Healers learn from spirits
A young girl, about 8 or 10 years old, was seriously ill.
Lying in her bed, she dreamt that a Capuchin monk appeared to her and touched her forehead. Next morning, she was completely healed.
When the child told her parents and other people that a good monk, who appeared in her dream, healed her, they did not believe her. Then they saw a tiny drop of red blood on the child’s white blanket.
The blood was found to be of a different type from the child’s. When Padre Pio’s picture was shown to her, she identified him as the one she saw in her dream.
Padre Pio, as we know, suffered from stigmata or spontaneous bleeding in both hands and feet in imitation of the passion of Jesus Christ.
This is an example of healing done by the spirit, although at that time, Padre Pio was still alive. His astral body must have flown to the sick bed of the child and healed her while his physical body was in his monastery.
He was known to do that during his time, and now that he is dead, he continues to heal people while in the spirit world.
The Christian Bible contains many stories of healing by angelic creatures. In the New Testament, Jesus Christ healed many, although he was not physically with the patients.
While we usually do not doubt stories from the Bible, we have difficulty accepting similar stories of healing from the spirit world when it happens to us today in real life.
We usually attribute such incidents to imagination, hallucination or spontaneous remission of illness. In other words, the disease would have healed by itself.
Verifiable stories
Spirit communication and spirit healing continue up to this day and did not stop with the death of Christ, as some evangelists seem to believe. And there are many verifiable and authenticated stories that these are still happening in modern times.
How do our local herbolarios or indigenous medicine men and women know which of the so many different medical plants and herbs are good for what disease?
According to conventional wisdom, this knowledge was handed down from one generation to another. If this were so, then these healers must have prodigious vocabulary and perfect memory to be able to remember all the different plants useful or effective against certain disease.But many local healers are unschooled and do not have sophisticated intellects. Yet they can put to shame those with doctorate degrees in big universities.
So how can we explain how the first healers learned about medicinal plants?
Incredible as this may sound, I believe that the first healers obtained their knowledge direct from the spirit world through a dream, in a trance state or a waking vision.
In the ’80s, I met a teenage female healer in the Mountain Province. She lived in a small hut with her parents. Although quite young, she was known in the village as a good healer and everybody brought their sick to her.
At the time of my visit, a mother had brought her baby for treatment. The baby’s back was accidentally scalded by boiling water. She was crying hysterically in pain.
No to doctors
Wanting to help, I offered to bring the baby to the hospital and even to shoulder the expenses. The mother simply looked at me and said sternly: “We don’t believe in hospital doctors.”That shut me up and I just watched what the healer did.
She burned some herbs and then poured the ashes on the burned back of the child. I was shocked because the baby could suffer from infection. But I couldn’t do anything.
As the healer slowly covered the burned portions of the baby’s back with ashes, the child stopped crying. I found that pretty impressive. I did not think she could make the child stop crying.
I asked her later how she knew exactly what to do. How did she know which plant was good for which disease? Who taught her how to do this thing?
She replied that no one taught her how to heal. She was told in a dream what plant was good for which ailment. She was even told exactly where in the mountain she could find a particular medicinal plant and which part of the plant to use, for example, the leaves, the bark, the root.
This story is typical of the many healers I have interviewed in the Philippines. Not one of them chose willingly or volunteered to be a healer.
They were somehow chosen by the spirits to become one. They all spoke of an invisible guide that appeared to them in a dream, direct vision, or during a trance or meditative state.
As the Japanese psychic and spiritual researcher Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama said: “No one becomes a healer unless he has encountered a god.” I believe he is absolutely right!
Note: For inquiries on books, paranormal services and seminars on Inner Mind Development, ESP and Intuition Development, and Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation conducted by this writer, call 8107245 or 8926806; fax 8159890; e-mail innerawareness_2005@yahoo.com.ph.
Lying in her bed, she dreamt that a Capuchin monk appeared to her and touched her forehead. Next morning, she was completely healed.
When the child told her parents and other people that a good monk, who appeared in her dream, healed her, they did not believe her. Then they saw a tiny drop of red blood on the child’s white blanket.
The blood was found to be of a different type from the child’s. When Padre Pio’s picture was shown to her, she identified him as the one she saw in her dream.
Padre Pio, as we know, suffered from stigmata or spontaneous bleeding in both hands and feet in imitation of the passion of Jesus Christ.
This is an example of healing done by the spirit, although at that time, Padre Pio was still alive. His astral body must have flown to the sick bed of the child and healed her while his physical body was in his monastery.
He was known to do that during his time, and now that he is dead, he continues to heal people while in the spirit world.
The Christian Bible contains many stories of healing by angelic creatures. In the New Testament, Jesus Christ healed many, although he was not physically with the patients.
While we usually do not doubt stories from the Bible, we have difficulty accepting similar stories of healing from the spirit world when it happens to us today in real life.
We usually attribute such incidents to imagination, hallucination or spontaneous remission of illness. In other words, the disease would have healed by itself.
Verifiable stories
Spirit communication and spirit healing continue up to this day and did not stop with the death of Christ, as some evangelists seem to believe. And there are many verifiable and authenticated stories that these are still happening in modern times.
How do our local herbolarios or indigenous medicine men and women know which of the so many different medical plants and herbs are good for what disease?
According to conventional wisdom, this knowledge was handed down from one generation to another. If this were so, then these healers must have prodigious vocabulary and perfect memory to be able to remember all the different plants useful or effective against certain disease.But many local healers are unschooled and do not have sophisticated intellects. Yet they can put to shame those with doctorate degrees in big universities.
So how can we explain how the first healers learned about medicinal plants?
Incredible as this may sound, I believe that the first healers obtained their knowledge direct from the spirit world through a dream, in a trance state or a waking vision.
In the ’80s, I met a teenage female healer in the Mountain Province. She lived in a small hut with her parents. Although quite young, she was known in the village as a good healer and everybody brought their sick to her.
At the time of my visit, a mother had brought her baby for treatment. The baby’s back was accidentally scalded by boiling water. She was crying hysterically in pain.
No to doctors
Wanting to help, I offered to bring the baby to the hospital and even to shoulder the expenses. The mother simply looked at me and said sternly: “We don’t believe in hospital doctors.”That shut me up and I just watched what the healer did.
She burned some herbs and then poured the ashes on the burned back of the child. I was shocked because the baby could suffer from infection. But I couldn’t do anything.
As the healer slowly covered the burned portions of the baby’s back with ashes, the child stopped crying. I found that pretty impressive. I did not think she could make the child stop crying.
I asked her later how she knew exactly what to do. How did she know which plant was good for which disease? Who taught her how to do this thing?
She replied that no one taught her how to heal. She was told in a dream what plant was good for which ailment. She was even told exactly where in the mountain she could find a particular medicinal plant and which part of the plant to use, for example, the leaves, the bark, the root.
This story is typical of the many healers I have interviewed in the Philippines. Not one of them chose willingly or volunteered to be a healer.
They were somehow chosen by the spirits to become one. They all spoke of an invisible guide that appeared to them in a dream, direct vision, or during a trance or meditative state.
As the Japanese psychic and spiritual researcher Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama said: “No one becomes a healer unless he has encountered a god.” I believe he is absolutely right!
Note: For inquiries on books, paranormal services and seminars on Inner Mind Development, ESP and Intuition Development, and Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation conducted by this writer, call 8107245 or 8926806; fax 8159890; e-mail innerawareness_2005@yahoo.com.ph.
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