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A gentle wind...

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Aside from chuckling at the name, I found this article about a healing movement called "a gentle wind" very interesting.

Some descriptive quotes about the "healing":

The Gentle Wind Project, whose motto is "Science and engineering for the human spirit,"

The non-profit has grown from pushing aromatherapy to raising more than $1.2 million in "donations" last year.

A key tenet of the group is that an invisible sphere 5 feet wide and 9 feet high surrounds each of us. It is made of "32 different levels of sub-atomic spiritual tennis netting," says Miller.

According the group, pain, fear and loss cause damage to areas of this netting. Holding a "healing instrument," which contains a particular combination of cell salts, undisclosed herbs and minerals and sometimes gold, returns one's sense of well-being by repairing the damaged bits.

Gentle Wind is registered as a non-profit, but some have wondered about the group's determined sales pitches. At the Toronto seminar, I'm buttonholed by one "instrument keeper."

And Miller is quick to correct anyone who wants to "buy" a healing device. That said, each device comes with a specific "donation request": $2,075 U.S. for a Healing Puck V, and $10,000 for a thorough overhaul from a New World System V 2.2.

Please click on the link for details re: a clinical trial and more woo-wooness.

What really struck me was this quote:

She then takes a direct shot at the group's critics. "When the quack-watchers bad-mouth you, you know you've made it in alternative medicine!" Miller says.

Is there truth in this statement? Does skeptical scrutiny actually raise the cache of these frauds?
 
TruthSeeker said:
Is there truth in this statement? Does skeptical scrutiny actually raise the cache of these frauds?

Sometimes within certian areas of the alt med community.
 
Testimonials from three health care professionals. Supposed to carry a lot of weight.

http://www.gentlewindproject.org/

Testimonial #1:
"I am a nurse and for over 3 years have shared The Gentle Wind Project Instruments with over 1200 people. I have been in health care, including holistic therapies for 25 years and have never seen such quick, reproducible positive changes in mental/emotional well-being, relief of brutal emotional trauma, relief from deep grief of loss through death, the dropping of habits that are destructive like smoking, alcohol and drugs - and many other positive changes. Nothing, regardless of promises, high prices, side effects or studies, have I seen create such positive changes without cost or side effects. This is way beyond the placebo effect!"
Pam Fry, RN
Friday Harbor, WA
Testimonial #2:
"Over the years I have shared Instruments with over 600 people; patients in my medical practice, students and friends. I have witnessed remarkable changes in many of these people from the releasing of emotional traumas to the alleviation of life long physical pain."

"I thank you again for the work and dedication you have put into the project and the gift of healing you have bestowed on so many of us."
Jeri Mills, M.D.
Loveland, CO
Testimonial #3:

"It is quite apparent from the effects of these instruments that the technology used in creating them is effective. In fact, the benefits of these instruments without having any side effects are absolutely remarkable."

"Lastly, it is rare in our society to have an organization which does not profit from such a remarkable development as The Gentle Wind Project Healing Instruments."
Robert Lang, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
Yale University

Who they really are. Apparently they're real people.

http://www.skagitvalleyhospital.org/imageuploads/file36.pdf
Pam Fry, RN finds new direction

by Pam Fry, RN

Pam Fry, RN who has worked at Skagit Valley Hospital since November 1986 will work her last day August 1. Pam has worked in many capacities at Skagit Valley Hospital; she worked in Critical Care as an on-call nurse up until a year and a half ago; she then joined the Care Management Department and has worked on-call as Utilization Review/Discharge Planner. Pam has worked all over the hospital as a float RN and especially enjoyed the years when a "roamer" position was in place; nothing better than showing up and being the "hero" she said; you could focus on one thing and relieve the staff RN of that one thing that would put them over the edge. Pam also taught classes in High Touch Jin Shin for the staff and helped start the "sit-down massage" with Christie Houston. Pam was a familiar sight with her "aromatherapy spritzing" to keep the units a happier place.

Pam has really enjoyed the new position in the Care Management Department, but was offered a great job on San Juan Island, where she lives. Pam has commuted to work from the Island to work as a nurse for 23 years. Those ferries have become too much she says! She also was offered a job she couldn't refuse as a personal assistant to a very active, vital senior couple who she has known for some time. It is a dream job in many ways, including benefits, no more long ferry waits, and she can see the eagles and the whales on her 20-minutes commute to work. She will miss many co-workers she has enjoyed over the years, and the quality physicians she has had the privilege to assist and work with. She will continue in her private practice of holistic therapies part-time.

