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Dora Kunz
Dora Kunz née T heodora Sophia v an Gelder (April 28, 1904 – August 25, 1999) was a Dutch-American writer, psy chic, alternativ e healer, [1 ] occultist and leader in the Theosophical Society in America. [2 ] Kunz has published around the
world in Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Contents
Biography
Criticism
Works
Books
Interviews and lectures
See also
References
External links

Biography
Dora v an Gelder was born at a sugar cane plantation named Krebet near Djombang city on East Jav a in the Dutch East Indies. [3 ] Her father, Karel v an Gelder, was a chemist who ran the sugar plantation, and her mother, born Melanie v an
Motman, was from a v ery well-to-do Dutch family as well. Both her parents had been members of the Theosophical Society since 1900 and from the age of 5 meditation became a daily routine. [4 ] Dora claimed that since she was a child she
interacted with ethereal beings and her mother was a strong believ er in her clairv oy ance. At elev en y ears old she mov ed to Mosman, a suburb of Sy dney (Australia), [5 ] to study with someone knowledgeable about her abilities, the then-
Anglican clergy man and psy chic C. W. Leadbeater, who taught her way s to increase her psy chic skills. [2 ][6 ]

Through Leadbeater she met Fritz Kunz, who used to accompany Leadbeater on his trav els. Fritz for a time was principal of Ananda College in Colombo. In 1927 , at the age of twenty -two, Dora mov ed
with Kunz to the United States where they married in Chicago on May 16. She was still a Dutch citizen but sometime after the marriage became a naturalized American. Her husband became the
principal of a scholastic foundation and she became president of a corporation related to pedagogic supplies. [2 ] Soon after coming to the USA, the couple founded the first theosophical camp at Orcas
Island in the state of Washington. [6 ]

The Manor, a training center rented
by Theosophical Society in Mosman,
Sydney where Dora Kunz stayed for
a while.[7]
For many y ears, Dora dealt with new methods in healing, particularly therapeutic touch, [9 ] which she co-dev eloped in 197 2 with Dr. Dolores Krieger, [1 0 ] a nursing
professor at New Y ork Univ ersity , [1 1 ] which is said to promote healing, relaxation and lessen pain. [2 ][1 2 ] Therapeutic touch, stated Kunz, has its origin from ancient
Y ogic texts written in Sanskrit, which describe it as a pranic healing method. [1 ] The technique is taught in approximately eighty colleges and univ ersities in the U.S.,
and in more than sev enty countries. [1 ]
Kunz philanthropically directed her clairv oy ance towards helping phy sicians in complicated medical cases, [1 3 ] in particular aiding in diagnoses through her capability
of seeing the effects of diseases in the aura of the patients. More specifically she reported the existence of centers of energy in human body , also known as chakras,
changing their colors according to diseases that affect matching endocrine glands. [1 4 ] Her followers believ ed she was able to predict some illness as many as eighteen
months before sy mptoms manifest themselv es. [6 ]

In 197 5 Kunz became president of the Theosophical Society in America. In 197 7 she published a book about her fairy experiences in her y outh, "The Real World of Fairies", in which she stated that throughout
her life she alway s kept in communication with nature spirits. [2 ][8 ] According to her, in 197 9 she saw fairies in Central Park in New Y ork City , but due to the increasing pollution it was getting more
difficult. [1 5 ] Kunz claims that dev as are intimately connected with a v ital energy , transmitting force to preserv e and heal the Earth. She said as more people get inv olv ed with env ironmental causes, the better
are the chances of communication between humans and dev as. [8 ] In 1987 after completing twelv e y ears as president of the Theosophical Society in America, she retired and dev oted herself to lecturing and
According to Dora van
writing. [2 ][6 ]
Gelder there exist powerful
beings called Devas which
transmit and direct energy to
the nature.[8] "Fairy and
Griffon" by Gustave Moreau,
19th century.

In the 1920s walking on the shores of Mosman Dora Kunz says she met a friendly nature spirit worried about evil entities
who had invaded the local area, and she managed to expel them. "Mosman's Bay" by Arthur Streeton, 1914.[5]

Criticism
The healing method, the "Therapeutic Touch" conceiv ed by Dolores Krieger and Dora Kunz in the early 197 0s using the "human energy field" was tested in 1996 by Emily Rosa. At age nine Rosa conceiv ed and executed a scientific study of
therapeutic touch which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998. It was a critique of all of the studies related to TT she could locate in nursing journals and elsewhere. This made Rosa the y oungest person to
hav e a research paper published in a peer rev iewed medical journal. She concluded as her opinion:
"The more rigorous the research design, the more detailed the statistical analysis, the less evidence that there is any observed—or observable—phenomenon." She just could not see it.

Works

Books
Christmas of the Angels, 1962.
The Real World of Fairies, 1977.
Fields and their clinical implications; co-author Erik Peper, 1985.
Spiritual aspects of the healing arts, 1985.
Devic Counsciouness, 1989.
The Chak ras and the Human Energy Fields; co-author Shafica Karagulla, 1989.
The Personal Aura, 1991.
Spiritual Healing, 1995.
Aura en persoonlijk heid: aura's zien en begrijpen (Aura and personality: see auras and understand); co-author George Hulskramer, 1998.

