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3.0 out of 5 starsWhere do the healing codes really come from?
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 30, 2013
In 2001 Alex Loyd "discovered" the healing codes when "God downloaded into my mind and heart what we now call the Healing Codes". And there you have it, from the very beginning you have to take some things on this book on faith alone for I'm not aware of any scientific way and beyond any doubt to prove that the Healing Codes were downloaded into Alex's mind and heart by God himself. Now after reading the book and many of Alex's comments here in Amazon I've got the feeling he may truly believe this. Maybe will never know for sure. One of the problems I have with the book is when the author states that this is an "absolutely new discovery" and that it is "completely different". If it is energy healing to star with then it is not an absolutely new discovery at all. How can the author say that, it is infuriating. Short of stating that there are four healing centers which the codes activate there is no real explanation behind them. The effects may be quantifiable, and there may be results, but a comprehensive explanation of how it works is sorely lacking. He says is not about energy meridians or chakras but those are just words. Many people believe the chakras actually refer endocrine glands in the body so it's not far fetched to replace Alex's choice of words (i.e. healing centers for the words energy centers or chakras or whatever). His system is completely different yet people again and again bring up EFT. Why? Because they strike them as SIMILAR. Therefore this is not completely different. I know many users of EFT have said that the methods are not the same, and they are right they are NOT IDENTICAL, but you can not say that the Healing Codes are COMPLETELY different. They're both classified as energy systems, in both you use your hands and even place them in some cases in the same general area (near the temples or between the eyebrows). So please don't use the words "absolutely" and "completely" so liberally. Now Alex says that they are different because EFT takes care of emotional issues and the Healing Codes of spiritual issues (by the way whenever I paraphrase Alex or quote him is from his book or his comments here on Amazon, you can corroborate it all by yourself). But what are spiritual issues? In an Amazon comment Alex states "what I call spiritual issues - unforgiveness, self-worth, rejection, fear, anger, etc.". Aren't those emotions? So as far as the Healing Codes being COMPLETELY they're not.
And it bears repeating I'm not saying they're IDENTICAL either, in many regards they take a different focus. But if two persons learned to play the piano using two different methodologies, they still learned how to read music, they still play using the hands, and using the same instrument and accomplished the same goal. This is what I feel the Healing Codes are, Alex's version of energy healing.
If you read Gary Craig's EFT manual he acknowledges the pioneers of energy healing from thousands of years ago and his contemporary influences too. I think Alex should've done the same, but he just states that the healing codes "was given to me as a gift of God in 2001". Now it should be interesting to the readers to know that Alex and Ben were involved in energy healing methodologies BEFORE the healing codes and hopefully you will not be blind to the the fact that the healing codes and those other methodologies have a LOT of COMMON ground (same ingredients different recipe). That fact is even acknowledged by the authors themselves; Ben even states in the book that he was trained in Thought Field Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique or Quantum Technique to mention some. But they don't give any credit to that as a basis to the healing codes because the healing codes are an "ABSOLUTELY NEW DISCOVERY'' and a "gift of God".
Now Alex recommends himself these therapies like EFT when someone mentions them, but he repeats again and again that the healing codes are something different. He may even believe it (I wouldn't for one).
EFT is a healing energy technique by Gary Craig that is based on the work of Dr. Callahan and his energy tapping techniques, Craig states "My contribution, EFT, is an elegantly simple version of energy tapping procedures". I would've like Alex to state something similar much more than the story of being a God vessel to which God himself downloaded this COMPLETELY different tool for healing (and for all I know, I'll say it again, Alex may believe this himself). The reader should also be aware that Alex was a student of the Callahan methodology, TFT, in 1999. Alex even states in a comment here in Amazon that he was the cofounder of Quantum Techniques with Stephen Daniel who himself was a Callahan student in 1996 (you can check it out in the TFT website about Alex and Daniel receiving such training). For what I've read Quantum Techniques was founded in 1998 a project Alex abandoned after validating his own special brand called the healing codes.
So to sum it all up i think the authors of The Healing Codes are not giving credit where credit is due.
Now on to the possibility that Alex really believes the gift from God story. Could it be possible that after being absolutely focused on healing his wife during 12 years and studying many healing methodologies (Alex even tells about his wife having an impressive amount of books on healing and self help) all of this information somehow coalesced in Alex's subconscious into the form of The Healing Codes and was then interpreted as a downloaded gift from god. Lets not forget that Alex was ordained minister at a young age and was brought up in a strong Christian environment. What if he were brought up as a Buddhist instead, would he said Buddha delivered to him this healing gift?
Maybe you've read about some technological or scientific advancements arrived at at dreams, and I'm not implying anything magical or mystical this could be explained via the subconscious. Maybe you've read that the structure of benzene was arrived at through a reverie or day dream or the design of the sewing machine's needle in a similar way.
So I directly ask you Alex Loyd could you be wrong on the source of your healing codes? Could the subconscious coalescence of all the information you had produced the healing codes and not God?
