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The Globe and Mail.

Saturday, November 27, 2004

Healing

The Mysterious Miracle Worker

 

At 19, he is said to have cured a rock star and an astronaut and

everyone wants a piece of this private young healer. But as ALEXANDRA

GILL reports, nobody really understands what he does

 

VANCOUVER

 

I am sitting in the dark, on a green leather sofa, my feet firmly

planted on polished hardwood. This spacious but sparely furnished

family room is on the main floor of a detached suburban home just

outside Vancouver. A 19 year-old " energy healer " who calls himself

Adam is standing about three metres in front of me.

 

" Just relax, " says Adam, twisting his body with arms spread out, as if

he were warming up to throw a discus. From the dim light in the

kitchen, I see him in the shadows looking down at his feet. Then his

head suddenly jerks up, but he's clearly not in the same space any

more. He looks off into the distance, as though he's fallen into a

trance, and starts manipulating the air in front of his face with his

palms spread flat.

 

As Adam will later explain, he is visualizing a hologram of my immune

system. He describes these visions as layers of 3-D images in which he

sees organs moving, hearts pumping- and sometimes, bright green masses

that can indicate tumours.

 

You may have heard about this boy with the so-called magic touch. I

first met and wrote about him 18 months ago. Since then, he has been

profiled in numerous television documentaries and magazine articles,

including a splashy feature in Rolling Stone magazine.

 

At the time, this completely normal-looking teenager had just

self-published a book called Dreamhealer: His Name is Adam. The book,

which has since sold more than 20,000 copies, attempted to explain

what he does, diagnosing and treating illnesses from a distance, and

included a testimonial from Ronnie Hawkins, the rock `n' roll legend

Adam allegedly cured of terminal pancreatic cancer by staring at a

colour photo and connecting to the Hawk's energy field from 5,000

kilometres away.

 

Today, the Hawk is still kicking, has remained cancer-free and is

getting ready for his big 70th-birthday bash. " I was brought up in the

South, where you ain't supposed to believe in this stuff; " He told

Rolling Stone. " Jesus healed, but I never read anything where it was

longdistance. There's a lot of shit out there, and I don't believe

none of it. But I'm telling you exactly what happened to me. This

wasn't no coincidence. I don't know how Adam did it. But, my God, if

that's what he can do, in two years he'll be able to buy Jimmy Swaggart. "

For now, Adam is just trying to concentrate on his first-year

mid-terms at university now that his second book, Dreamhealer 2: Guide

to Self-Empowerment, is back from the printers.He still has a website

(www dreamhealer.com).

 

 

Adam is studying general sciences and plans to become a naturopathic

doctor. Some day, he would like to open a centre where alternative and

Western medicine can be combined.

 

Because of his intense study schedule, and overwhelming, demand for

his help, he no longer performs one-on-one sessions. " There are just

too many people out there who want my help, " he says. " Sometimes it's

so difficult turning people away, especially when they have little

kids with cancer spread all over their body. "

 

Adam remains anonymous to protect his family's privacy, while keeping

the seekers and skeptics at bay. " I've received thousands of emails

from people who want help. I've been asked to quit school, and give up

my friends or sports. One guy even suggested I sleep less. But even if

I were doing this 24/7, there still wouldn't be enough time to help

everyone.

 

 

" And a lot of people that come to me aren't even willing to help

themselves. That's why I've written this book. Everyone has the

ability to heal themselves. It's just a matter of understanding that

the mind does affect the immune system. And you also have to be

willing to adopt a healthier and positive attitude. Intention counts

for a lot. "

 

For a lot of people, Adam says books aren't motivation enough. So, as

well as his alternative individual therapy, he has begun offering

group-healing sessions, which he says can be far more powerful anyway.

More than 2,000 have already attended his workshops. The next workshop

takes places in Vancouver in January. With 450 participants, it's the

largest yet, and has already sold out.

 

The workshops function by joining everyone's aura and allowing the

group's combined energy, including Adam's, to flow together in a

master hologram. He describes the energy field as being similar to two

bubbles in a bath that suddenly burst into one large bubble.

Adam prefers to do workshops with groups of people who suffer from the

same illness, but says anyone can benefit.

 

" If you are doing your own visualizations to direct your energy to a

specific problem, the group healings are even more powerful than the

individual healings, " he says.Back in the family room, I feel a slight

pressure on my neck as Adam

shifts his gaze down and starts knitting his hands as if he's trying

to dig at something or push it out of the way.

