| The Reconnection - An Interview with Dr Eric Pearl |
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| Ceri Balston | |
| Thursday, 13 December 2007 | |
   Internationally recognised healer Eric Pearl has appeared on countless television programs in the US and around the world, spoken by invitation at the United Nations, presented to a full house at Madison Square Garden, and his seminars have been featured in various publications including The New York Times.As a doctor, Eric ran a highly successful chiropractic practice for 12 years until one day when patients began reporting that they felt his hands on them – even though he hadn't physically touched them. Patients soon reported receiving miraculous healings from cancers, AIDS-related diseases, epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid and osteoarthritis, birth disfigurements, cerebral palsy and other serious afflictions. All this occurred when Eric simply held his hands near them – and to this day, it continues. His patients' healings have been documented in six books to date, including Eric's own international bestseller, The Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself, soon in its 27th language. Based in Los Angeles, Eric elicits great interest from top doctors and medical researchers at hospitals and universities worldwide. Eric travels the globe extensively throughout the year bringing the light and information of Reconnective Healing onto the planet. He teaches people how to activate and utilise this new, all-inclusive spectrum of healing frequencies that allow people to completely transcend “energy” healing and “technique”. To date, he has taught more than 30,000 Reconnective Healing Practitioners in more than 50 countries, bringing about a spontaneous generation of healers worldwide. Ceri Balston from Harmonious Living caught up with Eric to find out more. Questions What is Reconnective Healing? Can Reconnective Healing work for anything? Can it heal any aliment or disease? Do you see Reconnective Healing becoming more aligned and a more integral part of mainstream medicine, for example in hospitals and with GPs? How do you find you split your time between the healings and the teaching? Can anyone learn to do Reconnective Healing? What is the best way to go about learning it? Do you ever find that your views and Reconnective Healing clash with practitioners of other energy healing techniques? How does the healing happen in Reconnective Healing? How is healing facilitated for another person? Are you still learning? What do you enjoy most about your work? Ceri: What is Reconnective Healing? Eric: Reconnective Healing appears to be a new level of healing, a new form of healing that's here on the planet, for the very first time, according to a lot of the researchers. It is apparently so comprehensive, so broad and all inclusive that once you begin to interact with these new healing frequencies you are automatically interacting with all the energy frequencies we've ever known of up until now. It automatically includes the frequencies of Reiki, Jin Shin, Qigong, ABC and XYZ etc., because it's more than energy, it includes energy and then expands beyond it, into light and information. The researchers tend to feel that this is the first time that we have had access to this expansive level of healing here on earth. Ceri: Can Reconnective Healing work for anything? Can it heal any aliment or disease? Eric: There's nothing that I don't think that this can do. From what I've seen I don't believe there's anything it can't do. The thing is, it's not the health challenge that has the healing, it's the individual. So three people can present to you as a practitioner with the same diagnosis and the same symptoms and receive three different sets of results according to what's most appropriate for that person on their life path at that moment. Ceri: Do you see Reconnective Healing becoming more aligned and a more integral part of mainstream medicine, for example in hospitals and with GPs? Eric: Well I've trained over 30,000 practitioners around the world. Now I don’t say that 30,000 people are practising this in its fullest but they've attended the seminars, and approximately 15% to 20% them are medical doctors, chiropractors, osteopathic doctors, physical therapists, medical researchers and I know that this is being practised in hospitals and in private practises. So its not that you can say "Where does medicine stand?" because medicine, as with any field, moves forward one funeral at a time, so as the newer doctors are coming in many are more open minded. Ceri: In your book you mention that you realised that you were meant to be teaching Reconnective Healing as well as practising it. How do you find you split your time between the healings and the teaching? Eric: I don't really have much time to do healing sessions anymore, because I am on the road so very much. The official word is, if you call my office and ask, "Does Dr Pearl do any healing sessions", the office will say no but you can go to the website www.thereconnection.com to find practitioners around the world who are. But my office will ask a little bit about the person and the problem because they know that I might only have time to do one or two sessions in a week and they know that my weaknesses are children. Ceri: Can anyone learn to do Reconnective Healing? Eric: Once you interact with it, anyone can do this. Ceri: So it doesn't matter if someone comes in and they're completely sceptical about it but they think they'll just try it out? Eric: No. Because all it is, is listening with a different sense. It's your ability and willingness to listen, to feel, to receive, that allows this to come through. Interacting with it for the first time, seems to… we're not really sure how to phrase this… in a sense you could say, activate it within