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DRS. BATEMAN, MILLET, & HIRSBRUNNER
TBM Alive! 2011
I cannot emphasize enough how much of a debt the TBM family and their clients owes to Dr. Brian L. Bateman. Nor can I overstate how much of an inspiration he has been to me personally. He practiced for 52 years. If that is not impressive, consider that he was a licensed chiropractor, naturopath, and acupuncturist. That is no small feat given that there were ongoing licensure requirements for each! He once told me, "40% of my patients have cancer, 40% have a disabling chronic disease, and 20% are odds and sods."
While he began with chiropractic and naturopathy, he was an early-adopter of acupuncture. He became one of the first non-immigrants to practice acupuncture in all of Australia. He helped to form the acupuncture association and worked to establish licensure. His quest for knowledge, which he had in spades, led him to study electro-acupuncture according to Voll (EAV). He acquired a Vega machine, which is based on that art, and it became his preferred means of accessing his patients biocomputers and to facilitate the healing he so deeply yearned for them to receive. After I had observed him using his Vega machine, for all intents and purposes, I realized that the device was truly an extension of the man himself.
Upon being introduced to TBM, he embraced it right away, could never say enough about how much he admired Victor, and became a lifelong advocate. He was very supportive and encouraging of me when I took the helm. It was welcome as I felt so inadequate, and still do by the way.
One of the ways he leant his support to TBM was to attend TBM Alive! nearly every year it was offered for decades. During this time he gave countless presentations. The problem was that most everyone in attendance only spoke English and Dr. Bateman communicated in a rare and little understood tongue known as Australian English! Year-after-year he would present what, by all accounts, seemed liked stupendous advancements but no-one understood what he was saying. It may seem like I am exaggerating but I'm really not. When I began studying TBM in earnest in 2001 I would often ask Victor about certain vials, to which he'd respond, "I have no idea, it was contributed by Brian Bateman and I haven't a clue on how to use it!"
One of the initial projects I began upon becoming the director of TBM was to read the Alive! notes and mine useful techniques, as well as better understand the ones already in the manuals. I WAS SHOCKED to learn how much material Dr. Bateman had contributed, and yet how little of it was being used. I soon began teaching in Australia and reached out to him. Thankfully I'd received some coaching from students in Australia and developed an ear for Dr. Bateman's unique accent. We soon became quite close and he walked through his the techniques. He also shared with me his life story, and gave me clinical pearl after clinical pearl. More than once he'd have me laughing to near tears as well.
I began writing up each of the techniques he had developed and did my best to standardize them so they were immediately accessible to anyone trained in TBM. I would then run them past him and we'd come up with a final version he was happy with. Soon these techniques became commonplace in our community. Techniques like Silver-Lead, Brain XYZ (what he considered his magnum opus), Acceptance vials, Cosmic Shutdown Virus, S.N.I.O.P., Gasto-Intestinal Bacteria, Emotional-Physical Hado vials, and more (see the list of 84 vials in all I've placed in the Featured Products section below). These finally understood techniques and tools shot to near the top of the list and became some of the most common techniques used in TBM through today. As you flip through the pages of "The Big Book," notice how often he is credited for a particular technique!
During this time I was impressed by his deep sense of caring, his willingness to "go where angels feared to tread" in order to help his patients, and his insatiable quest for knowledge and to innovate. It was a humbling experience that will never leave me. I've always felt that I was getting the opportunity to learn from one of the greatest healers who had ever walked the earth. Interestingly, as others must have felt the same way, the statement was made during his funeral that an international organization had called him the "worlds best bioenergetic practitioner."
He retired from practice in 2022, after 52 years in the trenches, and has been in a home for the past couple along with his wife Barbara.
While observing his funeral I made a few notes which I'd like to share about him. I'm going to begin with a list of quotes from the various speakers:
"Man of sincere faith (Christadelphian)" / "Lived life with a sense of urgency" / "Loved to explore and master new things" / "Always looking for a better way" / "He had heightened senses."
It was also stated that "his knowledge of scripture was remarkable" and that his favorite biblical passage was Isaiah 40:31, very suiting for the life he chose (They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.). Near the conclusion of the funeral it was stated that a frequent expression of Dr. Bateman's was, "God will mend a broken heart if you give him all the pieces."
Some additional things that were share included that he felt people needed 12 hugs a day. He learned to play the church organ because no-one in the congregation knew how and that he loved to play it loud. He was a lover of music and also played the bagpipes, digeridoo, and harmonica. He bought a waterski boat, learned to slalom ski, and taught all of his children to waterski too. He then purchased a sail boat and took his family on frequent sailing excursions.
He did finally get his pilot license and built his own aircraft, an Ultralight. While he originally wanted to be a pig farmer as a youth, he changed his mind to want to be a pilot but it ended up that his first career was as a watchmaker. He then a computer technician until medicine caught his fancy. In the early years of practice he would go back and forth between computers and medicine until he dialed in how to earn enough money doing the latter.
During the funeral Beverly Collins mentioned that in the clinic he'd "easily get side-tracked" into chatting with random strangers or in reading humorous books. The staff would wonder where he was, as his patients were getting backed up, and they would have to hunt him down. Also that when he'd do something astounding for a client and they inquired as to what he did or how he did it, his two regular responses were, "I don't know lovey, I just work here" and "Seemed like a good idea at the time."
He is survived by the women he married at age 18 and their 4 children, 13 grandchildren, and 9 great-grandchildren.
One of the last things mentioned was that he loved affogatos. So you may want to enjoy scoop of vanilla ice cream drenched in espresso in solidarity with him as you view the clips we've shared of him below in the Video of the Week section.
Sir Isaac Newton's statement of "if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" certainly applies to all of us who have been touched, directly or indirectly, by the giant of a man known as Brian Leslie Bateman.
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