emilynghiem
Constitutionalist / Universalist
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Dear Fort Fun IndianaBut now you have to do studies that involve children's books that preach forgiveness, and embroidered pillows, and bumper stickers, and Hallmark cards, and....
in the end, the best you will find is that someone's state of mind might affect their healing. And then you will have rehashed mountains of work already done, that show this is negligible above placebo effect.
I don't think you get how this works.
That is why we have to isolate and quantify the specific forgiveness process used in MacNutt's method.
It is very grueling to go through the extensive process of someone's spiritual and generational background to identify causes of abuse, addiction or obstruction and specifically agree to prayer to remove these.
This is NOT the same level of thinking positive happy thoughts on a greeting card.
Again, we DISTINGUISH the DEGREES and levels.
An alcoholic or pedophile addict cannot be healed by merely regular prayer or spiritual reading or music.
These are serious cases of deep rooted and inborn sickness that require equally deep therapy to uproot the cause of sickness.
Studying this is like studying cancer that could go into remission or relapse.
That isn't healed by greeting cards or singing Kumbaya.
The severe cases of people healing of severely deadly conditions usually require equally serious deep therapy almost like spiritual surgery or "chemotherapy" to cut out all the "tumors" in someone's psyche so the person can operate normally and undergo regular mental and medical treatment like other patients.
This isn't something that can be done lightly.
The real serious healing takes an intensive spiritual process.
So yes, all that can be documented so it is clear what patients underwent which steps and to what degree.
Sources: Glimpses of the Devil by Scott Peck. Healing by Francis MacNutt, 1999 or later has the RA study cited as published and funded by Templeton Fdn.