Dora Kunz née Theodora Sophia van Gelder (April 28, 1904 – August 25, 1999) was a Dutch-American writer, psychic, alternative healer,[1] occultist and leader in the Theosophical Society in America.
[2][12] Therapeutic touch, stated Kunz, has its origin from ancient Yogic texts written in Sanskrit, which describe it as a pranic healing method.
[1] Kunz philanthropically directed her clairvoyance towards helping physicians in complicated medical cases,[13] in particular aiding in diagnoses through her capability of seeing the effects of diseases in the aura of the patients.
More specifically she reported the existence of centers of energy in human body, also known as chakras, changing their colors according to diseases that affect matching endocrine glands.
[15] Kunz claims that devas are intimately connected with a vital energy, transmitting force to preserve and heal the Earth.
[2][6] The healing method, the "Therapeutic Touch" conceived by Dolores Krieger and Dora Kunz in the early 1970s using the "human energy field" was tested in 1996 by Emily Rosa.