Psychic Healing
CHAPTER XVI MENTAL
HEALING
The reader will see by
reference to the chapter on Suggestive Healing
the effect upon the physical body by incorrect thinking, and it is
not deemed necessary to repeat those
illustrations or examples here, nor to give additional ones. It is presumed
that every reader of this book has some
acquaintance with the effect of mental states upon physical
functioning, so it is not necessary to take up
space with further proofs of the same.
The theory and system of
mental healing is based upon this knowledge of
the effect of mind upon body, coupled with the idea that as the mind
may produce abnormal functioning, so may the
process be reversed and used to restore perfect health and
correct functioning. "We shall not attempt to
recite the special theories of the several schools of mental
healing, nor to attempt to explain the many
theories regarding the question of "What is Mind?" nor the
psychological theories regarding the process
of the cures. The fact is that mental healing is a fact and the thing
to do is to tell how to make use of and apply
it.
In our chapters on
Suggestive Healing we have given information
that may well be combined with these teachings
regarding
mental healing. In fact, suggestion and mental
healing are twins each representing one side
of the same
thing. The principal difference rests in the
manner of applying the force behind the
treatment. Suggestion depends almost altogether upon
verbal suggestions, etc., while Mental Healing
depends upon telepathy or thought-transmission. The best
healers combine both methods when the patient
is in their presence. But mental healing does not require the
presence of the patient, the treatments often
being given to patients many miles away by what is known as
"Absent Treatment," but which is really a form
of telepathy.
Telepathy, once laughed at
as a superstitious fancy, is now beginning to
be recognized by the scientific world, and will soon be adopted as a
law. It has been known to occultists in all
ages and times, among all people and it is not a "new" thing by any
means, although many claim to. have
"discovered" it in our 'own times. We give a few examples of its
general acceptance among men of intelligence
and prominence in our own times.
Edw T. Bennett, late
secretary of the Society of Phsycical
Research, says: -The conclusion seems to be irresistible that the five
senses do not exhaust the means by which
pledge may enter the mind. In other words the investigator seems to be
driven by the conclusion that thought
transference or telepathy must now be included amongst scientifically
proven facts.".
Prof. John D. Quackenbos,
the eminent New York scientist, says: "The
time has indeed come, as Maeterlinck predicted it would when souls
may know of each other without the
intermediary of the senses."
Clark Bell says:
"Telepathy, as it is regravitation which we
know exists. But we are as yet unable to
comprehend how
it acts, or to know its methods"
Prof. Wm. Crookes, the well
known English scientist, says: "If we accept
the theory that the brain is composed of separate elements nerve
cells then we must presume that each of these
components, like every other bit of matter, has its movements of
vibration, and will, under suitable
conditions, be affected; as, for instance, the
nerve
cells of the retina by vibration in the ether.
If another neuron, situated not far away,
should acquire the same movement of vibration,
there seems to be no good reason why they
should not materially affect each otherthrough the ether."
Dr. Sheldon Leavitt says :
"There is no disputing the fact that those who
have given the subject of telepathy attentive thought and patient
investigation have become convinced of its
truth and practicability. My own experience has given me
unwavering convictions. I know that in some
way thought can be transmitted from one conscious mind to another; and
I have good reason to believe that it can be
transmitted still more forcibly and fully to the unconscious mind
of the recipient "
Camille Flammarion, the
French astronomer, says: "We sum up,
therefore, our preceding observations by the conclusion that one mind can
act upon another at a distance without the
habitual medium of words, or any other visible means of communication.
It appears to us altogether unreasonable to
reject this conclusion if we accept the facts. There is nothing
unscientific, nothing romantic in admitting
that an idea can influence a brain from a distance. The action of one
human being upon another, from a distance, is
a scientific fact ; it is as certain as the existence of Paris, of
Napoleon, of Oxygen, or of Sirius." Again the
same authority says:
" There can be no doubt
that our psychical force creates a movement of
the ether, which transmits itself afar like all movements of ether,
and the reaction into an ethereal movement,
becomes perceptible to brains in harmony with our own. The
transformation of a psychic force, may be
analogous to what takes place on a telephone, where the receptive
plate, which is identical with the plate at
the other end, reconstructs the sonorous movement transmitted,
not by means of sound, but by electricity. But
these are only comparisons."
Page after page could be
filled with like expressions of belief in
thought-transmission, on the part of the thinking public, but the same
is not deemed necessary. Those who wish
further information on this subject are referred to the published
reports of the English Society for Psychical
Research, which may be found in the principal libraries of the
country. It is by means of this fact of
telepathy that the absent healing of the Mental Scientists ; and others
are performed when they are not occasioned by
direct verbal suggestion, which factor must not be overlooked.
The principle of mental
healing lies in the fact that the central mind
controls the bodily functions or the mind manifesting through the organs,
cells and parts of the body. The latter
respond to the mental states of the central mind and anything
affecting the latter naturally affects the
former. The healer endeavors to establish in the central mind of the
patient a normal condition of mental attitude.
This normal mental attitude is one in which the individual recognizes
his mastery of the body, and of his entire
system. This mental attitude when onceacquired will prevent disease
and will restore health when disease has once
set in. Its healing power depends upon the degree of realization
of the supremacy of mind manifested by the
person.
Now this realization is
imperfect in the average person who has
allowed himself to sink gradually down to the
lower
planes of the mind and has allowed his
realization to become impaired from some one
or more of various cause. Here is where the healer
comes into use and service. He has kept his
mind positive and keen and has trained himself in the science
of thought-transmission. Therefore when called
upon to treat a patient he raises his "vibrations" until they
reach the proper stage, when he transmits them
to the mind of the patient the result being that the vibrations are
reproduced there, and the consequence is that
the mind of the patient reacts upon the mind principle animating
the parts, organs and cells of the instinctive
mind, in fact, and gradually re-establishes normal
conditions
The various schools of
mental healing have a variety of theories to
account for their healing, but we think that the above will be found to
cover all the general ideas and theories, and
in fact, to account for what happens, irrespective of metaphysical
theories, and in spite of some of them.
There ls a natural law
underlying all these forms of healing and it
is folly to attempt to befog the facts with a mass of metaphysical
theorizing, The fact is that all the schools
make cures, and perform healing, in spite of their conflicting
theories. Does not this prove that they are
all using the same force and power, in spite of their theories? "We
shall not attempt to take up these various
theories in detail, but shall at once proceed to the "proof of the
pudding" by giving you in the next chapter a
plain system of Practice of Mental Healing, which will enable any
of you to perform the healing work
accomplished by the various schools.
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