I'm not going to reply to Joker here otherwise another thread will get derailed.
My grandmother claimed to be a faith healer. She claimed to be a spiritualist and a medium. I didn't grow up in a religious family but the first two schools I went to were religious. After my grandmother died, we took our grandfather off to a spiritualist church to get in contact with her. No message from her, although there was for me which took me and everyone else by surprise. Maybe the medium noticed that I was bored and not paying attention.
My brother decided to go off to a few spiritualist churches himself but after a few times decided to look at other churches. He eventually become a born again Christian instead. He started to mellow out after a few years but he's now got in with a cult which by all appearances seem to be a giant con, and one of the things it does is promote the idea of faith healing.
It's all trickery. I think it works by giving people a sense of empowerment and control over their lives. I know that when I was into new age woo I felt that way about tarot cards and occultism. When you think about it, most people have very little control about how their lives pan out.
My grandmother claimed to be a faith healer. She claimed to be a spiritualist and a medium. I didn't grow up in a religious family but the first two schools I went to were religious. After my grandmother died, we took our grandfather off to a spiritualist church to get in contact with her. No message from her, although there was for me which took me and everyone else by surprise. Maybe the medium noticed that I was bored and not paying attention.
My brother decided to go off to a few spiritualist churches himself but after a few times decided to look at other churches. He eventually become a born again Christian instead. He started to mellow out after a few years but he's now got in with a cult which by all appearances seem to be a giant con, and one of the things it does is promote the idea of faith healing.
It's all trickery. I think it works by giving people a sense of empowerment and control over their lives. I know that when I was into new age woo I felt that way about tarot cards and occultism. When you think about it, most people have very little control about how their lives pan out.
