Psychic
Healing
CHAPTER XVI MENTAL HEALING
The reader
will
see
by
reference
to
the chapter on Suggestive Healing the effect upon the
physical body by
incorrect thinking, and it
is not deemed necessary to repeat those
illustrations or examples here, nor to give
additional ones. It is
presumed that every reader of this book has
some acquaintance with the effect of mental
states upon physical
functioning, so it is not necessary to take up
space with further proofs of the same.
The theory and system of
mental healing is based upon this knowledge of
the effect of mind upon body, coupled with the idea that as the mind
may produce abnormal functioning, so may the
process be reversed and used to restore perfect health and
correct functioning. "We shall not attempt to
recite the special theories of the
several schools of mental
healing, nor to attempt to explain the many
theories regarding the question of
"What is Mind?" nor the
psychological theories regarding the process
of the cures. The fact is that mental
healing is a fact and the
thing to do is to tell how to make use of and
apply it.
In our chapters on
Suggestive Healing we have given information
that may well be combined with these teachings
regarding
mental healing. In fact, suggestion and mental
healing are twins each representing one side
of the same
thing. The principal difference rests in the
manner of applying the force behind the
treatment. Suggestion depends almost altogether upon
verbal suggestions, etc., while Mental Healing
depends upon telepathy or thought-transmission. The best
healers combine both methods when the patient
is in their presence. But mental healing does not require the
presence of the patient, the treatments often
being given to patients many miles away by what is known as
"Absent Treatment," but which is really a form
of telepathy.
Telepathy, once laughed at
as a superstitious fancy, is now beginning to
be recognized by the scientific world,
and will soon be adopted as
a law. It has been known to occultists in all
ages and times, among all people and
it is not a "new" thing by
any means, although many claim to. have
"discovered" it in our 'own times.
We give a few examples of
its general acceptance among men of
intelligence and prominence in our own times.
Edw T. Bennett, late
secretary of the Society of Phsycical
Research, says: -The conclusion seems to be
irresistible that the five
senses do not exhaust the means by which
pledge may enter the mind. In other words
the investigator seems to
be driven by the conclusion that thought
transference or telepathy must now be
included amongst
scientifically proven facts.".
Prof. John D. Quackenbos,
the eminent New York scientist, says: "The
time has indeed come, as Maeterlinck
predicted it would when
souls may know of each other without the
intermediary of the senses."
Clark Bell says:
"Telepathy, as it is regravitation which we
know exists. But we are as yet unable to
comprehend how
it acts, or to know its methods"
Prof. Wm. Crookes, the well
known English scientist, says: "If we accept
the theory that the brain is composed
of separate elements nerve
cells then we must presume that each of these
components, like every other bit of
matter, has its movements
of vibration, and will, under suitable
conditions, be affected; as, for instance, the
nerve cells of the retina
by vibration in the ether. If another neuron,
situated not far away, should acquire
the same movement of
vibration, there seems to be no good reason
why they should not materially affect each
otherthrough
the ether."
Dr. Sheldon Leavitt says :
"There is no disputing the fact that those who
have given the subject of telepathy
attentive thought and
patient investigation have become convinced of
its truth and practicability. My own
experience has given me
unwavering convictions. I know that in some
way thought can be transmitted from one
conscious mind to another;
and I have good reason to believe that it can
be transmitted still more forcibly and
fully to the unconscious
mind of the recipient "
Camille Flammarion, the
French astronomer, says: "We sum up,
therefore, our preceding observations by the
conclusion that one mind
can act upon another at a distance without the
habitual medium of words, or any other visible means of communication.
It appears to us altogether unreasonable to
reject this conclusion if we accept the facts. There is nothing
unscientific, nothing romantic in admitting
that an idea can influence a brain from a distance. The action of one
human being upon another, from a distance, is
a scientific fact ; it is as certain as the existence of Paris, of
Napoleon, of Oxygen, or of Sirius." Again the
same authority says:
" There can be no doubt
that our psychical force creates a movement of
the ether, which transmits itself afar
like all movements of
ether, and the reaction into an ethereal
movement, becomes perceptible to brains
in harmony with our own.
The transformation of a psychic force, may be
analogous to what takes place on a
telephone, where the
receptive plate, which is identical with the
plate at the other end, reconstructs the
sonorous movement
transmitted, not by means of sound, but by
electricity. But these are only comparisons."
Page after page could be
filled with like expressions of belief in
thought-transmission, on the part of the
thinking public, but the
same is not deemed necessary. Those who wish
further information on this subject are
referred to the published
reports of the English Society for Psychical
Research, which may be found in the
principal libraries of the
country. It is by means of this fact of
telepathy that the absent healing of the
Mental Scientists ; and
others are performed when they are not
occasioned by direct verbal suggestion, which
factor must not be
overlooked.
The principle of mental
healing lies in the fact that the central mind
controls the bodily functions or the mind
manifesting through the
organs, cells and parts of the body. The
latter respond to the mental states of the
central mind and anything
affecting the latter naturally affects the
former. The healer endeavors to establish
in the central mind of the
patient a normal condition of mental attitude.
This normal mental attitude is one in
which the individual
recognizes his mastery of the body, and of his
entire system. This mental attitude when onceacquired will prevent disease
and will restore health when disease has once
set in. Its healing power depends upon the degree of realization
of the supremacy of mind manifested by the
person.
Now this realization is
imperfect in the average person who has
allowed himself to sink gradually down to the
lower planes of the mind
and has allowed his realization to become
impaired from some one or more of various
cause. Here is where the
healer comes into use and service. He has kept
his mind positive and keen and has
trained himself in the
science of thought-transmission. Therefore
when called upon to treat a patient he raises
his "vibrations" until they
reach the proper stage, when he transmits them
to the mind of the patient the result
being that the vibrations
are reproduced there, and the consequence is
that the mind of the patient reacts upon
the mind principle
animating the parts, organs and cells of the
instinctive mind, in fact, and gradually
re-establishes normal
conditions
The various schools of
mental healing have a variety of theories to
account for their healing, but we think that
the above will be found to
cover all the general ideas and theories, and
in fact, to account for what happens,
irrespective of
metaphysical theories, and in spite of some of
them.
There ls a natural law
underlying all these forms of healing and it
is folly to attempt to befog the facts
with a mass of metaphysical
theorizing, The fact is that all the schools
make cures, and perform healing, in
spite of their conflicting
theories. Does not this prove that they are
all using the same force and power,
in spite of their theories?
"We shall not attempt to take up these various
theories in detail, but shall at once
proceed to the "proof of
the pudding" by giving you in the next chapter
a plain system of Practice of Mental
Healing, which will enable
any of you to perform the healing work
accomplished by the various schools.
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