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Oregon energetic healer in Hat for weekend workshop“I don't cure cancer. Ihelp the body find aplace of remission. ”AbbottCAROLIN VESELYStaff WriterMEDICINE HATYour “body” does*n’t begin and end with your skin.There’s an electromagnetic field around the human body. Rob Abbott calls it the “aura.Medical science uses a technique called MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) where electromagnetic fields or and detect any abnormalities within the body — cancer, to name an extreme example.Abbott says he does virtually the same thing with just his hands.Not only that, the self-described “energetic reader and healer” from Portland, Oregon says he can redirect that external energy force to the point where a diseased or injured body will heal itself.What? A long-awaited cure for cancer?itHe ’s felt the energyCAROLIN VESELYStaff WriterMEDICINE HATAbout a year ago, Hat native Owen Bonogofsky, 47, was diagnosed with a form of bone cancer called multiple myeloma.Owen’s medical treatment has run the usual gamut. He’s undergone three stages of chemotherapy and is scheduled for a bone marrow transplant.“It’ll buy me some time,” he says of the procedure. “I’m close to remission now, but I have to keep taking chemo, which has an obvious toxic effect on the body.”Given his prognosis, it’s not surprising that Owen began to study his disease and alternative waysto battle it. Yet, if you asked him last year what he thought about so-called “energetic” healers like Portland’s Rob Abbott, Owen says he’d have given the common answer — skeptical.Owen first encountered Abbott last year when Abbott was profiled on a U.S. television show called Strange Universe. The show talked about how Abbott had apparently restored the sight of a Montana man.“The TV show said he has a phenomenal success rate.The fact that he doesn’t charge tells me he— News photo Peter MahHat resident Owen Bonogofsky says Rob Abbott’s energetic healing techniques have helped him feel better.must be helping people.”But to have any faith in Abbott’s claim — that energy can be manipulated to let the body heal itself — Owen had to see it for himself. Or rather, feel it, — ~ srr- *' ;He was treated by Abbott that December in Portland.And after just one session with Abbott — who never charged for his help — Owen says he noticed a remarkable change in his health and wellbeing.“He worked on me for a good hour. I felt I could jump over a house after he was done.”His mother Kay attests to the changes.“I’ve noticed a lot of improvements,” she says.In fact, Kay was so impressed that she decided that she and her other children should take the course and learn Abbott’s craft so that Owen’s treatment could continue in the Hat.It is Kay who is ultimately responsible for bringing Abbott to the Hat for this weekend’s workshop.“We decided that for what it would cost to go there (Portland), we could bring him here and help other people,” Kay explains.She says seven members of her family will be taking the workshop in order to help Owen —“in-laws, outlaws, everyone.”A self-described “private person,” Owen speaks about his health and experience with energetic healing with some reluctance. He simply says: “It’s something you have to experience.”Not exactly.“I don’t cure cancer. I help the body find a place of remission,” says Abbott from his Portland office. His day job is human resources director for a multinational chemical distributor.However, Abbott, 42, also has an extensive medical background, including 12 years as an emergency medical technician. But it’s his lifelong “psychic abilities” and years of research in energetic healing methods that Abbott says enable him to do what he does — or rather, what he’s done: Heal broken bones in eight days. Restore sight to the diseased eyes of a Montana man who opthamologists said had a two-per cent chance of ever seeing again. Helping a woman with untreatable breast cancer go into remission.So how does he do it?“Your hand has 250 receptors per square inch,” Abbott explains. “We call those nerve centres.To condense what is admittedly a lengthy and complex procedure,ROB ABBOTTaAbbott essentially “scans” a person’s body — their aura — with hishands, using those receptors to pinpoint areas of disease or physical distress. Anomalies in the body, he explains, will provide different sensations in his hand.“Sometimes it’s heat, cold or vibrations.Those sensations were what Abbott says enabled him to draw a diagram of a female client’s 14 tumors. (That client, incidentally, was referred to Abbott by an oncologist). He points out that his diagram was an exact match of subsequent CAT scans and bone scans.Although he concedes that the next step in energetic healing — manipulating the body’s energies so it can begin self-healing — is a complex series of techniques, Abbott was vague on the process.He summarized the energetic healing process as such: “When you learn what normal (auras) feels like, you try to sense anything outside of normal.“Then you use various techniques to restore it to normal.”Skeptical?Abbott couldn’t care less. He makes a good living at his day job. His sight-restoring work attracted the attention of the Fox TV network. A show called Strange Universe profiled him. After that, he was flooded with calls.Anyway, Abbott says it should be obvious that he isn’t in it for the money. He says he has never charged a cent for his healing help.“My purpose isn’t to gain credibility,” he insists. “It’s to help people. I don’t care who gets the credit.”The only thing Abbott does charge for is his workshops. Energetic healing, he assures, is something almost anyone can learn to do.“I think it’s a normal human function and learned response,” he says. “Only one per cent of people who have taken my courses haven’t been able to pick up, or recognize, what I asked them to do.”The first lesson students must master is learning to actually see the electromagnetic field, or aura, that surrounds the human body.A piece of cake, according to Abbott.“I can teach people how to see it in 10 minutes.”Abbott will be conducting a two-day workshop this weekend at the Medicine Hat Cultural Centre. The sessions will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. 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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Thu, Jun 25, 1998
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