I am Bill Torvund's brother. I have a few comments on this thread that others might find interesting. I note that previous versions of his Website are linked to one of these messages, and I shall comment on some of his claims:
"Bill Torvund began his healing ministry as a very young child, and had the grace of encountering his spiritual master, Babaji Mahamuni Nagaraj, when he was four years old."
Bill spent his early years in rural Kentucky (Corbin), and, like most four-year-olds, was always under the supervision of older relatives, including me. (I was seven at the time.) I really believe that if a spiritual master had paid him such a visit, his presence would have been noted.
After graduating from high school, Bill entered training to become a diesel mechanic. He was also employed as a security guard and a service-station attendant prior to entering his ministry. I did not get the impression of intense spiritual reflection in making such decisions.
Even without any acquaintance with Bill, this claim can be evaluated:
"Since then, he has performed over a million healings on thousands of people from all over the world, and has travelled extensively and lectured on all aspects of spiritual tradition."
If a "healing" takes 20 minutes (just a guess), and he has been involved in it for 40 years (the last time I was in touch with him regularly), a million sessions would require that all his waking hours were spent in performing them. Yet there were only "thousands" of different people involved. This would imply that on the average each patient had something like hundreds of sessions.
As to the Greek Orthodox Church in Pocatello, Bill did attend that church (at least for a time, in 1974), but did not take an identifiable part in the worship. I think that only priests ordained in that faith are allowed to officiate in its Eucharist.
I would not encourage anyone who was seriously ill to depend upon Bill for healing. I think the delay occasioned by such reliance could have a detrimental effect on the patient's health in many cases.
"Bill Torvund began his healing ministry as a very young child, and had the grace of encountering his spiritual master, Babaji Mahamuni Nagaraj, when he was four years old."
Bill spent his early years in rural Kentucky (Corbin), and, like most four-year-olds, was always under the supervision of older relatives, including me. (I was seven at the time.) I really believe that if a spiritual master had paid him such a visit, his presence would have been noted.
After graduating from high school, Bill entered training to become a diesel mechanic. He was also employed as a security guard and a service-station attendant prior to entering his ministry. I did not get the impression of intense spiritual reflection in making such decisions.
Even without any acquaintance with Bill, this claim can be evaluated:
"Since then, he has performed over a million healings on thousands of people from all over the world, and has travelled extensively and lectured on all aspects of spiritual tradition."
If a "healing" takes 20 minutes (just a guess), and he has been involved in it for 40 years (the last time I was in touch with him regularly), a million sessions would require that all his waking hours were spent in performing them. Yet there were only "thousands" of different people involved. This would imply that on the average each patient had something like hundreds of sessions.
As to the Greek Orthodox Church in Pocatello, Bill did attend that church (at least for a time, in 1974), but did not take an identifiable part in the worship. I think that only priests ordained in that faith are allowed to officiate in its Eucharist.
I would not encourage anyone who was seriously ill to depend upon Bill for healing. I think the delay occasioned by such reliance could have a detrimental effect on the patient's health in many cases.