 

 

Then his whole body slams backward and he nearly falls to the floor.

He sits down and cups his hands in front of his eyes to shield his

dilated pupils. " It's like coming out from a cave into a very bright

light, " he explains as he catches his breath. " I saw a blob, " Adam says.

" It's actually a little deeper than it

looks from your aura. It's just below your ribs, on the right side. " A

blob?

" It sort of looks like the lymph nodes, but the source is deeper than

that. It's kind of thick and pasty. It's actually quite concentrated.

And it's constantly pulsing, almost the same as your heartbeat. It's

not something I see very often. "

 

Is it cancer?

 

" I don't see anything hard there. I wouldn't be too, too concerned but

I think it's something to check relatively soon. I'm more concerned

about your lungs. There's a general haze over the whole area, and it

looks kind of scarred. It's not a huge problem, but they look pretty

weak. "

 

My mind reels. Unidentifiable blobs? Hazy lungs? How soon can I get an

MRI scan?

 

" Don't worry about it too much or it will manifest into a physical

problem, " Adam says. " You know, the pulsating is not something I see

very often, but it can sometimes be an emotional block. Maybe that's

where you store your emotions. "

 

Emotional block? Whew. How about writer's block? I suffer from that

quite often. Either way, at least we're finally talking about concepts

I can almost understand.

 

No one can explain what exactly Adam does. Edgar Mitchell, however,

says this sort of healing is firmly rooted in science --- or least its

fringes.

 

Mr. Mitchell, a former NASA astronaut and the sixth man to walk on the

moon in 1971 as part of the Apollo 14 mission, has been a mentor to

Adam for several years. He is also a former patient who credits this

young man with making a tumour on his kidney disappear.

 

" Understand I have been studying these things for 30 years or more, "

Mr. Mitchell now 74, says over the phone from his home in Florida.

On his return journey to Earth, he says, he experienced a

life-changing epiphany, one he describes as a spiritual awakening that

made him instantly aware that we are all one with the universe. Soon

after, he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences, now based in

Northern California, and has since spent his entire life trying to

understand how mind reading, telekinesis and seemingly unexplained

paranormal phenomena might be integrated with science theory.

Mr. Mitchell and his peers argue that the world cannot be explained

through cause-and-effect Newtonian physics. They believe that quantum

mechanics, a much less understood science, will one day show that

energy is not restricted to time or location, but is connected to a

parallel or universal field of energy that we can affect through our

minds or conscious intent.

 

Adam, so the theory goes, is one of the rare individuals who can

apparently jump into this alternate field much more easily than most

and manipulate the energy.

 

" The problem of how intentionality can be modelled within science is a

very difficult one, " Mr. Mitchell says. " I won't say it's intractable.

We have clues, but no solid answers. Watching folk like this operate

will help get us closer. " Last December, during a routine physical exam,

Mr. Mitchell's doctor

found a mass on his kidney that was consistent with renal carcinoma.

He asked for a second opinion from Adam, who thought it might be

" hot, " and they went to work.

 

Adam says that once a week he ' would connect with Mr. Mitchell's

energy field and visualize the tumour being wrung dry until it crumbled

like sand. A month later, Mr.

Mitchell went to a radiologist, who told him the mass was getting

smaller and to keep doing whatever he was doing. By June, it had

disappeared.

 

" I've worked with some good healers, " Mr. Mitchell says. " I think Adam

will be up there among the best. He just needs experience. It wouldn't

hurt if he had more education in anatomy. " At home in Vancouver, with his

first-term finals looming, Adam doesn't disagree.

 

" I'm learning a lot in my classes that are helping me make sense of

what I've experienced. In chemistry, we're learning about the quantum

mechanics of atoms and the zero-point field. In biology, well, we're

learning about all the things we don't know. Basically, half the

textbook is made up of things we don't know. I find that very

interesting. I think a lot of the things I'm working with might be the

missing link. "

 

We return to the family room and turn off the lights. As Adam does his

twitching thing, my head starts getting very heavy and falls back on

the couch. Before my eyes close, I feel my chest puffing up like a

balloon. When he finishes, I'm totally pumped and feel like I've just

run 10 miles.

 

" Uh, I think you should… (at this point the newspaper ink hasn't

printed and I can't read the sentence… sorry… but it continues)

" still recouver from it, " Adam advises " It's okay now, but it won't be

in 10 or 15 years. Why don't you try chewing gum? "

 

Alexandra Gill is a member of The Globe and Mail B.C. bureau.

 

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