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candle magick:
Subject of The Candle Magick Workbook: Why and How Candle Magick Works,
by Kala and Ketz Pajeon. It is a purported way to obtain health, love, money,
and success, and, apparently, relief from busybodies, ex-lovers, and "unwanted"
suitors.
C.A.R.E. (Chakra Armor Release of Emotions): System advanced by author
Raphael Rettner, D.C. Apparently, its postulate is that emotions are "involved
in" four "energy pathways": acupuncture meridians, chakras,
"polarity elements," and "armor" (a muscle spasm due
to an unexpressed emotion).
The Cayce Approach to Health and Healing: "Holistic approach"
to healing and wellness that encompasses breathwork, energy field work,
Self-Applied Health Enhancement Methods, and "remedies" (e.g.,
the apple diet) related to the "readings" of clairvoyant Edgar
Cayce (1877-1945). Its theory posits reincarnation and a triune body (physical
body, mental body, and spiritual body) and defines "healing" as
the process of "awakening" the "God-pattern" within
humans.
Cayce diet: Diet that stems from the "readings" of "psychic"
Edgar Cayce (see "The Cayce Approach to Health and Healing").
One of its "concepts" is that emphasizing in one's diet fruits
and vegetables that are "locally-grown" promotes acclimation and
helps to align bodily "energies" with envi ronmental "energies."
Cayce/Reilly massage (Cayce/Reilly approach to massage, Cayce/Reilly
method, Cayce/Reilly technique): "Holistic" form of massage named
after "psychic" Edgar Cayce (see "The Cayce Approach to Health
and Healing") and physiotherapist Dr. Harold J. Reilly, coauthor of
The Edgar Cayce Handbook for Health Through Drugless Therapy (A.R.E.®
Press, 1975). It includes energy balancing.
Celestial Training: Program that includes the Awareness Release Technique.
cell salt therapy (tissue salt therapy): Variation of the Schuessler
biochemic system of medicine. It uses 45 "cell salts."
Cellular Theta Breath (Cellular Theta Breath technique): Purported
access to the "Temple of Delphi-City of Dolphins." Cellular Theta
Breath is a variation of self-healing based on "the power of the Breath."
Its theory holds that "the Breath," or "Theta Breath,"
is "transformation energy."
Celtic magic: Western European magical tradition. It is a form of
ritual magic that: involves numerology and "plant and herb magic";
allegedly utilizes "planetary and natural energies" (e.g., "Moon
energy"); and supposedly promotes mental, physical, and spiritual health.
Practitioners of Celtic magic must respect, befriend, and petition the "powers
of the elementals and Elements."
Celtic shamanism: Apparent distillation of an ancient tribal tradition,
advanced by "hereditary Druid" Geo Cameron, M.A. It purportedly
involves: (a) meditating to cleanse "energy centers"; (b)
chanting to receive a "healing song" and to enter a "web
of light that connects all things"; and (c) awakening spirits,
including an arborescent warrior, "Fairy Folk," and the "transformative
power of the sacred fire."
chakra & cellular memory healing: Method promoted by author and
"Reiki Master" Rev. Ojela Frank, D.D., author of Life Quest:
A Journey into Self. It apparently embraces conscious breathing (see
"breathwork" and "rebirthing"), guided imagery, and
"regression work."
chakra balancing and energizing: Subject of an audiocassette of the
same name. It is a variation of chakra healing.
chakra breathing: Subject of Chakra Breathing: A Guide to Energy,
Harmony and Self Healing, by Helmut Sieczka. Chakra breathing is a group
of "breathing techniques" purportedly designed to "clean"
and "charge" chakras (the "energy centers" of the "subtle
body") and to restore "natural energy balances." Its postulate
is that the breath is "the bridge" between body and soul.
Chakra Energy Massage: Blend of chakra healing and Foot Reflexology
Massage. Its theory posits areas on the feet that correspond to chakras
("subtle energy centers"), such as the "inner eye chakra."
chakra healing (chakra balancing, chakra energy balancing, chakra
therapy, chakra work): Any method akin to aura balancing and relating to
chakras.
chakra healing & light energy implantations: Adjunct to chakra
& cellular memory healing. It purportedly involves "energy activations"
to awaken clients to the "teachings" of chakras ("energy
centers") in their bodies.
