Spiritual healing : report of a clerical and medical committee of inquiry into spiritual, faith and mental healing.
- Clerical and Medical Committee of Inquiry into Spiritual, Faith, and Mental Healing.
- Date:
- 1914
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Spiritual healing : report of a clerical and medical committee of inquiry into spiritual, faith and mental healing. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![ceptible to cure by the Divine Spirit. He was also connected with a Home on the lines of the Emmanuel Movement, where medical men diag- nosed cases; and where cases of inchoate lunacy and other nervous disorders not always open to hypnotism, nor susceptible to treatment by sug- gestion, were on a way to cure through the calm of religious influences. 7.—In his sense of the words Spiritual Healing, doctors could not take note of it; though a wise person praying for a sick person would consult a doctor to know what to pray for. The use of drugs he would limit to the doctor, the imposition of hands he would not; but in the latter something should be known of the case. He would place no limits on benefits of Spiritual Healing. He would not hesitate to pray for cure of a mortal cancer; but would not expect a cure, though the soul would be benefited and the body indirectly through the soul. He regarded the Spiritual power as the direct Gift of God, and therefore neither doctors nor clergy could supervise it. The Rev. Percy Dearmer, D.D. {Ficar of St. Mary the Virgin^ N.W.^ Chairman of the Guild of Health). I.—Dr. Dearmer was unable to give any brief definition of Spiritual Healing. He had given his definitions in [his book] Body and Soul. He regarded it as Spiritual influence which penetrated to the subconscious mind and through that would](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b23982391_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