Interviews and lectures

Reminiscences of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater; with Fritz Kunz, 1967.
Healing and the Dynamic Structure of Man, 1974.
Masters and the Future of the Theosophical Society, 1978.
The Alchemical Power of Consciousness Healing; with Janet Macrae, 1979.
The Path and the Spiritual Life; with Renee Weber, 1980.
Application of Theosophy; with William J. Ross, 1981.
Use of Healing Energy in Therapeutic Touch, 1981.
Karma and Human Relations, 1981.
Masters of the Wisdom, 1982.
Inner Structure of Man & Its Effects On Life, 1983.
Interview with Father Bede Griffiths, 1983.
Depression From the Energetic Perspective; with Erik Peper, 1984.
Masters and the Future, 1984.
Man's Experience at Different Levels of Consciousness, 1985.
Theosophical Perspectives on Dealing with Pain; with Erik Peper, 1985.
The Objectives of the Theosophical Society; with Radha Burnier, 1986.
The Role of Karma in Life, 1986.
Letting Go: Perspectives on Death and Dying; with Erik Peper, 1987.
Chak ras and the Human Energy Fields, 1989.
Deeper View of Healing and Its Many Aspects; with Dolores Krieger, 1989.
Conscious Use of the Healing Mind; with Dolores Krieger, 1990.
Healing and Changes in the Invisible Emotional Patterns, 1991.

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Conversation with Dora Kunz, 1992.
Personal Aura and its Relation to Daily Life, 1992.
Karma: White Lotus Day Commemoration, 1994.
Spiritual Aspects of Healing and Therapeutic Touch, 1994.
Meditation as a Part of Life, 1996.[6]

See also
Reiki

References
5. Peter Read, Haunted Earth, 2003. p. 30. ISBN 0-86840-726-7. 11. Robert T. Carroll, Therapeutic Touch - the Sk eptic's Dictionary. Copyright 1994-
1. Russell Targ, Jane Katra, Miracles of Mind:Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness
6. Theosophical Publishing House, Dora van Gelder Kunz, Theosophical Society 2009 (http://www.skepdic.com/tt.html).
and Spiritual Healing, 1999. pp. 166, 239, 240. ISBN 978-1-57731-097-6.
in America. 2010 (http://www.questbooks.net/author.cfm?authornum=63). 12. Leonard C. Bruno, Therapeutic touch - Encyclopedia of Medicine. Article, 2001.
2. Ed. by J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology –
7. Gregory John Tillett, Charles Webster Leadbeater 1854-1934: A Biographical Gale Research (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2601/is_0013/ai_2601001
Volume II, 2001. Gale Group, Inc. 5th Edition. p.1625. ISBN 0-8103-9489-8.
Study, 1986. University of Sydney, Department of Religious Studies (http://ses.li 343/). Retrieved 01/2011.
3. Pedro Oliveira, Dora van Gelder Kunz’s Testimony, CWL World (http://www.cwl
brary.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/1623). Chapter 22, pp. 846-847. 13. Von Braschler, Natural Pet Healing: Our Psychic, Spiritual Connection, 2003.
world.info/html/influence.html) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/201102191
8. Nathaniel Altman, The deva handbook : how to work with nature's subtle pp. 2,3. ISBN 1-931942-07-2.
23944/http://www.cwlworld.info/html/influence.html) February 19, 2011, at the
Wayback Machine. Retrieved 01/2011. energies, 1995. pp. 18,19, 124. ISBN 0-89281-552-3. 14. Cyndi Dale, The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy,
9. Tova Navarra and Adam M.D. Perlman, The encyclopedia of complementary and 2009, p. 249. ISBN 1-59179-671-7.
4. Kirsten van Gelder, Frank Chesley, A Most Unusual Life. Dora Van Gelder
Kunz: Clairvoyant, Theosophist, Healer (https://catalog.krl.org/Mobile/BakerAnd alternative medicine, 2004, p. 73. ISBN 0-8160-4997-1. 15. Gordon Stein, The encyclopedia of the paranormal, 1996, p. 266. ISBN 1-
Taylor/Excerpt?ISBN=9780835609364&UPC=9780835609364&position=1), 10. Rosemary Guiley, Encyclopedia of mystical & paranormal experience, 1993, p. 57392-021-5.
Theosophical Publishing House, 2015, ISBN 978-0-8356-0936-4 69. ISBN 1-85627-322-9.

External links
Pumpkin Hollow: Theosophical Retreat Center where Therapeutic Touch was developed by Dora Kunz and Dr. Dolores Kreiger, RN (http://www.pumpkinhollow.org/).
Therapeutic Touch: Responses to Objections to the JAMA Paper, Larry Sarner (http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/ttresponse.html).

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