There’s no question that James Hyman, the so called "founder" & "practitioner" of "quantum theta energy healing" has many miffed & unsatisfied customers.
And there’s no question that the energy healers believe they are bringing about healing by manipulating some sort of life force.
However, the only evidence for this life force is that it has become an integral part of various metaphysical theories used to explain what is going on in these healing experiences. Some of the theories are rather simple, like the Chinese theory of chi running along meridians and occasionally getting blocked or clogged, thereby causing illness and disease.
Some are rather elaborate and involve vibrating sub-atomic particles, biofields, transcendent beings, or astral bodies.
These theories, however, have no independent verification.
Take away the concept of life energy and these theories implode.
The theories aren’t evidence for the life force; they need the life force in order to have any plausibility.
But is there any independent evidence for the existence of chi or prana or whatever you want to call this alleged life force?
If there is, I’d like to see it.
Is there another way to explain these healings without resorting to the notion of energy?
I suppose some might say that all these healings are due to the placebo effect.
I think they'd be right, even though we don't completely understand how placebos work.
Some might say that some sort of hypnosis or self-hypnosis is going on in at least some of these healings.
But does hypnosis appear to be the paradigm of a placebo?
One shared element between hypnosis and self-hypnosis and energy medicine is the reduction of stress, which we know can have profound physiological and psychological effects.
In a relaxed state and believing that relief is on the way may lead to a more suggestible state resulting in attitude change, which in turn results in a behavioral change.
Many advocates of energy medicine mistake the effects of classical conditioning, expectation of relief that leads to reduction of anxiety and stress, and beliefs about the effectiveness of the medicine as effects of mythical energy.
Please see this blog for a series of articles where we sshow our readers exactly where in actual science Mr. & Ms.Hyman steal the terms they utilize in their scams.
For example, the term "quantum theta energy" is stolen from the theories of quantum mechanics as postulated by such luminaries as theoretical & mathematical physicists; Michio Kaku & Yuri I Manin.
(http://www.michiokaku.com/) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Kaku)
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yuri_I._Manin)
