“Studies with Nicolai Levashov” (written a few years before I became a full-time healer) by Richard A. Blasband, M.D.
I first consulted the healer and physicist, Nicolai Levashov, for my chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in 1994. This had been diagnosed by two medical homeopaths who were expert with a variation of the Voll diagnostic device. They had each, independently, found inflammatory pathology in the same major organ systems: the heart, lungs, liver, and prostate. Pathologic structural changes in the heart were demonstrated by electrocardiogram. Although I did not inform him of these findings, other than my fatigue, Nicolai made the same diagnoses within ten minutes during his initial examination.
With the first healing session I knew that Nicolai possessed remarkable abilities to move energy in my body: I experienced electrical-like currents moving through my body, followed by a “heavy” feeling as my organism took on the healing “load” that Nicolai had placed upon it. Within six months, with sessions two to three times a week, I was healed of the frequent, intermittent palpitations from which I had suffered for the previous three years. These changes were confirmed by electrocardiography. Within 1½ years I was healed of the major portion of the other inflammatory changes and symptoms of CFS.
A few words about my professional background may help the reader to better understand my subsequent relationship to Nicolai Levashov and the extraordinary capacities and body of knowledge that he has given me (and many others). I am a Board certified psychiatrist, classically trained at the Yale University School of Medicine, where I also served on the Psychiatry faculty. Following my psychiatric training I studied Orgonomic Medicine with Elsworth Baker, MD, who had been appointed by Wilhelm Reich to train physicians in his medical discipline. My “day job” is the practice of this intense form of bioenergetic mind/body therapy, “psychiatric orgone therapy,” developed by Reich to treat emotional disorders (Reich 1949).
When I first met Nicolai I had been practicing as an orgone therapist for about 30 years. In addition, during this period I had been active in experimental research in physical and biological orgone energy and had published over 60 papers in this field. Thus, the concept of a “vital energy” as the basis of life functions and operative in the healing process readily resonated with my personal belief system and professional training and practice – despite my mechanistic, reductionistic classical education.
This was not all that I brought to my work with Nicolai. For several years prior to studying with him I had been active in experimental investigations in the then nascent discipline of consciousness research (Jahn and Dunne 1987). Through this work I had convinced myself of the extraordinary capabilities of mental intention in manifesting objective changes in physical reality (Blasband 2000). Healing, utilizing Nicolai’s method, depends, in large part, upon the use of heightened mental intention to diagnose and to effect changes in human cellular structure and physiology. The knowledge I had gained through my research therefore served me well as I embarked upon the work of becoming a healer.
I referred several of my therapy patients with structural damage from a variety of disease processes to Nicolai. After several months, I began to see changes in them that could not be attributed to my own treatment. They were all clearly recovering from their somatic disease process, but they were also moving far more rapidly through orgone therapy than I had learned to expect from them during months of treatment. It was as if their organism had become “lubricated,” so that their bodily movements were more facile and less “armored.” In addition they all had a “glow” about their bodies, something that I had never seen on either them or other patients. I was naturally eager to have this mental healing technique become part of my orgone-therapeutic “armamentarium.” I was pleased when Nicolai agreed to accept me as a student.
The formal, initial six-week training period with Nicolai was the most intensive, exciting time in my entire professional life. Our group of twenty students, physicians, psychologists, businesspeople, and others, met five times a week for three hours. Nicolai lectured for the first 2¾ hours on his findings about the nature of man and the universe. The final fifteen minutes was devoted to Nicolai’s “transformation” of our brains and spiritual bodies through his use of conscious intention on each of us individually and as a group. The didactic material, derived from Nicolai’s research as a physicist and clairvoyant, included material from physics, biology and the role of the spirit in its interaction with the material world. This was the elementary foundation of the healing work.
This was a new, exciting, coherent paradigm incorporating classical physics and biology and bringing new insight to riddles of the material and spiritual world.
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