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as a casual examination of the sacred books of almost any religion will
show. Moreover, the student will see that to the effect of certain
principles of psychic influence there needs but to be added the principles
of telepathic communication, or, better still, the principles of astral
communication by some phases of clairvoyance, to account for the entire
phenomena of "absent healing."

Space is no barrier on the astral plane, as you have seen in the
preceding chapters of this book. Once the en rapport condition is
established between healer and patient, and the rest is simple--the astral
body is induced to energize more actively, and as a result the physical
manifestation is improved and normal functioning restored. Of course, all
this is wonderful enough--all psychic phenomena is, for that matter; but,
we see that we do not have to go outside of established occult laws,
principles and facts in order to account for some of these modern miracles
which have puzzled and perplexed so many good persons who have not known
of the occult teachings, and who fear that the world is being turned
upside down, and Nature's laws overturned by these "new fangled" ideas and
methods.

Perhaps the most simple method of healing by psychic influence is that
which is at the same time the oldest method, i.e., the "laying on of
hands." This method was revived about twenty years ago in America and
Europe by the new school of "magnetic healing" which sprung rapidly into
public favor. The other schools of psychic healing, generally known as
"mental healing," "spiritual healing," "divine healing," etc., generally
frown upon the use of the hands in psychic healing, deeming it "too
material," and too much allied to hypnotism, etc. But this view is quite
bigoted and narrow, for this method has no relation to hypnotism, and,
moreover, it gives the patient the benefit of the flow of prana from the
healer, while at the same time producing the psychic effect on the astral
body, as I have just mentioned.

I take the liberty of quoting here something on this subject from my
little book entitled "The Human Aura." In the chapter of that book devoted
to the consideration of the subject of "Auric Magnetism," I said: "In
cases of magnetic healing, etc., the healer by an effort of his will
(sometimes unconsciously applied) projects a supply of his pranic aura
vibrations into the body of his patient, by way of the nervous system of
the patient, and also by