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occult medicine:
Field that apparently encompasses astrology, aura analysis, biorhythm, Christian
Science, clairvoyant diagnosis, faith healing, Kirlian photography, medical
graphology, mesmerism, palmistry, shamanism, TCM, and witchcraft.
Ohashiatsu®: Combination of shiatsu, physical exercises, and
meditation developed by Japanese-born Wataru Ohashi, author of The Ohashi
Bodywork Book: Beyond Shiatsu with the Ohashiatsu® Method. Ohashi
founded the Ohashi Institute, in New York City, in 1974. Ohashiatsu purportedly
integrates and rejuvenates body, mind, and spirit.
Oki-Do (Okido, Okido way of living): Purported "natural way
to ultimate health." It draws from Chinese Chikwando, macrobiotics,
tai chi, Tibetan medicine, yoga, and Zen, and it encompasses Oki-Do Shiatsu,
Oki-Do Yoga, and Shinkiko.
Okinawan karate (Shorin Ryu karate): Meditative form of karate that,
purportedly, frees the minds of practitioners, nourishes their spirits,
and strengthens their bodies. "Shorin Ryu" is the technical name
for a style and school of Okinawan karate.
OMEGA: Alleged means of "energy transfer" akin to Reiki.
The OMEGA practitioner simply places his or her hands on or near various
areas of the client's body.
OMNI-FORCE: Modular mail-order program developed by Gérard
V. Sunnen, a psychiatrist, hypnotist, and reputed world-renowned expert
in Eastern medicine. The program reportedly involves self-hypnosis and acupressure.
Supposedly, it releases one's "inner powers" and enables users
to "recharge" their "energy" and direct "healing
energy" to any part of the body.
One Brain: Derivative of Three in One. One Brain is an "Emotional
Stress Diffusion technique." It includes "Age Recession"
and "Precision Muscle Testing" (see "muscle testing").
Open Mind programming (Open Mind advanced programming): Use
of Open Mind "soundtracks," a group of musical audiocassettes,
to obtain things missing from one's life, such as a great body, high self-esteem,
love, money, or a "super IQ." The tapes reportedly contain "success
affirma tions."
Optimum Health Balance: Offshoot of applied kinesiology developed
by Charles Benham. Practitioners place "remedies" or "supplements"
on clients, supposedly to channel the "energy patterns" of such
things.
organic process therapy (OPT): Purported way to rediscover one's
"body-feelings," mind, and spirit, and to return to one's unobstructed,
unfractured "Organic Self."
organismic psychotherapy (humanistic body psychotherapy): Spinoff
of Reichian Therapy developed by Malcolm Brown, Ph.D., and Katherine Ennis
Brown, in Europe. Its theory divides human anatomy into four "dynamic
Being Centers" of the "embodied soul": (1) The Agape-Eros
Being Center consists of the upper frontal portion of the body and purportedly
mediates feelings of openness toward others. (2) the Hara Being Center,
the abdominal portion of the body, supposedly permits self-love. (3) The
Logos Being Center, the upper dorsal portion of the body, allegedly has
unfathomable intuitive faculties. (4) The Phallic-Spiritual Warrior Being
Center, which consists of the lower back and the limbs, supposedly enables
resoluteness (perseverance).
orgone therapy (medical orgone therapy, medical orgonomy, orgonomic
medicine, orgonomic medicine therapy): System developed by psychoanalyst
Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), who coined the word "orgone" to refer
to his hypothetical fundamental, omnipresent, life-sustaining, intelligent
radia tion. Orgone therapy encompasses the Reich Blood Test and Reichian
Therapy. The professional activities of medical orgonomists include administering
"orgone charged" water and applying the following devices. The
orgone field meter and the vacor tube contribute to pseudodiagnosis.
The meter al legedly shows the extent and strength of the patient's "orgone
energy field." The vacor tube is an "orgone charged" glass
vacuum tube that supposedly glows under the influence of the patient's "orgone
energy field." The "medical dor-buster" purportedly siphons
a toxic form of orgone—"dor" (an acronym for "deadly orgone")—from the patient's body.
oriental body and facial diagnosis: Ancient "art" taught
by author Steven Acuff. One of its principles is that "life energy"
is balance or imbalance of "the polarity between" yin and yang.
