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Then, a most unusual thing happened. What I experienced next changed my life profoundly. . . . |
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The reason I had gone to the Philippines in the first place was to investigate firsthand what was going on with the Philippine healers, or the so-called psychic surgeons. I was on the last leg of a yearlong trek around Southeast Asia, and I was ready to return home. But I had promised myself that I would see "the healers" before going back to Seattle. A friend who had multiple sclerosis had gone to see the healers in the Philippines the year before. She had not been cured, but she was not at all sorry that she had spent so much money to go there and visit them. She felt her symptoms had gone into remission after her trip. She also told me that everyone in her travel group felt improved, too. She said that she knew that some healers used sleight of hand to make it look like they were pulling tumors out of people's insides, but that one woman in her group had apparently been completely healed of cancer. My friend said that something remarkable and unusual was going on in the Philippines. She suggested I check it out for myself, and see what I could make of it. |
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Before I left town, I visited the woman whose cancerous tumors had disappeared during her trip to the Philippine healers. She told me that her story had been filmed by KOMO-TV in Seattle, and that they had planned to air it on television, but at the last minute her doctor would not allow his name to be used in the documentary. He felt it would ruin his reputation, because everyone would think he had misdiagnosed her malignancy. So the story never went public. |
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I had been following the newspaper stories about different travel agencies in Portland and Seattle that were advertising low-priced tour group trips to visit the "psychic surgeons." The Federal Trade Commission was planning to prosecute the agencies for fraudulent advertising, but they were unable to find any disgruntled patient who would bring suit against the travel agents. Of all the hundreds of Americans who went there, not one person wanted to complain about their treatment. Apparently, almost all of the ill people who saw the Philippine healers were positively affected in one way or another. |
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