Dawn of Energy Medicine
By Robert Mayes
Imagine a world without hospitals, without doctors in white coats or drugs or operating equipment; a world in which healing is literally
all in the mind and the power of psychic energy can be harnessed to heal where other treatments fail.
This is a world that “diagnostic medical intuitive” Robyn Welch dreams of, and one she genuinely believes may one day be possible.
Robyn claims to have the rare ability to see inside the human body, observe its “energy field” and “repair both to full function and well-being”.
Brought up in Australia, Robyn often rescued animals and brought them back to health during her childhood. It was through these experiences that she gradually became aware of herself as clairvoyant. In 1979, Robyn was diagnosed with a tumour in the uterus, and two years later suffered serious head and spinal injuries in a car accident. She says she was able to heal herself on both occasions.
Later she moved to the US, where she worked with Dr John Walck, a physician who practises medicine in Olympia, Washington, and blends conventional medicine with alternative therapies.
Robyn says she can pick any health problems, from ingrown toenails to prostate cancer, by “communicating” with the body, including with specific organs, and eradicating “negative energies” from the system.
“I come through the crown and go through the body, and see what’s inside the body and visit major organs and major body parts,” she says.
This kind of “energy medicine” is usually the province of the burgeoning mind, body and spirit market in the US, where Robyn trained for seven years. But Robyn has started helping people in the UK who have become disenchanted with conventional medicine.
Tracy Lomax, a Wiltshire osteopath, had been on heavy medication to control epilepsy when she met Robyn. She first spoke to Robyn over the phone, and without Tracy telling her anything about herself, Robyn was able to diagnose her condition.
“She immediately picked up that I had inflammation of the left side of my brain, which is where I had the problem,” Tracy says.
Tracy came off her medication after a few months of treatment with Robyn, and has since begun to develop her own visualising abilities, she says. “Also, being off the drugs, [because of] the clarity of mind and nervous system, I can feel things, taste things better.”
In light of traditional treatments for epilepsy, Tracy’s case seems remarkable. A spokesperson for the National Epilepsy Society says, “Some alternative therapies help people deal more effectively with stress, which can then reduce seizure activity in people with epilepsy for whom stress is a known trigger. However, it is important to remember complementary therapies of any kind are not an alternative to anti-epileptic medication.”
Understandably, Robyn says she’s encountered much scepticism, especially from mainstream medicine. In the UK, complementary and alternative practitioners are also wary.
Psychotherapist Jayney Goddard, president of the Complementary Medical Association, recognises that this kind of “energy medicine” is quite popular in the US, but says the UK is a different matter. “We don’t really know enough about it over here to pass comment, because we simply don’t see enough positive or negative results.”
She says, “If it works, and patients are getting better, what does it matter? Who are we to argue? As long as people aren’t being led astray by all sorts of false claims, as long as the cases are documented and verifiable, we wouldn’t have a problem acknowledging it.”
