I grew up in a family that believed in alternative health practices.When I was born (in 1954) there were 3 generations of Chiropractors in my family, including my father Dr. Thomas Lowrey D.C., my mother's father Dr. Murray Limbocker D.C., and my grandfather's uncle Dr. Harold Beik D.C. - extending our chiropractic history practically to the beginning of the science of Chiropractic. (there are now 5 generations of chiropractors in my family including two cousins, Dr. Thomas Rexroth D.C. and Dr. Curtis Rexroth D.C. and one of Toms sons, Dr. Joel Rexroth D.C.)
Our family of chiropractors all attended "The Fountainhead", Palmer College, in Davenport, Iowa.
Though I also attended Palmer College, I was more interested in the other Palmer, Daniel David Palmer, founder of Chiropractic and father of B.J. Palmer who was the founder of Palmer College.
There were originally two Palmer Colleges in Davenport, father and son competing against each other, D.D. eventually moving west to California, founding National College of Chiropractic.
Before "discovering" the principle of chiropractic and "innate" DD had a hugely successful practice in Davenport as a Magnetic Healer.
You can read about D.D. Palmer here.
My grandfather, Murray Limbocker, DC, was the founder and president of the Iowa Natural Foods Cooperative, which was one of the very first Natural Foods groups in the world.I was fascinated, even as a small child in the 1950's with his original health research into vitamins, fluoridation, exercise and other health issues that were not then addressed by medical or chiropractic education.
When I was about 4 or 5 years old, my grandfather became involved in energy healing, studying under a California chiropracter, Dr. Richard VanRumpt.
http://www.nonforce.com/VanRumpt/index.html
Soon after this change in his practice, my own father Thomas Lowrey, DC developed an interest in "mind power" and I was privileged to be a fly on the wall to many of his discussions with my grandfather on this subject.
While my father's interest was limited in this area, as was material for study, my interest (I was about 8 years old at the time) was strong.
I began at this young age to study all the books I could find about how the energy of thought could be transmitted into the physical realm.
My grandfather was experimenting with proxy energy treatments and I had personal experience as a recipient of such treatments given from hundreds of miles away.
In spite of the positive results I received, my dad was convinced that it was a purely psychological result.
I wasn't convinced by his opinion, and so I had a lot of questions at a very young age and it was left to me over the years to find my own answers.
While I was a Chiropractic student, I was trying to find a technique that would avoid adding additional trauma to alleviate existing injury.
At the time, the chiropractic technique that I had found personally most helpful was quite aggressive and physically traumatic.
I did not know anyone who was using the energy treatment that my grandfather had used and I was quite concerned about injuring patients that were geriatric or infants with a forceful adjustment.
At the time, the professors and students I discussed this with expressed the opinion that adding the "temporary" new trauma was essential for success and they routinely dismissed my concerns without any rationale to back up their assertions.
Essentially, "that's just how it is" was the official answer.
At the same time, as an Elder in the Mormon Priesthood and a returned missionary, I had many experiences observing and administering healing blessings and as a student of the science of healing, especially considering the Chiropractic philosophy of Innate (the power of the body to heal itself) I was trying to understand what the physical mechanism was in spiritual healing.
While I had noticed that many "healing blessings" I had witnessed did not get very good results, somehow the blessings I performed seemed to always get great results.
This discrepancy was very perplexing to me.
What was the difference, and when a blessing was given, what was happening inside the body that made the person get well?
I realized that there had to be some physiological change that took place as a result of the prayer and it had to be an energy exchange or energy change.
I no longer endorse Mormonism though I consider that it can be, and was for us - a valid, though excessively emotionally and financially costly path toward discovering spiritual truth. We severed our membership formally in 2002.
In about 1986 I formed a personal ministry with my wife Katrina to address spiritual issues and practices (particularly my belief in performing your own charity work rather than passing it off to the church) and to teach what I believed to be Jesus' central message, "the Golden Rule".