Chakra Innertuning Therapy: Form of chakra healing that involves
diet, dream interpretation, meditation, yoga, and the use of mantras.
chakral pranic healing: Component of advanced pranic healing.
chakra yoga: Combination of "focused" hatha yoga, "sounding
techniques," and visualization advanced by Jason Kanter. One of its
premises is that each chakra ("vital energy" center) corresponds
to a "major aspect" of the "psyche." The purported design
of the method is to maximize one's ability to use "vital life energies"
for healing and "integration."
Chan Mi gong: Form of Qigong based on Zen (Chan) and
Tantric (Mi) Buddhism.
channeling (mediumship): Purported transmission of information or
energy from a nonphysical source through humans. These persons—called
"channels," "channelers," or "mediums"—are sometimes in an apparent trance during the alleged communication. Purported
sources include angels, discarnate former humans, extraterrestrials, and
levels of consciousness.
Chen style (Chen style T'ai Chi, Chen style T'ai Chi Chuan): Alleged
prototype of tai chi. It combines gentle and explosive movements.
Cherokee healing (Cherokee Medicine): Traditional medicine of the
Cherokees, a Native American people. Its apparent postulate is that, if
one holds back the "light" in one's "being," one causes:
(a) occlusion of one's "meridians" and "rivers of life"
and (b) suffering of "mother" Earth. Cherokee Medicine includes
crystal healing, Eagle Medicine, Mental Medicine, the Natural Medicine Path,
the Physical Medicine Path, and the Spiritual Medicine Path.
Chi Healing (Fa Chi): Component of Chi Lel in which "teachers"
(apparently "doctors") allegedly bring "healing energy from
the universe" to individuals to facilitate healing.
chi (ki) energy flow: "Treatment" reportedly invented by
Masato Nakagawa, Ph.D., the founder of Shinkiko. It allegedly relieves discomfort
and pain by improving "energy flow." Apparently, the names "chi
(ki) energy flow" and "true ki energy flow" (see "Shinkiko")
are synonymous.
Chi Kung Empowerment: Purported means of releasing "blocked
energy" from the body.
Chi Kung Meditations: Group of three meditations based on chi
kung (Qigong), advanced by Ken Cohen (see "Taoist Healing Imagery").
Apparently, it is a purported way to learn how to control the flow of "energy"
through one's body for mental clarity, "inner-peace," and "spiritual
awareness."
Chi Lel (Chi-Lel Qigong): Variation of Qigong and Qigong therapy
developed by Pang Ming, M.D., practiced at the Wahzhan Zhineng Chigong Clinic
and Training Center (a "medicineless hospital" in Qinhuagdao,
China), and promoted by Luke Chan, author of 101 Lessons of Tao and
Secrets of the Tai Chi Circle: Journey to Enlightenment. Chi Lel
has four components: (1) generation of a strong belief (shan shin)—e.g., by listening to testimonials—that chi ("life energy")
can heal all ailments; (2) Chu Chong; (3) Chi Healing; and (4) Lan Gong
("practice"), which includes methods from Zhineng Chigong.
Chi Nei Tsang (CNT, healing light massage, Internal Organ Chi Massage,
Organ Chi Transformation Massage, Taoist Chi Nei Tsang, Taoist healing light
technique): Component of the Healing Tao. CNT is a system of "Chinese
deep healing" that involves massaging points in the navel area, a purported
"storehouse" for cosmic, earthly, prenatal, and universal forces.
The method allegedly promotes rejuvenation in patients without causing burnout
in practitioners. Its theory posits "healing light energy" and
a bodily system of chi and "meridians."
Chi Nei Tsang II: Method taught by the Healing Tao Co., in Chiang
Mai, Thailand. Its theory posits "good Chi" and at least ten kinds
of bodily "wind" (flatus), including the "sick or evil wind."
Chinese auricular therapy (Chinese auricular acupuncture, traditional
Chinese auricular acu-points therapy, traditional Chinese auricular acupuncture,
traditional Chinese auricular therapy): Group of TCM "techniques"
whose "channel theory" differs from that of body acupuncture.
Its apparent postulate is that several areas and more than a hundred acupoints
on the auricle (the outer portion of the ear) interactively relate to other
areas or to diseases. The fetuslike contour of the auricle inspired the
distribution of points thereon. Chinese auricular therapy, which differs
from auriculotherapy, includes: auricular analgesia, auricular diagnosis,
auricular magnetic therapy, auricular massage, auricular moxibustion, auricular
point injection, the auricular point laser-stimulating method, bleeding
manipulation, and the seed-pressure method.
