Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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an inner world” to which one has direct entree, and therefore personal knowledge, of the implicate or enfolded order of the universe. The literature tells of the many mystics of the past who have been in direct communication with spirit guides or disincarnate teachers, mystics such as Plotinus, Meister Eckhart, St. Theresa of Avila, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Ramakrishna and others of similar repute. Krippner and Villoldo, in looking at the lives of mystics such as these, note that they all report a unique world view in which they perceive a fundamental unity among all things, the recognition of an illusory nature to such man-made constructs as time, space, etc., and the importance of acquiring information other than through the accepted five senses.2
LeShan agrees with this. He calls this the realm of the transpsychic reality. In reference to healing he says:
Instead of using will and determination to try to bend the cosmic energies to your purpose, you try to become attuned to these energies so that you become a clear channel for them. It means a complete surrender of your own will except for your desire for the best for the healee. Here you identify with the All totally, and reach toward the state where you wear the universe like a glove and it wears you.
That is, one changes and is thereby changed by the "cosmic energies.” This numinous realm has been conceived as a non-material background or field which provides the fundamental basis of material existence, from which our familiar world arises. 4 In this world-view, sometimes called theosophy, the human being is seen as caught in and absorbed by the material processes of life, without realizing that these processes are in actuality transient and illusory. For as one examines the organization and intrinsic order of the processes of nature and in man, it becomes apparent that their patterning or rela