Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Faith Healing and Psychic Surgery: Fact or Fallacy (2 of 3)

Good morning friends. This is the second part of my article. You will be thinking a lot here if it is fact or fallacy.
Faith healing with its sensational process of bare-handed psychic surgery is one of the most extraordinary and controversial examples of and indigenous paranormal phenomenon in the country that many from all over the world must have heard but know little about.

Of the thousands of spiritual or faith healers scattered all over the Philippines, only around 150 to 200 can perform psychic surgery. And only about ten percent (10%) of these have consistent powers to practice regularly.

Bare-handed psychic surgery exists only in the Philippines. A similar phenomenon is found in Brazil, but their healers use knives, scalpels, scissors and other instruments to perform “surgery.” I decline psychic surgery as the process by which the healer while entranced opens up the body of the patient with his bare hands, take out diseased tissues, and closes the opening without any trace of the incision at all.

It is believed that this is done through the intercession of a benign spirit or saint using the healer as a channel or medium of the healing force or energy. All faith healers are members of one spiritist group or another.

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