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APRIL — MAY 2007 @ REVIEWS THE TWIN DECEPTION dissenters to Roman Catholic Church dogma _ finish a session feeling an inner joy at the by Tony Bushby (some of whom are featured in his three-part _ restored connection with a loved one and a Joshua Books, Qld, Australia, 2007 "Criminal History of the Papacy" series in resolution of their grief. _The connections , ISBN 0-9757953-4-1 (368pp tpb) NEXUS 14/01-03). His assertions suggest were very real to the patients, and Dr Botkin Available: http:/(www.joshuabooks.com; — Christianity is surrounded by a thin veneer _can confirm the reality from his own IADCs. NEXUS offices and raise questions about the moral authority __In summarising the findings from his first n his latest work, Tony Bushby expands of the Church today. 84 cases, Dr Botkin says that 98 per cent I the revelations in his first book The fully resolved their sadness, and did so Bible Fraud (see NEXUS 8/06) with more INDUCED AFTER DEATH regardless of age, race, religious belief, etc. evidence for the existence of two twin broth- COMMUNICATION: A New Therapy ears colleagues apprying IADC 6 ers, Jesus Khrestus and Judas Thomas, who, for Healing Grief and Trauma het hn eauments, i otkin deve! mae he claims, eventually came to be depicted as by Allan L. Botkin, PsyD, with R. Craig is technique and set up training courses for 2 ge sychotherapists who are now spreading it a composite Jesus Christ figure by the Holy Hogan, PhD ey dwide I have already helped tnake a Coman Cowen alter the tscecclesiastical Hampton Roads, VA, USA, 2005 profound positive difference for thousands Born of a high-born Nabataean princess ISBN 1-57174-423-1 (210pp tpb) of people. (The IADC procedure for psy- Mariamne, grand-daughter of King Herod Available: http://www.hrpub.com chotherapists is outlined in appendix B.) and a Roman general with close links to the linical psychiatrist Dr Allan Botkin, This seemingly miraculous therapy (which Caesars, they were brought up in an Essene brought up in the cognitive-behavioural Michael Tymn discussed in NEXUS 13/05) community outside Jerusalem and were school, had been working in grief and has enormous implications: not only does wt known by a variety of names depending on trauma counselling, primarily with US war suggest that we have an innate potential for which source is consulted. When the game veterans for many years but with minimal self-healing, but that consciousness does therapeutic changes in patients treated with survive after physical death. Other potential Pras up for the militarist Jesus Khrestus, he "exposure therapy". By the early 1990s, he applications of IADC are mind-boggling. had a substitute (Simon of Cyrene) crucified in his place, but the event happened in had trained in Dr Francine Shapiro's radical Rome, not Jerusalem, says Bushby. So new therapy called EMDR: eye movement while his brother Judas Thomas then took desensitisation and reprocessing. over the messiah role, Jesus Khrestus had to In his often deeply moving book, Dr escape—to Kashmir, as the story goes. Botkin explains how in 1995 he stumbled on Bushby claims that the suppressed Gospel 4 new way, using EMDR, to get to the and Acts of Thomas (Judas Thomas, in fact) patient's core sadness", bypassing the anger contain explicit references to the twins that —_ and guilt that were covering it up. He dis- were suppressed in the canonical New covered that by helping the patient get to Testament but can still be seen in the first this core emotion and then doing another set English edition of the Vulgate Bible. Other | of EMDR movements and asking the patient evidence from the Dead Sea scrolls, from to close his eyes and go with whatever hap- Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo pened, the patient would undergo an and Leonardo da Vinci and from the ciphers _ "induced after death communication" of Templar initiate Francis Bacon point to (IADC) with the person they are grieving the twin messiah phenomenon. about, not dissimilar to a typical near-death Along the way, Bushby cites works from experience. It was common for patients to dissenters to Roman Catholic Church dogma (some of whom are featured in his three-part "Criminal History of the Papacy" series in NEXUS 14/01-03). His assertions suggest Christianity is surrounded by a thin veneer and raise questions about the moral authority of the Church today. finish a session feeling an inner joy at the restored connection with a loved one and a resolution of their grief. The connections were very real to the patients, and Dr Botkin can confirm the reality from his own IADCs. In summarising the findings from his first 84 cases, Dr Botkin says that 98 per cent fully resolved their sadness, and did so regardless of age, race, religious belief, etc. With trusted colleagues applying IADC to their EMDR treatments, Botkin developed his technique and set up training courses for psychotherapists who are now spreading it worldwide and have already helped make a profound positive difference for thousands of people. (The IADC procedure for psy- chotherapists is outlined in appendix B.) This seemingly miraculous therapy (which Michael Tymn discussed in NEXUS 13/05) has enormous implications: not only does it suggest that we have an innate potential for self-healing, but that consciousness does survive after physical death. Other potential applications of IADC are mind-boggling. NEXUS = 69 www.nexusmagazine.com