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Jeri Mills, M.D. of Loveland, CO, is an OB/GYN, *and* a veterinarian. She started out as a vet, went back to med school, became an OB/GYN. And she's also a certified Reiki teacher.

http://www.tapestryofhealing.com/jeri_mills.htm
Her articles on women’s health and integrative medicine have appeared in newspapers and magazines in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. She has lectured extensively about the integration of Western medicine and Energy medicine.
An article she wrote on giving Reiki treatments to people undergoing radiation therapy for cancer.

P.S. She also gave a Reiki treatment to one of his cats, as long as she was there.

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Robert Lang, MD is indeed on the staff of the Yale School of Nursing.
Sort of.

He is Associate Clinical Professor; Medical Director, Osteoporosis Diagnostic & Treatment Center--under the heading, "Courtesy Appointments to the Faculty". Which is a different category, on the website, than "Faculty". He's on the staff of the Osteoporosis Center, and as a courtesy they put his name on the Nursing School Faculty, too.
 
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You guys HAVE to go look at the widget pages. It's a hoot.

http://www.gentlewindproject.org/gallery.htm
the Advanced Instruments requiring a higher donation also consume much greater research, development, design and manufacturing costs. That extra investment of time and energy translates into Advanced Instruments capable of penetrating deeper into the human auric structure and physical energetic system. All Instruments can be upgraded and are guaranteed to work for at least 3 years. All Instruments have serial numbers and come with a Certificate of Authenticity.

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Clinical trials have been done and some of the results are on the Comments page of this website.

That would be...this.

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In a few cases clinical trials were terminated because the investigators were overwhelmingly satisfied with the effectiveness of our technology and did not wish to deprive the control groups of the relief they found immediately with the experimental groups.

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http://www.gentlewindproject.org/gallery2.htm
If you are familiar with the Photon Health Accelerator, the Rainbow Puck VII is a more portable version of this Instrument.

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OMG OMG OMG, for a "donation" of $7,700, yes that's seven thousand seven hundred dollars, they will send you a white plastic ray gun with a colorful cardboard card pasted on the side. You "sweep" the bad vibrations away, up and down your body.

No wonder the Maine attorney general is interested.
 
Goshawk thanks for these links and the investigation.

It is sad that people would feel so desperate that they would resort to this.

I think the article linked in my OP was sufficiently cynical but I wonder about sending a more skeptical letter.

However, I hate to add to the publicity they receive.
 
Not much to add at this point, but the part about having made it when quack watch goes after you is telling.

It shows the feelings of the woo community towards the rational, investigating world. There is both animosity and a certain amount of mistrust. Part of the reason people go for these sorts of things is that they don't trust real medicine (maybe because they want to be "special").

Putting something on quackwatch makes it so we know (depending on the quality of the entry) that the thing should be avoided. It doesn't do as good a job with on-the-fencers and no job at all on woos.


Also, they have an odd definition of "sphere."
 
I think it also feeds into the conspiracy thinking:

The skeptics call us quacks because they need to supress the truth about the cheap (not in this case) and fast cures available because their livelihood is dependent on big pharma and expensive health care.

So, their attention to our "alternative" and highly effective treatment is evidence of their fear.

Not sure.
 
Goshawk said:
OMG OMG OMG, for a "donation" of $7,700, yes that's seven thousand seven hundred dollars, they will send you a white plastic ray gun with a colorful cardboard card pasted on the side. You "sweep" the bad vibrations away, up and down your body.
Hey now, be fair! You dont just sweep it up and down -- you also have to use it in conjunction with the City Block, Sweep and Decompression Symbol! ($1175, shipping and handling extra?)

And oh by the way --
This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
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an invisible sphere 5 feet wide and 9 feet high surrounds each of us.

A sphere, 5 feet by 9? Clearly they have trouble with geometry as well as other aspects of reality.
 
A perfect sphere would only have one measurement figure, its diameter. What she is describing would be an ellipse in 2-D space. What is a 3-D ellipse called? You never hear of it in geometry class.
 
My ex-wife mentioned the Gentle Wind Project a couple of times. She said she was aiming to become an instrument keeper.

~~ Paul
 
Hastur said:
A perfect sphere would only have one measurement figure, its diameter. What she is describing would be an ellipse in 2-D space. What is a 3-D ellipse called? You never hear of it in geometry class.
I believe the technical term is a "sort of egg shaped thingy"
 

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