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guilty or unworthy of the talent. We both wondered if we might inadvertently harm a person while healing, or if the ability would vanish sometime, just as mysteriously as it appeared. |
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Joel Goldsmith was a world-renowned twentieth-century mystic and spiritual healer. He wrote that no one should practice spiritual healing "unless God takes him by the nape of the neck and pushes him into it," and he is unable to resist the call.
2 This was because he knew that nontraditional healers in the United States would encounter vigorous antagonism to the idea of spiritual healing. I've certainly found this to be true, and to tell the truth, much of the skepticism that I have encountered has come from my own mind. |
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This chapter deals with how I learned about spiritual healing by direct experience. It is only after years of healing encounters that I have come to accept the reality of nonlocal healing, though I still don't understand how the healing takes place. |
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After I returned from Asia, a few months passed before an opportunity arose for me to offer healing to another. This time someone I knew and cared about was injured, so I was highly motivated to help, and did not fear failure or ridicule. |
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Experimenting with a Skeptic |
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The first opportunity for me to experiment with my newfound "healing energy" came when my boyfriend smashed his thumb with a hammer while pounding nails into drywall. I cupped my hands together, and told him to stick his thumb in the space between my palms. He was skeptical, and I was curious what would happen with a "nonbeliever." As I have discovered over the years since then, the more pain someone is in, the more likely they are to try nontraditional healing. In a moment of immediate crisis, they are open to receiving help from wherever it may come. This state of openness is so important for the influx of spiritual healing information to occur. No matter how clear the channel provided by the healer may be, the message cannot flow through the recipient's psychic defenses, if they maintain separateness and prevent the joining of mind-to-mind connections. |
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