Absent Healing

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Absent Healing

Healing at a distance from the subject, sometimes through the subject providing some associational link such as a written request for healing, or in reverse form, by the healer sending a piece of material to be placed on the subject's body where the healing is required, or simply by prayers for the subject's recovery on the part of the healer or a band of healing associates. Many people today, Christian, metaphysical, or modern Spiritualist, hold sessions at which they pray for the recovery of petitioners who write them for help.

(See also Healing by Faith ; Psychic Healing )