Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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FIVE GREAT HEALERS SPEAK HERE
The answer is yes, especially if the healer is aware of the patient's need for healing in order to set the wheels of healing moving. Healing can never be a casual affair. It must have purpose and direction.
Healers are often able to inwardly know of the suffering a person is experiencing, and this awareness of illness becomes intuitive. Perhaps a reason for this is that the patient's spirit self knows of its healing need and is able to convey this information to the healer's spirit self, so directing his attention to the patient. It can be clearly stated that when a healer's sympathies are aroused for a person, then healing will take place to the extent that is possible.
It is well to remember that there is no evidence to suggest that healing reaches a patient automatically. Healing is a spirit science. To commence a healing treatment it is part of the law that there should be an invocation or intercession for the healing purpose to begin. This applies to all people, both primitive and more advanced, often taking the form of prayer or the act of seeking help for a sick person in a positive way, by intercession or in personal healing Can a patient at a distance, and unaware of the healer's efforts on his behalf, be healed?
The answer to this is a very definite yes. Absent healing proves it. If this were not so, we should not see children, babies, or animals healed. The same applies to thirdparty patients who are too ill to know anything about the healing effort being made for them. An example would be a person in a coma, or another person who has suffered a severe accident and is unconscious or in such distress that he would not be able to be aware of a healer's efforts. In such cases an immediate response for marked improvement can be timed or dated by the commencement of the application for the healing. This answer also answers the next question.