Report: The Gentle Wind Project
Category: Cult organizations
The Gentle Wind Project ripoff medical fraud channeling health fraud healing instruments instrument keepers emotional healing Kittery Maine
*Consumer Comment ..Attorney General extends GWP restitution and refund period
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The Gentle Wind Project
Fax: 207-439-2092
Nationwide,
U.S.A.
Submitted: 7/26/2004 8:21:21 PM
Modified: 5/15/2007 8:42:52 PM
Carl
El Cajon, CaliforniaThis group holds seminars across the country asserting that they have the only healing instrument technology. They manufacture these instruments, which are in the form of a puck, or card, etc. They assert that these instruments have healing power, which are not supported by any scientific evidence, and which opponents clearly dispute.
Dr. Robert S. Baratz, President of the National Council Against Health Fraud is quoted in a San Diego Union Tribune article stating, 'They find people who are desperate and ingratiate themselves to these people and then take advantage of them down the road.'
Experts we have talked to state there would be no value whatsoever in these instruments. Experts state that positive stimulation may occur to increase emotional well being, but that would have nothing to do with the instrument itself. Why is this important? The instrument sells for outrageous amounts of money. From $450.00 to $7,600.00, or one instrument not even listing the price, but instead stating you must call them for this Healing Arc Accelerator price!
Additionally, this group is formed as a non profit, yet there are serious allegations regarding their use of funds. They are currently under investigation by the FBI, IRS and Attorney General for the State of Maine.
A preliminary investigation reveals that there are serious financial improprieties within the so called 'Non Profit' organization of the Gentle Wind Project. There are hundreds of documents with regards to their IRS filings, real estate transactions, and witness statements. Additionally, video footage of a seminar hosted by the Gentle Wind Project reveals the origin of their 'healing instruments' that are being sold in upwards of thousands of dollars.
Dr. Robert S. Baratz, President of the National Council Against Health Fraud is quoted in a San Diego Union Tribune article stating, 'They find people who are desperate and ingratiate themselves to these people and then take advantage of them down the road.'
According to GWP their instruments are based upon “high-frequency temporal shifting, matrixed with millions of pre-defined etheric modifications operating in a vertically and horizontally oriented polarization."
Dr. Baratz called this “gobbledygook…high sounding phrases that mean nothing."
But GWP says that it manufactures their instruments based upon knowledge they have received through “telepathic impressions in the form of engineering blueprints" from “a place outside this Earth and its astral system." Of course there is no way to objectively verify the effectiveness of the 'healing instruments' that GWP sells for prices ranging from $450 to $7,600 or more.
Carl
El Cajon, California
U.S.A.
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Updates & Rebuttals:
- I was helped by the Gentle Wind Instruments Maureen [8/13/2004 6:53:15 PM]
- Don't believe this person... nobody seems to know how this 'healing technology' works Carl [8/14/2004 6:12:11 AM]
- I am happy with Gentle Wind Project and its instruments Sarah [8/14/2004 2:45:19 PM]
- Documented medical improvement using Gentle Wind Project Healing Instruments for my fibromyalgia Debi Folsom [8/15/2004 7:44:03 AM]
- See what I mean? Carl [8/15/2004 9:07:30 AM]
- I have been helped by The Gentle Wind Project technology Mary Ann Hale [8/15/2004 11:47:20 AM]
- My experience with Gentle Wind Project Susan [8/15/2004 2:22:40 PM]
- It's OK for me. Donna [8/16/2004 11:29:27 AM]
- Nonsensical Gibberish Carl [8/16/2004 9:46:07 PM]
- No use arguing -- people using these GW products won't listen Alanna [8/17/2004 11:07:06 AM]
- Gentle Wind Healing Insruments helped me immensely in overcoming fibromyalgia! Debi [8/17/2004 4:19:31 PM]
- Curing fibromyalgia? Carl [8/18/2004 5:53:41 AM]
- WOW Susan [8/18/2004 8:29:46 AM]
- My experience with the Gentle Wind Healing technology Susan [8/19/2004 10:43:27 AM]
- Positive information concerning the Gentle Wind Project Gerrie Greene [8/19/2004 11:20:10 AM]
- My experience with the Gentle Wind Healing technology Susan [8/19/2004 12:42:01 PM]
- My experience Darryl [8/19/2004 2:26:06 PM]
- What scientific studies? Carl [8/19/2004 10:37:16 PM]
- A Nurse Speaks Out Rachel Miller [8/20/2004 6:31:51 AM]
- Another aspect of the Gentle Wind Project's research that is not commonly known. Debi F [8/20/2004 3:21:13 PM]
- Gentle Wind Healing Instruments Work Mary Ann [8/21/2004 5:45:34 AM]
- Author/Educator Researches Effectiveness of Healing Instruments Cecilia [8/23/2004 10:28:03 PM]
- My observations Pat [8/24/2004 11:27:40 AM]
- Long Update... Carl [8/25/2004 9:03:20 AM]
- Abusive Lawsuit Partially Dismissed ...This is one of the most ridiculous and abusive lawsuits I have seen in more than 10 years of practice as an attorney. Carl [9/5/2004 9:07:10 PM]
- Healing instruments made of sand? Carl [9/25/2004 9:39:42 AM]
- GWP - My observations Paolo [10/21/2004 5:31:58 AM]
- The fuss is about fraud and lies ..your 'advanced degree' means nothing to me and has no effect on the credibility of your arguments Carl [10/21/2004 9:55:54 PM]
- No fraud for me at GWP Susan [10/22/2004 3:00:45 PM]
- yeahright Paolo [10/22/2004 5:39:17 PM]
- More False Claims Carl [10/23/2004 7:28:18 AM]
- Where is your objectivity? Shawna [10/23/2004 1:26:39 PM]
- more 'yeah, right' Paolo [10/23/2004 4:14:12 PM]
- My experience Susan [10/25/2004 9:41:55 AM]
- Reality Check Susan [10/25/2004 6:24:46 PM]
- Back to my original comments. Pat [10/26/2004 12:57:28 PM]
- Some common sense here, folks Susan [10/27/2004 4:50:25 PM]
- Susan, another mindless zombie of GWP. Pat [10/28/2004 9:41:51 AM]
