In Search Of... Season 5 # 2, FAITH HEALING

Faith Healing is a part of modern life. Between Religion and Medicine the laying on of hands remains a subject of intense controversy.

Faith Healing is as old as illness. It was the first healing of sickness. Throughout the world practices may differ, but the religious principals behind faith-healing are the same: It claims to be divinely inspired.

Nowhere is divine healing so well documented as in the Christian Faith. In the gospel according to St. John Jesus performed his first healing in Galilee. This began a tradition which evangelists have continued in modern times. In the 1920ies the founder of the Angelic Temple used radio to bring the ancient practice of faith healing to the masses. Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson performed miracles.

How do we define miracles? When modern medicine pronounces a disease “incurable” the ill and the handicapped turn to new directions. In the summer of 1980 hundreds of people gathered to hear evangelist Maurice Cerullo preach salvation and healing in Pennsylvania. (video clips are shown of people being healed). Is it possible to discover the source of faith healing? Holistic treatment used by doctors acknowledges psychic healings.

Oskar Estebany, a Hungarian healer, participated in an experiment with wounded mice. The mice were afflicted with wounds. The stunning result: Those mice he touched healed significantly quicker than those he had not touched. After two weeks the mice were almost back to normal while the other mice hardly showed any decline in the wound’s sizes.

The story of Michael Freedman is shared. He has fought his lung cancer with the help of a healer. He had helped him to fight his cancer by himself.