Synopsis
Challenging both Western status quo religion and medicine, this book uncovers strong scientific evidence confirming the phenomenon of spiritual healing - a study for both the sceptic and the believer. The book looks at healing by examining the limits of medical science, taking examples of spiritual healing that cannot be medically explained. Challenging doctors and other health-care professionals to look beyond conventional approaches, it confronts the medical frauds, such as TV faith healers and others like them. From his research, the author discovers that spiritual healing is gaining new respect within the Christian Church and among medical practitioners and patients, most notably in Britain. His discoveries lead him to conclude that all healing is ultimately self-healing, noting that "the forces of traditional healing and conventional medicine are getting closer all the time." Harpur introduces the reader to the modern healers responsible for spiritual healing's new-found regard. From the work of Geoffrey Mowatt, who was commissioned in 1942 by the Archbishop of Canterbury to serve as his official healer, to the findings of McGill University professor Bernard Grad and the healer Oskar Estebany, who experimented with the laying-on of hands on wounded mice, Harpur illustrates that something far beyond the power of suggestion is at work. The book also examines the Therapeutic Touch movement proven to boost the body's immune system, and the "laughter" therapy used in various North American hospitals. The investigations conclude by issuing three challenges: to the medical profession to remember that medicine is as much an art as a science, and to stop dismissing non-medical therapies as quackery; to the Christian Churches to remember that Christ's message to his followers was to go preach, teach and heal; and thirdly, to the reader to take back responsibility for bodily and spiritual health and to develop the potential to heal others. Tom Harpur is the author of "Life After Death", "For Christ's Sake" and "God Help Us".

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