Unsolved! MYSTERIOUS HEALING Kathryn Walker based on original text by Brian Innes Crabtree Publishing Company www.crabtreebooks.com
Crabtree Publishing Company www.crabtreebooks.com Author: Kathryn Walker based on original text by Brian Innes Project editor: Kathryn Walker Picture researcher: Colleen Ruck Managing editor: Miranda Smith Art director: Jeni Child Designer: Rob Norridge Design manager: David Poole Editorial director: Lindsey Lowe Children's publisher: Anne O'Daly Editor: Molly Aloian Proofreader: Crystal Sikkens Crabtree editorial director: Kathy Middleton Production coordinator: Katherine Berti Prepress technician: Katherine Berti Cover: Artwork intended to represent spiritual healing. Photographs: Corbis: Emely: p. 18 Mary Evans: p. 6, 8, 13 (inset), 23 Fortean Picture Library: p. 11, 20 21, 22 Getty Images: Christian Kober: p. 17 Istockphoto: Elkor: p. 30; Lobato: p. 9; Pete Saloutos: p. 19 Science Photo Library: Jean-François Podevin: front cover Shutterstock: Chippix: p. 10; Peter Close: p. 28; Damian Herde: p. 26 27; Antonio V. Oquias: p. 13 (background); Piotr Rzeszutek: p. 16; Iryna Shpulak: p. 8 9; Solos: p. 14 15 (background); Marilyn Volan: p. 4 5; Denis Vrublevski: p. 24; Sybille Yates: p. 14 15 (main picture) Topfoto: Image Works: p. 29; Charles Walker: p. 24 Every effort has been made to trace the owners of copyrighted material. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Walker, Kathryn, 1957- Mysterious healing / Kathryn Walker ; based on original text by Brian Innes. (Unsolved!) Includes index. ISBN 978-0-7787-4150-3 (bound).--isbn 978-0-7787-4163-3 (pbk.) 1. Mental healing--juvenile literature. 2. Spiritual healing-- Juvenile literature. 3. Supernatural--Juvenile literature. I. Innes, Brian. Mysterious healing. II. Title. III. Series: Unsolved! (St. Catharines, Ont.) BT732.5.W34 2009 j615.8'528 C2009-903114-0 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Walker, Kathryn. Mysterious healing / Kathryn Walker ; based on original text by Brian Innes. p. cm. -- (Unsolved!) Originally published: Austin, Tex. : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1999. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-7787-4163-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-7787-4150-3 (reinforced lib. bdg. : alk. paper) 1. Parapsychology and medicine--juvenile literature. 2. Spiritual healing-- Juvenile literature. 3. Supernatural--Juvenile literature. 4. Mental healing-- Juvenile literature. I. Innes, Brian. II. Title. III. Series. BF1045.M44W35 2010 615.8'528--dc22 2009020924 Crabtree Publishing Company www.crabtreebooks.com 1-800-387-7650 Published in Canada Crabtree Publishing 616 Welland Ave. St. Catharines, ON L2M 5V6 Published in the United States Crabtree Publishing PMB16A 350 Fifth Ave., Suite 3308 New York, NY 10118 Published by CRABTREE PUBLISHING COMPANY in 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or be transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Crabtree Publishing Company. Copyright 2010 The Brown Reference Group plc, London, United Kingdom
Contents A Healing Touch 4 Healing Without Touch 8 Psychic Surgery 12 Healing in the East 14 Seeing Sickness 20 Can We Prove It Works? 26 Glossary 31 Index 32 Further Reading 32
A Healing Touch...Some people have a special ability to heal. Rose Gladden lived in London, England. When she was 19 years old, Rose discovered she had a special gift. One day, she went into a dry cleaning store. She found the owner, Mr. Chapman, slumped over the counter. Mr. Chapman was in great pain. Rose wanted to help him, but had no idea what to do. Then she heard a voice say: You can help. Put your hand there. She saw a light, like a little star, hovering over Mr. Chapman s stomach. Rose put her hand on the light. She felt as if an invisible hand came over hers, holding it steady. Mr. Chapman was suffering from a stomach ulcer. He said that the pain stopped when Rose pulled her hand away. He told Rose, Your fingers felt as if they were holding the pain. Some healers seem to make healing energy flow out from their hands and into their patients. 4 >> slumped Standing or sitting in a bent position, with the head forward
How Strange... Rose Gladden said that her hand seemed to fill with heat when she put it over the light. She could not pull it away. Rose discovered she had a special gift. >> ulcer A sore on the skin or inside the body 5
Throughout history, there have been people with mysterious healing powers. Today, there are hundreds of people who believe they can heal through touch. A healer who can do this puts his or her hands gently on the patient. Then the healer thinks hard about making their special power enter the patient s body....[manning] imagines pushing an enormous sponge into the area of pain. Mopping up pain Englishman Matthew Manning is a well-known healer. When he is healing, Manning says he imagines the pain as a large red area. Then he imagines pushing an enormous sponge into the area of pain. When the sponge has absorbed all the redness, he pictures squeezing the sponge out until it is clean. Then he mops up the redness until it has completely disappeared. This is a portrait of a famous healer from the 1600s named Valentine Greatrakes. He claimed he could heal people by touching or stroking them. 6 >> absorbed Soaked up or taken in by something