I will try not to go much deeper into the book The Healing Codes having a lot of christian biases. If your interested in this read Hei Long's excellent two star review and the comments about this. He wrote very articulately his position and arguments to which, in my opinion, Alex really didn't respond. But yes, talking a lot about God and the bible is religious for me. And it made me uncomfortable. The main argument of Hei is that there was no indication on the cover or back of the book to warn the reader the book would delve into religion. I have the kindle edition and in all honesty I didn't expect the book to be religious at all myself from looking at the cover or Amazon's description. Many people say the book is not religious at all, and Alex himself says that his beliefs are in the book as an FYI because people like to know where an author is coming from. Well he should've stated that on the cover so we could know before buying the book. Hei also confronts Alex about hiding behind his academic credentials and not being upfront about being an ordained minister. Alex responds that he states his academic credentials because the subject at hand calls for them. But then again Alex states that ALL the healing codes do is heal SPIRITUAL issues, and then all the book is peppered with mentions of God and God being the true source of healing. He even encourages to visualize Jesus in one exercise so you can feel love or peace. I don't think that would be relaxing to a non christian. Doing a search on the kindle edition, the search engine yielded the word God 60 times, the word bible 16 and the word Jesus (as in the Christ) 12 times. So Alex, don't say that you put information on the book about your beliefs for "our information only". The search engine yields 0 results for Buddha or Allah or other sacred texts for that matter. What bothers me the most is when Alex says that he believes the bible is a non-negotiable truth. If the healing codes are not about beliefs and work regardless, why make such statements then? On the comments to Hei Long's review someone questions Alex about the contradictions in the bible and if he ignores parts of the Old Testament or what. That person is homosexual and talks about all the damaged he's received from his family through religion and the bible. And he asks because Alex says that he loves him and doesn't judge him for his sexuality and that he doesn't believe anyone will go to hell for their sins. To which the commenter is puzzled because some of Alex's statements seem counter to the bible. And Alex doesn't really answer if he cherry picks from the bible or how he manages to accommodate all the contradictions. And in spite of all this we get the bible is a non-negotiable truth in The Healing Codes book. Can there be more than one truth? If I believe in another sacred text which doesn't agree with the bible does that imply Alex believes I'm wrong? Alex has mentioned he had some issues growing up in a repressive interpretation of christianity. He says he doesn't call himself a christian (but how is people to call you when you believe in Jesus and the bible) that he is spiritual and not religious and that it took him a long time to get over all of this. I think he never got over it, just reinterpreted his dogma to feel psychological relief to his convenience like many of us do. He states that what is really important is to be loving at all times, and I'm all in for that, but I could never myself reconcile that with the bible and christianity without being to liberal about my interpretation of the text or ignoring some elements of it. Alex says he is no theologian so I wonder how he manages the contradictions in his personal beliefs and the non-negotiable truth which according to him the bible is. Through prayer, really? All of this ultimate truth postures only cause division. And it did bother me. I must admit, to be fair, that my experience of the bible and christianity (being born in a christian family) always meant zealotry, imposition, division, judgement and a dogma based on fear hence my personal take on the issue.. Alex also states that the bible is a love letter but that creates cognitive dissonance in me. For what I've read God punishes and kills time and time again when he is disobeyed, he hardens rulers hearts, floods the earth, asks for cruel displays of faith (sacrifice your son for me), etc. If you say that is not so then you haven't read the bible. And hey, every one has the right to believe in this or whatever they want, and to have their personal interpretation about it, but please don't tell me the bible is a love letter and a non-negotiable truth in a book I didn't buy for religious reasons. What is really important about this issue is that people may be put off and discard The Healing Codes book solely on religious grounds. And that's precisely the case as you can read from the 71 years old reviewer in the one star reviews. And as I said in a comment there, if the codes work that's a shame.
Now onto the healing code itself. I don't have any illnesses so I can not comment in there. I've used the codes for some days and do feel more relaxed. I think the book itself is good for self awareness and dealing with emotional or stressing issues that may be detrimental to your health. I really feel wee need a shift in our current medical paradigm and energy healing may be a step in the correct direction. For what I've seen the testimonials seem to be genuine and results are promising across different modalities of energy healing, but still more scientific validation is still to come and we may still be a long way from fully understanding the mechanisms behind healing.
All the criticism and points I make in this review are my honest opinion and are intended to be constructive, but for all I know I may be wrong. Still I don't think The Healing Codes were downloaded from god and that credit should be given where credit is due. I really feel all the god explanations and bible mentioning are totally unnecessary and detrimental, for readers may feel alienated by this as I do. For these two reasons, that I feel the author is not giving credit where he should, and the inclusion of religion in the book as was my perception I give the book three stars.
The Healing Codes may work, and thus encourage potential readers to investigate on their own, but in my opinion this is built upon other systems and not a revelation from god to Alex, and all the dogma behind it should be done with. I guess the christian flavored energy healing niche had to be filled up. If this Alex version of energy healing is giving results and helping many people and more so than other modalities as some say, then regardless where the author says he got the healing codes from, I must say to everyone that contributed to this directly or indirectly and to Alex himself, thank you!! Hopefully the so needed shift in our current healing paradigm in closer at hand, and the required science research to back it up too.