- Avoiding argument - I've witnessed many times how the more people deny something Jack [10/28/2004 1:48:22 PM]
- I know first hand how deceptive and underhanded they can be. Susan [10/28/2004 4:01:34 PM]
- I would like to respond to the recent postings Maureen [10/28/2004 5:30:49 PM]
- Maureen, another GWP sheep. Pat [10/29/2004 9:20:31 AM]
- Buyer Beware read The Gentle Wind Project's tax returns. I didn't before I donated to them. Don't make the same mistake. Maggie [10/29/2004 2:19:23 PM]
- You can't have it both ways Maureen [10/29/2004 2:35:41 PM]
- Steve Gamble's reply to Maureen regarding Resolution of GWP's Lawsuit against Gamble and Fraser in her recent posting Steve [10/29/2004 3:07:03 PM]
- My Positive Experience with the Gentle Wind Project Mary Ann [10/29/2004 5:41:06 PM]
- Everything I have done and said on my website in response to the GWP's lawsuit has been in order to avoid becoming bankrupted by their lawsuit. Ivan [10/29/2004 8:08:42 PM]
- Carl, what's the matter, cat got your tongue? Laurie [10/30/2004 11:29:20 AM]
- Steve and Ivan settled the lawsuit because they had no proof, no clinical trials, no long-term user fate studies. All they had were personal opinions. Chloe [10/30/2004 11:48:15 AM]
- Reply to Maggie - GWP detractors have sent their information off to government agencies. Laurel [10/30/2004 4:20:13 PM]
- in spite of what they may say, this group does not have the answers for most people Jack [10/30/2004 5:43:51 PM]
- Steve's Reply to Chloe: Is this just another irrational response by an Instrument Keeper in denial? Steve [10/31/2004 11:58:31 AM]
- Response to Mary ann and Maureen, main reason that I've spoken at all is because I do not want to see other people taken in by Gentle Wind Project. Maybe it should be re-named Gentle Rip-off Project Susan [10/31/2004 3:10:58 PM]
- Another Dose of Reality ..for your information, the GWP has helped many Holocaust survivors. Gerrie [10/31/2004 8:18:05 PM]
- Concerning Our Personal Stories Jim Bergin and Judy Garvey [10/31/2004 8:44:26 PM]
- I'm Still Here... Carl [11/1/2004 8:10:17 AM]
- Would Susan of Kingston please post her research records Susan [11/1/2004 9:15:06 AM]
- Be careful Carol Ruth [11/1/2004 11:01:56 AM]
- MLM gone WRONG? requires empirical research Al [11/1/2004 5:08:36 PM]
- How do we trust someone who made a false claim pretending to be an employee when in fact she was a consumer? Maureen [11/1/2004 6:24:20 PM]
- Can't take the competition, Steve? Chloe [11/2/2004 11:00:24 AM]
- The behavior of the Gentle Wind Project's representative's are a complete turn off all by themselves. Simply [11/2/2004 12:07:22 PM]
- Rebuttal to 'Concerning Our Personal Stories' Laurie [11/2/2004 4:41:12 PM]
- Eventually you'll figure it out and get through it, just like I did. too bad that the 'healing instruments' don't work Susan [11/2/2004 4:48:25 PM]
- Rebuttal to Judy Garvey ..'brainwashing' 'mind control' 'sexual abuse' and 'sex slaves.' Chloe [11/2/2004 6:35:06 PM]
- Uncharitable Accounting, Gentle Wind uses donated funds on ASSETS such as boats, cars, photography, golf, electronics, property, etc. Don [11/2/2004 7:50:46 PM]
- Carl's False Claims Concerning The Gentle Wind Project Richard [11/4/2004 11:20:18 AM]
- Response to False Accusations Regarding the Gentle Wind Project San Diego seminar Barbara [11/4/2004 11:41:04 AM]
- Don, you lack information about the nature of non-profits. Gentle Wind is legal and moral concerning its expenditures Mary Ann [11/4/2004 2:04:04 PM]
- Don, you lack information about the nature of non-profits. Gentle Wind is legal and moral concerning its expenditures. Mary Ann [11/5/2004 3:05:57 PM]
- Don't be so sure. The Gentle Wind Project staff claimed their existence was threatened then too, by a lack of funds. Joe [11/5/2004 4:16:50 PM]
- Regarding the San Diego Seminar. Why does GWP continue to duck my questions are change the subject? Carl [11/5/2004 6:51:48 PM]
- Gentle Wind Fiscal Responsibility -- Some Suggestions Don [11/6/2004 12:07:31 PM]
- For Carl, I would be looking forward to depositions and the subpoena of financial records. Chloe [11/7/2004 2:25:17 PM]
- More Suggestions for GWP Don [11/8/2004 3:45:10 PM]
- suggestions for gentle wind ... John [11/13/2004 4:52:13 PM]
- Message to John of Brisbane Chloe [11/14/2004 6:48:12 PM]
- Dear Chloe, I have simply not seen any one benefit from the use of the instruments John [11/15/2004 6:15:18 AM]
- Internet Reality Check for GWP. ..if GW doesn't want to appear like a cult, then they should avoid acting like one. Don [11/15/2004 3:41:24 PM]
- To John of Brisbane, you can all look forward to the American justice system to unravel the truth. Chloe [11/17/2004 5:59:56 PM]
- There She Goes Again! ...holding her holy hockey puck Don [11/18/2004 3:26:18 PM]
- Response to Joe in Gig Harbor - Gentle Wind is supposed to be spending their funds on research. They don't have to justify spending funds on research because that is their mandate. Laurie [11/19/2004 4:30:12 AM]
- Has anyone seen the Judy Garvey 'evidence'? Chloe [11/20/2004 5:12:34 PM]
- Beyond Rants and Rhetoric: The Facts – Follow the Money Don [11/21/2004 12:32:42 PM]
- Response to Don. ..You are an official member of the Judy Garvey group. Laurie [11/25/2004 8:07:27 AM]
- GWP: Holiday sale specials, or 'donations?' Don [11/29/2004 12:09:10 PM]
- U.S. Supreme Court rejects appeal in case involving free speech and Internet Jim [12/4/2004 2:31:15 PM]
- Gentle Wind Project going into the cult deprogramming business Don [12/6/2004 10:16:58 AM]
- An Important Message From the Pre-Vendetta Judy Garvey Chloe [12/8/2004 8:11:14 PM]
- To Chloe. Pat [12/9/2004 9:04:55 AM]
- Donors' Vendettas Don [12/9/2004 8:03:34 PM]
- GW's Research Claims - what, who, where, when? Don [12/19/2004 2:12:03 PM]
- Gentle Windbags . . . They've Morphed! Don [1/1/2005 9:45:50 AM]
- GWP lawsuit -- access to public court documents Jim [1/5/2005 8:10:07 AM]
- GWP had to sell its research banjo! Mike [1/5/2005 8:44:31 AM]
- Gentle Wind's Archived Websites Found Alanna [1/13/2005 6:06:57 AM]
