Scientific Spiritual Healing Author:William T. Walsh BY WILLIAM T. WALSH FOREWORD BY RT. REV. ARTHUR SELDEN LLOYD, DD. BISHOP SUFFRAGAN, DIOCESE OF NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON MCMXXVI TO BERTHA PRISCILLA JOAN SUZANNE FOREWORD Many will welcome the appearance of this book. Mens minds are turning more and more towards the subject the author discusses. The calmness and sanity of ... more »what he says adds to the value of his work. The Church is becoming aware that perhaps unconsciously it has laid upon those who are called to the practice of medicine the whole responsi bility for the care of the sick. At the same time the greatest physicians seem to be coming to the conclusion that there is a factor in their problem which has been overlooked or left in abeyance. There is nothing more inspiring in the develop ment of medicine than what seems to be a growing consciousness that in ministering to a mans body those forces which are spiritual must be taken into account along with the laws of his physical frame. It is obvious that we are approaching the time when the priest and the physician must collabo rate, and perhaps there is no more difficult prob viii FOREWORD lem to be solved than to find out how this can be done. It may have to wait until each has learned that to the other has been intrusted truth which must be shared before either can do his work as it should be done. Scientific Spiritual Healing should help to wards a consummation ardently to be desired. At any rate it will tempt the priests of the Church to question again why the command to heal the sick has been treated as though this command had been abrogated. For the present, every man may have his own theory as to how the principles which the Author discusses, should be applied, but all must confess that the end he strives after can be attained. The matter of importance is that those who suffer shall not be defrauded of the blessing which is theirs of right through the negligence of those whose duty it is to bring this to them. This book will be read with the greater confi dence not only because the writer is a man who has devoted long time to his subject, but because he is one who, moved by the distresses with which he constantly comes in contact as a faithful pas tor, has had the courage to accept what has been shown in the Revelation of the Incarnate One and FOREWORD he has dared to take our Lord at His word. The re sults that Mr. Walsh has attained give pause to the most skeptical, while they enlarge the hope of all those who are sure that the gift which the Christ bestowed upon His friends is theirs to-day as it was at the beginning if they are willing to pay the price involved in being co-workers with Him. A. S. LLOYD, Bishop Suffragan of New York. CONTENTS FOREWORD vii PART ONE THE PRACTICE OF SCIENTIFIC SPIRITUAL HEALING CHAPTER PAGE I. THE MEANING OF SPIRITUAL HEALING 3 II. TECHNIQUE IN SPIRITUAL HEALING . . 7 III. SPIRITUAL HEALING IN PRACTICE . . 29 The Healing of an Epileptic . 30 Healing a Man Possessed of Fear . . 36 Spiritual Healing in the Crisis of a Dis ease 41 IV. SPIRITUAL HEALING FOR THE DYING . . 49 V. THE PLACE OF SPIRITUAL HEALING IN CHRISTIANITY 56 PART TWO THE SCIENCE OF SPIRITUAL HEALING VI. SPIRITUAL HEALING AND MODERN SCI ENCE 67 VII. THE PHILOSOPHY OF SPIRITUAL HEALING 84 xii CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE VIIL THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SPIRITUAL HEALING 97 IX. APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY IN SPIRITUAL HEALING 120 X. DAILY HEALING STUDIES MEDITATION AND PRAYER 138 APPENDIX 157 INDEX , 177 PART I THE PRACTICE OF SCIENTIFIC SPIRITUAL HEALING CHAPTER I THE MEANING OF SPIRITUAL HEALING THE word spirit is about as hazy a word as the average man has in his vocabulary. A little thought, however, will make its meaning suffi ciently clear for our present purpose. Let us start our thinking with this short definition Spirit is something that is real but not material. We know pretty well what is popularly meant by matter. It is anything that occupies space or takes up room...« less