Book Title: Five Great Healers Speak Here
Author(s): Nancy, Esmond Gardner
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House

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________________ 108 FIVE GREAT HEALERS SPEAK HERE Does the healer connect with a healing guide? A pool of cosmic wisdom? Or achieve oneness through prayer? A healer connects with a healing guide. The power of prayer is most important. If Mama Mona did not have great powers of prayer, I doubt if so many successful healings could have been achieved. What is the healing process? I have seen Mama Mona treat the same conditions differently. Mental illnesses are dark illnesses, and yet such diseases of the mind are cured in our church by Mama Mona and her helpers. The tribes that use witchcraft believe that the evil spirits are collected from the areas near the graves of various nationalities, which explains to them why their possessed ones can sometimes speak more than four languages. Does the healing process differ for different problems such as mental illness, deformities, viruses, arthritis, cancer, etc.? Mama Mona can heal these troubled cases by exorcising them in the name of Christ who casts out all demons. In some African tribes it is suspected that the deformity of a child is a curse or punishment visited upon the parent. It is not God's creation, they argue, but Mama replies that everything is God's creation. We each have our challenges and their purpose must be discovered. When this is done, it is often simultaneous with the cure. I have made a thorough study of hospitalization in Africa. Lots of serious diseases are treated in hospitals, but I have discovered that more patients go to hospitals and doctors just to obtain a legal document for being absent from work or for a death certificate. In case of death, evidence must be shown before burial or a post mortem is performed, which is hated by all Africans. Are there any limitations on the healing process? Only death, and once it is realized that this is in

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