"Quantum Theta+ energy healing (QTEH, pronounced Kew-Tee!) or Deep Emotional Release Body Work (DERB pronounced derb..duh...) is one of several nonsensical methods commonly referred to as "energy healing."
These methods are based on the idea that the body is surrounded or permeated by a "shamanic energy field" that is not measurable by ordinary scientific instrumentation.
The alleged force, said to support life, is known as ki in Japan, as chi or qi in China, and as prana in India.
Not satisfied with those already nonsensical sounding names, the Hyman's hype their own brand, changing the name every few months as debunkers catch up to them.
This month it's called "shamanic healing" (last month for your own edification was "quantum theta" energy healing, the heretofore mentioned QTEH or Kew-Tee!)
Moving on....
James & Barbara Hyman the “practitioners” claim to facilitate healing by strengthening or "balancing" or emotionally releasing so called "shamanic energy" fields, or last month they were calling them “quantum theta” energy fields.
In actuality this pseudo-science is pure bunk.
It is simply another cheap hucksters way of attempting to separate you from your hard earned money.
“Quantum Theta” Energy healing can also be administered to others at distant locations.
The Hymans have become so adept at this practice they claim they can actually accomplish it over the telephone!
Clearly this unconventional session happens rarely.
Why?
Why would anyone in his or her right mind pay a quack $150.00 for a transformational “quantum theta” energy healing telephone session?
Actual Origin
Although the Hyman’s claim to be the founders, this practice is merely a new take on a series of much older scams. These are known by a variety of names.
1) Imperial Qi Gong. This is a method taught by Dr. Warner Chen, a proponent of Human Resources Chi Gong, Marrow Cleansing Chi Gong, and Quantum Leap Chi Gong therapy. Apparently, Imperial Qi Gong as well as "shamanic healing," “Quantum Theta energy healing" (There's that pesky QTEH or Kew-Tee again) or Deep Emotional Release Bodywork” is Mr. Hymans variation of Qigong therapy.
2) Vibrational Medicine a/k/a energetic medicine, energetics medicine, energy medicine, subtle-energy medicine, vibrational healing & vibrational therapies. The main "tenet" is that humans are "dynamic energy systems" Its premises include the following. (a) Health and illness originate in "subtle energy systems." (b) These systems coordinate the "life-force" and the "physical body." (c) Emotions, spirituality, and environmental factors affect the "subtle energy systems." Vibrational medicine embraces "chakra rebalancing, absent healing, (the aforementioned $150.00 telephone sessions) etheric touch, the laying on of hands, Past-life Regression, and Therapeutic Touch.
The expressions "shamanic healing," "energy healing," "energy work," and "energetic healing work" appear synonymous with "vibrational medicine."
During some “intense quantum theta energy healing sessions” or "intense shamanic healing sessions" the practitioner (Mr. Hyman) can be heard “chanting” some heretofore unknown “mantras.”
Apparently to ward off the "shamanic negative energy" or what he last month was calling “quantum theta“ negative energy mojo that he has removed from the “patients” body.
The need for chanting is apparently a method of stopping said mojo from entering Mr. Hyman's own "shamanic energy field" or (last months) “quantum theta” energy field.
This brings us to our age old scam number:
3) WooJangJu Power Meditation or WooJangJu Power Chant. This is a variation of TaeUIJu Healing Meditation. Its purported design is to protect meditators, while they are healing, from vengeful spirits.
(See, I told you he stole it from somebody else, don't you feel better now?)
There are more:
4) Wu Ming Qigong (Wu Ming Qigong system, Taoist Wu Ming Qigong): Millennia-old "self-healing practice" taught by the American Taoist Healing Center, Inc., in New York City. It allegedly helps users connect body, mind, and spirit. Its theory posits a transfer, from teacher to student, of "energy" that heals and guides the student. Proponents use the Chinese expression "wu ming," which literally means "no name," to refer to the "original natural force" from which everything's "essence" flows.
One thing history teaches us, if there is a short cut to getting at peoples money, there will always be some lazy quack willing to take it, particularly in times of slow economic growth like the one were in now.
It seems people are more susceptible to scams when times are tough.
It's that basic human frailty these cheap hucksters are counting on.
Other Quack Shams Hyman Has “Borrowed” From;
Lesser Kan & Li: Form of meditation whose theory posits chi, "core energy channels," and "higher energy bodies."
