Psychic
Healing
CHAPTER XVIII
METAPHYSICAL HEALING
The
term which is used as a title for this chapter is
a much abused one, and is employed by different
people to describe nearly all forms of
healing mentioned in this book.
Of course, everyone using
any form of psychic healing has a certain
right to call his healing "Metaphysical" for the word metaphysical means
"beyond the physical," but the generally
accepted sense of the term "Metaphysics" means the 'Science of Being."
And according to the strict intention of the
term metaphysical healing should be applied only to the form of
healing arising only from the actual
realisation on the part of the patient of the reality behind appearances -
of real being - of the real self of the
universe.To one who is able to unfold into an actual realisation of
that-which-is, there is at his disposal a
wonderful healing power, both for himself and
others,
if he knows how to apply the same. But this
knowledge is not always evidenced by those who
unfold into the
higher consciousness, and, in fact, there is a
decided tendency on the part of some of these
people to neglect the physical altogether as
unworthy of thought, the attention being
turned entirely upon the higher planes of being. This position is wrong,
for the physical plays a needed part in the
unfoldment of the Ego, and to neglect it is to run contrary to the
law of life.
The actual process of this
form of metaphysical healing may be spoken of
as a control of the lower by the power coming from the higher
consciousness. The higher consciousness so
manifests its power that it controls the
lower.
But,
after all, it would appear that the real cause
of the cure actually is found in the fact that
the mind, being
occupied
in a contemplation of its higher planes of
manifestation, ceases to concern itself with
the workings
of the lower planes, and consequently the
latter operates according to the well
established laws of the
universe without
interference, and without the constant
injection of negative thought which produces
abnormal conditions
in
so many people.
A realization of the higher
nature and being of one, has a tendency to
uplift one above the thoughts of fear and worry, which act as poisons and
cause disease in so many people. And, the
interference of fear thought being removed nature (or what stands
behind the word) operates freely and without
hindrance.
We shall describe higher
phases of metaphysical healing in the next two
chapters, under the term "Spiritual Healing," which we consider
more appropriate.
In this chapter we refer
principally to the forms of healing used by
some of the metaphysical healers who confine their healing process
to teaching the patient certain metaphysical
systems, containing a greater or lesser degree of truth.
But, even in these last
mentioned forms of treatment, you will see
that unconsciously the healer must be calling
into
effect the power of mental healing or
suggestion, or both. The ' i treatment " that
always follows the metaphysical talk, must call
into operation mental healing, or suggestion,
although the healer may not know it, and may indignantly repudiate
this fact, and state that 'the treatment given
is "something entirely different.But, nevertheless, the student
of psychic healing may readily recognize
mental healing and suggestion under the many disguises draped around
it. The best proof of the fact that there is a
common principle operated, may be found in the fact that the
different schools of metaphysical healing,
so-called, work cures, in about the same proportion in spite of their
various theories and creeds.
Of
course they all have a common ground of
agreement in their belief in the One Life and
Spirit, but they vehemently oppose each others
claims, and call each other " victims of
error," and other pleasant names but still all go on making cures, and
doing good healing work, nevertheless.
Christian Science, and Anti-Christian Science
schools
and cults, seem to do equally good healing
work. All this would seem to indicate that
some one healing force is used by all, and that
no sect has any monopoly of it.
The
Power of the One Life is Always There always
ready and willing to be used by those who
demand and use it, irrespective of the particular
beliefs and theories or creeds of those using
it. Like the sunshine and the rain it falls upon all alike, who
expose themselves to its power, or who attract
it to them. It is All for All. The petty theories and differences
of the cults are most amusing when one
considers the Infinite One. What children in spiritual knowledge even the
best of us are each claiming that he has the
only truth, and the whole truth, and that all the others are in
"error." The truth seems to be that ALL have
the Truth, or portions of it fitting into their understandings. And that NONE have ALL the
Truth.
The Love and Power of the
Infinite is equally the right of the
individual seeker after the Truth, as of the
cult or
sect
that claims to be the mouthpiece of the All.
Creeds are born, rise, fall and die cults and
sects and schools
pursue the same Path; All is birth, growth and
death relatively, of course all obey the Law,
which may be
called Evolution. Ages, people, races, lands,
schools, cults, creeds, sects, leaders, may
come and go must come and go but the Law ever
remains, unchangeable, unerring, unvarying,
deathless, endless. Over all the Law reigns all do its bidding. None are
its sole agents and mouthpieces and yet All
are its agents and mouthpieces. It uses all and yet is used by All.
When this mystery is understood, then there is
peace.
It is useless to attempt to
teach Metaphysical Healing to those who do not
at least partially understand the higher teaching. To those who
wish, to know more regarding these teachings,
we would recommend the "Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy"
published by the same people who publish this
little book.
To those who understand and
who wish to heal themselves and others by this
method, we would say that the only rule is this :
Go into the Silence and
meditate upon the Real Self. When the
Realization comes, then give the healing
treatment to
yourself
or others in some appropriate words, conveying
the thought so far as may be (it is impossible
to convey
it fully in words). "The following form will
answer if you cannot frame one yourself :
TREATMENT.
Oh, Spirit, the One,
Birthless, Deathless Omniscient, Omnipresent,
Omnipotent in whose Ocean of Life I am a drop
let
me feel thy Presence and Power. Let me realize
even more fully what Thou art, and what I am
in Thee. Let the consciousness of Thy Reality,
and My Reality in Spirit, permeate my being,
and descend upon all the planes of my mind.
Let
the Power of Spirit manifest through my mind
permeating the body of this other Self that I
am desirous of healing (or "this body that I
call mine own") bringing to it Health, and
Strength,and Life,that it may be rendered a more fitting Temple
of the Spirit a more perfect instrument of
Expression for the One Life that flows through it. Raise up this body
from the gross vibrations of the lower planes,
to the higher vibrations of the Spiritual Mind, through which
we know Thee. Give this body, through the Mind
that animates it, that Peace, Strength, and Life, that is its
by virtue of its being. Do Thou, the All-Life,
flow in thy essence through this the Part, re-vivifying and
enlivening it. This do I claim, 0, All-Spirit,
by virtue of my eternal Birthright from Thee.
And by reason of Thy
promise and inner knowledge given to me, I now
demand it of Thee."
In place of this, or in
connection with this, you may use any of the
many "Statements of Being" that the various"Science" bodies use for they
are all good. But remember this always there
is no magic in mere words and no cult has any proprietory right to
any special words. The words are free to you,
and to all and the virtue thereof lies in the thought and realization
back of the words, Words come, go and change,
but Thought and Realization which express them is Eternal.
Read the next two chapters
in connection with this one.
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