Cold facts reveal the healer’s suicide advice: Don’t rip

Cold Facts has reviewed Love and light – a growing spiritual direction with a dangerous message.

A wall-raping reporter can document how a healer advises not to intervene to prevent a suicide.

– I had not tried to influence her, says the healer to the reporter.

TV4’s Kalla fakta has examined Love and light, a growing movement within the spiritual community. The movement, which has grown large on social media and often targets young girls, contains many familiar elements. There are crystals, incense, and healing – but also other messages.

When Kalla fakta’s reporter walks into the Lifeforum healing center in Stockholm with a hidden camera, she receives an unexpected piece of advice. When the reporter expresses concern about a friend who wants to kill himself, the healer advises against intervening.

– We cannot influence if someone wants to leave. If someone has chosen to leave, they have chosen to leave. If I were you, as a friend, I would have expressed my concern, but I would not have tried to influence her.

– Does the person really want to move on and I want to hold on to them, it’s quite selfish of me to hold on to them, the healer tells the reporter.

In conflict with Suicide Zero

Rickard Bracken, who is the general secretary of Suicide Zero, reacts strongly to the healer’s advice. He believes, on the contrary, that it is absolutely necessary to intervene if a person expresses a desire to commit suicide.

– It is often driven by impulse, in almost half of the cases, this moment when you act on your thoughts is less than ten minutes. So not acting during that time is completely wrong, then we know that someone’s support can be life-changing.

Lifeforum’s CEO, the energy healer Anders Knutas, also distances himself from the healer’s advice when a reporter plays the conversation for him.

– From what I heard now, it sounds like she believes that this person should not do anything. It does not follow our guidelines at all, says Anders Knutas.

Knuta’s own message

But in the review, Knutas is also confronted about the messages that he himself conveys.

Parts of his sermon deal with the fact that it is predetermined that a person will die early – and that, for example, you can contract an illness that causes you to die earlier than was intended.

– Many children take on an illness to teach their parents things, says Anders Knutas to TV4’s Kalla fakta.

– So if a child gets cancer, they have chosen it?, asks the reporter.

– Very many times it is like that, yes, Knutas replies.

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