Touch Therapies
Therapuetic Touch


Therapeutic Touch is the second touch therapy covered in my book "The Occult Invasion of Health Care". Conceived by Dora Kunz and Delories Krieger in the early 1970's, Therapeutict Touch has spread thoughout the nursing system and is taught in more than 80 medical schools and corresponding nursing programs.


The concept is based in two centers of thought: one scientific, the other religious. Scientifically, it is linked to physics, field theory and the idea of psychogenic fields. Religiously, it is linked to Hinduism and other Eastern metaphysical practices. Kunz also claimed to be a 14th generation clairvoyant with the power to see the "bio-field" or aura, surrounding each person. She claimed that she could induce healing by channeling "prana" or energy into the aura. Kunz was also president of the Theosophical Society in America, a well-known cult, and editor of its publishing house. She was committed to many strange spiritual ideas.


Krieger hold a PhD in nursing and is the primary designer of "Frontieers In Nursing", the Therapeutic Touch graduate program taught in most nursing programs affiliated with the therapy. Krieger bases her thought on scientific and spiritual concepts as well. In addition to the methods alluded to by Kunz she also interjects electromagnetic theory. Krieger's spiritual conncetion drifts out of the mainstream and into African and Native American religious ideas called Aninism. Animism is the practice of communicating with the spirits of inanimate objects such as animals, mountains, plants and trees. Krieger openly discusses her involvement in the occult as well. She goes so far as to detail the use of occult methods in her healing practice.


Christians need to beware of Therapeutic Touch. None of its "scientific mechanisms" have ever been validated by medical professionals. This means that the only support base it enjoys is based in Hinduism and occult practice. As Christians, we must "flee the appearance of evil". In the Old testament, God condemned such practices and said that they were an abomination. The penalty for practicing such things under the Old Testament economy was death.


In the New Testament, the apostle Paul also condemns the practice of all such behaviors and reiterates that those who practice such things are worthy of the ultimate penalty. Instead, let us focus on the healing power of Jesus Christ. He who "bore our infirmities and ws chastised for our weakness and by whose stripes we have been healed" (Isaiah 53:5). Jesus paid the price for our healing on the Cross of Calvary. Not only is His healing power available to us today, but we should witness that same power to those who do not yet know Him.