FAITH HEALING
What is popularly termed faith healing is not the faith mentioned in the Bible, which means a knowledge of the interaction of the conscious and subconscious mind. A faith healer is one who heals without any real scientific understanding of the powers and forces involved. He may claim that he has a special gift of healing, and the sick persons blind belief in him or his powers may bring results.
The voodoo doctors in South Africa, Ghana and other parts of the world may heal by incantations, or a person maybe healed by touching the so-called bones of saints, or anything else which cause the patients to honestly believe in the method or process.
Any method which causes you to move from fear and worry to faith and expectancy will heal. There are many persons each of whom claims that because his personal theory produces results it is, therefore, the correct one. This, cannot always be true.
To illustrate how blind faith works: Franz Anton Mesmer claimed in 1776 many cures when he stroked diseased bodies with artificial magnets. Later on he threw away his magnets and evolved the theory of animal magnetism. This he held active in the human organism.
He claimed that this magnetic fluid which was going forth from him to his patients healed them. People flocked to him and many wonderful cures were effected.
Mesmer moved to Paris and while there the Government appointed a commission composed of physicians and members of the Academy of Science of which Benjamin Franklin was a member, to investigate his cures. The report admitted the leading facts claimed by Mesmer, but held that there was no evidence to prove the correctness of his magnetic fluid theory, and said the effects were due to the imagination of the patients.
Soon after this, Mesmer was driven into exile, and died in 1815. Shortly afterward, Dr. Braid of Manchester undertook to show that magnetic fluid had nothing to do with the production of the healing of Dr. Mesmer. Dr. Braid discovered that patients could be thrown into hypnotic sleep by suggestion, during which many of the well-known phenomena ascribed to magnetism by Mesmer could be produced.
You can readily see that all these cures were undoubtedly brought about by the active imagination of the patients together with a powerful suggestion of health to their subconscious minds.
All this could be termed blind faith as there was no understanding in those days as to how the cures were brought about.
May the spirit guide us all.
Adios.
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