A close look at therapeutic touch

Direct tests have failed to detect aura perception. 'Aura photography' is heat or skin conductance.

Trials show some benefit from relaxation and attention; the postulated energy has not been demonstrated.

Practice claims — prayer, reiki, chakras, astrology, tarot, manifestation.

Reiki, chakras, auras, crystals, prayer healing.

A careful guide to spiritual claims that are popular but weakly supported, including astrology, reiki, auras, crystals, manifestation, numerology, and predictive tarot.

A balanced synthesis of the strongest and weakest evidence across afterlife, consciousness, reincarnation, mystical, psi, and practice claims.

Core controlled-evidence source for separating possible relaxation/attention benefits from the unproven claim of transmitted healing energy.

Includes the standard skeptical critique and the conflation with Kirlian photography.

Conceptual home for chakras, auras, prana / qi / ki, and aural-energy claims more generally.

Useful neutral entry point that surfaces both the practice and the negative controlled-trial picture.

Useful conceptual framing for any 'energy healing' claim — explains why the term doesn't map onto measured forms of energy.