- 'Has the Tsunami washed 'cults' ashore?' Alanna [1/19/2005 5:52:26 PM]
- Suggestions to the GWP Board of Directors Don [1/24/2005 9:35:11 PM]
- Hold This Card? I'll Get My Magic from Madonna's Water Jack [2/1/2005 10:52:06 AM]
- What Does This Remind You Of? Don [2/4/2005 6:06:21 PM]
- Maine Attorney General invites testimonies - Re: GWP Judy [2/9/2005 7:18:18 PM]
- The 'Research Banjo' Jack [2/11/2005 5:56:39 PM]
- The Reptilian Brain stop being Reptilian! Jack [3/4/2005 8:54:39 AM]
- DEFAMATION INCLINATION -- A Poem Jack [3/15/2005 1:22:22 PM]
- The Color of Justice is Green - The people that run Gentle Wind need to live up to their fiduciary responsibilities and use 'donated' funds properly and legally. Don [4/4/2005 4:07:00 AM]
- GWP Still Making 'Interesting' Claims Carl [4/9/2005 12:30:35 PM]
- GWP's use of private email Judy [4/17/2005 7:38:22 AM]
- GWP's use of private email Judy [4/18/2005 8:33:26 AM]
- The Show Must Go On -- A Poem Jack [4/25/2005 10:23:06 AM]
- Three important words Michele [4/28/2005 5:45:55 PM]
- Status of Gentle Wind's Lawsuit Judy [5/20/2005 6:01:18 PM]
- Where Has All the Money Gone? Don [5/29/2005 8:11:11 PM]
- High Weirdness Project RE: Gentle Wind Project Mark [6/28/2005 3:16:02 PM]
- I have been named named as witness in the lawsuit along with two others from the San Diego area. Carl [6/28/2005 10:01:29 PM]
- Trauma Tourists promote the image and agenda of these groups Don [7/10/2005 10:12:34 AM]
- Hilarious Lawsuit Update Carl [8/18/2005 6:02:57 PM]
- Lawsuit update and the use of humor Judy [9/10/2005 4:53:48 AM]
- gwp/the Millers' et al lawsuit schedule change Judy [10/6/2005 2:38:35 PM]
- GW Holiday Consumer Comment Poem Jack [12/18/2005 8:41:20 PM]
- Court Throws Out Lawsuit Carl [1/3/2006 7:58:57 PM]
- GWP's Lawsuit Dismissed from Federal Court Jim [1/13/2006 9:10:11 PM]
- The Millers / GWP are back Jim [2/11/2006 5:39:37 AM]
- Thank for the posting of information Lisa [4/5/2006 3:44:05 PM]
- Scheduling for GWP's Latest Lawsuit Jim [4/30/2006 6:43:04 PM]
- Maine AG Files Suit Against Gentle Wind Carl [7/14/2006 9:18:19 AM]
- How to file a claim if you purchased GWP products = York County Superior Court issued an order for the appointment of a Receiver to liquidate the assets of 'The Gentle Wind Project Jim [10/6/2006 7:23:43 PM]
- Gentle Wind Project Lawsuits Over Jim [11/12/2006 8:55:01 AM]
- GWP Morphs to 'Family Systems Research Group' Jim [2/20/2007 5:02:40 AM]
- Attorney General extends GWP restitution and refund period Jim [5/15/2007 7:03:13 PM]
Submitted: 8/13/2004 6:53:15 PM
Modified: 8/13/2004 11:47:39 PM
Maureen
Easthampton, MassachusettsU.S.A.
I was helped by the Gentle Wind Instruments
I have used the Gentle Wind Instruments and find them to be invaluably helpful to me in my life. I feel balanced and centered and less stressed out after I use them.
I can assure you I am not being ripped off. I am satisfied that they are an organization of people with integrity and good intentions.
Don't believe this person... nobody seems to know how this 'healing technology' works
The problem with the Gentle Wind Project and their instrument keepers is that nobody seems to know how this 'healing technology' works and they are the only ones who have the ability to interpret the messages from the spirit world and make the 'devices'. I might feel better by holding my cat or hugging my family, but they don't have any magical healing powers.
The Gentle Wind Project claims these devices can manipulate your 'energy field' to give you 'emotional healing'. Of course, there is no way to objectively verify this or measure this so-called energy field. The Gentle Wind Project won't claim that the devices can cause physical healing, but check out their web site. They claim that the emotional healing might make you less susceptible to cancer and other diseases.
I can assure you that the FBI, IRS and Attorney General for the state of Maine are actively investigating this group. More informatio will be posted as it becomes available.
I am happy with Gentle Wind Project and its instruments
I am very happy with the Gentle Wind Project and its instruments. I expected nothing initially but received and continue to receive profound physical and emotional healings when I have used the instruments. I use them all the time. I am getting clearer and clearer the more I use them. I am an educated person and know that it is more than just a placebo effect.
Submitted: 8/15/2004 7:44:03 AM
Modified: 8/24/2004 6:42:53 AMDebi Folsom
Canterbury, New HampshireU.S.A.
Documented medical improvement using Gentle Wind Project Healing Instruments for my fibromyalgia
Do I know how the Gentle Wind Project Healing Instruments work? No. I don't understand wireless internet, either, yet here I sit using it, and I feel qualified to say that it works!
I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia several years ago, after a long, painful slide into poor health that left me in a chronic state of pain and depression. My physician was very clear that all I could do was learn to manage the pain, and that I would have fibromyalgia for the rest of my life. It was a very bleak feeling, thinking that my life was pretty much over before it ever really got started.
Then, I was introduced to the first of the Gentle Wind Project's 'pain' relief series of Instruments. I want to be very clear that they never made any medical claims, other than they were researching a new technology that I was more than welcome to try-FOR FREE. It was asked that I report my results, but not mandated--in fact, I don't like paperwork and really didn't uphold my end in this regard.
However, the initial results were clearly promising enough for me that I made a donation to the Project to receive my own Healing Instrument, so that I would have daily access to it. Over the course of a year, my fibromyalgia steadily and surely dissipated, one symptom after another. So, for 5 minutes a day, and a donation that was tax deductible, I have ended up with NO FYBROMYALGIA!