Chinese Chikwando: Method that supposedly involves using "chi
energy" for healing. It is not a martial art.
Chinese Diet for Weight Loss: Part of the Chinese System of Food
Cures. Examples of suggested measures to lose weight include: (a) eating
meat cooked in a sauce whose "warm," "hot," and pungent
ingredients have rendered it "very yang"; and (b) increasing the
"burning fire" of one's kidneys by ingesting a "yang tonic,"
such as liver, pork kidneys, mussel, shrimp, walnuts, or dried green raspberries.
Chinese dietotherapy: Alleged preventive and therapeutic system that
involves: (a) prescribing "medicinal foods" and mixtures
of foods and drugs, and (b) proscribing intake of particular foods.
Supposedly, the curative effect of a food or food-drug mixture depends on
its "nature" and "flavor." The "natures" are:
cold, hot, warm, and cool. The "flavors" are: salty, sour, sweet,
bitter, and pungent. Practitioners purportedly seek to neutralize ill ness
by prescribing foods and food-drug mixtures whose "nature" and
"flavor" antagonize the "nature" and "flavor"
of the disease.
Chinese Energetic Technique: Allegedly advanced form of Qigong created
by Kam Yuen, D.C. Apparently, it is a purported means of directing "powerful
energetic corrections" to one's body.
Chinese hand analysis: Form of palmistry based on the ancient Chinese
theory of the Five Elements. It is an alleged means of obtaining information
on health, sexuality, vocation, and spirituality.
Chinese herbalism (Chinese herbal system): Form of herbalism with
three fundamental classes of herbs. The "Inferior Class" consists
of "assistants": herbs that, allegedly, "control" the
curing of illnesses and are advisable to remove "cold," "heat,"
and "other evil influences" from the body. The "General Class"
consists of herbs that purportedly control the preservation of "human
nature." The "Superior Class" consists of "rulers"
(see "Superior Herbalism").
Chinese herbal medicine: A "major pillar" of Chinese medicine.
Its theory holds that herbs can influence the yin and yang "energy
patterns" of the body. (See "Chinese herbalism.")
Chinese medicine (Traditional Chinese Medicine, TCM): Ancient "holistic"
system whose basics include herbology, nutrition, and the concepts of acupuncture
meridians, the Five Elements (Five Phases), and yin and yang. TCM theory
posits both "Organs" (the Triple Burner, for example) and "Substances"
(such as Shen, or "Spirit") for which scientific evidence is absent.
Chinese physiognomy: "Diagnostic" method of Chinese medicine
whose postulate is that areas of the face correspond to internal organs.
Chinese Qigong massage (An Mo, Chinese massage, Qigong massage):
Component of TCM that emphasizes the "proper level," quality of
"circulation," and alleged preventive uses of Qi. The categories
of Chinese Qigong massage are amma, Tuina, dian xue, and Qigong therapy.
Chinese System of Food Cures: Anthology of dietary prescriptions
set forth by Henry C. Lu, Ph.D. The appropriateness of specific foods for
particular symptoms, conditions, and diseases is based on three classes
of food attributes: "flavor," "energy," and "movement."
The system associates "fla vors"—pungent, sweet, sour, bitter,
and salty—with different internal organs. "Energies"—cold,
hot, warm, cool, and neutral—supposedly determine the ultimate effect
of ingesting specific foods. "Movement" refers to the alleged
tendency of different foods to "move in different directions in the
body": outward, inward, upward, or downward. Lu recommended eating
fifteen to twenty-five oysters with meals to cure tuberculosis of the lymph
nodes and goiter—or one may use oyster sauce as seasoning if fresh oyster
is not on hand.
Chinese Wushu (gongfu, kung-fu, martial arts, Martial Qigong,
Wu Gong, Wushu): Variety of fighting methods that encompasses neigong
("inner exercises") and tai chi. Its philosophy emphasizes traditions,
experience, and "rational understanding."
Ching Lo (meridian therapy): Alleged external stimulation of Qi
(chi) and "Blood" in diverse ways, including acupressure,
acupuncture, cupping, moxabustion, scraping, and application of "acu-powder,"
electricity, herbs, or magnets.
chirognomy (cheirognomy, chirognosy, chiromancy, chirosophy): Pseudodiagnosis
based on: (a) the overall shape of hands, (b) the shapes of parts of the
hand (palms, fingers, and nails), (c) the size of the mounts (cushions)
of the palm, and (d) skin texture. For example, small, flat nails supposedly
indicate a predisposition to heart disease, particularly if their "moons"
are barely visible; and nails with furrows allegedly indicate weakness of
the lungs, especially if the nails are long, wide, and curved.
