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written more than fifteen books and eighty articles on the subject. He was one of the first clinical researchers to write about the importance of "resonance" or "merging of consciousness" between healer and client in what we now call nonlocal healing. In his classic 1974 book The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist, LeShan discusses how most people's ordinary sensory reality is profoundly different from other ways of perceiving reality as described by healers, psychics, physicists, and mystics throughout history. 22 He postulates that nonlocal healing, precognition, and remote viewing are possible in the same nonsensory state of merged consciousness that mystic poets and psychics describe.
LeShan realized he had been grouping together two distinctly different categories of nonsensory awareness that were somehow related to different types of healing. He sums up the two types of healing consciousness this way:
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In Type 2 the healer tries to heal; he wants to and attempts to do so through the "healing flow." In both Type 1 and Type 2 he must (at least at the moment) care completely, but a fundamental difference is that in Type 1 he unites with the healee; in Type 2 he tries to cure him.23
Spiritual Healing and Psychic Healing Further Defined
Thus, LeShan discovered two different modes of healing from observing his experiences in different states of awareness. In one type of healing, the healer aims for a unity state of consciousness, and merges his or her mind with the All or Infinite One or God, as well as with the recipient of healing. There is no focus on hand positions or symptoms, no sensing of auras or energy flow, and no diagnosis of the health problem.
LeShan's Type 1 healing is what the authors call "spiritual healing." It involves a sense of surrender of individual desires and thoughts, a relinquishing of all distinctions between healer and patient  a sense of "letting healing happen," as opposed to "I am doing something to this person's body to make healing happen."
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Let then the motive for action be in the action itself, not in the event.
 The Bhagavad Gita24

 
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