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70. Have there been other remarkable healers in the Spiritualistic movement?

Yes, too many to mention here. One very well known to the writer, Mrs. J. H. R. Matteson of Buffalo, who passed away a few years since after a wonderful record of 33 years in healing thousands—large numbers of them having been given up by regular physicians. It may be objected that as Mrs. Matteson administered herbal remedies her healing was not metaphysical. It was very largely so because her remedies were the result of spiritual teaching and control, and her diagnosis of disease was through her wonderful clairvoyant powers, and along with her remedies there were given by her guides and helpers, many suggestions which were powerfully effective.

71. What other methods of healing, more or less Metaphysical, do Spiritualists believe in and practice?

1. Healing by Light and Color as taught by Dr. Edward Babbitt, the Scientist (a devout Spiritualist who acknowledged the spiritual origin of his discoveries) in his “Chromopathy or Principles of Light and Color.” This was always taught by Dr. Babbitt in conjunction with mental suggestion and the awakening of the Spirit Forces, and may, therefore, be classed as largely Metaphysical.

2. Healing by laying on of hands. This is largely believed in and extensively practiced in all Spiritualist Societies. Along with the magnetic forces imparted by the hands the power of music, prayer and good suggestion is used and with most beneficial results.

3. Spiritualists generally recognize the efficiency of all the finer forces in nature and many of them find in the electric and magnetic forces, administered by skillful and experienced healers, great benefit in certain forms of disease.

4. Spiritualists believe in the Healing Power of Music.