Chi Self-Massage (Tao Rejuvenation, Tao Rejuvenation-Chi Self-Massage):
Component of the Healing Tao System that purportedly uses chi ("internal
energy") to rejuvenate teeth, sense organs, and inner organs.
Chi-Therapy (Gestalt energy work): Apparent mixture of bioenergetics,
Ericksonian Hypnosis, Gestalt psychotherapy, inner child work, NLP, and
tai chi promoted by John Mastro, C.S.W., and Robin Mastro, M.F.A. Its postulate
is that when chi ("life energy") flows "more freely,"
belief systems, emotions, memories, and messages from one's "true self"
can emerge into consciousness.
Chi Weight Lifting: Component of Bone Marrow Nei Kung that purportedly
can rejuvenate bone marrow by supplying the body with abundant "Ching
Chi," an alleged combination of sex hormones and "sexual energy."
It involves genitally lifting weights attached to the penis and scrotum
or to the vagina.
CHOI KWANG DO: Noncompetitive martial art that borrows from chiropractic,
hatha yoga, "holistic health," and shiatsu.
Christian counseling: Variation of biblical counseling. Behavioral
issues, social factors, and theological principles that affect physical
and psychological health are its apparent foci. The Melton Book Company
series Resources for Christian Counseling includes the title Counseling
the Demonic (1989).
Christian hypnotherapy: One of the "services" offered by
the Abunda Life Church, in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Its other "services"
include Christian meditation (C.M.) and spiritual healing (prayer and the
laying on of hands). The church shares an address with the Abunda Life Holistic
Retreat and Clinic, whose founder, Robert H. Sorge, N.D., Ph.D., D.D., obtained
his N.D. degree from a nonaccredited correspondence school.
Christian Positive Thinking (CPT): Group of Neo-Christian philosophies
that embraces Pealeism, Possibility Thinking, and Positive Confession.
Christian psychology: Any form of quasi psychology that involves
biblical counseling.
Christian Science: Religion founded in 1879 by Mary (Morse) Baker
Eddy (1821-1910). Its basic principle is: mind is the only reality; illness,
pain, and death are illusory. Christian Science "practitioners"
engage in absent healing and allegedly can bring about resurrections. Members
of The First Church of Christ, Scientist generally choose "Christianly
scientific prayer" over medical treatment. Church officials apparently
accept their religion's association with alternative healthcare.
Christian Yoga: "Wholistic modality" promoted by the Institute
of Wholistic Studies (at Our Lady of Lourdes Wellness Center), in Collingswood,
New Jersey. Purportedly, it is a blending of body, mind, and spirit, and
a process of "releasing" mental and physical limitations that
hinder access to "the Divine." Christian Yoga encompasses breathwork,
meditation, and "wholistic prayer."
Chu Chong (Group Healing): Component of Chi Lel wherein a "teacher"
(apparently a "doctor") allegedly: (a) synchronizes the thinking
of a group of "students" (patients) to obtain chi ("life
energy") from the "universe," and (b) brings it into a "healing
energy field."
clairvoyant diagnosis (psychic diagnosis): Pseudodiagnosis supposedly
performed by clairvoyance—the alleged ability to perceive things directly
(such as remote objects or future events) that are impossible to perceive
by means of the human senses alone.
classical homeopathy: Form of homeopathy that involves extensive
questioning of the patient by the practitioner, purportedly to determine
the "single remedy" for that patient: the "one therapeutic
ideal" that "embraces" mental, emotional, and physical "levels."
Clean-Me-Out Program: Neo-Christian variation of self-healing developed
principally by Richard Anderson, N.D., N.M.D. Two herbal supplements consti
tute its backbone: Chomper, whose eleven herbs include cascara sagrada (a
laxative) and lobelia (ingestion of which is risky); and Herbal Nutrition,
whose ten herbs include alfalfa, comfrey (which is poisonous), horsetail
(a weak diuretic), and licorice root. Besides these and other supplements,
the program involves enemas and avoiding intake of meat and dairy products.
Its theory posits a "life force." In Cleanse & Purify Thyself
(1994), Anderson describes a "profound Divine experience" wherein
a female "Divine Being" filled him with "information."
