Hello Thomas and Elizabeth,

Thank you for replying. In regards to Hansard's defense, "crazy wisdom" only worked though somewhat weakly, for those from legitimate backgrounds and lineages such as Chögyam Trungpa. Hansard has made up his story, he comes from no such background or lineage, his publishers and book agent did not do their homework, as well as all the journalists involved in building up the myth of this man as I said, though I have no doubt they did so unwittingly.

It seems everyone simply relied on the credibility of each other and assumed that the others had carried out the proper checks and background research necessary. Vogue, the Independent, the Guardian, the Scotmen, Hodder and Stroughton, they all helped to build up this man's myth and need to be encouraged now to turn this around.

*Please note that neither his publishers, his book agent, nor any of the journalists who penned stories in his favour, came to his defense. Not a one has made a public statement or announcement on his behalf.

Christopher Hansard did not receive teachings from a Tibetan teacher of Dur Bon or otherwise in New Zealand.

While he may have received minimal sword and martial arts training as a boy in public school, his main vocation in University was film making and acting. Those from New Zealand can no doubt attest to this.

I am so confident in stating here that Christopher Hansard in fact made up his entire story (therefore 3 books) of his teacher and teachings, that I challenge Mr. Hansard to prove it. Those who knew him in New Zealand may also have an easier time accessing records of any such Tibetan, or Indian families immigrating to New Zealand over that period. I will do my best to help.

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dr. thomas
He does indeed need to be made accountable.

But I can hear his defense, saying it is crazy wisdom, that he is developing relationships with people to transform and heal them, etc.

He could use that for defense, however he is not having sex with patients to transform them, nor to heal them, as he has no such education or knowledge in which to do so. He has caused considerable harm not healing. Simply by proving and focusing on his lack of credentials in which he is claiming to 'heal' people will we be able to prove his true intentions for luring them onto the treatment couch. None of these women leave as "happy customers" in any way, many have been told that it was their fault that their treatments did not work. Not only are they stripped of confidence, they are filled with self doubt.

The myth was built up so that they blamed themselves as it could not have possibly had anything to do with Christopher, "he has helped so many, he is so great, and he has always been surrounded by such wonderful people who support him". It is only this last part that was ever true.

The unfortunate thing here is that people have been convinced that any benefit that has occurred for them came from him and his treatments, or workshops. But they have no former experience or point of reference in which to gauge these events. For many it has been their one and only experience of this world, so they do not have anything to compare it to. He has also stolen many of his 'teachings' from other legitimate teachings, which has served to confirm or back up his story.

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Wouldn't it be nice to have a victim circle...

Yes it would. If all the women and men were to meet and corroborate their stories, they would not only find they were all told that they were each special, that those acts they were invited to take part in would 'bind' them to him in a sort of sacred marriage, and stealing a line from that other forum as you mentioned Elizabeth, they were told it would benefit them, their healing, and their lessons with him. He inflicted further psychological damage by telling each one of them that he would visit them in their dreams, as those that I spoke to felt like he was still with them somehow. They are left with nightmares, not dreams. He created a very powerful myth for them. He made students and workshop participants bow down to him at workshops, but diverted this by saying they were not bowing to him, but to the Lha Khu, which he of course embodied.

Thanks for directing us to UK Skeptics, it has taken a recent turn for the better, though I suspect mahakala is your gondolf who is attempting to defend Hansard there having been banned from here.

A victims circle where everyone could come together to share their similar stories, support each other and move forward to take action together would benefit everyone, it might help put this to rest for those who have been struggling to do so for many years, and most importantly it would stop it from happening.

I urge those who have shared these experiences to come forward, please contact Witness, they have access to lawyers, and can protect you by law, by keeping your name and any personal private details out of the public eye.
I invite you to contact David Balen's, Christopher Hansard's insurers and make them listen. They could be held accountable in the future for negating their responsibility and at the very least not conducting an investigation.

For those apprentices, students, patients, participants who feel they have no recourse because they 'consented', you did not consent in any way, please do not be convinced that you did, and do not carry any guilt with you once so ever. You did not know what you were 'consenting' to. You thought he was a legitimate teacher and healer. That is what you were told and he took great lengths to convince you. He was able to do this not because you were foolish or naive in any way, and I must apologise for implying that patients were passive or submissive, but you were compassionate and had no reason to disbelieve him. Many people before you such as the media, and his publishers who should have known better, all helped to build him up and create the illusion.

It was not because you were bad or foolish in any way, it was because he was that good at fooling you.

Pema,

Could you please post what the media or yourself as a journalist would require for those wishing to approach the media?

thank you

Gita,

I can categorically state that Christopher Hansard's account of his Tibetan medical training in NZ is a complete fabrication. If it were true, he would have been in the last stages of his training at the time I knew him, when he evinced absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of the subject, or indeed any interest. What he knew about medicine was just a bit of the complementary/New Age stuff that was just coming into vogue, which a lot of people knew a bit about. There's a small but fatal clue in the famous discovery-on-the-beach story where he says "the year was 1959 and I was four years old." He was born in 1957. Such lapses are useful alerts that whatever follows is unlikely to be a full and faithful account. The only way he could create such a mythology around his life was by removing himself to a great distance from his country of origin.

