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healing. While we don't consider this to be "paranormal," we believe it is on a continuum of what a healer is able to do remotely. The remote-viewing data shows unequivocally that information can be accessed across distances of space and time. We believe that a healer makes healing information available from a distance. The information becomes available through a channel created by the healer's focused attention, healing intent, and surrender of separateness. Thus, a healer sends a healing message, rather than healing rays, to the patient. |
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Most healers believe that there is a spiritual aspect to what they do. This raises the important question as to whether all psi functioning should be considered sacred. Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, medical director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program in California, has written about the discrepancy between our "level of technology and the level of moral and ethical wisdom appropriate to the use of that technology."
2 She recently wrote about the issue of this discrepancy as it relates to the sacredness of psychic abilities, as compared with our other senses. She says: |
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Our intuition informs us of the intangible, and may offer a glimpse of the great laws that govern the workings of the world. Yet, is the particular capacity by which we may experience an aspect of sacred reality necessarily sacred in and of itself? Is the eye which perceives holiness necessarily holy? In fact, can't any of our senses become a doorway to sacred experience? |
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Anyone who has seen the light pour through the great stained glass window at Chartres knows that vision can lead to sacred experience. Anyone who has heard the Messiah or the Allegri Miserere knows that hearing can evoke a powerful experience of the sacred, and anyone who has had really good sex knows the power of touch as a bridge to sacred experience. Yet seeing, hearing, and touch are simple human functions. Is psi a simple human function as well?3 |
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Remen suggests that we consider psi as an expanded, rather than an exalted, human function. As such, it is subject to individual discretion, as well as to human frailty. A sacrament can be any procedure or ritual that we use to contact our spiritual aspect. We believe that all of our senses can be |
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