Editing Energo-Chromo-Kinese

{{Short description|Esoteric-oriented movement founded in 1987}}
'''Energo-Chromo-Kinese''', also named '''ECK''', is a [[pseudo-scientific]] and [[esoteric]]-oriented [[new religious movement]] founded in October 1987 in [[Villefranche-sur-Mer]] by '''Patrick Véret''',<ref>[[Renaud Marhic]], Alain Kerlidou, ''Sectes & mouvements initiatiques en Bretagne: (du celtisme au nouvel âge)'', 1996, p. 138</ref> a former [[acupuncturist]].

==History and organization==
ECK uses many associations and societies (including Connaissance ontologique universelle et recherche biologique énergétique (COURBE), Energo 8 international, Energo conseils, Jéricho 3000, Association pour la recherche en médecine énergétique and SOS Spasmophilie) and is particularly active in the [[therapeutic]] and [[medical]] fields.<ref>{{cite book |first=Jean-Marie |last=Abgrall |authorlink=Jean-Marie Abgrall |title=Soul snatchers: the mechanics of cults |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QoFJIJr57b8C&q=energo+chromo+kin%C3%A8se&pg=PA38 |year=1999 |pages=38, 39 |publisher=Algora |isbn=9781892941381 |accessdate=16 September 2009}}</ref> Centers and schools were subsequently established to teach the beliefs of the group, which won over business executives and major corporations, but especially doctors, dentists and [[kinesiotherapist]]s.<ref>Jean-Marie Abgrall, ''La mécanique des sectes'', 2002, p.50</ref> Customers who attend these four-degree courses become "kinergists". The doctrine is a "[[gnostic]] [[pantheism]]" and is explained in two books written by Patrick Véret: ''La Médecine énergétique'' and ''La spasmophilie enfin vaincue'', respectively written in 1981 and 1985.<ref name="Ref1">{{cite web |author=Centre Roger Ikor |title=Energo Chromo Kinese (Ordre nouveau des Templiers opératifs — ECK) |url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sos.derivesectaire/FICHES/energo_chromo_kinese.htm |work=Les sectes - Etat d'urgence |publisher=SOS Dérive sectaire |language=French |year=1995 |accessdate=16 September 2009}}</ref> According to French cult consultant [[Jean-Marie Abgrall]], ECK doctrines "represent an amalgam (or a synthesis, according to its proponents) of various theories referring to human "energy" — mainly Chinese medicine and Vedic medicine. According to ECK, the human body has seven energy centers that vibrate on the same frequencies as certain colors or certain sounds."<ref>{{cite book |title=Healing or stealing?: medical charlatans in the new age |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kel6_1aN5JwC&q=energo&pg=PA231 |last=Abgrall |first=Jean-Marie |year=2000 |language=French |pages=182–87| publisher=Algora |isbn = 9781892941282}}</ref>

On 22 February 1993, the French branch of the organization was dissolved by a court decision of the [[Tribunal de commerce]] of Paris and the founders split off. '''Véret''' founded the Nutrition énergétique des organes et des méridiens (NEOM), led the Ordre du temple de la Jérusalem céleste (OTJC).<ref name="Ref1"/>

The movement is currently active in France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Canada, the United States, Portugal, Australia...<ref>{{cite web |author=Jean Vernette et Claire Moncelon |title=Energo Chromo Kinese (Ordre nouveau des Templiers opératifs — ECK) |url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sos.derivesectaire/FICHES/energo_chromo_kinese.htm |work=Dictionnaire des groupes religieux aujourd'hui (religions - églises - sectes - nouveaux mouvements religieux - mouvements spiritualistes) |publisher=SOS Dérive sectaire |language=French |year=1995 |accessdate=16 September 2009}}</ref> In France, the group seems to be in the decline.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sectes: pourquoi elles envahissent l'Europe |url=http://www.lexpress.fr/informations/sectes-pourquoi-elles-envahissent-l-europe_599841.html |work=L'Express |language=French |date=13 October 1994 |accessdate=16 September 2009}}</ref>

==Reception==
ECK was listed as a [[cult]] in the [[List of groups referred to as cults or sects in government documents|1999 parliamentary report]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Rapport fait au nom de la Commission d'enquête sur les sectes - ''Les sectes et l'argent'' |url=http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dossiers/sectes/r1687anx.asp |publisher=Assemblée Nationale |language=French |year=1999 |accessdate=16 September 2009}}</ref> established by the [[Parliamentary Commission on Cults in France]] and also appeared in the 1997 Belgian parliamentary report.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} It was considered as dangerous because of its pseudo-medical speech which could be harmful to members' health, exaggerated requests for money, and indoctrination of the members who became dependent to the group. It was also criticized by anti-cult groups<ref>{{cite web |title=Energo-Chromo-Kinese, ECK  |url=http://www.info-sectes.ch/index-eck.htm |publisher=Info-sectes |language=French |accessdate=16 September 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Energo Chromo Kinese et aussi OTCJ (Temple de la Jérusalem Celeste et SARL NEOM |url=http://www.prevensectes.com/eck.htm |publisher=Prevensectes |language=French |accessdate=16 September 2009}}</ref> and former members.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sectes: en sortir, disent-ils |url=http://www.esj-lille.fr/atelier/magan2/teo/explorer/secte.html |publisher=École supérieure de journalisme de Lille |language=French |accessdate=16 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817131438/http://www.esj-lille.fr/atelier/magan2/teo/explorer/secte.html |archive-date=17 August 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2007, an academic thesis about the dangers of cults for health contained a large analysis of ECK beliefs and practices.<ref>{{cite web |author=Armelle Guivier |title=Les risques d'atteinte à l'intégrité physique encourus par les adeptes de sectes |url=http://www.info-sectes.ch/pdf/these-medecine-armelle-guivier-07-protegee.pdf |publisher=Info-sectes |language=French |pages=145–60 |year=2007 |accessdate=19 September 2009}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

*''Nutripuncture: Stimulating the Energy Pathways of the Body Without Needles'' by Patrick Veret M.D. Cristina Cuomo Fabio Burigana, Antonio Dell'Aglio, Healing Arts Press;
*''Vital impulses and human relations, applications of nutripuncture''  by  Patrick Véret, Cristina Cuomo, Fabio Burigana;

==References==
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[[Category:Religious organizations established in 1987]]
[[Category:New religious movements in France]]
[[Category:Pseudoscience]]
[[Category:New religious movements established in the 1980s]]