Tag: phil parker
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Journal of Psychosomatic Research Publishes First-Person Account of “Cure” with the Lightning Process
The Journal of Psychosomatic Research (JPR), an official publication of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM), has long served as something of a promotional organ for members of the biopsychosocial (BPS) ideological brigades. That’s not surprising, since some of the field’s leading lights—including such well-known grandees as the UK’s Michael Sharpe and Jon Stone,…
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A Study of The Switch, New Zealand’s Homegrown Version of the Lightning Process, Yields Meaningless Findings
The Switch is a New Zealand variant of the Lighting Process, the so-called “mind-body” intervention created by a Phil Parker, a British former faith healer who once declared that he had “this ability to step into other people’s bodies… to assist them in their healing with amazing results.” I don’t know whether Mel Abbott, founder…
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BBC Takes on Lightning Process and Highlights Perspectives of the So-Called “Anti-Recovery Activists”
For years, I have criticized the research purporting to prove that the Lightning Process, a three-day mind-body workshop that has claimed to be effective in curing ME/CFS and a host of other chronic illnesses. The largest study of the LP, conducted by the methodologically and ethical challenged Esther Crawley, a professor and pediatrician at the…
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Deja Vu All Over Again with Proposed Lightning Process Study in Norway
It’s déjà vu all over again in Norway with the Lightning Process (LP). Earlier this month, a national research ethics authority, NEM, postponed a decision on a proposed LP trial until at least June. The trial has already been approved by a regional committee. The NEM had been expected to decide at its May meeting…
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Some Lightning Process Updates
A Final Round in Norway Lightning Process supporters got some bad news recently when a Norwegian national research ethics panel rejected a proposed study because it was poorly designed and fraught with conflicts of interest, as I wrote about here. But that wasn’t the end of the drama. Although the ethics panel’s decision was meant…
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The Lightning Process Strikes Again
The Lightning Process was founded more than two decades ago by Phil Parker, a British Tarot reader and specialist in auras and spiritual guides. The LP, as it is often called, could be described as “a neuro-physiological training programme based on self-coaching, concepts from Positive Psychology, Osteopathy and Neuro Linguistic Programming,” as Parker and colleagues…