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Elizabeth Newton
Gita,

I can categorically state that Christopher Hansard's account of his Tibetan medical training in NZ is a complete fabrication. If it were true, he would have been in the last stages of his training at the time I knew him, when he evinced absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of the subject, or indeed any interest. What he knew about medicine was just a bit of the complementary/New Age stuff that was just coming into vogue, which a lot of people knew a bit about. There's a small but fatal clue in the famous discovery-on-the-beach story where he says "the year was 1959 and I was four years old." He was born in 1957. Such lapses are useful alerts that whatever follows is unlikely to be a full and faithful account. The only way he could create such a mythology around his life was by removing himself to a great distance from his country of origin.

This was also mentioned on another site. He was born on January 3, 1957 which would mean that he was 4 in 1961 correct?
Which is contrary to what many of the press were sold. [www.bonmedicine.co.uk]

Why didn't anyone do their homework is what I want to know. Anyone who coined a story, or wrote an article featuring this man, those who introduced him time and time again as "one of the most highly sought-after and respected practices of integrated medicine in the world." as Liz Hancock of the Listener Magazine did, what of Vogue who regularly articled him, the Independent who did a story on him, and what of his publishers?
Unlike those mentioned, I have done my research.

They are all responsible in some way for helping him build up his story and his repoire with the public, leaving them largely vulnerable.

Elizabeth, could your testimony or submission alone not be enough to level at the very least a case of fraud against Hansard? This could very well help everyone including those patients who were told over the years that to sleep with Hansard would benefit them somehow spiritually or otherwise. He has no such training, he was not now, nor was ever a "Master Physician" and he has done considerable long term damage.

We should both look into this over the next few days and keep our findings public as a resource for others.

Well, I had hoped my initial testimony might help to level a case of fraud as you say, but maybe the RR forum is a bit of an insular community. I read the Liz Hancock article in 2002 and was astonished to say the least; I saw the discrepancies with what I knew but I let it go since (a) I didn't know him for very long and certainly didn't have his whole life-story which he was evasive about even in 1982 (b) the activities of this very-erstwhile friend weren't at that time of great importance to me, although I had always wondered what happened to him and (c) the article was of course glowing and everything seemed well and harmonious even if with a strong whiff of bogusness so I thought; why bother urging the NZ Listener to investigate more? It's no longer my business and his business is his business even if it does involve a few lies and disguises which were always present. Now I wish I had. As I've said in previous posts I came upon this thread quite by accident and I was appalled by the testimonies although not entirely surprised. But it is not something that comes readily to the attention of people who knew him a long time ago, whose testimonies may be valuable.

Apart from Liz Hancock's article there has never been any publicity about Christopher Hansard in NZ; as I said, because he required distance in order to reinvent his history. Had there been, no doubt many others would have come forward. I am not in the UK but I am certainly willing to testify what I know of him to any sources outside this forum if they can be found and if it is relevant.

Thank you for the above Elizabeth. Hopefully Lorenzetti will have something to offer as well in regards to this.

I was wondering if you would not mind elaborating somewhat on what specifically he knew about "...the complementary/New Age stuff that was just coming into vogue, which a lot of people knew a bit about."

If anyone is in New Zealand perhaps they could look into immigration records during the time that Christopher has claimed his teacher came to him on the beach. I would suggest looking in to the records up to and including the time he was 4 years of age, which was in 1961 contrary to varying reports. These records can be easily accessed by the public. I would go as far back as 20 years to 1941, as Christopher was oft fond of saying that his teacher's tribe immigrated before China's invasion and illegal annexation of Tibet which was during the years of 1949-1951. Therefore you might even wish to research further or acquire immigration or refugee records from India where he claimed in another interview that his teacher roamed for some time before moving his family finally to New Zealand.

Please do not be surprised if any information turns up that seems to correspond at all with his claims. Christopher Hansard lies along the truth. He has had much time, and has devoted many years into researching and building his story. So do not be discouraged.

Please post all findings publicly.

Christopher Hansard:[Heart Surgery]

by Christopher Hansard

The feathers of the wing must be burnt

in order to renew and grow into a great aid to flying

the eagle that is afraid of heights will fall

and then the earth will teach that eagle to soar

the broken hearted will learn the way of healing the broken heart

and share this lesson of how to become an emotional heart surgeon

people love to judge and spit out the pain of their own hearts

in the judgement of others

people believe in opinion not facts

it is better in the end not to judge

but to judge only oneself

and look inward

to reclaim the courage

for responsibility

of the self

and being

August 20, 2008 No Comments

I just had to address his latest... "The Hansard Art of Peculiar and Undue Persuasion" as this is so obviously in response to his being sighted with one of his own patients. Can I honestly help it if I take lunch in the same park?

