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Montreal Gazette - Let's reConnect the dots in pearl's wisdom
Published: 26 March 2011
(Chemistry prof Joe Schwarcz)
"What do a Jewish Gypsy on a California beach, claims of miraculous cures, and an angel in the form of a multicoloured parrot have in common? If you are a devotee of talk shows, or count yourself among the thousands who have forked over a small fortune to attend a "Reconnection" seminar, you'll know the answer is "Eric Pearl."
I had never heard of Pearl - whose seminars are being given in Montreal through Tuesday - until he was featured in The Living Matrix, a film devoted to hyping a variety of incongruous healing schemes, collectively referred to as "energy medicine." Pearl described how he had cured a young boy of cerebral palsy through 'reconnective healing.'"