He states that purification is a "guaranteed entrance" into heaven
and that people who are willing to purify themselves "shall have the
help of God's mightiest messengers and, if necessary, legions of angelic
beings."
Clear Certainty Rundown: Adjunct to dianetics. It is a supposed means
of ascertaining whether one is "clear" (i.e., whether one has
attained the highest stage of dianetics).
Clearing: Phase of homeovitics that allegedly activates all "vital
pathways" through administration of the Detoxosode OS, a flavorless,
odorless, watery HoBoN product that purportedly contains "complementaries"
blended in a "vitalized potency spectrum."
Clinical Kinesiology: Offshoot of applied kinesiology developed largely
by Alan Beardall, an American chiropractor who died in 1988. One of its
premises is that points on the skull ("cranial diagnostic points")
"represent" different areas of the body and thus facilitate finding
areas of dysfunction. Another is that points along the "Central meridian"
represent therapeutic entryways.
Co-Centering: Component of Bodywork Tantra. It supposedly "connects"
one's alleged three "basic centers": body, heart, and mind. Co-Centering
includes Basic Co-Centering and Expanded Co-centering.
Co-Creative Healing: Apparent combination of flower essence therapy
and "homeopathic counseling." It is a purported means of activating the "healer within" and
allegedly uses information from "the nature and universal consciousness
realms."
color breathing: Specifically, a variation of color therapy that
includes affirmations, meditation, prayer, and visualization. It involves
imagining breathing one or several colors associated with: diseases; pain;
cosmetic problems; artistic, intellectual, or material benefits; personality;
and/or "spiritual attunement." The method apparently stems from
a booklet titled Colour Breathing, by Mrs. Ivah Bergh Whitten, which
was published in England in 1948. Generally, "color breathing"
refers to imagining oneself surrounded by a cloud of a desired color, breathing
deeply, and imagining the color filling the lungs and flowing throughout
the body or to a particular spot thereof.
color imagination: Visualizing colors according to their alleged
effects on health.
Color Meditation (CM, Color Magick): Variation of color therapy developed
by occultist Ray Buckland. It includes sequentially visualizing cones of
different colors pointing toward the seven major chakras (alleged "psychic
centers" that are "etheric" yet glandular). CM theory holds
that each of these chakras has a "governing color." The postulate
of CM is that meditation and the use of colored light together increase
the opening of chakras and reinforce them.
Colorology: Method advanced by Lin Rivers, a reflexologist and "trans-channel."
Purportedly, it activates "energy points" in the body and leads
to a "higher level" of body, mind, and spirit.
color pranic healing (pranic color healing): Component of advanced
pranic healing. Its theory posits "color pranas." In the "visualization
approach," the "pranic healer" visualizes prana (ki,
"vital energy") of an appropriate color emanating from his or
her "hand chakra."
color projection: Form of color therapy purportedly of ancient origin.
It involves the passage of sunlight or artificial light through colored
sheets made from gelatin and cellulose acetate or from silk. The alleged
physiologic effects of color projection supposedly vary with the color of
the filter. For exam ple, light passing through a red filter purportedly
increases hemoglobin formation, and light passing through a blue filter
allegedly eliminates or reduces fever.
color psychology: Variation of color therapy.
Colorpuncture (Colorpuncture system, Osho Esogetic Colorpuncture
system, Lightpuncture, Osho Lightpuncture): Combination of "Energy
Emission analysis" (Kirlian photography) and a form of color therapy.
German naturopath Peter Mandel, who developed Esogetics, created and named
Color puncture. "Treatment" involves application of colored light,
with a device that resembles a penlight, to "acupuncture receptors"
in the skin. Ac cording to Colorpuncture theory, color is "life energy"
that carries "healing information," and acupuncture meridians
convey this information to the cells and organs that need it.
color synergy: Theistic combination of color therapy, creative visualization,
and prayerful affirmations.
color therapy (chromopathy, chromotherapy, color healing): Treatment
whose postulate is that colors—e.g., of light, food, and clothing—have wide-ranging curative effects. Supposedly, cures result from correction
of "color imbalances." Color therapy often is a form of chakra
healing.
Combination Therapy: Purported blend of "Eastern" and "Western"
techniques that lead to the release of one's "full healing power."
