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against our morality  it is because spiritual healing doesn't operate that way. It is not a type of mental force exerted willfully and selectively  it is a letting, which promotes coherence, rather than the healer's killing separate cells, or undesirable parts of a living system.
Dr. Stanley Krippner, a leader in the field of consciousness studies, has been studying the spiritual and psychic dimensions of healing for more than three decades. As described in Chapter 4, Krippner's research showed that the thoughts of one person could directly influence the mental state of another.
More recently, Krippner has been inspiring students in South America, as well as in San Francisco at Saybrook Graduate School, which he founded, and at California Institute of Integral Studies. In his 1976 book The Realms of Healing, co-authored with Alberto Villoldo, Krippner discusses the question of how nonlocal healing happens. 5 He outlines many paradigms or sets of beliefs shared by both psychic and spiritual healers. These sets of beliefs differ markedly from orthodox Western scientific assumptions, because both psychic and spiritual healers share worldviews that incorporate nonlocal mind.
According to Krippner, Western scientists and healers have divergent concepts of the way the universe relates to local and nonlocal views of consciousness. Krippner's first distinction that sets healers apart from scientists is that spiritual healers typically believe the universe includes some sort of deity or "higher consciousness." They generally see the universe as being "purposeful," and they perceive people to be evolving toward an expanded or higher level of consciousness or awareness.
The second distinction between Western scientists and psychic and spiritual healers is that nonlocal healers from many cultures report that they see and sense a variety of nonphysical things that cannot be seen by most other people, and cannot be detected by any known physical instruments. Among these phenomena are auras of light that surround living organisms, spirits of various entities, and a type of life energy that flows through and emanates from living creatures. The vibrations and fluctuations of this life energy, which is essential to one's health, can ostensibly be sensed and

 
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