23 May 2008

Theta Healing Workshop

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I’ve been trying to find a hall or function room in the inner-north to host a Theta Healing workshop.

The room needs to seat at least 10 or 15 people, and will be needed for 3 ongoing days, 8:30am – 6:00pm. (Preferably Friday, Saturday and Sunday.)

Most places seem to charge by the hour, but I’d be keen to find somwhere that charges for full days, might end up cheaper!

I was wondering if anyone knows of anywhere that would be suitable, or any ideas because I’m almost all out!

Also, if you would be interested in attending this workshop, please let me know via deij_pills at hot mail dot com

(I don’t care for your rude comments, please only genuine replies).

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Absent Dianne – Yeah- I suppose your right about the boon comment.

But remove the booner part and the comment still applies.

Mr_Shab said :

I say fie on your pseudo-medical retard-bait.

Where is that poolroom thread?

Okay – you want some real arguements:
“One of the exciting gifts of this modality is the activation of the silent 10 DNA strands which raises us to a 12 strand DNA being.”
The what? DNA isn’t some magical, soul-like essence. It’s a lot more like computer code – clever and multifunctional code – but code nonetheless. This kind of gibberish is perpetuating dangerous myths about the power of DNA.

“The Youth and Vitality gene is also activated. This helps to retard or even reverse the aging process of the physical body.”
There is no such thing as a “Youth and Vitality” gene. There are a huge pile of genes that code for proteins that can stitch up breaks in DNA, or kill off malfunctioning cells in an orderly way before they turn into a problem (i.e. cancer); but there’s no gene for “youth” per se. You can’t reverse the ageing process. It’s a slow accumulation of damage that will eventually kill you, no matter how much positive thinking you do.

“We also have belief systems related to aging and to lifestyle which can be changed to enhance this process.”
Like, um, not smoking, eating healthily, reducing alcohol intake and getting exercise. Gee – does that sound like something that mainstream medicine recommends for “youth and vitality” too?

If anyone wishes to waste their money on this kind of thing, they should be my guest. Some people just want to believe in something. I reserve my scorn for the charlatans who perpetuate this kind of garbage.

When I see a double blind trial showing there is a demonstrable health benefit in “theta healing” I’ll happily eat my words and become an evangel; but till then I say fie on your pseudo-medical retard-bait.

Skidbladnir said :

Thread comments like this really don’t help promote RiotACT, but they do reinforce the “RiotACT is a blast furnace where base ideas burn into ash” or “RiotACT: We purge by flame” brands. 😐

Yep. Why think about things, or construct real arguments, when we can just hurl abuse?

Thread comments like this really don’t help promote RiotACT, but they do reinforce the “RiotACT is a blast furnace where base ideas burn into ash” or “RiotACT: We purge by flame” brands. 😐

Absent Diane9:13 am 27 May 08

Sorry RealBasic, you should have been warned before you posted anything that wasn’t 100% booner mainstream – the majority of posters on this site are a bunch of tools…

FC i don’t think criticising a pseudo-science can be considered booner like behaviour, infact I believe it is the opposite – it means that people are thinking about things and are not displaying signs of gullibility.

Absent Diane8:50 am 27 May 08

I just read up on this theta healing..

“One of the exciting gifts of this modality is the activation of the silent 10 DNA strands which raises us to a 12 strand DNA being. The Youth and Vitality gene is also activated. This helps to retard or even reverse the aging process of the physical body. We also have belief systems related to aging and to lifestyle which can be changed to enhance this process.”

Hahaha -awesome increasing silent DNA strands

Sorry RealBasic, you should have been warned before you posted anything that wasn’t 100% booner mainstream – the majority of posters on this site are a bunch of tools…

Sorry Real Basic – now I understand – I have the secret – Thetan OperatiThe head of the Galactic
Confederation (76 planets around
larger stars visible from here)
(founded 95,000,000 yrs ago, very space opera)
solved overpopulation (250 billion
or so per planet) — 178 billion
average) by mass implanting.
He caused people to be brought to
Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H Bomb
on the principal volcanoes (Incident 2)
and then the Pacific area ones
were taken in boxes to Hawaii
and the Atlantic Area ones to
Las Palmas and there “packaged.”
His name was Xenu. He used
renegades. Various misleading
data by means of circuits etc.
were placed in the implants.
When through with his crime Loyal Officers
(to the people) captured him
after 6 years of battle
and put him in an electronic
mountain trap where he still
is. “They” are gone. The place (Confed.)
has since been a desert.
ng Level III – Now I understand, now I understand

Real Basic – I apologise. I had time to reflect and came to the conclusion that I may have been a bit harsh. What if there really is somethin to Theta Healing? It may transform the world as we know it!