Interestingly enough, my physician was not interested in discussing my well-being and health nearly as much as he was interested in discussing the prospect of my needing lifelong medical care and drug therapy. Despite clear evidence (bloodwork included) that I am now disease free, he was not interested to know how that happened. He is no longer my primary care physician.
Unless you have a chronically debilitating disease yourself, it must be really hard to imagine how small and dark my life had become. Now, I have MY LIFE back (including horses!!!), and God willing, a good 30-40 more years to keep sharing the wonder of these Instruments. I have never seen or heard any evidence that suggests that these Instruments or the people who provide them have anything but the best interests of humanity as their driving force.
What I have seen is a concerted effort by a very small group of people to try and smear the good name of the Gentle Wind Project and to stop others from test driving this technology for themselves. I don't pretend to understand their motivation in mounting this smear campaign, other than it just appears to be a personal grudge or for some personal gain.
As always, this technology is available, at no cost, to ANYONE who wants to try it. I hope mine, and other's, personal recommendation is enough to offset the plethora of half-truths and misinformation that has been posted about this organization that operates solely to alleviate the misery that most of humanity encounters on this planet. Thank you for evaluating, for yourself, what is good, and what is not.
Sincerely,
See what I mean?
Ojai, California seems to be a magnet for 'Instrument Keepers' for the Gentle Wind Project. GWP specifically denies that the 'healing instruments', yet here is an instrument keeper claiming that she has obtained physical healing. She's even borrowing terminology from the GWP web site (i.e. 'placebo effect').
They claim the devices are based on 'technology from the spirit world.' They do claim to be the only ones with acces to this 'technology', but even the groups founder can't even explain how these things work.
As for Sarah, her so called education means nothing. She can't stay how the devices work, but she cannot say how. It must be a scientific hunch. Rev. Jim Jones held degrees from Indiana University and Butler University, but they didn't stop him from starting a cult.
Submitted: 8/15/2004 11:47:20 AM
Modified: 8/24/2004 6:44:18 AMMary Ann Hale
Bass Harbor, MaineU.S.A.
I have been helped by The Gentle Wind Project technology
Anyone can pick up a pen or a keyboard and write unfounded accusations.
The Ripp-Off report on The Gentle Wind Project looks like that to me--unfounded generalizations. It appears as if The Ripp-Off Report.com has itself been a victim of a ripp-off.
The individual posting this report on The Gentle Wind Project does not state how he has personally been a victim of this organiization and does not state how he was ripped-off by them. What is being presented here seems to be unproven second hand information. And when someone who has personal experience of The Gentle Wind Project replies, he invalidates them, again without providing any personal story of how he has been ripped-off.
I am and have been a client of The Gentle Wind Project for about 20 years. I have continuously used their products during this time and have experienced enormous benefit from them. The benefits that I have received are of a type that can be documented scientifically in the field of mental health and do not constitute a placebo effect which is a scientific term used by researchers for an improvement in a condition that does not last more than 12 weeks. Furthermore, I have shared my healing instruments with others who have experienced similar improvments in their own mental and emotional well-being. I have even used my instruments with my pets and found them to be very effective in calming severely traumatized pets after accidents or operations. I gain nothing personally from sharing my instruments except satisfaction in helping others. I have never been asked by The Gentle Wind Project to join anything and I have never been taken advantage of. I have always found the Gentle Wind staff to be people of integrity.
Because I am someone who loves to travel and visits remote impoverished parts of the world, The Gentle Wind Project has donated, with no strings attached, healing instruments for me to take and give to suffering people in orphanages, health care facilites and other organizations that help the needy. The caregivers have told me that the people using these instruments are benefiting from them showing an improvement in their mental and emotional outlook.
I am not particularly interested in where The Gentle Wind Project technology comes from or how it actually works. There are thousands of things on this planet that I have no clue as to how they work--my car, an airplane, my television, an x-ray machine--but I use them anyway because of the benefits that they bring me. I am able to judge the benefits or lack of benefits of the products I use and that is the bottom line for me. If I were hungry and went to a soup kitchen operated by a Church that had beliefs that were different from mine, I would eat the food as long as my belief system was respected and there were no strings attached. This has always been the case for me in regards to The Gentle Wind Project. They have always offered me help with no strings attached. I have never been required to accept their belief system.
I would also like to add that I have been to conferences and heard fully credentialed and licensed health care professionals give accounts of their research using The Gentle Wind Project technology and the positive results they have obtained.
I therefore state that the ripp-off report posted on this site is unfounded, unproven and contrary to my personnel 20-year experience with The Gentle Wind Project.
The Ripp-Off Report is a very useful and valuable venue for people who have been truly victimized to have an opportunity to get the power they need to right wrongs perpetrated against them. It is unfortunate when such a potential for good is used as a forum, not to present a personal account of victimization, but to destroy an organization doing so much good in the world.
Submitted: 8/15/2004 2:22:40 PM
Modified: 8/16/2004 12:32:43 AMSusan
Kingston, MassachusettsU.S.A.
My experience with Gentle Wind Project
Hi,
I was an instrument keeper for the GWP for approximately 7 years. I spent a huge amount of money on 'healing instruments'
I also use to be a very stong believer in the 'healing instruments'.
In March I went on-line and read the Wind of Changes website which details things that have gone on in the GWP. My eyes were very forcefully and painfully opened up.
Unfortunately the reality is that the 'healing instruments' do not really work.
The instruments keepers who are still faithful to the GWP have lost they're ability to reason or think for themselves about what is really happening. They will argue and abuse anyone who finally gets the truth and tries let them know what the truth really is.
I know this from first hand experience. I was a member of both the GWP discussion boards. After I found out what the real deal was with the GWP I tried to let the other instrument keepers know. The abuse and psychic attacks that were thrown at me were incredible.
Now it only makes sense that if indeed these so called healing instruments really were capable of doing what the GWP says that they do, then you would think that the people on the discussion boards would not be so angry and nasty when confronted with the opinions of someone else.
That was not the case for me. I was told that I was a bad parent, that I was immature, selfish, mean, irresponible you name it and I was probably called it.
I was basically told by other board members that I shouldn't be questioning anything to do with the GWP, that the people who run GWP are the nicest, kindest, most moral and integrity filled people you could ever possibly meet and that they are selflessly trying to heal the world.
I had all of that thrown at me, because I dared to ask questions and wanted to know the truth.
