Holistic Health Practices/Part 33

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What is (medical) psychometry (radionics)?

Radionics is a form of psychometry where the healer is aided by a mechanical apparatus such as Abram’s black box or a pendulum.

Medical psychometry consists of methods of psychic diagnosis and treatment. These different practices claim to work by teaching healers an alleged psychic sensitivity to “radiations” or mystical energies in objects or people. Such sensitivity supposedly permits one to diagnose a patient’s physical condition and/or prescribe treatment (e.g., use of radionics devices or homeopathic remedies). Homeopathy frequently employs these methods, and water dowsing and other forms of dowsing are forms of radionics practice claiming a natural sensitivity to water or various “radiations.”

These methods have never been proven to work as claimed. For example, it is scientifically proven that radionic devices such as dowsing rods contain no mysterious powers in themselves. These techniques operate through spiritistic power not a natural human or mechanical sensitivity to strange “radiations.” Psychic development is required for their use and their practices are basically forms of spiritistic, psychic diagnosis and healing.

Potential problems include incorrect diagnosis of a serious illness, wrong prescribing of treatment, and occultic influence as revealed in such texts as Spirit Psychometry.

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