Healers have a major contriution to make in sorting out how healing works.

Few healers have taken the trouble to record collected results of their treatments systematically, and fewer yet have published these. When a series of treatments produce similar effects we can begin to appreciate how healing may work.

For instance, Gordon Turner collected reports of healees' sensations during healing. He found that intense heat, cold, and electrical sensations were more likely to be associated with subjective reports of cures than other sensations. (This was published in Britain in Two Worlds, 1969 and is summarized in Healing Reserch, Volume I.)

There are many such ways in which healing could be studied by healers.

Theories to explain healing abound.