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So Charo went to the local village beach of Chinarral where she found some stones with a strange characteristic: they had the shape of human organs. The most curious thing was that the edges of the different stones fitted into each other as if they were pieces of a jigsaw puzzle forming the entire human body. Moreover, on coming into contact with these stones, Charo felt that she was in contact with a real energy. From that day, Charo made many visits to the beach, supplying herself with stones and sea water—her ‘instruments’ of work as a healer. She performs healings totally for free, not even accepting ‘tips' from her patients. Her results are so spectacular that not a sin- gle day passes without dozens of people visiting her home in the hope of being cured from all types of illnesses. When a patient visits Charo Alvarez for the first time, she invites him/her to sit in front of her on the other side of a table on which a volcanic rock has been placed. The patient then places his hands on this rock and closes his eyes while the healer recites some prayers. A few minutes after- wards, Charo already knows what is wrong with her patient and then gives him/her two healing stones and 2-3 litres of sea water. Apparently the treatment is identical for everybody. Each patient is instructed to take home the water and stones, place them in a suitable container and, during the fol- lowing two weeks, rub the back of their hands with one of these 'magic' stones. And that's it. One of the phenomena making this story different is the colour change of the water containing the stones. Apparently after eight or nine days of treatment, the sea water changes its crystalline blue colour to that of an opaque red or orange, resembling blood. To date, nobody has been able to explain this transformation, despite the water having been analysed in various Spanish and foreign laboratories. Charo Alvarez has become so popular that her fame has crossed international frontiers. About a year ago, the English weekly, Psychic News, published an article about Charo Alvarez, with the title, "Spanish Healer's Sacred Stones Turn Blood-Red". The report provoked great interest in specialised circles—so much so that the director of Britain's Channel 4 TV program, Schofield's Quest, sent a film crew to Spain to look into the matter. Charo Alvarez was interviewed and filmed at her home by the television crew. Before returning to England, the reporter collected a sample of water that had been used in the cure of a patient and which apparently had taken on the colour of blood. The sample was sent to the chemi- cal laboratories of the University of Birmingham for study. The interview as well as the preliminary results of the analy- sis were broadcast on Schofield's Quest on 3rd December 1995. The results were quite disturbing, for the phenomenon in question had no explana- tion whatsoever. It could only be reported that the liquid contained a high concentra- tion of amino acids, some of human origin, as well as extraordinarily high concentra- tions of gold, silver and copper. As the laboratory analysis was non-con- clusive, I thought it would be interesting to know Charo Alvarez's opinion. Robert Goodman (RG): What relation- ship exists between the stones you use and the sea water? Charo Alvarez (CA): I believe there is an exchange of positive and negative ener- gies between the stones and the water. While the stones absorb negative energy from the patient's body, the water positive- ly 'recharges' the stone in a continuous cycle. Regarding the healing process, this occurs in the patient's mind which sends the correct orders to the entire body for it to function correctly. Healing the mind, heals the body. RG: What is the composition of the stones used in healing? Have they any spe- cial component? CA: They are completely normal and I collect them from Chinarral Beach, quite near here. They are mainly of flint, com- monly used by Stone Age man to make his tools. And, like him, I also use them as my own working tools, as important elements in the healing process. And this compari- son makes sense because, in those times, mankind knew how to cure the mind through the stones—at least this is what Maria del Mar communicated to me. In fact, she wants to reveal the secrets of that civilisation through me. RG: The water analysis done by Birmingham University indicates the pres- ence of human residues. Do you think this is a proof that your sacred stones absorb the negative energy from your patients? CA: Iam completely convinced. A few days ago I received a letter from Sarah Edwards, of Schofield's Quest, who told me that many healers wrote to the program after the broadcast, informing her that they had also experienced similar changes of colour in the water they use in their own treatments. And it would seem that the change progressively occurs as the illness disappears—the intensity of the colour depending on the final state of health of the patient. (This is the abridged English-language version of an article first published in the Spanish journal, Mas Alla de la Cienca, issue no. 89, May 1996.) BERMUDA TRIANGLE BERMUDA SOVARE c CC 2? NEXUS - 65 DECEMBER 1996 - JANUARY 1997