Spiritual Healing
Spiritual Healing means that mentally or physically sick persons may be, and are, healed by the power of a spiritual energy, operating through the body of a certain medium, or more or less directly, without his agency. It is distinct from hypnotism, mesmerism, magnetic healing, faith-cure, mind-cure, or any other kind of healing whatever, and must not be confused with them. All these other curative measures depend upon suggestion, or upon the hidden and unknown powers of the human body to effect the cure. But spiritual healing is more direct ; it is not the medium who heals in this case, but a form of spiritual energy, which operates through him.
Spiritual healing is effected in various ways, as the following definitions, adopted by the National Spiritualists’ Association, will show:
” (a) By the spiritual influences working through the body of the medium and thus infusing curative, stimulating and vitalizing fluids and energy into the diseased parts of the patient’s body.
“(b) By the spiritual influences illuminating the brain of the healing medium, and thereby intensifying the perception of the medium so that the case, nature and seat of the disease in the patient become known to the medium ; and the herb or other remedy which will benefit the patient also becomes known to the medium.
” (c) Through the application of absent treatments, whereby spiritual beings combine their own healing forces with the magnetism and vitalizing energy of the medium, and convey them to the patient who is distant from the medium, and cause them to be absorbed by the system ot the patient.”
It will be seen that these definitions not only cover the facts of spiritual healing, but also absent treatment and psychic diagnosis.
Advice is given on numerous occasions by the “spirits,” as to the exact course of treatment to be followed. From all this it will be seen that spiritual healing is not only very different from any other kind of healing: but that it is also far more inclusive and more wonderful.
