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that man had an awareness of spiritual healing before any other means
of healing.
It would have been a gradual process for man to discover that
there were other ways to heal. Many will have read adventure stories
of shipwrecked sailors, i.e. Robinson Crusoe, who found themselves
in a state of unknowing. They didn't know what to eat from the
apparent abundance around them, but with experimentation they soon
developed a safe diet, that is those who survived to tell the tale and
who didn't die of poisoning!
We also know from records such as these, the profound God
experience that these marooned sailors underwent, a profound
spiritual experience. We know too how under extreme distress people
turn to God either for help or to blame Him. How, when all else
deserts us we turn imploringly for Divine intervention. There is that
dependency on God.
Then there is the need not to recognise that we have that
dependency on God, the need to feel that we are apart from all that
sort of thinking, the sanctity of man. There is no power for man when
men turn to God. Some feel the need to keep God separated, to keep
the Spirit in its place so as to maintain their own sense of power. But
then who else can heal us?
We can surmise the advent of other therapies and the need
that arose to seek externally for a means of healing that, in it's way,
would introduce another dependency for man on man, thereby
allowing man to gain power over other men. It would make a very
negative story, a story of mans' growth away from the essence of his
creation, the essence of his being.
We encounter records of spiritual healing at the hands of the
Nabi, as the spiritually developed person was known as in pre-Jesus
Middle East, one who was recognised as representing the voice of
God. Next we encounter Jesus, a worker of many miracles, miracles