(What would happen to this country if that's the way everything was run? You're not allowed to question anything. Gee seems to me that we'd be like a country such as Iraq was. Well that's exactly how the GWP wants to run their non-profit organization. They do not answer questions. How dare you even think of questioning them. They have good reasons for doing everything that they do. Such as, why some of the women have changed their names to Miller, giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to the co-founders brother for healthcare, having a vacation home in Florida, buying every grownup toy imagineable. The list goes on and on.)
As far as I'm concerned it is very very obvious to anyone not involved with the GWP as to what they really are. A self-serving brainwashing cult.
Unfortunately they have many people in their clutches who would rather defend them to the end than to really look at what's really going on.
I use to have different wall symbols hanging up in my house that were supposidly keeping negative 'stuff' from happening in my home and keeping everyone happy.
To be perfectly honest with you it took me a few weeks to be able to take them down. You see I was brainwashed by the GWP and was afraid of what would happen if I did take them down. Well I'm here to tell you that nothing happened, nothing at all. Everything is exactly the same in my house.
A very close friend of mine who I became very distanced from do to the GWP told me not long ago that it's like a huge black cloud has been lifted from me.
I also believed that the healing instruments that I had other people use had really helped them, but the truth of the matter is that they didn't do anything.
I haven't seen anyone who's in abusive relationships get out of them (this is something that was written on one of the GWP pamplets) I haven't seen anyone change for the better or seen their lives get better because of using the GWP healing instruments.
After looking at them with my eyes opened and not shut I can see all of this now, whereas before I wanted to believe that they had been helped.
What the GWP does is basically take away all your power and lead you to believe that your only hope is the healing instruments. They want you to believe that you can't be helped by anything but their healing instruments and that every single person in this world is damaged goods.
Since finding out the truth my life has improved and I'm much happier.
No longer do I have to feel the pressure of getting people to use my healing instruments. It's wonderful. I'm so glad that I finally found out the truth and can move on with my life.
I hope that other Instument keepers who are still trying to hang on to the GWP lies are starting to open up their eyes. It's easy to see the truth when you want to.
One last thing, the last time that I received an e-mail from GWP it had a virus attached to it. Nice people don't you think???
Submitted: 8/16/2004 11:29:27 AM
Modified: 8/16/2004 9:34:44 PMDonna
Fort Washington, PennsylvaniaU.S.A.
It's OK for me.
I experienced the Gentle Wind Project after a major loss. I was not asked for any payment. Nor was I contacted or solicited by the Gentle Wind Project. This healing helped and I felt stronger and balanced emotionally dealing with the death of my husband.
The instruments, like prayers, quoting Margaret Mead: do not use up artificial energy, burn fossil fuel, or pollute. Also, there are no chemicals, its drug free and not dangerous. The idea here is emotional pain relief. It's a good thing and in my considered opinion, effective. I would say 15 years later, it helps some people get a better grip on life.
We don't know “how it works"… Shakespeare wrote- 'There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies. . .
Nonsensical Gibberish
This last response is so typical of GWP instrument keepers. The don't know how their stuff works and cannot offer any objective evidence of how it works.
These devices are dangerous to your pocket book. Hundreds of dollars for laminated cards with fancy colors? This group spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on 'research', yet they claim the designs for these device arrive to them 'telepathically' from the 'spirit world'. Don't make word for it, check it out for yourself on their web site and others. Do a google search for 'gentle wind project fraud' or 'gentle wind project lawsuit'. If you disagree with them, they will sue you.
Submitted: 8/17/2004 11:07:06 AM
Modified: 8/17/2004 2:09:24 PMAlanna
Needham, MassachusettsU.S.A.
No use arguing -- people using these GW products won't listen
Getting away from the habit of using the gentle wind healing cards and then beginning to think about the money I spent purchasing these things has been very depressing to me and has caused some serious problems with my extended family and friends. I didn't have any time for them if they weren't interested in gentle wind. My family is acccepting, and glad that I figured things out, but some of them feel hurt that I ignored their warnings to listen to outside opinions.
When I was using these things, I was really smug and tried to push them on people. Now I am ashamed of what I did -- trying to get everyone I knew to use or to buy them -- because I was under some kind of spell.
On top of that, using these things took over something really integral to me and stopped my individuality.
I never thought this could happen to me but it did. I was taken in by the first seminar I attended, and one thing led to another. Before I knew it I was saying the same things that I was hearing and reading.
I advise anyone to check all the facts and read all the opinions before buying anything from these people. The woman who speaks at the seminars could sell anything to anyone.
The real changes happened when I finally saw what was going on because of my obsession, and tore up the cards! Now, after finding out that gentle wind is being investigated, I've sent in my report about what happened to me.
It's called blind faith, and, along with other know it alls, I used to laugh about it taking place in religious groups and cults, but didn't recognize it in myself.
It's no use arguing about this with people who are seriously using the cards and other instruments. They have to find out for themselves, and they probably will because it doesn't feel very good underneath the high that comes from using these things...the placebo effect from the gentle wind powerful suggestions. It actually felt awful to say and try to believe that everything was great when it wasn't, and to agree with other IKs that gentle wind was the final answer to everything when it wasn't the answer to anything.
Better to use the energy of arguing with these people and put it into education for those who haven't gotten caught up in this.
Thanks,
Submitted: 8/17/2004 4:19:31 PM
Modified: 8/18/2004 1:23:08 AMDebi
Canterbury, New HampshireU.S.A.
Gentle Wind Healing Insruments helped me immensely in overcoming fibromyalgia!
I must admit, I don't know how these Healing Instruments work! However, I'm using wireless internet right now, and I don't know how that works, either--but I feel qualified to say it does work...
And that is my experience with the Gentle Wind Project. I suffered greatly from fibromyalgia, and was told by my physician that I would have this disease for the rest of my life. I was offered a free 'healing' using one of the first physical rebalancing instruments. Gentle Wind was very clear that they made no claims about what the healing would accomplish.
The very first time I was offered this free healing I noticed a major improvement in my physical health; neck and shoulder pain decreased significantly. This relief was substantial enough that I made a donation to the Project and obtained my own Instrument.
About a year later, after holding this Instrument 5 minutes per day, my fibromyalgia was in remission. I continue to experience robustly good health. I'm even riding horses again! So, for a small investment of time, and a tax deductible donation, I have my health back.
Do I feel ripped off or under a magic spell? No. Do I know what the proprietary formula is in these Instruments? No. I tried it for free, I liked the result, and I made a small donation to support the research so that the Instruments can continue to be improved. Everything I have personally experienced with the Gentle Wind Project has been characterized by the highest level of integrity.
Curing fibromyalgia?