Life force balancing: Combination of the laying on of hands, psychic healing, psychological "adjustments," and spiritual counseling, developed by Barbara West. It involves a "healing science" called "intercellular regeneration."
Life Care Kinesiology (Life Care): Offshoot of applied kinesiology put together by Dr. Richard Beale. It borrows from acupuncture and Touch for Health and includes "chakra meditation."
Life Impressions Bodywork: "Healing process" developed by Donald Van Howten (Ravi Dos).
It includes "cranial membrane treatment" (probably Cranio-Sacral work) and "pulse work" and borrows from Ayurveda and Hakomi.
Its premises include the following. (a) Humans are spirits. (b) Bodily tissues accumulate "history." (c) This "imprint" of experiences becomes "outdated." Updating "idea imprinted" tissues (the method's purported intention) releases "bound beliefs" and "energy."
Light Touch Energy Healing: Method that purportedly focuses on: balancing bodily "energy," releasing "cellular memory," and identifying "energy patterns" that limit happiness.
LooyenWork®: Approach to "body therapy" that involves "body reading" and "movement re-education" and allegedly can increase the "flow" of clients' "energy." "Body reading" purportedly is a sophisticated form of observation that enables practitioners to reach the root of the client's problem.
I can tell you from personal experience Hyman borrows from all of the above, trust me, don't waste your time or your money, I did!
Methodology Of Absent Healing or Hyman Hype Telephone Healing!
The Hyman's have become so adept at this practice (either that, or they can't get anyone to waste the $4.00 per gallon it costs these days for gasoline to drive to them) that they now "heal" "patients" or "subjects" from great distances over the telephone!
Mr. Hyman calls you from an unknown location, (perhaps while he is doing his business in his bath room) and begins channeling the so called "shamanic energy" or last months so called “quantum theta” energy fields over the telephone.
Somehow his theory is that by asking you some simple questions & by offering you your own personal "mantras” or techniques he can promulgate the "release" of "negative energy."
That’s right, if you can’t make it to them they will be so bold as to claim to deeply & emotionally release you from negative "shamanic energy" or last months pesky “quantum theta energy” via the telephone.
In reality the only thing you will be released from is your hard earned money.
This is simply Mr. Hyman’s take on what has previously been known as psychic intuitive healing or long distance healing.
Background And History
I give you the following explanations because Hyman attempts to baffle his naive prey by co-opting the language of quantum physics or quantum mechanics, thereby fooling innocent "marks" or "scapegoats" into thinking his made up terminology has some basis in reality.
The word "quantum" is derived from physics a quantum (plural: quanta) is the minimum amount of any physical entity involved in an interaction.
Behind this, one finds the fundamental notion that a physical property may be "quantized," referred to as "the hypothesis of quantization.
This means that the magnitude can take on only certain discrete values.
There is a related term of quantum number.
An example of an entity that is quantized is the energy transfer of elementary particles of matter (called fermions) and of photons and other bosons.
A photon is a single quantum of light, and is referred to as a "light quantum". The energy of an electron bound to an atom (at rest) is said to be quantized, which results in the stability of atoms, and of matter in general.
As incorporated into the theory of quantum mechanics, this is regarded by physicists as part of the fundamental framework for understanding and describing nature at the infinitesimal level.
Normally quanta are considered to be discrete packets with energy stored in them. Max Planck considered these quanta to be particles that can change their form (meaning that they can be absorbed and released).
This phenomenon can be observed in the case of black body radiation, when it is being heated and cooled.
None of this has anything to do with "shamanic healing" or quantum theta" energy healing, however Mr. and Ms. Hyman would have you believe it does.
The word “theta” is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth.
In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 9.
In math and science a “theta” is known as the following; a plane angle in geometry.
A special function of several complex variables.
One of the Chebyshev functions in prime number theory.
The potential temperature in meteorology.
The score of a test taker in item response theory.
A bacterial DNA replication specific to circular chromosones.
The threshold of a neuron.
A Bayer designation letter applied to a star in a constellation; usually the eight star labeled but not necessarily the eighth brightest as viewed from teh earth.
The parameter frequently used in writing likelihood function (Bayes Theorem).
Along with μ (mu) population parameters in the Normal/Gaussian/Bell curve distribution, usually designated N.
The Watterson estimator for the population mutation rate in population genetics.
Unfortunately for Mr. Hyman, there is no known use of the two terms together in any body energy fields.
In the science fiction TV series Doctor Who, the character of the Doctor was once known as Theta Sigma whilst he lived on Gallifrey.
