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Afrocentric Faith Healing |
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Ancient Africans invented medicine but before that was magic and before magic was faith (divine, psychic, and spiritual) healing.
At first physical and emotional ills were attributed to supernatural causes and the medicine man would order out the evil spirits. Later, illnesses were seen as either physical in the seeable world or as involving the worlds of the mind and spirit in the unseen worlds.
The medicine man was trained to use herbs and potions for physical illnesses. For problems of the spirit and mind.(e.g. difficulties understanding and remembering), "ritual specialist" focused on unlocking energy or realigning the misplaced energy flow by using non-medical means, or resorting to various rituals.
These usually involved wearing masks to enable patients to personify (form a mental picture of the hidden) that which they otherwise could not imagine. Also, they devised ways to get patients to believe in their rituals for purposes of seeing the unseen. For patients to completely believe without proof or even without substantial evidence meant they had faith.
When the purpose was to cure or to lessen physical and/or mental disorders through faith in the power of divine intervention, the term "psychic healing" was applied.
The approach for getting "psychic healing" to happen was by means of group religion, psychotherapy, faith in one's shaman, or an intense belief in the therapeutic procedure. By applying non-biological management to help troubled people meant that ancient Africans Were The World's First Psychotherapists as well as The Originators of the Art of Medicine.
The objective of these approaches was to open channels leading into the deep and hidden recesses of the patient's mind and spirit so as to improve diagnosis and treatment. After African psychotherapy was borrowed into Western medicine, the famed psychoanalyst Carl Jung acknowledged a debt to the African Hermetica.
The way African "group religion" worked was for villagers to direct their energy, as a single force, on to some specific sign or symbol (as had been done by their ancestors for the prior hundreds of years).
Because "group prayer" generated ethereal (i.e. loving) energy meant it could "transcend" ("to climb across") into the Sublime through the mechanism of vibrations. The Black Egyptian Hermes Trismegistus (?4000 BC) had explained (The Kybalion p. 137) that things of the highest worth (e.g. love, peace, harmony, unity) vibrated at the very highest rate.
Since "group prayer" vibrated at the same rate as that of the Sublime ether, it therefore carried the power to heal and create miracles. Mental, behavioral, and spiritual conditions required for generating ethereal energy were faith, hope, and charity.
When a group of villagers engaged in faith healing prayer, their message created the "eccentric reality" of a "thought-cloud" in the Sublime (Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy p. 77).
This "thought-cloud" acted as a transmitter of the villagers' loving message since it was positioned above and beyond all duality (e.g. time and space) (Moyers, "The Power of the Myth" p. 50, 75, 82). The loving, healing messages would then be directed in to the patient.
Regardless of belief or disbelief, by simply being in the atmosphere of a long established pattern of prayer, every patient at least would benefit somewhat from faith healing (Linn, The Secret Language of Signs p.15-16). Otherwise, patients isolated from people praying for them could (and can) engage in meditation and rituals that open them to the spirit of healing powers.
The principle is to get in the flow of Universal Energy as well as to draw on the mysticism of good people's "group spirit" atmosphere. Because there are so many con-artist trying to make money off of faith healing, beware of claims about miraculous cures -- especially when it is said that doctors have given up all hope.
People have lost fortunes to these con-artist. Nevertheless, many patients have been cured of documented incurable organic illness through faith healing.
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