First of all, wireless internet is something that can be objectively explained and verified. Just go to the How Stuff Works web site. Healing instruments supposedly manipulated an oval shaped energy field. What a crock.
As for during fibromyalgia, you may as well have been holding pet rock and it sounds like pure coincidence that you were 'cured'. It is more likely that you never had fibromyaligia to begin with or benefited from some time of medical treatment.
Fibromyalgia is sort of a catch all diagnosis when doctors can't find anything specifically wrong with you. It's not a specific condition or disease. I know a woman who's had 'fibromyalgia' for years. Someone finally figured our that she was allergic aspartame, a common ingredient in diet soda. I'll bet the same thing happened to you: you finally found a medical treatment worked, not by holding a piece of colorful plastic.
WOW
If you think that you've been helped by the GWP, then that's your perogative, however you still cannot prove in any way that they're healing instruments have done anything for you, other than having a placebo effect.
Now if you want to look at the positive side of that, then you must be a very powerful person, in that you can make yourself believe that you've been helped by the GWP, when in fact it was really yourself doing it all. Take back your power. You did it all yourself not the GWP.
I really love it when people tell how the GWP people have the highest integrity. You don't know who you're really dealing with. If they're so filled with integrity and caring then why is all of this stuff happening to them? It's happening because they're a bunch of BS artists masquerading are caring compassionate people, who want to help heal the world, when in fact what they really are, is a cult lead by a couple of self-serving egomaniacs, who don't even know the meaning of the word integrity.
Why aren't you interested in how they've conducted themselves over the years?
Are you aware that one of the GWP leaders took clients from her counceling practice and brought them with her into the GWP? Does that sound like someone with integrity?
Are you aware of the mis-appropiation of funds?
Are you aware of how much money the GWP pays their leaders, after paying for all of their living expenses?
Are you aware of the cabin cruiser boat that is owned by the GWP, not to mention all of the expensive luxury cars? Supposidly needed for research?
Are you aware of the vacation home in Florida that was sold not too long ago?
Are you aware that Judy Garvey and Jim Bergin were listed on the GWP tax returns as Directors, but GWP claims that they were involved only superficially with the GWP?
If you read they're website not too long ago they were saying that they were sending representatives to Iran after the earthquake that hit there. They didn't send any representatives, two people decided that they wanted to go and bring healing instruments, then GWP put up on their website that they were sending people. From what I've heard they did not pay for any of the trip it was paid completely by the two people who wanted to go. What's that all about?
Are you aware that the GWP lies constantly and makes up stories?
Why don't you think it might be important to know why several of the women involved in the GWP have changed their last names to Miller? In case anyone reading this doesn't know the leader of the pact is John Miller. Doesn't that make you think that maybe they're following a cult leader?
Why on earth would Judy Garvey or Jim Bergin ever want to publish their own webisite detailing what happened to them in the GWP? Nobody wants to be put on public scrutiny like that. They did it because they happen to have some personal integrity and didn't want anyone else taken in by the GWP.
If you truly look at the GWP then they start to fall apart very quickly. Any person who is not involved in the GWP would be able in a short amount of time to sum up what's going on and tell you that they're obviously a cult. So why would you want to be involved in a cult?
There's just too many holes in the GWP stories. They're desperately trying to maintain the status quo, but eventually it's all going to blow up in their faces. In fact it actually has already.
Once the code of silence was broken by Judy Garvey and Jim Bergin, then everything else started to unravel and now everyone is finding out more and more disturbing things about the GWP.
Now of course, GWP is trying to punish Judy Garvey and Jim Bergin for telling the truth, not to mention anyone else who would have the nerve to say something negative about them. Ever hear of free speech????
Don't be taken in by them.
This is exactly what cults do, they make you
believe that they have all the answers and you should blindly follow them.
I feel very very very sorry for the people that have been taken in by the GWP, because at some point they're going to come to their senses and figure out what's really going on. Then you get to feel embarassed/humiliated/hurt and on and on. Not to mention all the donations you might have made.
When someone says that they were never asked for money, they're telling the truth that's not how the GWP operates, they get their donations by making you believe that you need their healing instruments and that the healing instruments are the only answer for your problems.
If they're healing instruments are so wonderful why would you keep needing to use them over and over again. I mean after all they're supppose to fix over 200,000 different things in your body after using them once.
God are we stupid or what???? Well maybe not stupid, but certainly vulnerable, which leaves us open to unscrupulous people like the GWP.
My experience with the Gentle Wind Healing technology
I have been using the Gentle Wind Project healing technology for many years and have found it to be very very effective. I have noticed that I am better able to cope with everyday stressors as well as more traumatic events that occur. I have seen the same types of changes in family members, friends, and others who have used the healing instruments. It is my hope that the Gentle Wind Project will continue their research and will continue helping people find relief as they have done for many years.
I would also like to point out that the Gentle Wind Project has documented scientific research as well as anecdotal reports to back up their claims. I have personally read through some of the volumes of documentation, which were on display for all to inspect at their last annual conference. There were also licensed, credentialed medical professionals in attendance who are conducting their own independent, scientific studies of the Gentle Wind healing technology. Many of them plan on presenting their findings at the next annual conference, as well as sharing the results with their colleagues in the medical field.
Thank you for posting my comment.
Submitted: 8/19/2004 11:20:10 AM
Modified: 8/24/2004 6:45:17 AMGerrie Greene
Flourtown, PennsylvaniaU.S.A.
Positive information concerning the Gentle Wind Project
I have used Gentle Wind products for over four years. I have received great benefits from them, and they have improved the quality of my life
considerably. My family has also used them, and there has been a quantum improvement in our relationships with, tolerance for, and understanding of each other. Over the past four years I have seen myself, and my family members, become more calm, less anxious, and better able to handle stress.
I am also caring for aged parents, and I find that because of my use of the Gentle Wind instruments I am not emotionally and physically depleted, and have the emotional and psychological resources that I need to do the
job. My parents, because of their advanced ages, often get confused and disoriented. After they use the Gentle Wind technology, they are calmer,
considerably more alert, and better able to make rational decisions about their lives and care. Also, when they are depressed and use the
instruments, I notice a significant lifting of their mood. The only difference in their lives – and in mine – has been the use of the Gentle
Wind healing instruments.
My experience with the Gentle Wind Healing technology
I have been using the Gentle Wind Project healing technology for many years and have found it to be very very effective. I have noticed that I am better able to cope with everyday stressors as well as more traumatic events that occur. I have seen the same types of changes in family members, friends, and others who have used the healing instruments. It is my hope that the Gentle Wind Project will continue their research and will continue helping people find relief as they have done for many years.
