Five Great Healers Speak Here

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

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each other to understand and embrace is that we are spirits functioning in consciousness. As is very natural, a tremendous emphasis is always placed upon the physical sickness and, therefore, from a healing point of view there is equally tremendous concentration on healing the physical sickness itself. Far too little attention is given to the healing of the person. I would not wish to be glib about this in any sense of the word. I only know that it is true that so many difficulties of disease or disaster which one meets when someone comes asking for help and healing are the end-product of a long chain of discords, pressures, tensions of one kind or another. But not always, by any means.
I know it is not easy, even in good counselling, to uncover many of these causes. Sometimes they stretch right back to childhood experience. Sometimes there has been a great grief, a tremendous frustration, a deep period of anxiety which flows into the physical system as discord or disease. These inner turbulences may very well have taken place years ago and only now be coming out into manifestation.
Beyond this, of course, is a whole area in which the physical system is really preparing to release the spirit into the new life beyond this world. It would seem that in such cases all the divine healing one tried to implement would not heal the sick body. The true healing might well be the release of the spirit into heaven. When the natural time comes for departure, then we shall indeed
all depart.
There is another acute factor to take into consideration. When any person has had a serious illness like arthritis, heart trouble, or cancer, which often becomes a deep and searing experience stretching into years, the pattern of the sickness is very deeply embedded in that person's life. To live with some of these terrible conditions induces a great fixation in the mind. And, it would