Norwegian princess's 'angel school' opens
Posted by:
flyingspur
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Date: August 20, 2007 12:06AM
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OSLO (AFP) - A school newly created by Norway's Princess Maertha Louise for students who wish to "get in contact with (their) angels" was due to open on Thursday at an undisclosed location because of the clamour it has caused.
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The project has been criticised in the Scandinavian country where some have called for the 35-year-old princess, a devotee of alternative therapies, to renounce her official title or even get medical help.
Maertha Louise, who claims she is clairvoyant, says the Astarte school will offer students the chance to get in contact with their angels, described as "forces that surround us and who are a resource and help in all the aspects of our lives."
The tuition fees amount to 12,000 kroner per semester (approximately 1,500 euros, 2,100 dollars) and the programme, which involves alternative therapies such as hands-on treatment and healing, lasts for three years.
Many Norwegians consider the idea wacky, according to media reports.
Newspaper Bergens Tidende has called for Maertha Louise, the daughter of King Harald, to renounce her title, while Swedish author and columnist Jan Guillou urged her to "seek treatment".
On Saturday, the princess defended her project on Norwegian public service television NRK.
"I'm glad I wasn't born 200 years ago, because I would surely have been burned at the stake long ago," she said.
Fourth in line to the throne, she already renounced most of her official duties and title of "her royal highness" after she married Ari Behn, a commoner, in 2002.
OSLO (AFP) - A school newly created by Norway's Princess Maertha Louise for students who wish to "get in contact with (their) angels" was due to open on Thursday at an undisclosed location because of the clamour it has caused.
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The project has been criticised in the Scandinavian country where some have called for the 35-year-old princess, a devotee of alternative therapies, to renounce her official title or even get medical help.
Maertha Louise, who claims she is clairvoyant, says the Astarte school will offer students the chance to get in contact with their angels, described as "forces that surround us and who are a resource and help in all the aspects of our lives."
The tuition fees amount to 12,000 kroner per semester (approximately 1,500 euros, 2,100 dollars) and the programme, which involves alternative therapies such as hands-on treatment and healing, lasts for three years.
Many Norwegians consider the idea wacky, according to media reports.
Newspaper Bergens Tidende has called for Maertha Louise, the daughter of King Harald, to renounce her title, while Swedish author and columnist Jan Guillou urged her to "seek treatment".
On Saturday, the princess defended her project on Norwegian public service television NRK.
"I'm glad I wasn't born 200 years ago, because I would surely have been burned at the stake long ago," she said.
Fourth in line to the throne, she already renounced most of her official duties and title of "her royal highness" after she married Ari Behn, a commoner, in 2002.
Norwegian princess's 'angel school' opens
Posted by:
josey
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Date: August 20, 2007 10:15PM
i have never met the princess and i do not know about her school other than the generalised media aol link given above.
i do by strange conincidence know that her training was as a physiotherapist and that the body work she has been trained in is part of an in depth training that takes i believe 4 years of intense work , partly with the intention that all therapists will work with as much integrity and understanding as possilbe.
This training was also devised by a physiotherapist as a result of years of clinical work and obseration who is now in her nineties, still going strong and originally a refugee from Nazi Germany.
i just felt it was important to point this out.
i do by strange conincidence know that her training was as a physiotherapist and that the body work she has been trained in is part of an in depth training that takes i believe 4 years of intense work , partly with the intention that all therapists will work with as much integrity and understanding as possilbe.
This training was also devised by a physiotherapist as a result of years of clinical work and obseration who is now in her nineties, still going strong and originally a refugee from Nazi Germany.
i just felt it was important to point this out.
Norwegian princess's 'angel school' opens
Posted by:
flyingspur
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Date: August 21, 2007 11:21AM
Quote
josey
i have never met the princess and i do not know about her school other than the generalised media aol link given above.
i do by strange conincidence know that her training was as a physiotherapist and that the body work she has been trained in is part of an in depth training that takes i believe 4 years of intense work , partly with the intention that all therapists will work with as much integrity and understanding as possilbe.
This training was also devised by a physiotherapist as a result of years of clinical work and obseration who is now in her nineties, still going strong and originally a refugee from Nazi Germany.
i just felt it was important to point this out.
And your point is?
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