Mass and broadcast healers (Gröning, Kashpirovsky, Chumak)

Domain XII · Complementary, energy & biofield · Bruno Gröning, Anatoly Kashpirovsky, Allan Chumak · 1949 · Germany and Soviet Union

What it is

Mass and broadcast healing means one healer addressing very large audiences at once, in halls, stadiums, by television or radio, by printed photographs or by objects said to carry the healer's power. The three figures here are historically linked in German and Russian-speaking communities and still…

Format

• Entry: free public information lectures and documentary-film screenings, often in rented halls, churches or online; expenses covered by voluntary donations; the group states members can leave at any time without obligation.
• Personal practice ("tuning in", Einstellen): sitting still with hands open, palms up, arms and legs uncrossed, turning attention away from illness and towards pleasant thoughts, to receive the healing stream; followers are advised to tune in daily at fixed times of day the group recommends.

Who practises it, and how they are trained or regulated

• "Regelungen" (regulations, adjustment pains): pain or symptoms during or after tuning in are taught as the healing stream at work, not as illness.
• Regulation and status, one line each.
• Germany: spiritual healing presented as a religious act is not treated as requiring a Heilpraktiker licence, while diagnosis and medication remain reserved to doctors and licensed practitioners; Gröning himself was convicted under the Heilpraktikergesetz.

Evidence status, as the guide reports it

• Evidence status: no controlled evidence that broadcast, mass or distant healing affects physical disease; the large EU EUHEALS distant-healing study found no effect on chronic fatigue outcomes beyond the effect of patients' expectation. A Russian Ministry of Health and Academy of Medical Sciences…

Questions to explore with your client

• What drew you to it, and what are you hoping it will change?
• Is there physical contact? Was it explained beforehand, and do you feel free to say no or stop at any point?
• Is it a group, retreat or community? How do they respond if someone wants to leave or raises a concern?
• How do you and the practitioner understand what is happening, in spiritual or cultural terms? Is that a source of comfort, worry, or both?
• Does it use a device, heat, cold, water or a physical procedure? Has a medical professional checked that it is safe for you?
• Who runs it, and what training or registration do they hold?
• What actually happens in a session or meeting, and how often?
• What does it cost, and is there pressure to commit to more?
• How do you feel afterwards, in the hours and days that follow?
• Does it fit with, or clash with, the work we do here?

What practitioners of it watch for

• the client feeling rejected; repair if so (see 5). Working: the alliance holds and the topic stays open.
• fear-based beliefs about leaving, grief for lost community. Working: contact is maintained and decisions are the client's own.
• depression, suicidal thinking, hiding worsening symptoms to avoid shame. Working: less self-blame, renewed openness to medical care.
• secrecy about money, guilt at the idea of stopping giving, cut-off from doubting relatives. Working: the client sets and keeps limits they chose.
• command hallucinations, persecutory beliefs about the healer, trance states outside sessions. Working: symptoms settle and the client has psychiatric follow-up.

When to involve someone else

• New or worsening physical symptoms, or advice to stop or change prescribed medication: involve the client's doctor or prescriber.
• Signs of coercion, isolation from family and friends, escalating costs or secrecy: discuss openly and consider safeguarding.
• A crisis or thoughts of suicide: follow your crisis protocol. In the US, call or text 988; in the UK and Ireland, Samaritans on 116 123.

Drawn automatically from the guide's own sections. Stay curious: neither endorse nor dismiss what the client values, and check anything that matters against the full guide and its sources. Not medical advice.