With this thought in mind I sat outside in the sunshine in perfect harmony with my Theta brainwaves happillip waiting for the FSM to slide down the rainbow and gracefully touch me on the forehead to cure my shocking haemorrhoids. As time passeed, nothing happened so I concentrated harder, really, really trying. All of a sudden, something did happen!!!! I am pleased to report that the FSM did not appear, sliding down a rainbow. Equally I am pleased to report that as I originally predicted Theta healing is a crock of shit. What did happen with all the effort of concentrating I pushed a new pile out. A reaql big ugly one. I think it’s time to see the surgeon – Fcuk the Theta healing.

Woody Mann-Caruso6:37 pm 25 May 08

Call me when the Theta-Jeebus Fairy can cure amputees and kids with Downs. You know – real, observable, measurable medical conditions that don’t have a tendency to cure themselves anyway. Why does Jeebus hate little Downs kiddies so much?

For the record, this has NOTHING to do with Scientology.

You’re lying to stupid, desperate people, so what’s the difference?

The acid in tomatoes repels the noodly appendage, spoken about before on this forum, which is wielded by the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Theta brain waves are picked by the aforesaod FSM and he comes to earth, sliding down a rainbow to touch true believers in Theta healing on the forehead thereby imparting cosmic energy and a miraculous healing of all that ails you.

Fcuking snake oil salesmen! Begone from our National Capital.

Has something to do with acids in tomatoes. Yeah, I know.

CanberraResident10:39 am 25 May 08

Gee, there’s some stories there. There’s a fine line between alternative therapies (such as herbal treatments, plants etc), and those alternative “therapies” that play around with your mind, and your bank account.

And what’s with the “not eating tomatoes” thing ^^^? According to Dr Oz – who appears on the Oprah show – eating tomatoes will help you to live longer … (he wears blue surgery gear on telly so he must be legit …) 😉

I had a girlfriend once who suffered from chronic arthritis. She threw away all conventional therapies and went in to alternatives like:
taking a copper and beetle juice drink;
having enemas;
undergoing cupping;
drinking special herbs;
undergoing iridology;
not eating tomatoes;
seeking answers in a newage religion.

None of this helped and she became more crippled with time. She convinced herself that she was being punished for being a bad person and that if she only tried harder,a miricale would occur.

A woman at work had breast cancer a couple of years ago.

After surgery, chemo and a relapse, she was getting quite desperate and latched onto a couple of these new age therapies.

One involved her eating no grain products at all and constantly consuming a costly “magic position” supposedly made from herbs. It tasted like sh*t so it must be good, eh.

Another therapy was this thetan bullish*t.

So she spent months scouring Canberra for unusual ingredients to avoid grains in her diet, guzzling foul potions that simultaneously drained her bank account and shelling out untold $1000s to sundry new age charlatans.

All this on an admin assistant’s wages.

Apparently some of these charlatans convinced her that it was ultimately all her own fault ‘cos she had eaten white bread as a kid and despite their best efforts she could not optimise her mental state. If only she tried harder … and paid more … she would get better.

One result was that she stopped talking to her father, ‘cos he had allowed her to eat white bread as a kid in the ’70s.

Another result was her own continuing guilt that she just wasn’t clever enough to modify her mind to make it all better.

She died a horrible death anyway, but the horror was compounded by the guilt she felt and the family dislocation that resulted from being fed a heap of new age bulls*t.

As I’ve said before: Age of Aquarius my arse.

Taken directly from their website “Theta healing was discovered by gifted healer Vianna Stibal 10 years ago when she miraculously healed herself of cancer – instantly. Through healing many thousands of people of chronic and often terminal diseases, Vianna refined the Theta healing technique into a set of powerful healing tools that can be easily learned.”

I suggest you ring City Police Station and hold your meeting in the largets cell in the Watchhouse to save Police the trouble of transporting you there after you are arrested for fraud.

Felix the Cat5:53 am 25 May 08

Most clubs (Ainslie FC etc) have meeting rooms available, no idea what they charge.

There’s two halls at Corroboree Park in Ainslie that are hired out separately. I think they have full-day rates as well as per-hour. Contact is Northside Community Services, who also hire out Majura hall in Dickson (newer and nicer facilities than Ainslie).

Libraries also have meeting rooms for hire.

Upstairs of Ming Restaurant in Phillip has great and welcoming meeting room. Near Duratone HiFi (plug)

Ari – careful, the thin-skinned could categorise that as a rude remark…

Friggin’ baby boomers … not only has that demographic bulge distorted so much of the political and economic life our this country … to the detriment of those who’ve followed … but they’ve also given society a cancerous legacy with this sort of pseudoscience.

Age of Aquarius my arse.

CanberraResident1:53 pm 24 May 08

I-filed – “no ongoing deterioration” suggests the relapsing/remitting form of MS.

I am talking about – Secondary Progressive MS – it starts as relapsing/remitting when first diagnosed, but then later in life it moves on to Secondary Progressive where there is no longer any remission. I hope your friends hang in there with the R/R form for as long as they can.

Anyway, all possible medications, treatments and even trials have been done. The best neurologists have been seen, and nothing more can be done.

