Healing [antikvár]

ForewordPerhaps I should begin by declaring an interest. I believe in Bruce MacManaway's v^ork because over the years I have had personal knov^ledge of it at different levels; and some of the experience he has had, I have had too. And I believe that he has something very important to contribute to the well-being of mankind.First, the healing. Bruce discovered this gift in himself during the war when putting a hand on a wounded soldier to comfort him had the unforeseen effect of easing the soldier's pain. I came to realize something of what must have happened then the first time that Bruce put his hands on my back. Although I was wearing a shirt I felt as though a blow-lamp was being applied to my spine, the heat was so intense. Later, after interviewing for the BBC the late Harry Edwards (the man whom Bruce considers to have been this country's greatest healer), I asked if he could do anything to alleviate the congestion in my sinus. He put his fingers lightly on my cheekbones, and I felt the congestion melt away. I had no further trouble for two years.Next, Bruce's dowsing techniques which he uses for analysis and diagnosis. When we met to discuss a television interview two remarkable things happened. The first was when my producer came and joined us. Bruce let his little dowsing pendulum run over his body: when it reached the general area of his hip, it began to oscillate. Bruce told the producer he had something wrong with his hip. The producer smiled, surprised; he had just had an operation on it.Discussing this, Bruce said that the pendulum could also produce results from abstractions. When I asked what he meant, he said, 'Well, if you were to write down a list of simple questions on a piece of paper, ones that require a straight Yes or No, and turn the paper face downwards, the pendulum will come up with the correct answers.'I was too sceptical of his claim to take it up with him then, but I made a mental note of it, and when the time came for the interview, I prepared a list of six questions (The Queen has ten children, Everest is the highest mountain in the world, etc) typed them on a piece of paper and put them in my pocket.