Richard Gordon: Quantum Touch and Beyond
“Today, I have an incredible guest joining me today is Richard Gordon, who is an energy medicine pioneer, a visionary and the creator of Quantum Touch. Together we are going to discuss something that’s near and dear to my heart, which is healing and energy, and we’re going to explore what the next evolutionary steps may be that consciousness is taking us to, especially in the ever-expanding field of energy medicine. “ ~Sylvia Henderson
An Interview with Richard Gordon: Quantum Touch and Beyond
Interview by Sylvia Henderson
We’re going to talk about a remarkable hand on healing modality called Quantum Touch, which is so effective and easy to learn that even children can learn to use it to heal themselves and others. And we are also going to talk about how energy medicine is evolving from hands on healing to something entirely different.
Richard Gordon has over 37 years of experience in the field of energy medicine and is the best-selling author of Quantum Touch: The Power to Heal, which is published in 17 different languages, and the author of Your Healing Hands: The Polarity Experience, which is available in 10 different languages. He’s also the author of Quantum Touch 2.0: The New Human, which was published in 2013.
Richard Gordon’s journey began while attending Christos School of Natural Healing in Taos, New Mexico in the 1970s where he discovered the power of working with energies in hands-on healing. This work led to a wide range of further discoveries as Richard began to explore all the energies around his hands.
He eventually met an awe-inspiring healer named Bob Rasmussen, who had an extraordinary ability to heal people’s bodies with his hands. Richard began apprenticing with Bob, and this is how Richard’s work was born.
Richard Gordon founded the Quantum Touch organization more than 16 years ago. This organization currently has more than 1,400 certified practitioners in over 50 countries around the globe. Their vision and mission are to help improve the health and quality of life for many people using simple, easy to learn energy healing techniques.
With his expertise and passion for sharing the message about hands on healing, Richard has traveled around the world to speak at medical centers, conferences and chiropractic colleges. He was a faculty member at Heartwood Institute and the Holistic Health Institute.
Interview with Richard Gordon
Richard Gordon: Thank you, Sylvia. It’s a real pleasure to be here.
Sylvia Henderson: Well, it’s absolutely a pleasure to have you. You have such a huge wealth of knowledge and wisdom. So, what is Quantum Touch, and what makes Quantum Touch unique from other energy medicine modalities?
Richard Gordon: Well, Quantum Touch in its essence has started as a form of energy healing, primarily hands-on healing. And what make it different than other modalities is both its simplicity and ease of use but its power. The way we do it is we’re using a combination of breathing and body awareness exercises the entire time we’re working. So, we’re always feeling awareness through our body in various patterns and moving the breath in various patterns in conjunction with those body sensations.
This raises the life force energy of our body and our hands, which first off protects us from picking up any energy from the other person, secondly, raises our energy really high, so the other person ends up matching the vibration that you’re holding the field of. And we like to say that the definition of a healer is someone who was sick and got well, and a great healer is someone who was very sick and got well quickly, because ultimately, we don’t heal anybody else. You don’t really heal a cut, you don’t know how to heal a cut on your finger. It’s not something you’re doing with your intellect. It’s the body and spiritual intelligence that’s healing the cut. We simply provide that field of energy to allow other people to accelerate their own self-healing.
Sylvia Henderson: So, what I really love about Quantum Touch is that the practitioner who are the facilitator, the one who is raising their vibration that is helping the actual healer, that person that has the ailment raise their vibration, this entrainment happens. And so, both individuals, are they receiving benefits then?
Richard Gordon: Yeah, absolutely. One of the physicians who wrote a review on my book had written–Jerry Pitman. He wrote that, in its elegance, Quantum Touch first provides healing for the practitioner. So, both the practitioner and the client are both receiving the benefit simultaneously.
So, it’s a very simple, powerful way that ordinary people can very quickly and effectively access the power of their11 amhealing potentials. And it doesn’t have any mysticism around it. It has no magic handshake or symbols or anything like this. It’s just breathing and body awareness and connecting to your love and desire to be helpful.
Sylvia Henderson: So, I’m just curious – how did you step into this knowledge and knowing the importance of the breath and the body awareness and how effective that is for creating the environment for true healing to take place?
Richard Gordon: Sure, yeah. I met this gentleman named Robert Rasmussen who showed me how to use breathing and body awareness. My girlfriend who was in front of the room, and he pointed out her scoliosis; we’re all looking at the bones in her back and how bent up she was, and he touched her hip, and the hip just rolled back into alignment like a hot knife through butter. And the bones in her back started moving, and I was astounded, assuming I’ll never learn to do this and no one either will be able to do it. But, I discovered he could.
It took me many years before I evolved it further, but I got down to the simplicity of it, and I was also able to just take it further and further – new breathing techniques, new ways of moving the energy, vortexing it, working with the chakras and so forth. So, I evolved the work radically, and then about eight or nine years ago, I found I was having dinner with some friends, and one friend said, oh, show how you can move a person’s posture back into alignment with a light touch, and I said, sure.
So, this woman stood up, and just before–I measured her, and her right hip was really high in the back, and just before I was about to put my hands on to do it, he said, you know, I bet you could do that without touching. And I said, really? He said, yeah, go ahead and try.
So, I meditated and measured her again, and she’d come completely back into alignment, and I have blown away, completely astounded. And I tested it thousands of times because I’m the biggest skeptic. I start off very skeptical myself, and then I have to show myself something so many times to get past my own skepticism. And once I did, I started asking the question, and it’s a great question – if this is possible, what else can we do?
And I kept asking that question for years and eventually wrote Quantum Touch 2.0: The New Human, outlining, I don’t know, about five or six new human abilities that we didn’t know we had. And that led to the Quantum-Touch Level Two Workshop where you can work two or three times faster without even touching somebody.
Now, combining the basic quantum touch work with the level two is synergistically more powerful than just doing the level one or the level two. So, I really encourage people to do both. But, for example, you can work on multiple conditions simultaneously with a person, you can work on multiple people simultaneously.
Rupert Sheldrake gave a famous Ted Talk where he talked about 10 Dogmas of Science, and that was the first dogma of materialism, the assumption that everything has a physical basis. But, there are other assumptions, too, and Quantum Touch challenges some of these fundamental assumptions that the scientific community has made.
Sylvia Henderson: So, where do you see us evolving to next?
Richard Gordon: Oh, boy. Well, in June, about–probably about six–a little less than six full months from now or right about that, my new book will be out, my fourth book, and it’s gonna be called The Secret Nature of Matter. And I have made some discoveries that astound me every day that I think about them.