Work from home, ‘puter, TV, a sense of humour and of course a very understanding spouse/family become your best friends …

Did the person that made up the word THETAN have a lisp?

gun street girl1:08 pm 24 May 08

I-filed said :

They could go very well treating someone with MS. I have two friends who were diagnose with MS (through the full gamut of tests) 18 and 11 years ago. There’s been no ongoing deterioration in either of them, just temporary setbacks. They both happen to be very self-absorbed people, but that might be a coincidence. On the other hand, perhaps there’s a mind over matter component to MS?

…Or perhaps their MS is simply following the (very well documented and recognised) “relapsing-remitting” clinical course?

They could go very well treating someone with MS. I have two friends who were diagnose with MS (through the full gamut of tests) 18 and 11 years ago. There’s been no ongoing deterioration in either of them, just temporary setbacks. They both happen to be very self-absorbed people, but that might be a coincidence. On the other hand, perhaps there’s a mind over matter component to MS?

CanberraResident9:27 am 24 May 08

Huh. I wonder how they’d go in treating someone who’s had MS for two decades …

Care to give it a go RealBasic or will you consider that to be a rude comment?

Good luck to you.

Actually Meconium, I understand from a recent program on RN that the placebo effect is far and away the most useful outcomes-evident healing across the continuum of medical practices, including all medical science disciplines. I’m not sure where that leaves former users of alternative medicine, now skeptics, like me.

There’s a cute little hall across from Tilleys at the Lyneham Shops, used for yoga I think. There’s also the Fireplace Room at Gorman House Arts Centre close to Civic.

I’m so sick of pseudoscience pervading new age methods these days. Some tosser obviously studied hard enough to take a course on EEGs one day, noticed that science doesn’t know much about this fourth group of noticeable waves that they called “theta waves” after the Greek letter th, and made a connection between these brainwaves and miracle healing powers. Such a crock.

By focusing on one little aspect of medicine (or in this case neuropsychology) and ignoring the rest, they can lead people to believe what they are saying isn’t total crap by inventing a whole lot of bullshit terminology. I agree with what SheepGroper said – if you can prove it works, then great, but if you can’t, then don’t waste your time. Medicine is based on evidence these days, not sales pitches like the late 19th century. If you have evidence, show it to the rest of us. If not, you might as well be scientologists.

Shouldn’t this topic be grouped with the other new age loonies over in the ‘roo cull thread?

From the website http://www.thetahealing.com:

“ThetaHealing can be most easily described as an attainable miracle for your life. In ThetaHealing , we put to use our natural intuition, relying upon God’s unconditional love to do the actual “work”. By changing your brain wave cycle to include the “theta” state, you can actually watch God create, instantaneous physical and emotional healing.”

Woo.

CanberraResident, apparently it’s to do with gods, guardian angels, DNA and thinking youself better. It was started by a woman with bone cancer in a leg who apparently cured herself and added three inches of length to her shrunken leg instantly by wishing it. Presumably, since she was undergoing medical treatment for this disease, her miraculous cure is documented somewhere, as healing people of serious diseases would certainly fix the problem of waiting lists at hospitals, not to mention free up lots of money that could be used for good things.

I await the coming revolution in health care with interest.

You could try Downer Hall at the former Downer shops. It has the odd yoga class and Majura Women’s Group, but is mostly available I think. There is also a hall at Corroboree Park in Ainslie that you can hire – often used on weekends for functions – I’m not sure about through the week.

Gungahlin Al6:51 pm 23 May 08

RB: GCC operates the Palmerston Community Centre. Normally there are groups in the arvos/evenings. However many groups take breaks during the school holidays (next are in July), so you may be able to find the required days free. You can view the full availability calendars for each room (the smaller Room 2 would meet your requirements), a “virtual tour” and lodge bookings requests via our website http://www.gcc.asn.au under “Community Centre”. There are some slots booked out for cleaning, but they can probably juggle that around to suit needs.

Mike Crowther6:46 pm 23 May 08

You could try ‘Lunation’ (Occult store in Civic). They have a meeting room that should seat fifteen easily. I know they hire it out but don’t know the rates or their phone number. (It’s in the book). Tell em I told you to call.
Good luck.

CanberraResident6:44 pm 23 May 08

Hello there, uhm, pardon me, but what exactly is a “Theta Healing Workshop”? One must not assume that one knows, as one CanberraResident is not a mind-reader.

RandomGit said :

*phew* For a moment there I thought you said Thetan.

For the record, this has NOTHING to do with Scientology.

Riot never used to be full of crap commenters, it really puts a downer on the site, ey.
Turner might be a good one, we went to a guinea pig and rabbit show there once. Ha ha.
Thankyou!

*phew* For a moment there I thought you said Thetan.

If you don’t care for rude comments, you may have picked a bad place to post 😉

However, since you’ve mentioned “by the hour” rates, I assume you’ve already tried the Belco Community Centre? Also, in times past, I know we’ve had rehearsals for shows at the Turner Senior Citizen’s Centre. Don’t know if that was because someone involved had an “in” there, but it might be worth a try.

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