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Christopher Hansard has written not one but three books claiming to have been taught Dur Bon Medicine by a Tibetan Teacher who apparently found him on a beach in New Zealand at the age of 4. He was born in 1957 so that would bring us to 1961 shortly after the invasion of Tibet by the Chinese Government. Not only does it seem unlikely that a Tibetan Master would find he and his entire family on a beach in Tibet during that time, but that his one and only priority following the invasion of his country would be to impart his knowledge to a small toddler. Please visit bonmedicine dot co dot uk I am not allowed to post url's
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Dates and details vary widely from biography to biography and interview to interview. Suggesting he forgot the details of his own story each time he told it. He performed workshops at Wild Rose College in Calgary and put on quite a show there as well.
Please visit web archives and look up wrc dot net June 2004
Regardless he set up his first clinic in Kensington Mews in London and started practicing acupuncture. It has been reported that he gained insurance not based on any real credentials but instead with the help and on the recommendation of another more credible practitioner Mr. Roderick Lane. As the story goes the two were introduced to each other in Bali, where it has also been suggested that Christopher Hansard "earned" a certificate in acupuncture within the period of three months. It has been suggested that he knows just enough acupuncture to perhaps stimulate a sexual response in his female patients.
Please simply do a search for "stimulating sexual response in women using acupuncture" or lucypostolov dot com / news / libido
Many of Hansard's female patients went to him with various problems from lack of libido, fear of men, to relationship or marital problems or childhood traumas and many had histories of childhood sexual abuse which they of course confided in him in a position of authority and trust.
His treatment of such ailments was always to ask the patient to place their hands on his body while breathing in his male energy. This is from the many accounts of the female patients and apprentices that "consented" to sexual relationships with Hansard. As treatments continued and he gained their trust he would remove pieces of clothing starting with his own shirt and would ask them to place their hands on various parts of his exposed body.
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He also claims to have an understanding of Tantra and would offer to teach this practice to his female students telling them it would help open them up and increase their ability to learn "the teachings". Patients were told that by taking part in various Tantric practices with him, that it would aid their healing, improve their marriage, relationships, and help them to overcome their fears.
I attended workshops if you must know, and have had many female as well as male patients tell me their stories. While it is not against the law to sleep with patients as a complimentary practitioner if consent has been given, it IS against the law if that consent has been given through undue pressure, or coercion, if the patient's judgment was impaired in any way shape or form whether that be from the use of herbs, acupuncture, or prescriptions from their medical doctor. Any dizziness, or disorientation leaves a patient vulnerable and their judgment impaired. This alone would explain why many women consented to have sex with a married man. He was also in a position of trust and to their knowledge he was a "Master". He put himself in a position of authority, but he did not then, and does not now have any real credentials. He referred to himself as a Doctor and often signed using this title when applying for credit cards, utilities, car insurances etc. The students he also employed in his clinic were all privy and can testify to this. He is therefore falsely advertising, has been for many many years and the many patients who have invested much time as well as money are due at the very least an explanation or their investment back.
" In 1992 he opened a clinic in Kensington. In the first week a hundred patients came through the door out of the blue. “I didn’t advertise. I was busy from day one, just from the grapevine. I was told it was a bit of a revolution, because people suddenly realised that you don’t have to waste time talking about getting better for six months "
Unfortunately there were many people who invested much more than a mere six months. They wasted instead six years as Hansard told them that to interrupt treatment or seek treatment elsewhere would possibly interfere with his treatments. He often went as far as ridiculing other forms of treatments as well as other practitioners. Many of whom are now treating those he has done considerable harm to.
Whether or not you like Jeffrey Bowe, and I do not, he has brought the question of Hansard's credentials or lack thereof into the public arena, where it needs to remain. Since Bowe's continuous harassment of Hansard began over 2 years ago, it has forced Hansard to let his own website on which he pronounced himself a "Master" (no less) of Tibetan Dur Bon Medicine fall while he invests all of his energy into promoting a blog which as you will all notice makes no such claims. This fact alone brings all three of his books into question as well as his ability to "heal" anyone including himself.
