spiritulism & healing

[moggy]

anyone know of someone who goes to a spiritulist church or a healer?
maybe you go yourself or you've had someone try to heal you?

my misses auntie is a spiritulist and i've talked to her in great depth.
she has some remarkable stories.

 

[dougdeep]

I think it's hokum, absolute poppycock.

 

[chez]

Nah, its all bollox! A bit like my football team!

 

[Starry]

My daughter had cancer and we took her to two healers, one here and another in Spain (we didn't go to Spain especially for that, she was being treated in a Spanish hospital at the time).

I don't really want to post too much about it and while my daughter was never 'healed/cured' she and we took a great deal of comfort from our experiences.

 

[moggy]

i think there is a lot more to it than meets the eye.
there's definately spirits out there.
i know that just from past experiences of doing things like the ouiji board

 

[dougdeep]

The only spirit I believe in is Whisky.

 

[desprateseagull]

My daughter had cancer and we took her to two healers, one here and another in Spain (we didn't go to Spain especially for that, she was being treated in a Spanish hospital at the time).

I don't really want to post too much about it and while my daughter was never 'healed/cured' she and we took a great deal of comfort from our experiences.

personallu u feel its total buncum but if it brings people some confort, i say go for it. but best keep up with tried and proven treatments.

 

[Man of Harveys]

there's definately spirits out there. i know that

What do these spirits look like then? Do any of them look like grey horses?

I've been receiving some very disturbing PMs recently.

 

[Meade's Ball]

People get seriously ill and often require an alternative to the long-winded or long-worded or foul-breathed possibilities that the future grimly holds. Some may possibly power the brain more than fact would with belief or spoken alternative. In some ways i imagine it beneficial.
Personally, i craved the miserablism i previously bathed and burnt myself in, so i could linger in recognisable discomfort rather than it all prowling new.

 

[cannedheat]

Personally, i craved the miserablism i previously bathed and burnt myself in, so i could linger in recognisable discomfort rather than it all prowling new.

Is that what we would call depression.

 

[bhaexpress]

Whilst I don't understand it but all I would say is that if it helps then don't knock it.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Spiritual Healing is the placebo effect in work.

The mind is a powerful and unknown quantity , so unlocking it's functions can be a subconscious thing that leads to things we can't explain.

If someone believes enough that spiritual healing might help them then through power of suggestion it might in some way.

 

[Meade's Ball]

Personally, i craved the miserablism i previously bathed and burnt myself in, so i could linger in recognisable discomfort rather than it all prowling new.

Is that what we would call depression.

I wish it were that simple.
Although i suppose you could say my skull was depressed in places, by a car that rolled over it and parked me in a coma.

 

[Les Biehn]

parked me in a coma.

That is shit hot. Not the incident but the term for it.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

The problem I have with spiritual healing is not that it might be of limited value, hey if it helps whether it's a placebo or not then that's a good thing. My problem is the number of charlatans and con artists profiting from the vulnerable.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

The problem I have with spiritual healing is not that it might be of limited value, hey if it helps whether it's a placebo or not then that's a good thing. My problem is the number of charlatans and con artists profiting from the vulnerable.

That's the problem how do you licence and regulate an industry that can't provide valid scientific backed evidence it works.

 

[Starry]

personallu u feel its total buncum but if it brings people some confort, i say go for it. but best keep up with tried and proven treatments.

Indeed! And we gave my daughter all the medical care we could along side seeing the healers. I was never totally open to the idea that a lady up the road could cure my daughter but when I was faced with "she is dying anyway but if we try this it might help" type situation, we had no choice but to try.

Ultimately it didn't help cure her, but the time we spent in Spain was made a hundred times better than it would have been otherwise, by the healer we had there.

And touching on the profiting mentioned above we paid no money to either healer. The lady in Spain we sent a fruit basket and some flowers when we flew back, the healer here requested we donate in their name to a cancer charity.

I'd do it again, should I God forbid ever find myself in a similar situation again.

 

[withdeanwombat]

Glue for the gullible.

 

[bhafc99]

anyone know of someone who goes to a spiritulist church or a healer?
maybe you go yourself or you've had someone try to heal you?

If so, we'd like to hear from you. Write to: 'The Trisha Show', Channel 5...

Sorry, couldn't resist.