Combine Spirituality and Psychotherapy: Eclectic "integrative
system" developed and practiced by author Bernard Green, Ph.D. It includes
"consciousness expansion," "Eastern psychotherapy" (see
"Eastern psychology"), "nutritional psychology," psychosynthesis,
"Simonton techniques" (see "Simonton method"), and "Sufi
psychology" (see "Sufi healing").
complex homeopathy: Form of homeopathy that involves obtaining an
extensive patient history and using several "remedies" or "substances"
in combination. It may include electrodiagnosis.
Concept-Therapy® (Concept-Therapy Technique, Concept-Therapy
total treatment method): Chiropractic system introduced in 1931 by Thurman
Fleet, D.C. (1895-1983), author of Rays of the Dawn (1948). Concept-Therapy
is a purported treatment for body, mind, and soul whose theory posits "Innate
to Innate communication": transmission of thoughts and "inner
feelings" from doctor to patient "vibratorally." It comprises
Suggestive Ther apy and the suggestive therapy zone procedure.
confluent somatic therapy: Form of psychotherapy that purportedly
involves "subtle energy manipulation."
Connective Tissue Therapy (CTT): "Spiritual" mode of bodywork
developed by Paul and Nancy Marcus. It purportedly helps to free "stagnant
energy."
contact healing (laying on of hands): "Healing" by touching
a person with the hands or palms. Its theory holds that a healthy person
has "vital energy" to spare, and that this is transmittable into
sick persons. Contact healing is at least fifteen thousand years old. Usually,
the "healer" places his hands, palms down, on the top of the patient's
head or on the shoulders or waist. Some proponents use the terms "laying
on of hands" and "touch therapy" interchangeably.
Contact Reflex AnalysisSM (CRA): Variation of applied kinesiology
cofounded by Dick A. Versendaal, D.C., author of Contact Reflex Analysis
and Designed Clinical Nutrition. CRA theory holds: (a) that the
surface of the human body has about seventy-five "reflex" points
that serve as windows to numerous conditions, and (b) that the back
of the hand is electronegative, the palm is positive, and the fingers are
neutral. The practitioner pulls downward on the patient's outstretched arm
while he keeps part of his hand on a "reflex" point. Arm weakness
supposedly indicates an incipient or full-blown health problem whose identity
depends on the "reflex" point.
contemporary homeopathy: Form of homeopathy whose purported "intervention"
is augmentation of all symptoms of a disease through administration of homeopathic
preparations.
Conversation Power (Conversation Power program): Audiocassette program
developed by James K. Van Fleet, author and publisher of Power With People,
and marketed by Nightingale Conant, in Niles, Illinois. Apparently, Conversation
Power purportedly enables one to control any situation with "magic"
words and phrases. For example, repetition of one such word allegedly will
force an opponent to reveal his or her "true" goals.
cooperative healing: One of the main techniques of Imagineering.
Cooperative healing embraces psychic healing.
core energetics (Core Energetic Therapy): Form of body-centered psychotherapy
developed by John C. Pierrakos, M.D., the cofounder of bioenergetic therapy.
Core energetics draws from: (a) bioenergetics, (b) Reichian
Therapy, and (c) lectures supposedly transmitted through Eva Pierrakos
(d. 1979) by "the Guide," a "spirit entity" (see "Pathwork").
Its theory posits bodily "energy centers" ("energy organs")
similar to chakras and a human "core": a glowing mass from which
"life force" emerges.
Core Transformation® (Core Transformation experience, Core Transformation
Process, Identity Process): Ten-step "self-help" method pioneered
by Connirae Andreas, Ph.D., the primary author of Core Transformation:
Reaching the Wellspring Within. Core Transformation is a purported way
to melt one's limitations and to open the door to a sense of "wholeness"
and of "the universal." Its theory posits an "inner being,"
"inner self," "inner essence," or "core self."
Proponents have billed the "technique" as a breakthrough in the
fields of NLP, psychology, and religion or spirituality.
cosmic energy chi kung (Buddha palm, Cosmic Chi Kung, Cosmic Healing
Chi Kung): Group of "techniques" that purportedly develops "healing
hands" and the capacity for absent healing. It is a form of channeling,
and its theory posits acupuncture meridians, "Cosmic energy,"
and "Universal energy."
cosmic vibrational healing: Variation of astrologic medicine whose
major premises are: (a) that humans absorb stellar energy; (b) that different
stars have different effects; (c) that the brighter a star is, the greater
its influence; and (d) that humans can attune themselves to particular stars
either by meditating on them or by ingesting or applying Starlight Elixirs
("star elixirs"). Starlight Elixirs are alleged solutions of (a)
grain alcohol, (b) pure wa ter, and (c) water that "captured"
starlight has "vibrationally altered."
cosmo-biological birth control: Subject of the Lotus Light book of
the same name, by Shalila Sharamon (whose training includes "holistic
astrology" and the "Sidhi technique") and Bodo Baginski (whose
training includes meridian therapy, Polarity, spiritual healing, and Touch
for Health). Cosmo-biological birth control is a purported mode of birth
control and family planning based on an alleged interaction of personal
and cosmic cycles.
