Healing

Kenneth L. Dennis PhD. Has written an essay on Lesson 18 of my course in Modern Spiritualism that I would like to share with you, my readers. The essay is as follows:

This lesson covers the history Spiritual Healing. Spiritual Healing comes from Infinite Intelligence or God. There is a subtle dance between the Healer and Spirit working together to produce a healing outcome in a person. The connection between the Healer and God (attunes) is the crucial component of the healing process. God produces healing, but those that do not accept the existence of a divine presence may still be able to go through the motions of healing. Without Spirituality, such activity would be only a basis for a bad movie or a lifetime income from television. Of course, the greatest source of spiritual healing comes from the person receiving the healing. We often look at the Healer without that important component of, “I will do my part.”

Many people have become excited with the various forms of Reki. This appears to be a good healing method with a strong historical foundation. Healers can move up the levels of certification with books and computerized instruction. At the top level of Reki Master, a Healer needs personal training. We all want our approaches to become popular, and Reki (in its various flavors) has become very popular. This popularity has become a problem. When a Respondent tells me that the rank of Reki Master has been obtained, a serious pathology (paranoia and other delusions) is anticipated. The open entry of Reki has produced a huge base of people that desire to help people and make money. Unfortunately, the screening process has not prevented actively psychotic Respondents from becoming Reki Masters certifying other Reki Masters. This is a sad distortion of a good healing method that does not seem correctable at this point.

It is not surprising that healing can be effective for present and absent people. There is an assumption that the Healer’s channeling is not bound by geographical limitations. In Hands-On Healing, the Healer, Recipient, and Spirit are all present in the same location. Absent Healing is a similar process where the Recipient and Spirit continue to be located in the same location. While we think of the Recipient being absent, actually, only the Healer is absent. The Recipient and Spirit continue to remain in the same location.

There are a few people that receive Absent Healing from my wife and me each week. Part of the Healing is letting each person know about the prayers for healing so the “doing my part” can be included. One person was having a bad day when I was visiting and he said I was spending too much time with that “spiritual stuff.” I asked him he wanted me to not pray for his healing, and he quickly said no, he “needed all the help he could get.” Perhaps we a just very superstitious and want to make patterns out of random events.

I am certain prefer being present rather than absent. Healing is a human interaction. Just as I can meditate on my own, it is more effective to have the assistance of another person, and the same applies to Healing. There are exceptions to this when the person guiding the mediation is not able to adapt the pattern and words to match the needs of the Recipient. The Healing part of the Church service starts with a guided meditation and transitions to Hands-On Healing for those that want to come up. There are usually two or three Healers for Hands-On Healing. This is at the middle part of the services. There can be logistical problems when several people want Healing. This can lengthen out the mediation of people waiting for the next part of the services (Messages). I understand that some Churches have Healing before the service starts, but the logistical problem would still exist when too many or too few people wanted Healing. People seek out a Spiritualist Church for several reasons, and it is difficult to know how much emotional and physical pain will be present at a given service.