For orthodox scientists, the most controversial are all spiritual methods, in which some external healer (or even the “patient” himself) controls the healing of the body by influencing the state of mind of the patient, and showing his (usually severely inhibited) “subconscious” mind how to perform the required repair job in the most efficient way.
I do not like to use the term “subconscious” here. In my experience, such a state of mind is in many ways superior to our normal conscious state we are used to in our everyday lives. In my opinion, a better description of it would be a “state of higher consciousness” or a “state of connection to a higher intelligence” or perhaps a “super-conscious” state. No words can adequately describe such a state, which in itself has many levels, some quite close to our physical body and some very far from it. Some initial states of higher consciousness are quite easy to learn, while access to advanced super-conscious states may require many years of or even a lifetime of practice with expert guidance.
Spiritual healing can be the most spectacular of all healing methods, but only when the healer is very gifted, that is, he has access as well as a command of higher states of consciousness. Examples of such healing experiences are so memorable, that many of them have been described in the most important documents of human civilisation such as the Bible and other scriptures, attracting generations of people over many centuries to create and support various religions.
In more recent times, the reader can find many cases of such healing from books written by professional spiritual healers, like Betty Shine for example.
Researchers and scientists hate, deny and ignore such healing, because they cannot “see” the healing mechanism using their instruments, and they cannot create such healing in their laboratories so they can study it. If only they could attain the “super-conscious” state themselves – they would not only understand the process of spiritual healing, but perhaps they would also change their job.
The last statement requires some explanation. Those scientists who negate the existence and consequences of the state of higher consciousness do so simply because they do not have access to it. On the other hand, those who are fully enlightened – never become scientists, because they see very little purpose in developing the physical sciences as we know them today.
To explain this, consider for example why the same scientists, representing the elite of human knowledge
Most of the healing techniques listed above, require visits to highly skilled and informed practitioners. This severely limits access of potential patients to them, especially when the medical education system favours certain doctrines and the legal system creates a tight monopoly for practitioners of such doctrines by making all other practices illegal.
For example, the newly amended Australian health legislation, effective from 1 July 1994, threatens to severely penalise doctors incorporating into their practice techniques of natural health such as nutrition, herbal medicine, homoeopathy, ayurvedic medicine and relaxation as well as meditation-therapy.
In many countries it is illegal to practice medicine without a licence issued by the system, supporting the prevailing medical doctrine.
In view of this, the best choice for all people is learn to heal themselves as well as learn how to avoid diseases in the first place.
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