Christopher Hansard, you are not an eagle nor are you a Lha Khu. This current and ongoing negative publicity has not been brought upon you by any personal vendetta's, heartbreak or because you have demonstrated some special calling, it is because you have exploited people, mostly women who have come to you for help with the belief that you had credentials and were offered the extensive training you claim to have had in 3 books as well as countless interviews where you lied to the public on a mass scale through the media. You used the media, and you used individuals through out your career.

You are wrong, people are beginning to believe in facts, not opinions any longer, and most certainly not yours.

If this is what you refer to so rancorously as "judgment" then so be it.
I judge you.

If you truly feel enough of the courage that you currently speak of in your daily blog then I invite you to introduce your current partner to the other patients she so recently bedded beside and let your patients be the judge of your moral and ethical standards or lack thereof.

Cirrus and many of your apprentices alluded that you were getting help in the way of therapy. At that time, though angry, they seemed almost hopeful in this offering.
If this is true, do your therapists condone your continuing relationships with the multiplicity of patients we have knowledge you have been with, and continue to be with.

Do your therapist know how you have chosen to continue to run your practice?
Do the patients know about each other?

I didn't think so...

Okay. I will rack my memory. There wasn't really much evidence of anything. As I recall he appeared to know a bit about massage and reflexology pressure points. As I said a lot of people did around then. Whether the knowledge was accurate I had no way of telling. Most of it was just talk about "healing" - which seemed to include just making a person feel good, or happy; he once introduced me to some people telling them I was "a healer" which was annoying as they started asking me questions about it and of course I wasn't. "Healing" was a very popular topic with him, extending into many spheres - theatre as healing, for example. (He had been involved with a fringe theatre company. I don't know what it was like; it had finished when I knew him.) He was interested in Edgar Cayce who as you know was reputed to be a clairvoyant who could diagnose illness and advise remedies while in trance. Cayce was much admired by the "magical order" Hansard was involved with; Builders of The Adytum, a California-based group which was founded partly on the teachings of the Golden Dawn, study of the Kabalah and Tarot. (See Dion Fortune, etc.) Just how far advanced he was in this esoteric tradition I don't know but it infused his thinking and writing. He said he was "an initiate." I clearly remember him saying he preferred "the Western way" to the Eastern spiritual doctrines. He did claim to have been instructed in the Western esoteric tradition from an early age, by his grandfather. I can't vouch either way if there is any truth in that. He was evasive and inclined to fantasise about his family but as Lorenzetti has said he had some good reasons to be. But he'd certainly studied it some of it somehow. The story about the grandfather realising his "spiritual potential" as a small child and choosing him for special instruction runs like an early version of the "Urgyen NamChuk" account. But he never mentioned Urgyen, or Tibet, or Bon, nor did he claim to have any specialist medical knowledge. Spiritual, yes, but not medical, and Western, not Eastern.

Hi Gita, Hi Elizabeth,
When I first started investigating CH in the mid 90s I contacted various people in the Tibetan diaspora with Bon connections. I wanted to find out if any Bon lamas were in NZ in the early 1960s. I eventually connected with a Bon lama who stated categorically that there were none in NZ at that time. I asked how he could be sure of this. He replied that Bon lamas are very thin on the ground and that they all know each other. Other research revealed beyond doubt tha CH makes up his life story and experience he goes along. This is verified by more than one person. I spoke with many people who kinew CH way back when he first made an appearance in London -- before he set himself up as a *healer* -- and through his various incarnations in that guise. I have all this background on file. What I don't have is women willing to be interviewed in person and to go on record. They could be disguised in the media, but they would have to meet me or other journalists and make a signed statement. No media org will do an item on the basis of internet information alone.

Christopher Hansard needs to be made accountable. If he is not, and those in his circle currently continue to protect him, as he has drawn on your sympathies, encouraged your collusion, and made himself the victim, he will in turn continue to harm people. He has thus far suffered no consequence.

Please direct any complaints or concerns about Christopher Hansard to:
David Balens at Balens Insurance: 01684 893 006, info@balens.co.uk, david@balens.co.uk
Detective Inspector Watling or Baxter: 020 8246 0128
Councillor Tim Ahern: cllr.ahern@rbkc.gov.uk
Hodder & Stoughton (Hodder Mobius) publishers: 020 7873 6000

Please direct any complaints or concerns about Stephanie Wright to the above and to:

Emma Willis at the General Chiropractic Council – e.willis@gcc-uk.org

This is clearly a complicated story both for the apprentices of Christopher Hansard and for the many clients who passed through his clinic. I have found an organisation in London dealing specifically with abuse within the healthcare environment.

[www.witnessagainstabuse.org.uk]

‘Witness’ offers expertise in dealing with the issues discussed on this forum. They also have access to sensitive legal support and to the press. Please contact them and offer your stories. Through them we should be able to coordinate a process of repair for the damage done and stop Hansard from doing this again.

You can email them or call the helpline on 08454 500 300. They are aware of this situation.