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Chapter Eight
The Healing:
Experience
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If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.
 
Heraclitus
Ever since my first experience with the so-called "healing touch" in the lobby of the Manila Hotel, I (Jane) have read everything I could find written by healers, and about healing. One of my favorite books is the autobiography of an American spiritual healer who moved to England before World War I to practice his healing gift, because spiritual healing is accepted and legal there. William MacMillan titled his book The Reluctant Healer, because he, like I, was often troubled or puzzled about this "calling" or talent for healing. 1
We shared much in common. Both of us had the gift revealed to us in a strange and unsettling way: MacMillan, who did not believe in psychic phenomena, had been seated next to a psychic at a dinner party. He had never before encountered a psychic, and was taken aback when the woman casually announced to him that he had the gift of healing. Later, his reaction was much the same as mine, wondering how an unexpected declaration from another person could come to influence our lives so strongly. Neither of us understood much about how the phenomenon worked, or why it happened to us.
We both continuously wondered if the "gift" would stay with us if we didn't use it for a long time, or if we committed some act that made us feel

 
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