem and colour therapy, or aromatherapy. Leading medical practitioners are conducting studies into the effectiveness of radionics. However, those who have tried radionics and got results are in no doubt about its effectiveness. Today keen horsewoman Sue Parry is the picture of good health, running a busy bed and breakfast farm and stables in southern Spain with her partner Alan. But around twenty years ago, she was heading for life in a wheelchair – if she was lucky. “I was diagnosed with incurable rheumatoid arthritis after a bad fall from my horse,” she says, “and the painkillers and anti-inflammatories which were all my doctor could prescribe were making me pass out.” A neighbour whose bronchial pneumonia had been greatly helped by radionics put her in touch with a therapist near Windsor. “I didn’t really believe in it, but I was desperate,” says Sue. “Yet within three months, and with no other drugs, I was completely cured.” More recently, she sought help from Kaj Bering and his radionics team for some other health problems. “I was having very heavy periods, I had a kidney infection and anaemia,” says Sue. “Once again, within two to three months of receiving radionics treatment, everything was put right,” she says. When both she and Alan were down with flu last winter, Sue says that Alan was ill and on antibiotics for over a week; Sue bounced back in two days. Kaj and his team of radionic practitioners are pleased but not at all surprised when they hear about these positive experiences. “One day, everyone will book in for a six-monthly energy spring clean, the same way we now get our teeth cleaned,” says Eben, another beaming blue-eyed staff member. As we are leaving, I notice two things. On Kaj’s desk sit a very unmedical group of fat, jolly garden gnomes. And my thumbs are no longer hurting. END 3.

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