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

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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Faith Healing and Psychic Surgery: Fact or Fallacy ( Part 1 )

For about half of the 24 years in the business management of my friend, she was engaged in a very unusual hobby after office hours, doing research and writing books and articles on various paranormal and psychic phenomena. During her offbeat hours, the presence of a fascinating hidden culture of the Philippines became evident to her – a culture that is much more fundamental, more powerful and more pervasive than the outward culture that the ordinary visitor to our country becomes easily familiar with.

This hidden aspect of our culture, which she call the esoteric cultures of the Philippines, consists of beliefs in the supernatural, in the existence of various in habitants of the spirit world and the many rituals and practices connected with their supplication and intervention into our daily affairs. The esoteric culture also refers to the Filipino’s persistent belief in the awesome powers of the mind to transform one’s life and protect him from harm so long as that mind is connected with the spirit source. The paranormal is part of the hidden culture.

The Philippine Paranormal Research Society, a non-profit organization found in 1986, together with several business professionals and scientists, defines the paranormal as “any observable or experience able phenomenon, object, energy, force, event or human capability for which there is yet no generally accepted scientific explanation.”


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