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Spiritual healin’

>> Chanelled energy is good for what ails you

by CHRIS BARRY

Photo by Jason Felker

Name: John Paul Elliot

Age: 40

Occupation: Energy healer

Bio: This inspired NDG resident recently gave up a $100,000-a-year gig in the animation field to fully devote himself to Spirit and to helping heal people with his “gift.” First recognizing at age seven that his ability to see auras and the like made him a little different than other children, he spent much of his life denying his spirituality for fear of being labelled “a freak.” Now comfortable with his mission in life, and after studying Reiki at the National Health Consultants school on Girouard, John Paul helps to heal people by channelling the power of the Universal Energy and balancing out their personal energy field. With satisfied clients all over the globe, many of whom he works with over the telephone, John Paul claims he is “just a guide. I have a gift of super sensibilities which allows me to see things that others can’t see. But in the end it is the clients who ultimately heal themselves.” He is also more than happy to apply his healing whammy to household pets, and does a lot of work with dogs and horses.

The cost of a session: $60

Will he guarantee his work? “No, that’s the first thing I discuss with my clients. But does a medical doctor offer guarantees?”

Does he recommend that the next time you get syphilis you forgo the STD clinic and come see him instead? Not necessarily. “There is a time for what is called ‘traditional medicine’ and there is time for naturopathy. Often people do both.”

How people reacted to him as a child when he would point out that certain trees in his neighbourhood were glowing: Not very well at all.

Were he and his gift for healing a big hit with the chicks in high school? No. “People think you’re a freak, which is not conducive to great friendships or picking up girls.”

One sure-fire way to not get laid on a first date: Leaning over a restaurant table and grabbing your date’s face, holding it, and channelling healing energy through your arm into her raging toothache. “I was only 18 years old, could feel her pain, and was compelled to help her with it. But everyone in the restaurant thought it was some form of abuse, and she didn’t understand, and after I let go of her, she got up and left and I never saw her again. Later, her mom told me that she had an impacted wisdom tooth which was just starting to act up, and which I had helped to make go away. That was my first healing. It took me a long time to realize that you don’t just jump on people—no matter how much compassion you have in wanting to help them.”

One hazard of the Reiki energy healing biz: “Energy suckers,” who will do anything just to hang around John Paul and bask in his glow. “I just have to keep reminding myself that I love these people—unconditionally. But it’s very draining.”

Hobbies: Oil painting.

Last book read: The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman.

Favourite recent film: The Green Mile.

Musical preferences: Pink Floyd, Portishead, Morcheeba, Zeppelin.

Where to contact him: pje@aie.ca

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