Why is theory important for the spiritual healers and mediums?

You may say: “But spiritual healing is fundamentally different to other forms of healing in that the spiritual healer does not actually diagnose and treat the patient. Because of that 180 degree difference, spiritual healers therefore do not need theory to be effective and to obtain good healing results.” My response is that: “It is indeed true that the spiritual healer does not diagnose and treat the patient – but it is not true that the spiritual healer can still practise effectively without having a good understanding of the theory of spiritual healing. In spiritual healing the healer still needs to have a good understanding of theory and apply it as well as they possibly can so that spirit and the healing power that derives from the spirit can do the healing work. In spiritual healing a large part of the relevant theory seeks to prepare the physical, mental, and spiritual inner and outer environments of the healer so as to allow them to co-operate with spirit in the best possible way so that spirit can work through them in the best possible way. This is what produces the best possible healing results. Let me tell you that theory is just as important to the practitioner of spiritual healing as it is to the medical practitioner. The importance of theory is the same - it is just that the focus of theory is different. For medical practitioners, for instance, theory makes them more effective healers but for spiritual healing practitioners theory makes them more effective in channelling spiritual healing power. Theory makes spiritual healers more effective in channelling spirit which is the real healer in spiritual healing. With both types of healers though, theory ultimately allows a better standard of healing to be delivered through them.”

What is spirit, and how does spirit relate to spiritual healing, mediumship, meditation, and health?

Spirit is the infinite, perfect, all-knowing all-feeling, all-seeing, all-powerful ubiquitous universal intelligence that possesses perfect intelligence and knowledge about the universe and all physical and non-physical animate and non-animate objects in the universe.

The universal intelligence that is spirit is a non-material spiritual essence. Spirit is very similar to the concept of God and includes all those and all that which is involved in the spiritual organization and structure. Spirit is not a deified man or a deified being. Nor is spirit/Great Spirit, the power that creates and maintains the universe, a spirit being – although it is said, perhaps confusingly, that those spirit beings who help and assist in the production of spiritual healing and other spiritual and natural phenomena are spirit. Spirit does not have human form or human appearance – rather the whole universe and everything in it is its form.

While it is true that spirit does not have human form or human appearance; human form, human appearance and even human health are determined by spirit and the state of one’s spirit. You may say: “But what about the physical? What about the mind? What about free will? What about evolution? You forgot about these and the effect they have on human form, human appearance and health.” It is true that these things all have an impact, but these things – indeed all things, as we shall see – derive from spirit and the state of the spirit.

Therefore, all human beings –and indeed all animals and all living things – are a product and a consequence of spirit and the state of the spirit. We can say that man and the state and condition of man are a reflection of spirit and the state of the spirit. What we can also say is that man is made in the image of spirit. In spiritual healing what we seek to do is to use spirit – or rather the healing power of the spirit – to change and re-shape the imperfect image of man to more closely resemble the perfect image of spirit or God.