Spititual healing : report of a Clerical and Medical Committee of Inquiry into Spiritual, Faith, and Mental Healing.

Date:
1914
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    disease healed by Mental or Spiritual influences alone. Many cases at first so diagnosed on sub- sequent scientific examination proved not to have been organic, and he did not think such disease was likely to be cured by either Spiritual or Mental Healing. He had seen no case in England that he could call miraculous. (7) He felt very strongly that Spiritual Healing should not be exercised apart from both medical diagnosis and supervision, though he did not see any objection to the clergyman exercising any power he might have, if a medical man was not available. He thought the clergy should be called in by the doctors more often than they were at present. He had himself sent patients to the clergy. In reply to general questions from various members of the Committee, Dr. Lloyd Tuckey stated that :— He deemed suggestion to be the basis of all mental healing, and that was the work in which he was specially engaged. It was a matter of appeal to the subliminal consciousness. He appealed to the inner self of the patient. Suggestion controlled not only the imagination but also the functions of the body. He had seen stigmata produced by suggestion, and he cited cases. He regarded mental healing as a grade of hypnotism, and the practice of “Unction” as beneficial to a patient as being encouraging, arousing hope and producing a state of ecstasy. In ecstasy, as in deep hypnotism, organs