A Course in Miracles: Form of spiritual psychotherapy based on A
Course in Miracles, a three-volume work comprising over a thousand pages.
"The Course" originated in 1965, was completed in 1972, and was
first published (as a photocopy of typescript) in 1975. It allegedly is
the fruit of channeling from Jesus Christ to Helen Cohen Schucman (1909-1981),
a research psychologist at Columbia University.
Cranial Facial Balancing: Method promoted by Innes Frey of New York
City. It purportedly involves stimulation of cranial nerve endings, "lymph
drainage reflexes," and "meridian points" on the face, neck,
and shoulders. Such stimulation supposedly can effect "balance"
and "integration" of bodily systems.
CranioSacral Therapy (cranial balancing, cranial osteopathy, cranial
sacral manipulation, cranial technique, cranial work, craniopathy, craniosacral
balancing, Cranio-Sacral work): Method whose purported goal is to remove
impediments to a patient's "energy." It supposedly involves manually
aligning skull bones. Dr. William Garner Sutherland, a student of the founder
of osteopathy, developed cranial osteopathy in the early 1900s. According
to its theory, movements of the skull bones cause movements of the sacrum
and vice versa. John E. Upledger, D.O., developed CranioSacral Therapy,
a derivative of Sutherland's work.
CranioSacral-Visceral Balancing (CranioSacral-Visceral Whole Body
Balancing): Apparent spinoff of CranioSacral Therapy practiced by Barbara
Chang of New York City. Its principles include the following. (a) One's
body is a mirror of one's soul. (b) When one's "Soul-Will" aligns
with one's "Ego-Will," one's inborn artistic and intuitive genius
displays its creativity. (c) People are extremely tender inside.
Creative Concentration®: Form of energy work (see "vibrational
medicine") and variation of self-healing promoted by Miriam Belov.
It apparently includes "breakthrough breathing."
Creative Dance Therapy: Method taught by Kim Hirt and promoted by
Life Spectrums, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It is a purported means of
exploring one's "inner" self, one's "outer self," and
their connection.
Creative Force Techniques (CFTs): Alleged all-purpose method advanced
by "Mind Imaging expert" Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D., author of The
Empowered Mind: How to Harness the Creative Force within You (Prentice
Hall). CFTs purportedly can: (a) put one in touch with the "inner power"
of one's subconscious, (b) focus this "mighty force" with laserlike
precision, and (c) enable one to tune in to "the other person's `inner
essence.'"
Creative Kinesiology: Offshoot of applied kinesiology codeveloped
circa 1990 by acupuncturist Haakon Lovell and psychotherapist Carrie Jost.
Its theory posits an "astral body," an "etheric body,"
chakras, and chi.
creative meditation: Subject of Richard O. Peterson's 1990 book of
the same name. It allegedly uses "vibrational patterns" to effect
"attunement," self-guidance, and self-healing. The last of the
seven principles of this purportedly unique approach to meditation is: "Creative
meditation is first directed to at-onement [sic] with God ["Creative
Forces"] without expectations of benefits; the resources of God are
then accessible for self-knowledge, self-guidance, and self-healing."
creative visualization: Subject of the bestseller of the same name,
written by Shakti Gawain in 1978. (Gawain adopted the Sanskrit name "Shakti"
in the 1970s and has defined it as "the feminine aspect of the god
Shiva.") In creative visualization, one clearly imagines whatever one
wants to "manifest" (see "manifesting"); then one (supposedly)
gives the idea, image, or feeling "positive energy," by focusing
on it regularly, until it becomes reality. Creative visualization's theory
posits a "spiritual source": a "supply" of infinite
energy, love, and wisdom discoverable in the "inner beings" of
humans.
