duminică, 7 iunie 2015

The Popularity Of Spiritual Doctor Healing

By Elaine Guthrie


Typically, people who become sick take their problem to a professionally certified, state licensed physician or nurse. A bit lower in terms of prestige but still widely popular is the broad field of alternative medicine. Alternative medicines are often practices rooted in non-Western cultures, with acupuncture the most common. Meanwhile, spiritual doctor healing remains popular despite the low esteem in which it is held.

Spiritual healing is the umbrella term for attempted treatments depending wholly in help from beings that don't register to human senses, beings whose very existence must be taken on faith. It is frequently the last stop for patients who are desperate, having tried everything sanctioned medicine can attempt. Often, the patient is also more interested in the touch of God than he or she is in getting healed as such. The malady might well be most important as a chance to witness the miraculous.

Supernatural assistance is often sought for the relief of pain, which even today is little understood by standard medicine. It can be sought out for acutely personal issues, such as sexual problems. Psychological problems and plain bad luck also drive the afflicted to the spirits.

Some people who look to help from the spiritual plane are not seeking cures for health concerns, at least not in any sense most would recognize. They seek shielding from what they understand to be malevolent spirits. If the spirit has gained control of the patient's mind, it could be decided that an exorcism is the only solution.

Those who seek entirely supernatural sources of relief should understand clearly that their chosen method lacks official scientific explanation or sanction. It and they themselves often face public mockery, including dedicated debunkers. This mockery is often funded by mainstream medicine, which is motivated both by concern over public health and by a desire to monopolize the money prospective patients are willing to spend on their health.

Unsurprisingly, the bulk of faith healers draw their clientele from those are either scientifically unaware or perhaps a bit too aware for their own good. There is a persistent minority of the public that is suspicious of what is perceived to be a calcified, corrupt medical establishment. Spiritualists make their professional name based upon based upon both word-of-mouth referrals and dazzling salesmanship.

There are many techniques resorting to the supernatural. Faith healing is a staple of many charismatic church services. Usually this is accomplished by the minister's laying on of hands and appealing to the holy spirit. This is a highly public act, and is at least as much performance as therapy.

Long relegated to the shadows, witchcraft performs its magic through its practitioners' expertise with stones, herbs, and the most humble objects. Now it is not only largely freed from centuries of oppression, it is among the most rapidly growing religious paths in the Western world. Voudon has its roots in West Africa and Haiti, and carries the appeal of exotica. It draws upon assistance from a menagerie of gods, saints, and lesser entities, all called upon to defend against beings still lesser.




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