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require constant attention in this time of excesses and selfindulgences. My great-grandmother had me spend years just sitting with the plants, learning to commune with them before letting me cut and gather. She trained my mind to work on many levels, to register things and events beyond my ordinary senses. Is it necessary to make a diagnosis? If so, how is it done?
A diagnosis would be helpful in most cases but not necessarily essential. My belief is that the physical symptom is the last to manifest. One must look to the disharmony of mind, body, soul and spirit and treat the cause. Perhaps the illness is the reflection of a past life. Let me give an example. Some years ago, a doctor friend sent me a patient who had suffered from bleeding ulcers for thirty of his thirty-seven years. Half of his stomach had been removed. A second surgery was suggested to replace the remaining stomach with one of plastic. During a healing ceremony performed for him, I drew energy down over his stomach. He began to scream: “The pain, the pain!” He then began to cry and spoke of what he saw-a man (himself) running, being pursued, shot in the stomach, left to bleed to death in the snow.
He still has his half a stomach, and is free of ulcers. No matter if it is an actual remembrance of past life; somehow he freed his blocked energies and was healed. Does unusual heat emanate from the hands of the healer?
For myself, this has been the usual experience, the patient also feeling heat and a sense of well-being. There have been times in my life when the sudden rise of heat in my hands indicated my being in the presence of one who was ill. Upon further examination, the person indeed had some illness of a serious nature. Our bodies are capable of receiving information much faster than our rational, thinking minds. When we experience changes in our physiology such as sudden temperature drop, clammy
