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Then I remembered my dream from the night before. It all came back to me. And I shook my head in disbelief at what I'd done, and thought to myself, "You were right. I did do it! . . . And she was a total stranger!" I looked at my hands and wondered why I hadn't felt any energy leaving them, if the woman had felt energy flowing into her. If I had done something, wouldn't I know it? How could something like that happen, with my body, without my knowledge? Who was doing this? What was going on? I was more bewildered than ever. |
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I am now aware that laboratory data offers strong evidence for the existence of a mind-to-mind connection in psychic healing. Among people who actively practice healing today, however, the mind-to-mind hypothesis would be a minority opinion. Millions of Asians, Indians, Egyptians, and Polynesians throughout history have believed in an "exchange of energy" associated with psychic healing. Their experiences are not unlike those of modern day practitioners of Therapeutic Touch, Reiki, Polarity, Joh Rei, Huna, Raimondi, Chi Gong, or Pranic Healing, who also feel that energy is transmitted between healers and their patients. |
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When involved in healing interactions, my clients and I also experience feelings akin to energy flows and vibrations, accompanied by heat. In addition, I sense a kind of mind-to-mind attunement that accompanies the feelings of energy movement. Neither of the authors of this book pretend to have an explanation for the mechanisms of psychic or spiritual healing, any more than we do for ESP. However, that in no way diminishes our confidence in the efficacy of the former, or in the existence of the latter. |
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Before I left the Philippines, I met one of the two men I had been told I would meet in my dream. He was a physician and Yoga teacher, who had been investigating and observing the healers for many years. This doctor encouraged me to learn about the science of Yoga, which actually means union with God. It comes from the Sanskrit word meaning "yoke," or connection, or bringing together. He told me that all of the world's great religions contained teachings about this union or enlightenment path of wisdom. The teachings were known as the mystical branches of the faiths, |
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