you or activate your ability to receive this. On the very scientific shows they like to say that it seems that it "activates receptor sites in your body", I hate to say that, it sounds so Star Trekky. Once you've made that connection, you as the practitioner are no longer needed I believe that it also allows you to recognise it. What's interesting about Reconnective Healing is that once you've experienced it you're able to go to a different place in your healing than we've been able to go with energy healing. But afterwards, anyone who's interacted with Reconnective Healing, whenever they let themselves go into a healing space, even if just an energy healer worked with them, they go into that deeper state that there were able to access through Reconnective Healing that they wouldn't have accessed through that energy healing process before. Because once we've experienced this we will take any excuse we can find to go back and experience it again, it has nothing to do with the practitioner. Even Reconnective Healing, once you've made that connection, there's nothing to do with the practitioner, you as the practitioner are no longer needed. For instance, if you've ever seen a Qigong grandmaster, as a form of energy healing, they will demonstrate how they can create certain changes in the body. They might bring their hand in near a person and you'll see that person's eyes start to move a certain way, and they'll take their hand away and you'll see it stop, and they'll say, "See this is when I bring the energy in, this is when I take it away", and that's how they demonstrate this. With Reconnective Healing you don't have to be a grandmaster, once you've learned to access it, you bring your hand in, and the person most immediately tends to have their eyes move, their breathing changes, their swallowing, and then very often their fingers and toes begin to move along, then sometimes their torso also. But when the Reconnective Healing practitioner takes his or her hand away it continues, you could even leave the room, it will continue as long as it is to continue because we are not needed, we've made the introduction or the connection and that's all that's required. Now next time that person can go there alone without even needing the practitioner. Ceri: And the best way to go about learning it? I know you've written the book and you do the seminars, is it better for someone to attend the seminar or is it a case of start with the book? Eric: You can begin to access this on a personal level from the book. I don't know how… It started with the editor at Hay House [Eric's publishers] saying she had to keep putting the manuscript down because her hands were buzzing, and we know this from other people reading the book that you can begin to access it. But you cannot call yourself a Reconnective Healing practitioner from reading the book anymore than you can call yourself a dentist from reading a book on dentistry. Some people say, I've read the book and I know how to do it and I've been doing the very same thing. Well actually no, you haven't and no, you don't, because until you've interacted with it you haven't brought it through. By reading the book there's only so much you can learn from the written word… I'll often at a seminar tell everyone to close their eyes and give the whole seminar instructions about how to hold their hands a certain way, when they open their eyes they're all doing it in different ways, therefore there's a lot to be said from learning one on one. What happens in my seminars, there's a large stage in the centre of the room, with chairs on one side of the room and massage tables, usually one for every four people, down the other. I demonstrate a level of this work, while people are in their chairs. Then we'll all go to the tables, in groups of 2 or 4, to practise it and I'll walk around the tables and so will the teaching assistants. And then we'll go back to the chairs and I'll demonstrate another level, and we'll practise that, and by the end of the two days you will have mastered this work if it kills you… There will be no level of healing that anyone can access that you won't be able to do completely By the end of the seminar you will be able to facilitate any level of healing that any healing practitioner on this planet can do, whether it's me, whether it's someone who was selected by monks and raised in a cave on a mountain top in Tibet, or whether it's someone who lives deep in Brazil. It doesn't matter whether they're famous or not famous, there will be no level of healing that anyone can access that you won't be able to do completely as well by the end of the seminar if you allow yourself. Ceri: You speak about other energy techniques such as Reiki and Qigong etc. Do you ever find that your views and Reconnective Healing clash with what they think, and that they get quite upset with what you're doing? Eric: Absolutely. I tell people at the seminar, put on your steel toed boots because we're going to step on a few toes. The fact is, if Reconnective Healing was the same as everything else that we had I would have stayed a chiropractor, there'd be no reason for me to go out and talk about something that there are a million other people talking about. Why waste my time or anyone else's for that matter? The gift of a healing technique comes in transcending that technique. Now this is something that isn't always easy for the eye to see. There are masters and there are teachers, not all teachers are masters. The teacher says come back and learn more, the master says go forward and discover your mastery. The teacher says you need the new level, and now you need to come back next month for the next level, and then next year I'll have learnt something else so come back, and write me out a cheque, and eventually you'll get better and better. In other words the