Perhaps since Mr. Hyman’s use of the word is a fictionalized version, this may be the most likely relation to his “quantum theta” energy fields!
Practitioner Training
No special background or credentials are needed to receive “quantum theta” energy healing or “deep emotional release” training.
To become a practitioner, one must receive an "initiation" or "attunement" from Mr. Hyman himself.
This ceremony makes one "attuned" to the "shamanic energy" or last month it was the "quantum theta energy" and enables one to serve as a conduit for it.
There are said to be numerous levels of attunement.
This philosophy would fall directly in line with Mr. Hyman’s actual goal of separating the “patient” or in this case the “student” from their hard earned money.
At the higher levels, one can allegedly channel "shamanic energy" or “quantum theta energy” and effect healing's at a distance, without physical contact.
The previously mentioned (we're going to take you for your money over the telephone, no need to waste $4.00 bucks on a gallon of gas when we have access to a credit card vendor's account right here) "telephone" or "Skype" healing sessions.
Practitioner Training for the lower levels typically takes 1 or 2 days and begins with an attunement.
Many practitioners are massage therapists.
However, no licensing or professional standards exist for the practice of "shamanic healing," "reiki" (what they were calling it last year) or "quantum theta energy healing" last months version (QTEH or Kew-Tee!).
Therefore whether "shamanic healing," "reiki," or “Quantum Theta Energy Healing” (QTEH or Kew-Tee) can be considered the unlicensed practice of medicine varies from state to state.
I suggest you check with your state medical board. I did!
Don't bother if your in california, they are the "masters" of this type of bunk there.
Why do you think it's the home to so many "quantum" healers like Deepak Chopra or Hyman himself?
Research
Quackwatch, Rational Wiki, The Committee For Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) and The James Randi Foundation and have done the most comprehensive review of "shamanic healing," “quantum theta energy healing,” "reiki," and "energy healing" in general.
The articles at all have concluded that the evidence is insufficient to suggest "shamanic healing," “quantum theta energy healing," "deep emotional release body work," or any form of energy healing are an effective treatment for any condition.
The articles further state; “Quantum Theta Energy Healing”, any form of "energy healing" & Deep Emotional Release Body Work lacks scientific credibility.
The scientific and medical communities have not accepted it as an effective therapy.
Plausible scientific explanation as to how it could possibly be efficacious is not to be found.
The explanation of the efficacy of “energy healing" or “deep emotional release” depends entirely on a particular view of the world as permeated by this "universal life energy (this month "shamanic energy," last month it was “quantum theta” energy or other pseudo-scientific energy fields) that are subject to manipulation by human thought and will.
Mr. Hyman the "inventor," "discoverer" & "practitioner" claims that his training allows him to channel the "shamanic energy," or "quantum theta energy" that is present in all living beings.
This "shamanic energy," "quantum theta energy," or any "human energy fields" however, are unknown to natural science.
As the presence of such energy has not been observed by means of natural science, the justification for these therapies necessarily must come from something other than science!
In the mid-1990s, at ages 9 and 10, Emily Rosa demonstrated that 21 therapeutic touch (TT) practitioners could not detect her alleged "energy field."
During the tests, the practitioners rested their arms on a flat surface, about a foot apart. Emily then hovered her hand, palm down, a few inches above one of the subject's palms.
A cardboard screen prevented the subjects from seeing which of their hands was selected.
The practitioners correctly located Emily's hand only 122 (44%) out of 280 trials, which is no better than would be expected by guessing.
After the Journal of the American Medical Association published the results,
Therapeutic Touch practitioners and leaders called the study a "parlor game," but they refused to suggest an alternative experimental design or to undergo similar tests themselves.
It might be interesting to investigate whether practitioners can actually sense or transmit "energy," and whether "shamanic energy," “quantum theta energy healing” or “deep emotional release attunements" actually enhance anything, and whether feelings of warmth are accompanied by any measurable change of skin temperature.
But I doubt that the "shamanic healer," “quantum theta energy healer” or “deep emotional release attunements" practitioner Mr. Hyman would be any more eager than the Therapeutic Touch community to have its fundamental concepts tested.
The Bottom Line
"Shamanic Healing," “Quantum theta energy healing,” "energy healing" and “deep emotional release attunements" have no substantiated health value and lacks a scientifically plausible rationale.
Science-based healthcare settings should not tolerate its use, and scarce government research dollars should not be used to study it further.
