Paul Carson talks about Trisha and ThetaHealing
August 15th, 2010“I would like to thank you Trisha for having the courage and integrity to keep this site up, to help others decide for themselves whether or not ThetaHealing is suitable for them. I am grateful for your disclosures as they had prompted me to THInk for myself, and in consequence I finally left something which is at worst a dangerous cult, and at best a commercial scheme designed to extract as much profit and devotion as possible from those who are ill and vulnerable.
Ever since you made your disclosures regarding your experiences of ThetaHealing and its founder you have been subjected to a clear and constant line of abuse by those who have a vested interest in ThetaHealing. You have been mocked by Vianna Stibal, the founder of ThetaHealing, as being a “crazy” woman who is merely throwing a “tantrum” because her ThetaHealing instructor licence was revoked. Vianna Stibal warns her followers not to listen to you. However, you are not the only one who has concerns about ThetaHealing; there are many former practitioners and instructors who have also come to see that ThetaHealing and its founder are not at all what they claim to be.
Currently, Vianna Stibal has a whole page dedicated to discrediting you: http://www.thetahealing.com/truth-about-thetahealing.html. She complains that you are “unstable… physically”. In support of this she discloses what appear to be confidential and legally privileged details from your medical record. But even if you are physically unstable what has that got to do with the credibility of your website?
Vianna Stibal goes on to defend herself against a series of highly damaging emails which are published in full on your website. Those emails related to a proposal which you had made to Vianna regarding supplementary courses which you had developed. When you sent that proposal it is clear that you were very fond of Vianna and of ThetaHealing, and that you thought she would be glad and excited to hear about your new material. However, she felt threatened by you, a highly educated and popular ThetaHealing instructor, as both the fact and subject of your new material would have dispersed the cult like grip of ThetaHealing has upon its many brainwashed followers. She subjected you to an obsessive campaign of abusive emails and vexatious litigation.
Those emails show Vianna and Guy Stibal to be petty and vexatious bullies, who do not at all live in accordance with the standards of which they speak. For example, at one point Vianna emailed you and made a disgusting slur about you being less of a woman because you have struggled to have a baby. They claim that you have published an “incomplete” exchange between yourself and THInk by publishing “selected” emails, only three of which they admit. However, they do not state which three emails they admit. Likewise, they keep saying there are more emails but they repeatedly fail to identify the subject matter and relevance of any such correspondence.
Any sensible person can see that your disclosures are a genuine and legitimate expression of your opinions and experiences (and that of others too). Vianna Stibal will have people believe that you are hate filled but all you have done is express your opinion and shared your experience.
First, you have called into question the credibility of the many claims used by Vianna Stibal to promote ThetaHealing, including her claim that ThetaHealing instantly (i.e. within a matter of seconds) cured her of terminal cancer and re-grew (again “instantly”) some three inches of bone destroyed during the course of that cancer. You alleged that her story varies such that even the type of cancer she claims to have cured herself of has changed over the years.
When I did my own research I found evidence to support your allegations. I found that Vianna Stibal herself varies her story so much that when the healing took place varies, and so does the location. Currently, she claims to have cured herself of Lymphoma but older versions of her book (and some of her older instructors) refer to her being cured of Leukaemia instead. Moreover, Vianna Stibal had foolishly made extracts of her medical records public for a brief period of time in an attempt to vindicate her claims of having cured cancer – however those records showed that Vianna Stibal was not even diagnosed with any cancer (let alone terminal cancer). Notwithstanding that Vianna Stibal recites such claims with great emotion, there is nothing at all to suggest that she was told by her specialist that he had only seen two cases as bad as hers, that he had given her three months to live, and that he recommended amputation of her right leg in an attempt to prolong her live by a few more months (all this was apparently said to her before the corresponding biopsy (which in the event turned out negative) was performed).
The reality appears to be that Vianna Stibal had some problem (which could have been cancer) with her leg whereby it would swell up intermittently, and that she healed herself of that problem gradually, over time and as a result of a variety of interventions.
You point out that Vianna Stibal (and many other senior ThetaHealing instructors) are not healthy and struggle with even minor ailments. I too have noticed this. For example, Vianna Stibal has a constantly runny nose which affects her so badly that sometimes she struggles to speak properly. She relies upon painful surgical interventions to manage her condition. She said in an interview that she felt she could heal it with ThetaHealing but that the problem with her nose stemmed from violent abuse in childhood which she did not want to address and deal with. I have heard many accounts of people spending hundreds and even thousands of dollars on ThetaHealing in the hope that it will heal them, but I have not come across any credible account of someone being cured of an ailment (even a minor one) as a result of ThetaHealing. Of course, because of the placebo effect, some people will inevitably achieve some kind of relief when using ThetaHealing. As to those who do not, well there is long list of excuses used by Vianna Stibal and her licenced practitioners, for example, God does not want you to heal, you have unconscious beliefs which are preventing you from healing, you have a vitamin or mineral deficiency, you don’t believe God loves you in every cell of your body, etc.
Secondly, you allege that in your experience the so called “Creator of All That Is” is in fact a parasitic entity. I agree with your observations. My experience is subjective, and I do not have the level of insight to know for sure, but on the first evening of the basic course (long before I had read anything from you) I could feel something attached to my heart area, and a highly intuitive psychic healer also told me I had an entity attached to that area. I dismissed it as a mere cleansing experience from the course. However, I had a constant gut feeling throughout the basic and advanced courses that something was not right, and that something was being done to me even though rationally I could not find any cause for concern. I again dismissed it as some sort of cleansing experience where my doubts and negativity were coming up to be cleared.
However, I experienced other unusual sensations. I was exhausted all the time; at the end of each day of the courses I was so tired all I could do was sleep for a few hours before I could function. I also realised that I could not spontaneously connect to my Higher Self, as I had done all my life. It was as if something prevented me from making such a connection. I had a feeling of entropy as if all my vitality was dissipating, and I experienced sudden bouts of what could be described as depressive like symptoms which would come on for 10-15 minutes and then disappear. When I made the decision to leave ThetaHealing an area in my back behind my heart area would constantly go into spasm (something I have never experienced before) as if something were tugging on it.
Those are my subjective experiences, but the bizarre thing is that I have come across other ex-ThetaHealing practitioners and instructors who have had the same or similar experiences as me. If you examine the ThetaHealing technique you will see that people are in fact opening their crown centre and are connecting to some external being which they claim is the “Creator of All That Is”, that same being which they believe chose and selected Vianna Stibal to be its messenger on earth.
Vianna Stibal loves to mock you as “crazy” for suggesting that the “Creator of all that is” is in fact an entity, but she is the one who has variously referred to it as, among others: “Creator”; “God”, “my higher self”; “we”; “it”; “they”…. She also says that those who have adverse experiences with “Creator” are ones who hold a deep seated fear of connecting to God. However, if I had such issues I obviously would not have even signed up to the ThetaHealing courses. Moreover, my experiences (and those of others) were of a physical and energetic nature.
Thank you for sharing your opinion. I am grateful and I know many others who are too. You live in America where your freedom of expression is guaranteed to you under the terms of your Constitution. Do not let a community of foul and vulgar people bully you out of expressing your truth.
Best wishes
Paul Carson
(if anyone wants further information or references then they are welcome to email me: paulcarson888@gmail.com)”