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healing, will both be rightfully acknowledged in the future, right along with surgery, pharmacology, botanical medicine (herbs), and nutrition. The expertise and integrity of the practitioner are as important in psychic healing as they are in those we choose to anesthetize us or cut us open and stitch us up again.
Spiritual Healing
It is my belief that Dossey's Eras of Medicine should be amended to reflect refinements in our understanding of nonlocal healing methods. Psychic healing, energy healing, and spiritual healing may one day each be in their own categories in Era III.
As mentioned earlier, one distinction between psychic and spiritual healing is that spiritual healing involves active compassion, in the presence of surrendered egos. It cannot occur without this aspect of service, which some Biblical translations call "charity." A spiritual healer operates from the perceptual foundation of which Martin Heidegger wrote:
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A person is neither a thing nor a process, but an opening or clearing through which the Absolute can manifest.
Spiritual healers enter a different state of consciousness from that of psychic healers. Their methods  what they experience while in the healing interaction  and the source of knowledge about how to do healing, are not the same as those of psychic healers. Spiritual healing occurs from the healer "letting" spirit work through him or her to assist the sick person's innate self-balancing, harmonizing, and healing capacities. In my experience, it involves the activation and expression of transpersonal love. It is not a mental function or a "doing"  it is an experience of one universal mind unifying with itself, which is the main aspect of love. As such, it is as unlikely for spiritual healing to disrupt a person's health as it is for someone to be too balanced.
It is also impossible for a spiritual healer to attempt to kill specific cells in a test tube for the sake of research. It's not that killing a form of life goes

 
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