Spiritual and Mental Healing
This is the title of a wonderful book on the art of spiritual healing by Murdo MacDonald-Bayne. Murdo MacDonald-Bayne was a well known Spiritual Healer of the 1930’s and 1940’s.
The book ‘Spiritual and Mental Healing’, by Murdo MacDonald-Bayne, has been reprinted recently. You can purchase the New Revised Paperback Edition, 2006, through Mystica Publications Ltd, P.O. Box 13-581, Christchurch, New Zealand. Their email address is sales @mystica.co.nz
First published in United Kingdom in 1947 by L.N.Fowler & Co. Ltd.
Murdo MacDonald-Bayne became a famous Spiritual Healer in the earlier part of the 20th century. He had extraordinary ability, and practiced healing over a period of about 30 years in many parts of the world. He lived in Tibet for some of that time, and learned something of the healing methods of the Tibetan Buddhist healers.
Here are a few of his pearls of wisdom which are taken from his book. This book has been reprinted in New Zealand: see the address above.
Directing The Power Within The Patient: Excerpts from Lecture Five, which begins on page 73:
On Sickness Being a Mortal Condition, and How Disease does not occur in the Spirit Self:………….. Immediately you see that that condition is not a condition of the Spirit, but a condition of the mortal state which has no power of its own, then it is easier for you to eliminate the condition.
Murdo stresses that it is important not to perceive sickness as being a permanent condition: ……I quote from his book on spiritual healing: “Immediately you see a condition as a permanency, this is registered in your own mind, thus creating a barrier against the Healing Power”. He stresses that the attitude of the healer towards the patient and towards his trouble is “more than 50 per cent of the cure”. He says that disease actually has no power of its own, and that we need to invoke the power of the Master for help in dispersing any disease. See page 89 for his own words on this.
On Meridians and Reflex Points: Murdo believed the proper function of the meridians to be very important in keeping good health. He talks of how reflexology on the pressure points can help to cure health problems. On this subject, he says:
“……………….We will see how the reflex points affect a particular organ and how that organ can be stimulated into action by manipulation and reflexing of the reflex point. That comes in the physical part of the Course, when we will deal also with diet, exercises, deportment and the laws of the structural organism. Abnormal pressures on nerve terminals are often the cause of many troubles, and these have to be removed”.
Healing Some Physical Complaints Through Sensible Compensation Methods: Murdo talks about compensation of muscles. He had a patient who had back pain which would not go away. When he questioned him about the man’s work, the man said that he carried milk cans, and that he always carried the can in the right hand. Murdo told him to use the left hand just as much as the right, and the pain went away after a time.
On The Importance of the Nervous System.
“……………..The nervous system is perhaps the most important physical organism to recognise in healing. It is most imortant because it is through the nervous system you deal actually with the Intelligence. Both nervous systems, the sympathetic and cerebro-spinal, work in unison”.
On the Function of the Solar Plexus:
“……………..The solar plexus is the abdominal brain of the sympathetic nervous system. The motor nerves act upon the muscles and any stimulus to the motor nerves produces physical action. In the case of paralysis you will find the muscles will begin to act, provided that you get co-operation between yourself and the patient, but if the patient does not co-operate with you nothing will happen; the patient must learn to co-operate”.
………………You must be hard and fast regarding these rules, otherwise you are wasting your time. If you do not get co-operation with the patient then there is no movement. Some of you have seen it in patients that come to me; there is actual movement of the muscles; besides that, the sympathetic nervous system acts upon the cell life, circulation of the blood, and functional organism.
How the Nervous System is helped by the Healing Power of the Spirit: Murdo explains that the Healing Power of the Spirit is received by the sympathetic nervous system. The job of the nervous system is then to distribute this Divine Healing energy to the blood and tissues.
“,,,,,,,,,,,,,, The nerves receive and require nourishment from the blood, they receive and require nerve energy, they convey sensation and feeling, and they also convey the nourishment of the Spirit through the nerve pathways”.
An outpouring of the Divine Energy eliminates negative conditions and makes us well. On this subject, Murdo says: . No negative condition exists in the spiritual body; it exists only in the physical, mental and emotional bodies of the mortal self. Your mental body is saturated with your imagination; your emotional body is where you have your emotion reactions.
On Christian thought and St Paul’s teachings, Murdo says
“……………….One Mind, one Universal Substance: There is but one Body and one Mind. This is what Paul understood by the Body of Christ. Really, our bodies extend everwhere and our minds are an extension of the Mind Principle, therefore your ethereal body and the ethereal body of the patient are mingled together; also, your minds are in tune with the Universal Mind, and by directing the Power you energise his ethereal body and his mental body correspondingly, according to your own Power and development, according to your own belief, according to your own understanding”.