Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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"wrong” as their motive power, encouraging them to work for good causes. They live by a high code of values, not necessarily religious ones, living according to their conscience, not knowingly doing harm to any other person, resisting cruelty in all its forms, whether to people, children or animals. They do not seek any personal aggrandizement or profit from healing the sick apart from the mutual happiness and satisfaction that healing gives to both patient and healer. What disciplines would you recommend?
No disciplines at all, but avoid all “excesses.” One can be an excessive smoker or drinker, and this is harmful. A healer should live naturally and freely, freed from restrictions, and be able to express in his way of living the quality of his healership.
I have heard that some healers fast before attempting healing. If a healer feels that this is an aid to his healing, then so be it. If a healer likes to play certain music before healing or while he heals, then he should do so. A healer should follow out his impressions. He should avoid ritual, avoid repetition, avoid being mechanical in any way, but be content to follow the impressions that he himself is conscious of receiving. He should put before the bar of common sense any movement or action that he takes, asking if it is necessary within the scheme of spirit science. He should ask himself if any form of ritual, which is nothing more than an exercise of the healer's mind, can help the healing intelligences to receive the simple message that the patient needs healing for a given complaint.
If there is one lesson that the writer has learned in more than forty years of spiritual healing, it is that, as far as the healer is concerned, it is a matter of utter simplicity. This is the hardest lesson for a healer, who is so anxious to heal the sick, for he wishes to do this himself and take a personal part in it. He is not content to act as a passive