Five Great Healers Speak Here

Author(s): Nancy, Esmond Gardner
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House

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INTRODUCTION
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the moment of the healing enactment. In summary, the major points of agreement are:
1. The primary source of healing is Divinity, called by whatever name, and the energetics of the healing enactments are aroused by compassion, which stimulates selfregeneration in the patient.
2. Healing is a natural concommitant of a personal relationship with spirit or one's higher self.
3. Help can come from other than living, human sources, i.e., Guides, Water Spirits, Tree Brothers and being with flowers.
4. Karma at one and the same time provides both limitation and access to the healing process. A clue to the access is via the patient coming into relationship with her/his higher self, and in this the healer can act as teacher or facilitator.
5. The importance of faith, acceptance and surrender on the part of the patient, but nevertheless even skeptics can be healed.
6. Healing is not a special gift for the few but is a practice that can be learned by persons who are willing to devote themselves to the learning process.
A few examples will serve to illustrate these points.
THE PRIMARY HEALING SOURCE The primary source of the healing is compassion, says Gurudev Chitrabhanu, one of the leading Jain masters. Healing occurs through the act of blessing the healee (patient), blessings which he sees as an energy source. To heal, however, it is necessary to "walk in unity with God.” Brother Mandus, founder of the World Healing Crusades, also sees the primary source of healing as based on compassion, but this compassion is conceived by him as welling up from the combined efforts of “praying partners” who are“ ... focused upon the physical perfection