Terms for methods identical or similar to creative visualization include:
active imagination, creative imaging, directed day-dream, directed waking
dream, dynamic imaging, guided fantasy, guided imagery, guided visualization,
imagery, imaginal medicine, imaging, initiated symbol projection, inner
guide meditation, led meditation, magickal visualization, mental imagery,
pathworking, Positive Imaging, positive thinking, positive visualization,
vi sualization, visualization therapy, waking dream therapy, and willed
imagination. For example, willed imagination, also called "creative
visualization," is the "magickal art" of imagining the result
one desires of one's "magick" (the word for Wiccan magic) in order
to cinch that result.
"creator force" geometric healing methods: Apparently,
a purported means of attuning the "heart chakra" to "`creator
force' energy." Such attuning allegedly enhances all forms of energy
healing (see "vibrational medicine").
Cross-Over exercise: A purported way to get out of an "energy
rut" or "comfort zone." It supposedly requires the shifting
of "mental energy." The method involves crossing, or imagining
oneself crossing, a clean, natural stream by bridge.
crude herb moxibustion (automatic moxibustion, cold moxibustion):
Variation of moxibustion involving placement on the skin of particular herbs
that cause blisters and scars.
crystal healing (crystal therapeutics, crystal therapy, crystal work):
Multiform use of crystals (especially quartz crystals) and gemstones to
treat such conditions as blindness, bursitis, cancer, depression, forgetfulness,
tension headaches, hemorrhages, indigestion, insomnia, Parkinson's disease,
rheumatism, and thrombosis. Its postulate is that crystals draw light and
color into the body's "aura," thus raising its frequency and allowing
the emergence of "lower frequency energies," which are healthful.
Crystal healing sometimes is adjunctive to, or a form of: acupressure, aura
balancing, chakra healing, color therapy, pendular diagnosis, prayer, and
self-healing.
Crystal TherapeuticsSM: System based on the books Crystal Therapeutics
and Advanced Crystal Therapeutics, both by Rev. Ojela Frank, D.D.
It apparently embraces crystal healing, "Energy Assessment," energy
balancing, and guided imagery.
cupping (cupping method, cupping therapy; called the "horn method"
in ancient China): Variable method akin to moxabustion. The practitioner
may use a cup made of glass, metal, or wood (notably bamboo) and burn alcohol,
alcohol-soaked cotton wool, herbs, paper, or a taper therein. Before or
after the burning is complete, the practitioner applies the cup upside-down
to a relatively flat body surface and leaves it in this position for five
to ten minutes. Results include erythema (reddening of the skin due to capillary
expansion), edema (excessive fluid accumulation in tissue spaces), and ecchymoses
(purple discoloration of the skin due to rupture of blood vessels).
The above description relates to fire cupping (the fire cupping method),
which has several forms. Other forms of cupping include the acupuncture
cupping method, the air pumping cupping method, and the water cupping method.
curanderismo (curanderismo healing system): Mexican-American "healing"
tradition. It encompasses acupuncture and homeopathy. Its theory posits
natural and supernatural sources of illness; alleged supernatural sources
include evil spirits and brujos (practitioners of antisocial magic).
The word curanderismo derives from the Spanish verb curar,
which means "to treat," "to cure," or "to heal."
curative eurhythmy (therapeutic eurhythmy): Medical form of eurhythmy
(eurythmy, eurythmics), the terpsichorean mode of anthroposophy. The purported
design of eurhythmy is "direct" expression of a rhythm that pervades
"Nature." Proponents describe the art as a visual form of speech
and music. Curative eurhythmy allegedly causes the inward conveyance of
a "harmonizing process" that influences diseased organs, the "astral
body," and the "etheric body."
Cymatics: "The science of wave phenomena"; an alleged means
of restoring health advanced by Sir Peter Guy Manners, M.D., D.O., Ph.D.
(see "cymatic therapy"). Its postulate is that life is sound,
and illness is any deviation in its "pattern." Apparently, the
word "Cymatics" refers to both cymatic therapy and the "science"
behind it.
cymatic therapy (cymatic medicine): Form of "vibrational bioenergetics
medicine" developed by Sir Peter Guy Manners, M.D., D.O., Ph.D., of
England. It is an acupressure-like method wherein devices send "beneficial"
sound through the skin. This sound purportedly reestablishes "healthy
resonance" in "unhealthy" tissues. Cymatics theory posits
acupuncture meridians and holds that "life is sound" and that
every part of the body vibrates at a unique audible frequency.
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