I would also like to point out that the Gentle Wind Project has documented scientific research as well as anecdotal reports to back up their claims. I have personally read through some of the volumes of documentation, which were on display for all to inspect at their last annual conference. There were also licensed, credentialed medical professionals in attendance who are conducting their own independent, scientific studies of the Gentle Wind healing technology. Many of them plan on presenting their findings at the next annual conference, as well as sharing the results with their colleagues in the medical field.
Thank you for posting my comment.
My experience
Glad to see you have provided a place on your site where people can speak their personal experience, no matter what the view.
I stumbled upon the Gentle Wind Project about six years ago and was extremely skeptical at the time as to the effectiveness of their so called “instruments", but decided to give it a try as it did not cost anything and nothing was asked of me.
After holding one, along with my wife and one of my children I forgot about it and quite frankly dismissed it. A week or two later I noticed some changes in myself as well as my wife and the one child who also held it. My wife noticed the changes as well. Still not convinced it was the Gentle Wind instruments I had some friends as well as my employees hold it, (I own a small manufacturing business). These were people I knew fairly well. I am not a person who takes other peoples word for things and like to make up my own mind, especially something as unusual as this. Surprisingly these people noticed things as well, especially a couple of my employees. This was enough for me to take notice and decide to get a Gentle Wind instrument for myself.
Since then I have continued to see positive changes in many of the folks that hold the healing instrument. Not everyone, nor always earth shattering changes, but enough to consider it a valuable tool.
I have also found the full time folks at the project very sincere, courteous, genuine people that have never pressured me to behave or believe in any way.
This has been my experience.
What scientific studies?
So you claim to have reviewed 'volumes of documentation' on the effectiveness of this 'healing technology'?
Why does the Gentle Wind Project refuse to make these results public?
Who don't then identify the so-called 'credentialed medical professionals' who supposedly support these studies?
Why won't they share the details of their scientific methods?
Why does the Gentle Wind Project spend more than $800,000 in 'research' when the technical specifications for their devices comes from the 'spririt world'?
Submitted: 8/20/2004 6:31:51 AM
Modified: 8/24/2004 6:46:15 AMRachel Miller
Dover, New HampshireU.S.A.
A Nurse Speaks Out
As a registered nurse with a masters in counseling psychology I have used the gentle wind instruments in my personal and professional life. I have many cases of patients who have benefited from sharing my instruments.
While I always give medications needed for my patients, I have witnessed improved respirations and vital sign results as well as better sleep cycles and less agitation and restlessness in my patients who have held an instrument from gentle wind.
I do not and could not go to work as a nurse without these instruments. People in pain and emotional suffering find medications helpful, but not long lasting. The tools have helped people get better faster and enabled many patients to go home and live independently.
Demented patients who use the instruments are less hostile and combative. They are easier to be around and easier to help.
Dying patients on morphine and antianxiety medications who continue to be restless and anxious become peaceful and able to end life without fear after holding an instrument.
As a licensed credentialed medical professional I have successfully used the gentle wind project instruments with hundreds of patients with positive results
Submitted: 8/20/2004 3:21:13 PM
Modified: 8/24/2004 6:47:32 AMDebi F
Canterbury, New HampshireU.S.A.
Another aspect of the Gentle Wind Project's research that is not commonly known.
In the course of their research, the Gentle Wind Project has developed the Healing Technology that is being discussed on this site. What has been completely overlooked in this discussion is that aspect of the research which has resulted in the aptly named 'Relationship' information.
For many people, good relationships with other people remain out of reach. This was the case for me until I received my 'Personality Cards' from the Gentle Wind Project. Receiving these cards and beginning to understand and act within my true nature has been the greatest gift I have ever received.
It made an enormous difference in me to understand 'how' I am, rather than 'why' I am. Once I was able to reconnect with my true nature, good relationships blossomed all around me: in my family, my work, and my community. I cannot thank the Gentle Wind Project enough for bothering to do the research that resulted in this most basic and logical information--information that modern psychology has been unable to discern. Every person, in my opinion, is entitled to and could benefit from a better understanding of their individual, unique personality.
The research process that resulted in this information is fascinating. And, the research continues as people report back on their experiences integrating this information into their lives. Only an organization that holds itself to the highest ethical standards could be trusted to hold this type of extremely personal information about an individual person, and obviously, to me, the Gentle Wind Project meets that incredibly high standard.
Thank you for considering this aspect of the Gentle Wind Project in this most important discussion.
Gentle Wind Healing Instruments Work
Anyone can pick up a pen or a keyboard and write unfounded accusations.
The Ripp-Off report on The Gentle Wind Project looks like that to me--unfounded generalizations.
The individual posting this report on The Gentle Wind Project does not state how he has personally been a victim of this organization and does not state how he was ripped-off by them. What is being presented here seems to be unproven second hand information. And when someone who has personal experience of The Gentle Wind Project replies, he invalidates them, again without providing any personal story of how he has been ripped-off.
I am and have been a client of The Gentle Wind Project for about 20 years. I have continuously used their products during this time and have experienced enormous benefit from them. The benefits that I have received are of a type that can be documented scientifically in the field of mental health and do not constitute a placebo effect which is a scientific term used by researchers for an improvement in a condition that does not last more than 12 weeks. Furthermore, I have shared my healing instruments with others who have experienced similar improvements in their own mental and emotional well being. I have even used my instruments with my pets and found them to be very effective in calming severely traumatized pets after accidents or operations. I gain nothing personally from sharing my instruments except satisfaction in helping others. I have never been asked by The Gentle Wind Project to join anything and I have never been taken advantage of. I have always found the Gentle Wind staff to be people of integrity.
Because I am someone who loves to travel and visits remote impoverished parts of the world, The Gentle Wind Project has donated, with no strings attached, healing instruments for me to take and give to suffering people in orphanages, health care facilities and other organizations that help the needy. The caregivers have told me that the people using these instruments are benefiting from them showing an improvement in their mental and emotional outlook.
I am not particularly interested in where The Gentle Wind Project technology comes from or how it actually works. There are thousands of things on this planet that I have no clue as to how they work--my car, an airplane, my television, an x-ray machine--but I use them anyway because of the benefits that they bring me. I am able to judge the benefits or lack of benefits of the products I use and that is the bottom line for me. If I were hungry and went to a soup kitchen operated by a Church that had beliefs that were different from mine, I would eat the food as long as my belief system was respected and there were no strings attached. This has always been the case for me in regards to The Gentle Wind Project. They have always offered me help with no strings attached.
