Pearl of wisdom

In line to use the bathroom at Serenity Crystals in Versova stand Reiki crystal theta healers who combine their skills with constellation and planetary healing along with hypnotherapy and pastlife regression Theyrsquore here to attend a seminar on Reconnective Healing and should they choose to be certified in this form of ldquoalternative healthcarerdquo theyll have to flush all their other modalities down the drainLos Angelesbased chiropracter Dr Eric Pearl interacts with participants including former actress Pooja Bedi with bag at a seminar on Reconnective Healing earlier this week at Versova PicSameer MarkandeReconnective Healing is a form of energy healing discovered christened and marketed by former Los Angelesbased chiropractor Dr Eric Pearl Hersquos here in this small residenceturnedseminar place in Andheri West addressing a room mainly filled with women wearing healing crystal beads asymmetrical flowing clothing and worshipping looksTill 1993 12 years into his practice as a chiropractor Pearl lived an ldquoexternal party lifestylerdquo He took breaks from his TV addiction to go to the movies he would keep looking for relationships ldquoThen one nightrdquo he writes in his book The Reconnection Heal Others Heal Yourself and tells us ldquoI woke up surrounded by a glow of lightrdquo He pauses for effect ldquoNow I donrsquot mean a divine light I meant the night lamp next to my bed was switched on and the door to my room was open I went out with a knife and a pepper spray thinking it was an intruder found no one went back to sleep a little disconcertedrdquoOn Monday when he went back to his practice his patients reported strange experiences ldquoA significant number of them had healed Tumours were gone Epilepsy episodes stopped Many said they felt multiple sets of hands on them Many of them also experienced strange activity like the TV going on and off garage doors opening Doctors started calling to ask what I had doneScientists said lsquoYou are accessing something that hasnrsquot been here beforersquordquo He relates all this with dramatic pauses and light movements of interpretive dance the diamond rings on his pinkies acting like punctuation marks Hersquos dressed in a light pink shirt with a black waistcoat and quiet tie mdash the skin on his face is tight smooth and red His age I am timeless he insistsFor the next six years Pearl juggled his chiropractic and healing practice trying out crystals wands and other mediums to channelise this energy But I experienced that the healing was going down when I used these accessories he says softly ldquoBecause when I was using these methods in the back of my mind was the fear of doing it wrong What he did find was that he was channelling a field of energy light and information that could bring healing at a DNA level It brought us to the optimal harmonic levelA trial 20minute session with Toral Vithalani one of the few certified Foundational level practitioners of Reconnective Healing in Mumbai involves lying down and resting while she channels the energy Receivers report experiencing lightness smiling a fragrance or seeing colours they cannot describe Sometimes they donrsquot experience anything ldquoI tell people healing does not care whether you believe in it or not You just have to think lsquoI am willing to lie here and receive the experiencersquo Itrsquos a unique opportunity to rest in the middle of the day and then go experience LA since you are already hererdquo says PearlYou may heal You may not heal because you may have lsquochosen the suffering as a pact made before you came to this life to experience somethingrsquo Or lsquoYou have put conditions on your healingrsquo like Bhairavi Mehta a Mumbaibased member of Pearlrsquos healing team You suffering could also be a ldquoreminder of something a balance you need to strikerdquo Or lsquobecause healing has taken place at a level you cannot recognise currentlyrsquo ldquoWe have to allow healing to come in the form most appropriate for usrdquo he saysIn words of our wise rickshawalas lsquoChange must come from within Mere paas nahi hairsquoPearl looks for a suffering volunteer in the group Someone with perhaps a limited range of motion in their arms When no one from the audience volunteers Mehta steps in A surgery in 2011 damaged her nerves and she cannot raise her right arm without bending over her head He calls for a young volunteer somebody under 13 years old Elevenyearold Ishant goes up from the back Asking him to spread his fingers strong and wide Pearl wiggles his fingers behind Ishantrsquos Mehta too has spread her hands and is seated about four feet away Pearl is ldquoteaching Ishant to play with energyrdquo Mehtarsquos fingers move and wiggle in tandem with Ishantrsquos After the session she is able to raise her hands and clap above her head Shersquos overwhelmed and says ldquoI used to always wonder why I couldnrsquot heal myself after all these yearsrdquoldquoButrdquo Pearl pauses ldquoI donrsquot heal you Ishant did You set conditions for your healinghelliprdquoIn the absence of a young person Pearl says he would have asked for someone who was ldquodragged along to the seminar Or was an unwilling participantrdquo to come be a conduitPearlrsquos talk is replete with String Theory references statements such as lsquoThis is a time of quantum human evolutionrsquo And memeready quotes such as ldquoExpectancy allows us to receive expectation is limitingrdquo Verbal acrobatics is his finely honed skill which distracts the process of understanding how Reconnective Healing is different from Reconnection Itrsquos the same maze he leads us through when asked how many such healers currently exist initiated by his organisation Illuminations Wellbeing centre that holds seminars and workshops across the world Because of a rejuggle in their certification system he is not quite sure of the number His partner Jillian Fleer executive director at The Reconnection puts the figure at 85000 to 90000A strict code of conduct such as the establishment of an office an exclusion of practice of any other energy modality and a set of what you can and cannot promise a client has to be adhered to be certified by Reconnection The teachers are listed on the website Sisters Jalpa and Toral Vithalani of Cosmic Heart in Marine Drive have been practising this since 2010 While most clients come for relief from a disease many come for a ldquobroadening of the consciousnessThe name also came to Pearl via an unusual medium I did not want to call it specifically anything But then one day when a client was in my office asleep on the massage table he spoke in a voice that was not his and said Continue doing what you are doing You are bringing light and love into the planet You are reconnecting strandsrsquordquo he says This happened again and again with some 50 patients some saying strands some saying lsquostringsrsquordquo He believes this was a message passed on by a higher intelligence who was occupying the same space as him on another level and had found a way to relay the messageAnd now this message is his lifersquos work