Owners who say psychic healers cured their pets
Sounds barking? These owners were sceptical too – until their beloved animals defied all odds
was only when she saw her springer spaniel lying almost lifeless in the garden next day that she realised something was wrong.
‘She was in a bad way, not even able to stand, so I rushed her to the vet,’ says Lynne, from Bridgend, South Wales. ‘ Her stomach was pumped and she was given charcoal to counteract the chocolate, but it didn’t work. We watched her getting weaker — you could see she’d lost the will to live.
‘The vet said to me: “You’ve got a big decision to make here.”
‘I was thinking I couldn’t face putting her down, when suddenly, an image of Kishan flashed before my eyes.’
Kishan was Kishan Takahashi, a Newport- based healer who’d helped Lynne with a skiing injury to her knee a few years before. ‘If he couldn’t do anything, then at least I knew I’d have done everything I possibly could for Kiki,’ says Lynne.
‘Kishan started by looking into Kiki’s eyes, stroking her and placing his hands on her head. After an hour she looked brighter so I thought I’d let her carry on to see how she did.’ Lynne took her home, but a few days later Kiki started walking with her head down. The vet diagnosed a brain haemorrhage and said that she should be put down. Instead, Lynne took her back to Kishan.
‘He did some more healing on her and I took her back every day for five days. On that fifth day, she got up, drank some water and ate some mashed-up rice.’
Critics might argue that the dog’s body had healed naturally, but Lynne won’t hear a word of it. ‘I don’t understand why people can’t be more open-minded,’ she says. ‘There are lots of things I don’t understand but I don’t say they don’t work. Embrace other people’s beliefs. Without Kishan, Kiki wouldn’t be alive.’
Unsurprisingly, the animal healer agrees with Lynne. ‘I haven’t got time for people who don’t believe it,’ Kishan says. ‘They don’t get it. I’m helping people and animals, often when their conventional options have run out.’
He does seem to have an impressive cure rate. Ten-year- old dog Bonnie was brought to Kishan suffering from chronic inflammatory bowel disorder, following three days in a veterinary clinic when the vet had initially warned her owners that she wouldn’t survive the night.
The bichon frise fell ill again a few days later, so owners Keith and Mandy Harris took her to Kishan. ‘He laid hands on her — it was amazing to see,’ says Mandy, a 48-year- old optician from Cardiff. ‘She was just very relaxed, almost hypnotised, and after three visits she was like a puppy again — and it’s all thanks to Kishan.’
SARAH
Berrisford, 32, from Peterborough, believed in healing so much that she learned how to become a reiki master to help her horse recover from an accident.
‘ Pancho was playing with a another horse and he must have slipped and injured both his back legs,’ says Sarah. ‘ As soon as I saw him, I knew something wasn’t right.’
After two day’s rest, 13-year-old Pancho still hadn’t recovered so Sarah called the vet.
‘He diagnosed severely damaged suspensory ligaments and tendons in his hind legs and said he needed rest. I knew that was serious.’
Sarah’s grandmother had been a healer, so she did a one-day course in the subject and began laying hands on Pancho.
Six weeks after the accident, the cob still wasn’t improving. ‘ The vet gave him a 30 per cent chance of recovery, and I knew that if he didn’t get better then we’d have to think about having him put down. It was heart-breaking.’
So Sarah redoubled her efforts, taking another reiki course and giving him healing up to five times a day.
‘I’ve never felt so driven,’ she says. ‘ This time, I was more instinctive about where I laid my hands. Before, I’d put them on the injury; afterwards, I put them wherever I felt they were needed.
‘My hands would get hot and my legs would ache exactly where Pancho was injured. I started to feel I was doing some good.
‘After ten days, his eyes were brighter and he looked happier — and that’s when I knew it was going to work. Two weeks later, he wanted to trot.’
That was 11 years ago, and today Pancho is a stately 24-year-old.
‘There’s been no recurrence of the injury at all,’ says Sarah. ‘Instead, our relationship has gone a step further. Giving him healing seems to have given us a greater connection and understanding.’
Sarah is now a reiki master, teaching students from all over the world. ‘Nowadays, our minds are conditioned to just watching TV,’ she says. ‘But we’re capable of so much more.’
Whether we’re really capable of healing an animal with our minds though, remains open to debate.