I would also like to add that I have been to conferences and heard fully credentialed and licensed health care professionals give accounts of their research using The Gentle Wind project technology and the positive results they have obtained.
I therefore state that the ripp-off report posted on this site is unfounded, unproven and contrary to my personnel 20-year experience with The Gentle Wind Project.
The Ripp-Off Report is a very useful and valuable venue for people who have been truly victimized to have an opportunity to get the power they need to right wrongs perpetrated against them. It is unfortunate when such a potential for good is used as a forum, not to present a personal account of victimization, but to attempt to destroy an organization doing so much good in the world.
Author/Educator Researches Effectiveness of Healing Instruments
I am an internationally known author and educator who works with children who have special needs and their therapists, teachers and parents. I use the healing instruments from the Gentle Wind Project with this population.
In addition, I conducted a research project, published on my website
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which concludes that the 600 subjects (children who have special needs, their siblings and their parents), who used the healing instruments from the Gentle Wind Project, improved their quality of life and their ability to find the inner resources necessary to accomplish tasks they had never even attempted prior to the use of these healing instruments. This researcher found that this technology does not fix or cure developmental delays; however, the vast improvement in a person's ability to access their own resources improved dramatically.
This self-empowerment is critical to me as I review the statements made on this Rip-Off Report website. As I continue to use the healing instruments from the Gentle Wind Project with therapists, parents and teachers the feedback I receive from them is that they experience a sense of self-empowerment. They report that after holding a healing instrument, they are more able to stay present with another human being and remain focused on a task without getting over-energized about/around it. This ability to reach out to another human being is what, I know 'makes the world go round.' What is most important to note here is the difference and ease that these adults know, sense and feel after holding a healing instrument from the Gentle Wind Project. They report they have more space within their own being so they can more deeply connect with another human being and reportedly with so much greater ease. This is self-empowerment.
If a healing instrument from the Gentle Wind Project can empower people to follow our own truth and more easily be present for another human being then I will continue to support the Project in what ever way that I can. I use the healing instruments regularly in the same way that I use a good bar of soap regularly or eat good, nutritious food regularly. And I encourage others to do the same.
Thank you for posting my response.
Cecilia M.Ed.
August 20, 2004
My observations
I will start this rebuttal by inserting an excerpt from the front page of the Gentle Wind website:
'Free Cult Deprogramming Services Now Available.
Welcome...
'. . .I think this Trauma Card might save my sanity out here in Iraq. Thank you Gentle Wind Project!'
A U.S. Army Combat Soldier currently stationed in Iraq.
What You Will Find
Welcome to The Gentle Wind Project web site. The Gentle Wind Project is a Not-for-Profit Education and Research Corporation located in Kittery, Maine, USA and registered with both the state and federal governments since 1983. All non-profits MUST raise money just like profit corporations or we could not exist. All non-profits must prosper and their employees must be paid competitive salaries to maintain their viability. Our financial accounts are public record. Click here: ACCOUNTING.
To date the majority of our funds have been spent on research, a process of studying the human consciousness and developing healing technologies to alleviate human suffering. The Gentle Wind Project has gathered 15 large volumes of research material spanning twenty-one years that were available at the Summer Conference 2004 for all participants to view.
The healing technology comes in the form of healing instruments. The healing available through these instruments has always been and will remain free of charge. The Project has over 6500 volunteers world-wide who offer the use of their instruments free of charge. This means that no one has ever had to pay anything, join anything, believe anything, give allegiance to anything or sacrifice anything in order to obtain free help.'
OK, now let's see, the very first thing you read is 'Free Cult Deprogramming Services Now Available'. Is GWP now claiming that they can deprogram you if you belong to a cult? Does this also apply to the cult of GWP?
Then there is the quote from a soldier in Iraq. Notice that no name is given so that the quote can be verified.
Then GWP goes on to talk about how they are Non-Profit, and must raise money just like everyone else. They even provide a link to their Accounting Dept. Why all the talk about their financial processes? Are they trying to say they have nothing to hide? Why?
Next, they talk about the volumes (15) of information they have based on their research. Why is it only available to those who attend one of their 'seminars'? If this information is so beneficial to mankind, and they are a Non-Profit organization whose sole purpose is to help humanity, why not share the information?
And finally, they talk about how the instruments are available to anyone free of charge, and that you don't have to believe in anything, or join anything, or pay anything. Again, are the trying to dispell myths about their organization being a cult?
At the bottom of the front page, it gets really interesting. No less than 3 times they state they are not a cult. They also state, and I find this extremely funny, that they are not out to take over a community, state, country, or the world. THIS HAS TO BE THE MOST RIDICULOUS STATEMENT I HAVE EVER SEEN ON A WEBSITE. I mean, how many Non-Profit organizations have such a disclaimer?
After reading the posts here, and investigating the GWP site for myself, I have to agree that this is a cult-like organization, whose sole purpose is to bilk unsuspecting people out of their hard earned money. I will distrust the comments from anyone who says otherwise.
My 2 cents.
Long Update...
Ok gang, here with go with a long update, responding to 3 recent comments.
First, a general observation. The people who are responding appear to be part of a core group that have been 'Instrument Keepers' for 20-25 years. Nobody will respond to any of my questions. Just an interesting observation.
In response to the person who claims to be a nurse:
Assuming that your claim to be a nurse is true, what does yor employer think of you using these devices? What about the nursing board? Do they approve of this? Does the nursing board approve of someone who uses devices that supposedy the patient's 'energy field'? Do your patients that that GWP claims that these devices are based on technology from the spirit world? What would the nursing board think of all this? If you truly have a masters in counseling psychology, are you licenses to practice in this area? It seems to me that you are either practices medicine or psychology without a license. By the way, where can we verify this so called research? Where has it been published? Where can it be scrutinized by the scientific community? Where is the evidence to support your claims?
In response to the next poster:
These are not unfounded generalizations. These are accusations made by a number of former members of GWP, some of whom have been named as defendants in an abusive lawsuit filed by Gentle Wind. Do a google search for 'gentle wind project lawsuit' and you will see a number of web sites that have very detailed information about the ridiculous claims made by Gentle Wind and the healing instruments. There are no scientific studies to back of any claims relating to these so called healing instruments. I am not personally a victime of the Gentle Wind Project, but I know many that are. Being an advocate for victims based on the evidence does not diminish the fact that my research has shown a number of legal and financia