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Labour Day, 2019, Getting rid of healers


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I wrote this in 2007, when government "decided" that Traditional Healers should be put out of business because Doctors are qualified to treat people. Slowly over the past 12 years the rights of Sangomas and Shamans and Reiki Masters and others, to heal, have been eroded in South Africa and in this world.

Intuition is the art of tapping into the SuperConscious. If Doctors are not taught intuition and are not taught nutrition, then they aren't learning how to treat the whole. Mostly doctors work in part, eg Dentist, Orthodontist, Maxilo Facial Surgeon, Plastic Surgeon, Speech Therapist, and this is just for the mouth.

But a Medical Intuitive can see the entire body. Better than any Xray.

And a Directed Pressure Point Technique (DPPT) Practitioner can solve lower back pain better than (m)any operation(s).

The government did not respond to my letter ...

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Milnerton
Cape Town
7441

16th November 2007

The Director-General: Health
Private Bag X828
Pretoria
0001
Attention: Director: Human Resource Development

Dear Sir/Madam

Re: 6 No. 30374 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19 OCTOBER 2007

REGULATIONS DEFINING THE SCOPE OF THE PROFESSION OF PSYCHOLOGY

I feel privileged to be in the fortunate position of being in both the solar world of logic and standards and in the lunar world of intuition. I have studied at university for 6 years to attain a computer science honours degree and an MBA. Later I found that I had an ability to heal people and after a lot of research and reading studied Usui Reiki for 2 and a half years with Shanu van der Berg, who has a degree in psychology, is a Reiki Master, a Tai Chi teacher, and who is currently studying Chinese Medicine. I have found that my ability to program computers and fix organisations is complemented by my ability to unprogram, ie heal people and organisations. I believe that the ability to intuitively find one’s way to an answer is as accurate at the ability to logically find a way to an answer. I believe that it is possible to heal a person with reiki, aromatherapy, crystals, with the use of sacred symbols, with a deep understanding of the issues involved, and like our health minister, I believe that if one changes one’s diet, one can have a long term effect on one’s health. I believe in all the other complementary healing processes like iridiology, homeopathy, chiropracting, directed pressure point, kinesiology, massage, diet, retreats, kabbalah, accupuncture, reflexology, shangaans, and not only this, but we find references to incenses, spices, aromatherapy, energy and crystal healing in the Bible, I-Ching and other philosophies.
It seems to apply to psychology only. Ie “psychology” means the “profession of a person registered as a psychologist in terms of the act.” We don’t use “a recognised scientific system.” We don’t use “psychological scientific methods.” We don’t try to ascertain people’s intellectual abilities, aptitude, personality make up in terms of scientific method. We don’t use “prescribed questionnaires.” The board will state which tests are for use by registred psychologists. So not applicable for us. We don’t use hypnotherapy. By scientific method I assume the government means Western scientific method.
We only need to therefore concern ourselves with sections 2 (h) and (i) as follows:
2 (h) the use of any psychotherapeutic method, technique or procedure to rectify, relieve or change personality, emotional, behavioural or adjustment problems or mental eficiencies of individuals or groups of people;
2 (i) the use of any psychological method or psychological counselling to prevent personality, emotional, cognitive, behavioural and adjustment problems or mental illnesses of individuals or groups of people.
We need to decide if Reiki, etc, are “psychotherapeutic method”’s in terms of the definition of psychology. We need to decide if we provide “psychological counselling” in terms of the definition of psychology. A psychologist is “a specialist in psychology.” We need to find out what the government means by psychology as against what the scientific and university community means by psychology. As psychology is defined as the “science of the mind”, I think that the healing community falls outside this as we define ourselves in terms of the “art of the mind”.
If healers aren’t allowed to heal, then can Doctors heal? Or will there need to be another law to allow Doctors to heal? Healing is defined as “make healthy, whole, or sound.” The Hippocratic Oath will also need to be modified as it refers to “Apollo, and all the gods and goddesses” as well as providing free teaching to those who need it and not to prescribe deadly drugs, etc. What about chemotherapy and radiation which kill?
With this new law, the government intends to put 1000’s of people out of work!! Meanwhile citizens of South Africa don’t care about the law and behave as they please!
Besides Eastern Healing, the whole black community will be up in arms because of the way they get their healing.
This is obviously a plot by doctors and the pharmaceutical industry who feel that their livelihoods are being threatened because alternative healing works!! One of the reasons is that most Western style doctors in South Africa don’t treat the patient as a complete living energy system, but rather work for pharmaceutical companies and hospitals by simply prescribing pills or operations instead of trying to solve the underlying problems.
My iridiology homeopath who has invested hundreds of thousands of rands in equipment won’t be pleased. Neither will the people I know who have spent R65,000 on aura cameras and associated equipment.
If the government are going to enforce this kind of legislation, we are well on the path to a communist state. I.T. (computer) professionals will be next. I did a 4 year Computer Science Honours degree. People who do not have degrees should, in terms of the latest government thinking, not be able to practice because they don’t have an established certificate. I estimate that only 15% of the IT community have IT degrees. What happens to IT capability in South Africa if only 15% of the current employees can do their jobs? How does this law fit in with our constitution?
I look forward to your considered response to these questions and points and trust that your sense of objectivity will override the any concerns you might have which have caused you to put this article in the government gazette. I would also appreciate you letting me know what these concerns are and why we need this kind of legislation.

Yours faithfully,



David Lipschitz
B.Sc Computer Science: University of Cape Town
B.Sc (Honours) Computer Science: Rhodes University, Grahamstown
Master of Business Administration: Cranfield University, Cranfield, England
Textile Certificate: Cape Town Technicon
Usui Reiki Master Degree: Moonshadow Healing Centre, Cape Town




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