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INTRODUCTION
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tionships are determined by the underlying reality of nonmaterial domains analogous to our concept of physical force fields. Thus the seemingly “real” world of ordinary experience is an outworking of the non-material “cosmic energies” or fields. This view is highly significant in relation to healing, for paradoxically, human interaction can serve to “change” or influence the fields. To be effective this requires a deeply conscious act stemming from selfdirection and self-awareness, both characteristics of the higher self which is rooted in this same background field (called Atman in Eastern terminology).
It is from this highest, unitive level that true healing derives. Consonant with universal laws of hierarchy or levels of organization, if one “works” (for example, heals someone) at the highest/ deepest levels of the human condition (at the level of the higher Self), then in effect one is working at all levels at once. Therefore, if one can center and reach an inner state of quietude characteristic of that level, even for a moment, that alignment or equipoise of energies that are in fact one's Self can have an enormous effect to the good on self and on others.5 This is the act we know as the healing interaction, an enactment of the fullness of the human stature. We look to books such as the one before us, books concerning those who heal, in order to better understand its profound complexities.
REFERENCES
1. Lawrence LeShan. The Medium, the Mystic and the
Physicist. New York: Ballantine Books, 1976, pp. 102-103.