teacher is good at retaining the students. The master says move forward, there will always be a new student as long as there is truth to be taught. This is freeing to the majority of the healing public, but it can be a little annoying to the majority of healing teachers because there's nothing to buy, there's nothing to sell, there's nothing else that you need. And the fact is we're able to do much more by not doing that. Ceri: How does the healing happen in Reconnective Healing? Eric: Our bodies don't heal through chemicals as we were taught. Our bodies heal through vibration, frequency, information, resonance, it's communicated via light, not just the light we use to dance around, you know in the new age communities people going "I'm the light, you're the light, wouldn't you like to be the light too", we're actually physically light. When our health is down our light is actually diminishing, when our health is coming up our light is coming back up. We know today… the work of Dr Fritz Popp in Germany, speaks about this and Lynne McTaggart speaks about it in her book, 'The Field'… that each and every cell in the human body, the DNA in each and every one of our cells emits a certain level of light, specific for humans, different from cows and donkeys and fish. When our health is down our light is actually diminishing, when our health is coming up our light is coming back up. Light plays a role in healing and regeneration. There's a concept called entropy. Entropy is things falling into disarray with time, the more speed, the more velocity into the equation for entropy, the more rapid and complete the entropy, the more things fall apart, up until the speed of light. But because of the teachings and the insights that we know of from Einstein, and from William Tiller… there's something called the Tiller Einstein model of negative entropy which means that once you hit the speed of light you go from disorganisation into organisation, degeneration in regeneration, dis-ease into ease or healing. All we need to do is remind ourselves that we are light So in other words that light is part of what keeps us at that level of integrity and health in our system at all times. When we take something on we fall away from health, we have temporarily simply forgotten that we are that light and all we really need to do is remind ourselves that we're that light. It’s a simple reminder, we don't have to stare into a light bulb for eight seconds and squeeze our eyes shut for thirty and do it six times on a full moon. All we need to do is remind ourselves that we are light, and somewhere inside of us we go back to vibrating at that level of light because we want to be who we are because we know innately how to find that again. Now when we vibrate at that level of light anything denser than light, which includes most health challenges, has little or nothing left to hold onto so it simply falls away. So, if it's appropriate for that person's life at that moment in time, those health challenges simply leave. That's healing within the body, that's how we keep ourselves healthy. Ceri: And how is healing facilitated for another person? Well, maybe we bring our hand into a space near that person and we begin to feel the sensation, and when we feel, when we listen to this level of healing the vibration in our hands becomes… in a sense it's like sending bliss through our system and as we feel that it reminds us of who we are, that we're not alone, that we're in this zero point field, that this is what we all exist in. So the other person that we're interacting with is also in this field and somewhere inside of them it triggers a little thought that goes "Hey, I remember this, this is me vibrating as light, this is me vibrating healthily. I think I'll do it again". And suddenly they vibrate at that level and their health challenges, if appropriate on their life path at that moment, have nothing left to hold onto and simply fall away. And anything more complicated than that is designed to sell you something. So to get back to your original question, "What about the technique teachers?" anything more complicated than remembering or allowing ourselves to be reminded that we are light is designed to sell us something. We don't need a technique to do it, we don't need an instrument or a healing toy to do it, we don't need to protect ourselves with necklaces that are supposed to ward away evil entities from the subway system. Ceri: In your book "The Reconnection" you spend some time discussing your own journey from running a successful Chiropractic practice to going onto teaching and doing the Reconnective Healing. You were meeting a lot of people to find out what was happening, there was a lot of learning. Are you still learning? Eric: I hope so. I mean anyone who's not learning is probably six feet under. But I have stopped looking to other people for answers. Basically because the majority of the answers that are out there will a) base themselves on protection and fear, and b) once someone says they know the answer the only thing we can be sure of is that that person has stopped learning right there on the spot. Because when we say this is right we say everything else is wrong, which is dogma which leads to religion… God bless our religions they've brought us to where we are today but I don't think we're here to build a new church. I think that the majority of us here today are looking to discover or rediscover what originally inspired the religions before we obscured them with giant buildings, politics and ritual. Ceri: What do you enjoy most about your work? Eric: The faces on the people when they suddenly get it. When they suddenly get that they can facilitate healing in a way that they didn't realise. It's seeing people born into a new era in their life. |
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