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Spirit and Distant Healing. The art of healing
and spirit rescue. Sister Briege McKennas’s story
(continued).
At any given time in our world there is someone
suffering or in pain, someone is dying and someone is
being born, and someone is experiencing the joy of a
creative act, while yet another is taking part in a
criminal or violent act.
If we are sending out our prayers and thoughts
for healing, generally, the energy and good will
towards giving assistance will find its place amongst
those on our healing and prayer lists, amongst our
patients, clients, students and loved ones, and
generally around the world where the need arises. The
joy of being alive will be increased for those acting
in a positive way and birth and death will be eased
into the natural process of passing into and out of
incarnation.
The power of the mind is immense, and thoughts
create the situations we find ourselves in, including
our state of health, good, bad and indifferent.
Interwoven with our own self-created and self-chosen
lives are those of others, and the patterns from the
past encroach on us to give us a fuller depth or layer
to our existence. All these influences help create
the ambience we live in. We may think we are victims,
but rather we are participants even if we seem to have
done no wrong, or no good – just letting it all
happen. Whether it seems that our wills, egos and
personalities are in command, and we have success, or
that we are apathetic victims, it seems that there is
some kind of fate or destiny which we can’t escape,
like Murphy’s law if we were ‘born unlucky,’ or the
law of Nemesis, or Retribution, or one or other of the
spiritual laws. We may believe that we are slaves of
our astrological signs. The spirits and elementals of
the stars in the sky no doubt influence us, but only
because we have chosen this life and its time and
place. From moment to moment, if we are awake and
aware, we have the power of choice in what we think,
do and say, and in this we have an advantage over
other life-forms. Those thoughts, words and actions
have results in the nature and quality of the world we
find ourselves in, and this will continue to be so
when it is our time to pass on to other planes of
existence.
So we can heal ourselves and those around us, as
far as we and the recipients are open to receive the
natural flow of life energy. We cannot alter their
chosen path by the force of our own will, but we can
encourage them to look for and see the “light” in as
many ways as that expression can be interpreted and
understood, with or without religious or medical
connotations. Healing is one part of rescue work, and
we help people move into the light at whatever stage
and quality of life they have reached and achieved.
Wherever they are, they will continue on in joy,
balance and harmony.
So the skill of our surgeons, doctors,
therapists, nurses, psychiatrists, teachers, pastors
and mediums are enhanced and supported by our thoughts
and prayers, and we can be confident that our good
thoughts will not have been wasted. Though we may see
ourselves as healers as we direct our thoughts and
energies towards the mentally, emotionally and
physically distressed, we are merely the
intermediaries for the spirit doctors, or the agents
of God’s will. What we see and know and understand
personally and what we believe, is not so important as
having the intention to do the best for those we love
and care for, through whatever means are at hand. If
we are open to that, then right thought and action
will have a positive and beneficial outcome.
If we are interested in trivialities, our lives
will be trivial and we only attract trivial spirits to
communicate with us. If we have deeper, more
meaningful thoughts, interests and activities, we will
attract the more interesting spirits. Like attracts
like. Spirits who communicate with us, like W.T.
Stead in “The Blue Island,” tell us that what
attracts them is the light of the more
spiritually-minded amongst us as we go about our daily
tasks on earth, and so they are led to make an
appearance when we take part in a circle, séance or
healing session. This also explains why skeptics and
materialists get poor results at the séances they
attend. Their cold minds and skeptical thoughts are
unattractive to spirit.
The level of attraction is of particular
importance in healing. If we focus on the fear of
certain diseases and on fatal and terminal diagnoses,
we will only attract negativity and further
manifestation of the disease, rather than find its
cause, and hence its cure. At present we have
endless and costly research into several of the
diseases we fear, but we still fail to understand the
causes and when a spontaneous healing DOES occur, we
call it a miracle. A lot more is involved than that,
and yet in a way it is so much simpler. It is the
natural outcome of the workings of spiritual law.
Now this would be an appropriate time to continue
with the story of Sister Briege McKenna’s “miracle”
cures, reviewed from her book “Miracles Do Happen”
(1987) and a feature on CBC Radio’s “Open House” from
the 1990s. While Sister tells her story as a
Catholic, relating her development as a healer within
the beliefs and imagery of that faith, we as
Spiritualists can see the same manifestation of spirit
in healings and cures as occur within our own field.
The results are the same, the means are the same; only
the names and images and rituals (if any) differ.
With regard to distant healing, these methods are
effective no matter what means of communication we
use, whether we write, use the phone, radio, tape,
telegraph, television, film, transmit our thoughts and
prayers silently, meditate, write in a book, letter or
magazine, or send an e-mail, sing a song, play a
melody or compose a piece of music. The intention,
concentration, and attunement are the factors that are
all-important.
In the summer of 1972, Briege went home to
Ireland for a visit. At the request of the father of a
friend of hers, she went to a hospital nearby to pray
for a woman who was dying of cancer. “The doctors had
said there was no hope. On my way out, I noticed this
poor man suffering from shingles, and I prayed with
him [also]. The woman, a few days later, went home
from the hospital in perfect health. When they came
to examine her again, they could find nothing wrong
with her. And the man with the shingles was healed,
too.”
Her friends told her to be careful with her
healing work, which in fact she didn’t advertise. But
it was thought that she could get into trouble with
the bishop. So she went to the cathedral to pray and
said, “Look, Jesus, I’m home on my holidays, is this
your will that I should be doing this? I don’t want
to do anything against your will.” Then she asked him
to teach her how to pray for people.
“As I prayed, an old man came into the church.
He knelt down on the opposite side of the church.
After a while, he shouted out to me, ‘Sister, would
you pray for me?’ He held up his arm and said, ‘I
fell off my bicycle and hurt my wrist.’
“I called him over and asked him, ‘Have you heard
of me?’ He said ‘No, I just noticed you were a nun
and thought you might say a prayer for me.’
“I prayed for him and he promised to say a decade
of the rosary for me. He went back to his place in
front of the statue of our Lady. I could hear him
praying the rosary. In the middle of the decade he
looked over and said, ‘God, that was a powerful
prayer. Could you write it out? The pain and the
swelling are all gone!’
“I heard the Lord say, ‘You see, I brought in a
man off the street. That’s why I brought you home, to
touch my people.’ That answered my first question.
“Next, the Lord showed me a picture of an
enormous pink telephone over the tabernacle. I
thought it was a distraction and I wanted to get it
out of my mind. But there were these words in dark
print under the telephone: ‘The telephone is a means
of communication. People talk to each other on it. I
can also use it. You use the phone. People will hear
you but experience me.’ It was then that he told me
to pray over the phone with people, that I didn’t have
to see them, that all I had to do was unite with them
before Jesus. He is not limited by time and space.
That answered my second question.”
While still in Ireland on vacation, she was told
of a teacher whose daughter was in hospital with a
serious skin problem. She couldn’t visit, but she
asked for the mother to call on her, and they would
pray together. They did so, and with a few days, the
girl was totally healed and had skin like a new baby.
Briege thought that the Lord allowed her to see and
experience these physical healings not so much for the
people as for her own instruction as to what could be
done. Even when she returned to the convent in
Florida the healings continued. One of the sisters
told her that a man from England wanted to come to see
her for prayer. He too had a severe skin problem.
Briege told the sister: “He doesn’t have to come
here, I’ll pray for him by phone.”
She looked at her and said, “Does it work that
way, too?”
She said, “I don’t know but we’ll have a go,”
When the man phoned her and she prayed with him,
he was completely healed.
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