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Chapter Eleven
Prayer and the Healing Connection
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In order to arrive at what you are not,
You must go through the way
in which you are not.
 
T.S. Eliot The Four Quarters
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Love is not a product
         to be given away,
but a process to be allowed
        to flow through us.
Author Unknown
In Chapter 8, I [Jane] have described experiences that taught me mind-to-mind connections were involved in healing. In this chapter, I describe the mind-set that I and many others have found helpful in initiating the practice of spiritual healing. Because the path of the spiritual healer is a way of being, rather than a way of doing, I cannot provide a set of rules that will lead to the ability to do spiritual healing. Spiritual healing is a nonanalytical practice, and unlike psychic healing or energy healing, there are no specific mental or physical moves that lead to success. Instead, I shall describe how spiritual healers feel about their practice, since I believe it is through the feeling path that healing will occur. Spiritual healing could be said to be the way of the mystic, rather than of the scientist, because it is about a state of

 
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