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hypothesis that man had an awareness of Spiritual Healing before any
other means of healing.
It would have been a gradual process of trial and error before
man could 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 in their new
environment. They didn’t know what to eat from the natural
abundance around them, but with experimentation soon developed a
safe diet, that is those of them that lived to tell the tale and didn’t die
of poisoning!
We know from records of marooned sailors the profound God
experience that they underwent, a profound spiritual experience. We
know how, under extreme distress, people turn to God either for help
from Him or to Blame Him. How, when all else deserts us, we turn
imploringly for Divine intervention. There has always been that
dependency on God and we are never let down by Him.
Then there is the need not to acknowledge that we have that
dependency on God. The need to feel we are apart from all God based
thinking. To recognise the sanctity of mankind, power seekers,
political, commercial or religious, feel the need to keep God
separated, to keep the Spirit in its place in order to maintain their own
sense of power. But then who else can heal us?
We can only surmise the advent of other therapies. The need
arose to seek externally for a means of healing that would introduce
another dependency for man on man, thereby allowing man to gain
power over other men. It makes a very negative story, a story of man’s
growth away from the essence of his creation, the essence of his
being.
We read of Spiritual Healing at the hands of the Nabi, as the
spiritually developed person was known in pre-Jesus Middle East, one
who was recognised as representing the voice of God. Next we