In the age of social media, humans are either more connected or disconnected than ever—depending on whom you ask. Yet far beyond the realms of LinkedIn and Twitter, Eric Pearl and Reconnective Healing practitioners are exploring connection on a profoundly deeper level. The Los Angeles-based healing organization, The Reconnection, focuses on the idea of connecting not only to our selves and to others, but also to the universe as a whole.
"We are four-dimensional beings—height, width, depth, and time," says Pearl. "In science, time is illustrated as a bubble. We are this bubble, and everything inside is filled with energy. Suddenly, there is a shift in time that quantum physics acknowledges as time moving faster; if time is moving faster, what happens to our bubble? It expands out into the huge multidimensional universe, and our capacity to receive in our bubble has expanded as well. The result is a new, broader healing spectrum comprised of light, energy, and information."
So how does reconnecting to the universe overcome health ailments ranging from cerebral palsy to epileptic seizures to cancer? According to Pearl, it’s as simple as fine-tuning our greater awareness and accessing new availabilities of energy, light and information. "We are light, and not just in a spiritual, metaphysical way," says Pearl. "When our health is diminishing, our light diminishes. As we return to a natural vibration of light, anything denser than that light—which would be most health challenges—has nothing left to hold on to. That health challenge falls away, and healing is just that simple."
Although Reconnective Healing does share similarities with well-known techniques like Reiki and Qi Gong, Pearl is quick to distinguish it from energy healing. "Reconnective Healing actually turns the laws of physics inside out," says Pearl. "Energy healing gets weaker with distance, whereas this gets stronger with distance." Pearl also says that the various energy healing techniques act as subsets of Reconnective Healing, likening each individual technique to one letter in The Reconnection’s full alphabet. The result? Previously untapped amounts of potential. "The gift is that this new level of healing allows us to transcend our energy healing techniques and access more than all of them together ever could," shares Pearl.
Just as Reconnective Healing is a "big" concept, The Reconnection has experienced expansive growth in 15-plus years of existence. Pearl’s book, The Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself, has been translated into over 30 languages, and more than 60,000 people around the globe have been trained to conduct the work. Workshops and seminars are integral to the rapid success of Reconnective Healing; after all, though Pearl is at the forefront of this revolutionary work, he maintains that anyone is capable of harnessing the healing power he has accessed. "By the end of a weekend [seminar], attendees are able to access and facilitate any level of healing that I can," says Pearl, readily eschewing any sort of idea that he may be a guru. "Anyone in the world can do this, whether they work in a church deep in Brazil or on a mountaintop in Tibet. If I do my job here properly, when I leave the body, this work will be on the planet and evolving for eternity."
Based on his extensive knowledge, broad following, and "success rate," one might assume that Pearl has been doing this work for all of his life. Yet Pearl didn’t discover the gift until the early 90s, after he had already been at the helm of a thriving Los Angeles chiropractic practice for 12 years. It was then that patients began reporting astounding stories of healing and claiming that they felt his hands on him—even when he wasn’t touching them. And so went the roots of The Reconnection, which has enabled Pearl to explore this mysterious healing power with mind-blowing results. Pearl isn’t sure why he was chosen to pioneer this work, and his theories range from his mother’s own near-death experience while giving birth to a serendipitous encounter with a Venice Beach gypsy specializing in axiatonal alignment work. "People feel that this started through me and may have started before my physical life here," shares Pearl. "All of these things led up to a door opening, and this level of work coming through it."
Indeed, Pearl’s patients have reported miracles with the advent of Reconnective Healing. Yet Pearl believes that we’ve just begun to experience the possibilities of its power. "I don’t believe the purpose of this work is limited just to children with cerebral palsy regaining the use of their bodies or for cancer to disappear—this is much more than that," says Pearl. "This is about the introduction to our evolution as humankind."