Scientologists ‘heal’ Haiti quake victims using touch
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 23, 2010 (AFP) - Amid the mass of aid agencies
piling in to help Haiti quake victims is a batch of Church of
Scientology “volunteer ministers”, claiming to use the power of touch to
reconnect nervous systems.
Clad in yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of the controversial
US-based group, smiling volunteers fan out among the injured lying under
makeshift shelters in the courtyard of Port-au-Prince’s General
Hospital.
A wealthy private donor provided his airplane to fly in 80 volunteers
from Los Angeles, along with 50 Haitian-American-doctors, in a gesture
worth 400,000 dollars, said a Parisian volunteer who gave her name as
Sylvie.
“We’re trained as volunteer ministers, we use a process called
‘assist’ to follow the nervous system to reconnect the main points, to
bring back communication,” she said.
“When you get a sudden shock to a part of your body the energy gets
stuck, so we re-establish communication within the body by touching
people through their clothes, and asking people to feel the touch.”
- AFP
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