He is as it has been suggested extremely well read, had a classical education in school and bear in mind through out the years he has attracted people to him and under his employment that brought real knowledge to his practice. He rode on the coat tails and the reputation of Stephanie Wright and many others and not the other way around. It has come to our attention that in light of the many allegations made online questioning his credentials that he is making all efforts to secure his income and continue practicing by signing up for complimentary medicine and counseling courses in and around the London area in order to gain credentials. This will not make him a better practitioner, but rest assured it will make him a better liar. He is now being equipped with the proper tools and terms which will allow him to convince even the most educated of clients that they are the "sick" ones when they attempt to confront him about his lack of boundaries.
As for his ability to "cure cancer" as reported in the petition that was posted in his defense, I urge those of you who accepted this as another testimony of his powers to ask the surviving members of those who have in actuality died from this disease just how effective he is. For those who did not pass on and miraculously overcame their various ailments, ask yourselves was his treatment the only you were receiving? Therefore was it the acupuncture, the herbs, medication, or was it the lifestyle changes you made on your own accord? Was it your ailment alone that prompted you to stop, readjust, and re-evaluate everything in your own life. Did you stop on your own accord and make changes, even if the first thing you did was to seek help. Unfortunately that undoubtedly brought you to the door of one Christopher Hansard, and he opened up an entire new world to you, but not because it was not already there all along, but simply because he has excellent marketing and advertising skills, and later on would hire a fairly reputable PR company.
For those who took part in what they were told were Tantric teachings, there are no Tantric teachings in Dur Bon therefore you probably taught him more than he taught you. By all means, do your own research. He knows just enough to convince you he knows more than he does. As many noted he could only take you so far in the "teachings" and then his knowledge seemed to stop and/or the teachings did.
Christopher Hansard has no credentials but is attempting to at this time gain them. He is not changing his ways, he is simply carrying on the one thing he has always been somewhat good at, and that is writing pretty prose.
For those that have been harmed or fallen prey to false advertising, please report your experiences to Witness Against Abuse, the Sapphire Unit or the Fraud Department with the Met Police.
Hello Phurba,
Very interesting information about Hansards so-called "tantra" practices with his clients. It actually explains pretty much why many female clients seem to feel like they have been sexually violated but are unable to provide clear evidential information.
I'm curious how you know so much about him?
P.S.
Bowe was helpful in getting the whole story out into the public eye, that is true. However, he and Rick Ross pretty much scuttled any kind of intelligent conversation amongst people directly effected by Hansard. Ross actually seems to me to be a little dimwitted (a one trick pony, as they say) and the journalist Pema, who started ther thread at RR about Hansard, has recently taken to slinging mud at the unorthodox but quite benign bhuddist teacher ole nydahl - calling him a predator, a white supremist, and so forth - is sounding equally unreliable.
In sum, I think the whole subject has gone south.
Not so mahakala, these processes take time.Originally Posted by mahakala
I look forward to hearing how Hansard explains how he and his reported current girlfriend met. As via the grapevine we were informed the relationship burgeoned from none other than his treatment room in Victoria.
She is in fact a patient.
Kind of brings into question both the culpability of his former Canadian girlfriend who helped him set up that clinic and his many denials that he never crossed such boundaries with patients doesn't it?
That his current girlfriend is a former client is no surprise.
As to the culpability of his former girlfriend; I'm presuming she actually believed him and now regrets that as she is "former.".
Would your initials by any chance be SW?
The point being that all this is old news unless someone is actually doing something to make him accountable for his actions.
So is the practice of Bon Kum Nye genuine or a complete fabrication?
That's a good question and it could be applied to a lot of the stuff he has put in his books and classes. Maybe he'll have the decency to come out of his closet and say if he got these things from some traditional, established source, or he just cobbled them together willy nilly....ha ha he he ho ho...yeah right......that's going to happen (that was my inner cynic speaking there)
On the other hand if it seems to work and is doing some good (now that you are not hypnotised by him) it probably is.
But this is part of him being accountable.
Indeed - I have been practising the form published by SW for about a year now and find it to be a succinct but powerful set of exercises/postures. But I am horrified to read all this stuff about CH and would prefer to think that SW has done her own research on the subject rather than pass on the teachings of an alleged psycho.
She got it from him but obviously he got it from somewhere. Perhaps Ms. Wright will come here and comment, but I would presume that over many years of teaching kum nye she learned to believe in the efficacy of the exercises.
All this about CH has only just come to my attention. Has he gone into hiding making no attempt to defend himself?
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