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of Era I, or discard the mind-body therapies of Era II. Rather, our lives become enriched with the extended range of healing choices available to us. Thus, I consider myself as practicing a complementary healing method, within a comprehensive system of health-promoting choices. Our choices for treatment are especially enhanced by the possibilities of Era III medicine.
This third Era is distinguished by the active nature of unbounded consciousness. Physical processes within the brain are recognized as influencing mental and emotional content as well as states of awareness. But we know that mind is not limited to the brain. Our mind-to-mind connections facilitate healing across distances, and allow us to gain information in nonordinary ways, such as remote viewing and distant clairvoyant diagnosis. Since this book is concerned with the nonlocal aspect of mind, this chapter includes discussion of the noncontact and distant healing modalities that characterize Era III medicine.
Psychic Healing
Psychic healing and spiritual healing are similar in that they both involve nonlocal mind, and they both may affect a person's health from a distance. Psychic healing as described here requires the healer to exert mental effort directed toward the patient's mind or body with a goal of "trying to heal." In general, psychic healing modalities involve training, trying, directing one's attention to a particular part of the patient's body, and logical decision-making on the mental level of the practitioner.
Psychic healing involves human judgment and skill, as does the practice of medicine. Since human decision-making is fallible, inappropriate psychic healing can result in imbalance in the affected system, and possible injury to the patient. Of course, the same potential for imbalance or disharmony may derive from medical treatment, physical therapy, or psychotherapy as well.
Psychic healing is similar to remote viewing in that they are both examples of our extended capacities on the mental plane of awareness. Because misjudgment or misuse of psychic healing ability is possible, some people fear and condemn it. However, I believe psychic healing, as well as spiritual

 
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