Oriental Bodywork: Apparently, a group of methods, including acupressure
massage and Jin Shin Acupressure, used to stimulate "natural self-curative"
abilities. Its theory posits a spirit and bodily "pathways of energy."
oriental massage (amma massage): Form of massage that emphasizes
alleged acupuncture meridians, through which the body's "vital energy
force" is channeled. Oriental massage and amma probably are identical.
Oriental medicine: In general, the use of acupuncture, "Chinese
herbal combinations," diet, and "emotional changes" with
the purported aim of eliminating problems with meridians ("invisible
energy pathways").
Oriental 7-Day Quick Weight-0ff Diet (Oriental Diet, Oriental diet
plan, Oriental diet system, Oriental Miracle Diet, Oriental quick weight
loss diet, Oriental quick weight loss plan, Oriental 7-day diet, Oriental
7-day miracle diet, Oriental 7-day plan, 7-day miracle diet, 7-day Oriental
diet, 7-day Oriental food plan, 7-day Oriental miracle diet, 7-day Oriental
quick weight loss diet, 7-day Oriental reducing diet): "Reducing strategy"
originated by "mystical philosopher" Anthony Norvell (deceased),
author of Norvell's Dynamic Mental Laws for Successful Living (1965),
Meta-Physics: New Dimensions of the Mind (1967), Cosmic Magnetism:
The Miracle of the Magic Power Circle (1970), Mind Cosmology
(1971), Occult Sciences: How to Get What You Want Through Your Occult
Powers (1971), The Miracle Power of Transcendental Meditation
(1972), One Hundred Thousand Dollar Dream and How to Make It Come True
(1973), Universal Secrets of Telecosmic Power (1974), and The
Oriental 7-Day Quick Weight-Off Diet (1975). The diet is a purported
means of losing weight even if one eats as much as one wants. Norvell's
theory held that brown rice is an amazing, God-given source of proteins
that do not add to body weight.
Original Ingham Method (Ingham method, Ingham method of foot reflexology,
Ingham technique, Original Ingham Method of Reflexology): Brand of reflexology
promoted by the International Institute of Reflexology®, in St. Petersburg,
Florida. The institute defines "reflexology" as "a science
which deals with the principle that there are reflexes in the feet relative
to each and every organ and all parts of the body." The Ingham method
emerged from the work of Eunice D. Ingham Stopfel (1879-1974), author of
Stories the Feet Can Tell (1938), and her nephew Dwight C. Byer,
author of Better Health with Foot Reflexology. Ingham developed a
style of Foot Reflexology she called the "Ingham Reflex Method of Compression
Massage." In the 1930s, she "refined" zone theory (see "zone
therapy") by mapping the feet with "organ reflexes" (e.g.,
the "heart reflex"). Allegedly, each of these areas is a conduit
to a corresponding part of the body.
Orionic Healing System: Proponents describe this method as "a systematic way of lifting limiting thoughts and negative patterns from one's cellular programming in the DNA, where cellular memory lives." They also say it is "a cutting edge method for changing consciousness by utilizing the upper chakra system, and other tools that reorganize one's frequency and functioning." Janna Zarchin, M.A., originated the system with help from Annie Schiavone, and Deborah Siegel Humanitzki, LPN.
Ortho-Bionomy (OB): System of "natural manipulative therapy"
and self-healing developed by British osteopath Arthur Lincoln Pauls, who
introduced it in the United States in 1976. Pauls, who reportedly believes
in a "life force" or "life energy," has defined "ortho-bionomy"
as "the correct ap plication of the laws of life." His system
involves touching, dialogue, and instruction in common movements. Sessions
may also include energy field work.
Orthopractic: "Holistic healing approach" promoted by Anthony
Cimino, N.D., Ph.D., founder of the Long Island Biotherapy Center, in Syosset,
New York. It apparently embraces acupressure, dianetics, hypnotherapy, muscle
testing (see above), nutritional counseling, reflexology, and Neuro-Communica
tion (Neuro-Communication Systems). Neuro-Communication, according to a
Biotherapy Center leaflet, is a "process" discovered by Cimino
that "asserts to better the nervous system through the use of special
words and body movement."
Osteokinetics®: Alleged stimulation and "palpation"
of bone by "qi-gong" ("vital life force energy") while
muscles are in traction. It purportedly treats somatizations of emotionality
and "psychology."
outer healing: Purported detoxification and "Rebuilding"
through breathwork, diet, feng shui, "Hands-on-Healing" (see "bodywork"),
herbs, "Lymphatic Therapy," and the removal of environmental toxins.