This publication is a forum for sharing clinical observations which might be of use to healers and to doctors referring patients to healers.  It is hoped that awareness of the ethical applications of healing will be clarified and standards improved for clinical healing practice.

The editor's beliefs and biases will inevitably influence the contents of the publication.  I therefore share some of the following axioms which I hold at present to be true (but subject to refinement and alteration with further experience and evidence:)

1. Healing by the laying on of hands and by meditation/focused intent/prayer from a distance are scientifically demonstrated to exist beyond reasonable doubt.

2. Development of one's innate healing gifts can be learned and taught and healers can enhance their gifts through meditative exercises and cognitive/emotional clearing.

3. Ethical healing practice requires an openness on the part of the healer to self examination, including inputs of teachers, supervisors, peers and healees.  The being of the healer shapes the healing essences which are channeled/catalysed.

4. Healing may be transmitted through a variety of techniques and probably involves a range of energies of a nature as yet not recognized or understood by conventional science.

5. Enhancing healee understanding along with applications of energies will lead to more profound and more permanent changes than energies applied alone.

6. Providing energies inputs alone is likely to leave healees with habits and underlying problems which invite recurrences of symptoms or new ones.

7. There may be instances where treatment with energies alone is appropriate and sufficient.

8. People enter life to learn lessons through challenges which include illness and problems in relationships.  This is the most vital and important aspect of life.

9. Disease is a reflection of dis-ease on physical, mental, emotional and/or spiritual levels.

10. Survival of spirit and reincarnation are essential aspects of human life.

11. Ego involvement of healers in their healing is a detracting engagement of energies which adversely affects their abilities to heal ethically and robs their healees of full benefits of healing.

12. If healing is to gain acceptance within conventional medical practice it must conform to high levels of standards for ethical and professional conduct.  These require at a minimum (after certification in healing) continuing education (especially cognitive/emotional clearing), a peer review system and procedures for accepting and acting upon feedback from healees.

13. A peer review system for grading healers' levels of healing competence might facilitate some of the previous suggestions.

14. Each of us is as a brain cell in the collective consciousness of the universe.  When we work to be and do the best that we can we contribute to the All.

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Copyright © Daniel J. Benor, M.D. 1991 Reprinted with permission of the author P.O. Box 76 Bellmawr, NJ 08099
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