How a Hobby became my Profession

 

This all started back in the mid 1960's when there was a lot of discussion in the press in England about healing: Whether it is "real" or a scam to extract cash from the hopelessly ill.

 

Whilst there were many reports of people being "miraculously" healed of incurable illnesses, there were counter claims from the medical profession. The problem which I found with the counter claims was that they didn't really address the question. The most common "explanation" for "miraculous" healing was a thing called spontaneous remission. OK, well and good, but what, exactly is spontaneous remission? This is where the waters got a little murky. Ask a medico what this is and you would get one of two answers:

1) You're not medically qualified and wouldn't understand it.

2)                                          (no answer at all)

 

This, I found to be less than satisfactory and so began my own investigations. It didn't take long to answer the first question as to whether healing does really exist. The answer is yes!

 

This lead me almost automatically to a second question: What is special about the people who can give healing?

 

It took rather longer to answer this question: The answer is, "Nothing at all"!

 

"Whoah there," I said. "If there is nothing special about these people, how can I learn to do it?"

This study took the longest of all and was, in fact, my principal hobby for some fifteen years until, in one of the massive upheavals characteristic of this life for me, my hobby became, in 1985, my profession.

 

You see, there's nothing magical or inexplicable about healing. Medicine is not a healing technique but, for political reasons, was used by the inquisition from 1484 onwards as a substitute for healing. (See short article here and keeping watching in the bookshop for "The Simple Secrets of Health".) Medicine is nothing other than first aid techniques which can be used, in appropriate circumstances, to buy time for a healing process by, for example, either reducing the intensity of a fever or re-aligning broken bones or sewing up wounds. Medicine has no other function. Using it, as it widely is, to suppress the effects of a problem simply cause that problem to express itself in another manner. Thus are born the meaningless concepts of "Chronic" and "incurable" disease. There are no such things but failing to act to remove the cause of a dis-ease will, naturally, or course, cause it to linger. This is nothing other than common sense.

 

Healing, as opposed to medicine, is about discovering and removing the cause(s) of a problem and, thereby, permitting your body and your mind to naturally heal themselves. The skill of a healer lies alone in his/her ability to identify the real cause of a dis-ease and to be able to help you remove it from your life. A true healer is, therefore, primarily, a teacher. This is that which I have, to date, spent 37 years learning, learning by doing and learning by teaching. It's not difficult - it just requires the willingness to step outside the borders of "convention" set by others, to look at what is really happening and, no matter how much it contradicts conventional "wisdom", to explain to the sufferer exactly how he/she got into their predicament and how she/he can get out again.

 

All that is required is courage, perseverance, wisdom and trust. Quite normal human attributes possessed by all.