Charlie Goldsmith, Energy Healer
I follow Charlie Goldsmith on Facebook. Today he posted this comment, along with a photo of an article about him in ELLE:
“3 years since I came out of hiding”
The online version of the article begins with the question, how do you prove it?
The proof is in the pudding. But will there ever be enough to satisfy the medical mainstream?
Energy Healing Works—Many Say. But How Do You Prove It?
Charlie Goldsmith says he can alleviate body pain and allergy symptoms, even cure infections, just by focusing his mind on what ails us. Now comes the hard part: using the scientific method to prove it to the medical mainstream.
In the 17 years since the bewildering day that Charlie Goldsmith discovered what he calls his “gift,” the 35-year-old energy healer from Melbourne, Australia, has been trying to get someone in the medical world to take him seriously. He has wanted to be of use, working with the formal sanction of doctors in hospitals. He has wanted to be recognized for what he knows he can do—not simply to justify the strange turn his life took when he was 18, but to shore up the credibility of a practice long plagued by fraud and religious superstition, and to make the experience of discovering and developing a healing gift like his less traumatic for other people. It’s one thing to be teased by friends; it’s another to be brushed off by the medical profession as a well-meaning but deluded screwball whose results probably have less to do with energy than with the placebo effects of his kind and empathetic manner, perhaps even his salubrious blue eyes and handsome surf-side looks.
Continue reading the article online here.
