Studies with Nicolai Levashov
by Richard A. Blasband, MD
I first consulted the healer and physicist, Nicolai Levashov, for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in 1994. This had been diagnosed by two medical homeopaths who were expert with a variation of the Voll diagnostic device. They had each, independently, found inflammatory pathology in the same major organ systems: the heart, lungs, liver, and prostate. Pathologic structural changes in the heart were demonstrated by electrocardiogram. Although I did not inform him of these findings, other than my fatigue, Nicolai made the same diagnoses within 10 minutes during his initial examination. With the first healing session I knew that Nicolai possessed remarkable abilities to move energy in my body: I experienced electrical-like currents moving through my body, followed by a "heavy" feeling as my organism took on the healing "load" that Nicolai had placed upon it. Within six months, with sessions two to three times a week, I was healed of the frequent, intermittent palpitations from which I had suffered for the previous three years. These changes were confirmed by electrocardiography. Within 1 1/2 years I was healed of the major portion of the other inflammatory changes and symptoms of CFS.
A few words about my professional background may help the reader to better understand my subsequent relationship to Nicolai Levashov and the extraordinary capacities and body of knowledge that he has given me (and many others). I am a Board certified psychiatrist, classically trained at the Yale University School of Medicine, where I also served on the Psychiatry faculty . Following my psychiatric training I studied orgonomic medicine with Elsworth Baker, MD, who had been appointed by Wilhelm Reich to train physicians in his medical discipline. My "day job" is the practice of this intense form of bioenergetic mind/body therapy, "psychiatric orgone therapy," developed by Reich to treat emotional disorders (Reich 1949).
When I first met Nicolai I had been practicing as an orgone therapist for about 30 years. In addition, during this period I had been active in experimental research in physical and biological orgone energy and had published over 60 papers in this field. Thus, the concept of a "vital energy," as the basis of life functions and operative in the healing process readily resonated with my personal belief system and professional training and practice - despite my mechanistic, reductionistic classical education.