We saw our ministry as an extension of the spiritual commitments we had made as "Mormons" and the overlap of our personal ministry and our LDS Church membership was never an issue.
We continue to operate our ministry around the central teaching of Jesus, but believe that all who truly seek a spiritual path will find it regardless of their affiliation or non-affiliation with any particular religion or philosophy, be they Buddhist or Baptist, Atheist or Agnostic.
I consider my healing work to be as scientific as it is spiritual and look to honest investigation to develop my perspectives on healing and healthy living.
These two topics of research (trauma and the mechanics of energy/spiritual healing) resulted in an unanticipated exposure in 1978 to Dr. Ted Morter, DC of St. Louis, Missouri, who was teaching his technique called Bio Energetic Syncronization Technique (B.E.S.T.).
Dr. Morter was a graduate of Logan Chiropractic College in St. Louis and had been the President of that College and was later the first President of the Parker College of Chiropractic, then in Irving, Texas.
After my introduction to Dr. Morter, because of my immediate and exceptional success with his healing technique, he began to have me assist in teaching at his seminars when he was in Davenport.
Realizing that the energy healing answered both my areas of inquiry - a non-trauma inducing healing method and a scientific explanation of the physical mechanism of an energy only treatment - which shed tremendous light on spiritual healing - and - realizing that this healing method did not fit the legal definition of Chiropractic, I was on my way to deciding to forgo further Chiropractic studies to pursue energy healing full time.
My formal education included pre-Medical (pre-Chiropractic) studies, primarily at Palmer Jr. College in Davenport, Iowa after which I attended Palmer Chiropractic College also in Davenport, later transferring to National Chiropractic College in California and later to study with Dr. Morter at Parker College of Chiropractic in Texas. I also spent three years studying Behavioral Science at Utah Valley University.
In spite of my desire to believe that healing was something that anyone could be taught to do "if they would just follow the steps", I had to eventually conclude that the bible was right - some people just have a gift to heal and I had to really struggle with my own personal sense of humility to admit finally that the reason I had success healing while those I was teaching to heal often did not, was in fact because I was blessed with this gift.
Likewise, some people have a gift to be healed and what can often be a time consuming exercise can in some cases be almost immediate.
Infants in particular have very strong energy fields and are treated in just minutes.
Persons who are on less toxin producing diets (or thought processes) generally are treated in a shorter time frame, but regardless of whether the treatment takes two minutes or two hours, the effectiveness is nothing short of miraculous.
I feel that my studies of biology and health science, diet, exercise and the like have helped to develop this gift and make a more precise and scientific application of this spiritual act.
I guess I have been kind of a black sheep in my family since I decided to dedicate my healing work to something that is not chiropractic and that by it's nature is considered by most people to be more spiritual than scientific - especially since the healing is energetic and happens inside individual cells where you can't really see what's going on.
Yet, it is indisputable that a lot goes on. And it goes on right away.
This is where I split from Dr. Morter, who, last I checked, still pursued a science-only approach to his healing work.
I have to admit that I have a gift to heal, and I have improved that gift through study and practice.
I believe there is a scientific as well as a spiritual foundation for all that I do.
I have been able to cure cancer, heart disease, have cured many seizure disorders, joint and spinal disorders - many of which had fusion or replacement surgery already scheduled, but by my treatments the surgeries proved unnecessary.
Patients who were committed to permanent institutionalization I have completely healed of their so called incurable mental illnesses.
I have been able to heal depression and anxiety disorders, migraine, asthma, bronchitis and just all sorts of physical and emotional disability.
In my thirty plus years of offering healing services, I have not found a single person that I was not able to at least help considerably and in almost all cases, heal completely.
I have had many patients who initially were very skeptical of my claims, but they were that desperate that they would give it a try - and they got well.
Fortunately, skepticism does not diminish results.
Come in and get well.
