A doctor adept at lithotherapy writes a book in which she reports supposed extraterrestrial encounters, teaches crystal healing training and sells esoteric items at her aesthetic and alternative medicine clinic.
The research and verifications of our Investigation Office made it possible to identify several problematic behaviors of the DD Snezana Stanojlovic in connection with her involvement in the Mandala Institute of Medicine Buddha (IMBM) in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
The DD Stanojlovic also practices at the LuxAetre Center, located in Knowlton, in the Eastern Townships. In both cases, patients who go to receive their injections and other treatments find themselves surrounded by lithotherapy articles: stones, crystals, books and magazines extolling their virtues.
The code of ethics for doctors prohibits it.
“[Un médecin] may not participate in or advocate or promote activities or treatments that have not been scientifically recognized by the scientific community. And that is very clear,” says the president of the College of Physicians (CMQ), Dr. Mauril Gaudreault.
Here we see the IMBM waiting room. Different products are for sale, such as stones and books from Éditions Paume de Saint-Germain (left in the image). Dr. Stanojlovic’s consultation room is on the right.
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During a medical appointment with a representative of our Investigation Office, the doctor invited us to a meditation session at the Poorna-Jnana Yoga Foundation, which she has attended for more than 25 years, thus combining her interests professional and personal. She also introduced us to the display of spiritual and esoteric books from Éditions Paume de Saint-Germain, offering us the purchase of one of them.
Various books from Éditions Paume de Saint-Germain are sold in the IMBM waiting room, including “The Teachings of Simhananda”, written by Dr. Stanojlovic.
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A healer like “Master of Wisdom”
The DD Snezana Stanojlovic herself wrote a book for Éditions Paume de Saint-Germain: The teachings of Simhananda. She describes Simhananda as a “Master of wisdom,” “known for spreading the immemorial Truth.” This “master” is in fact Claude F. Roy, the one who founded with Claire Desrochers the IMBM, the Poorna-Jnana Yoga Foundation and all the branches affiliated with it, frequented by the DD Stanojlovic.
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In the book, she recounts Simhananda’s “numerous contacts” with angels and occupants of “flying saucers.” The doctor also relates the “healing” powers of the “Master of Wisdom” and the power of his inner barometer” which allows him to assess “in the blink of an eye” “the degree of health of people”.
“From a very young age, “healing” was natural. […] I could “act remotely” by simply answering a phone call. I asked the person in need to point the receiver towards the place where the pain was overwhelming them; sometimes, the handset became so hot that it slipped from his hands,” the doctor reports on page 219.
The code of ethics for doctors requires them to base their practice on science; it also prohibits them from consulting or collaborating with a “charlatan”.
” In my opinion [un charlatan] he’s an imposter. It is a person who takes advantage of the credulity and vulnerability of people, of others, by boasting or claiming to be able to cure certain illnesses.
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The DD Stanojlovic herself writes that the concepts put forward in the work are not scientific.
“One day, too, man’s faculty of thought will slip into his subconscious. The energy of the soul will then become the tool of knowledge and communication. […] The soul is not recognized by science; one day it will be,” we can read on page 53.
Training at $1950
IMBM clients pay $1,950 for a course on the alleged therapeutic properties of stones and crystals. DD Stanojlovic teaches part of this training to future lithotherapists. The director of the Institute, Claire Desrochers, defended her by saying that “she does not get involved at the level of stones and crystals”.
“She teaches the medical aspect…” she begins before interrupting herself and continuing: “Not “medical”. It teaches how the body functions. The various systems.”
Dr. Snezana Stanojlovic, in a promotional video for the lithotherapy training given at the IMBM.
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Whatever she teaches, she finds herself automatically associated as a doctor with a pseudoscientific practice, which is prohibited by her code of ethics.
The president of the CMQ believes, for his part, that “the duty of a competent doctor” is “to inform patients of the potential risks of going there.”
Promotional video
The participation of the DD Stanojlovic in training is also featured in an IMBM promotional video.
“We have internships here, we even have a doctor who comes to teach about physiology, how the human body works, to be able to properly recognize the symptoms,” the director of the place explains to the camera.
In the video, we see ex-doctor Gaétan Brouillard placing stones on a lying person, followed by images of the DD Snezana Stanojlovic, who welcomes a patient in her office at IMBM.
Doctors cannot allow their title to be used to promote commercial activities, even less if they are not scientifically recognized, their professional order points out.
To date, the disciplinary file of the DD Snezana Stanojlovic is a virgin. She did not respond to our requests for an interview.