Pioneers of Spiritual Healing

In modern times, there have been many individual healers have done much to enhance the promotion of spiritual healing trough the remarkable results they achived.

There are but a few well known names:

Andrew Jackson Davis; medium, channel, and one of the founders of modern Spiritualism. He was born August 11, 1826, at Blooming Grove, Orange County, New York. Young Davis had gifts of clairvoyance and heard voices at an early age. On advice so obtained he pursuaded his father in 1838 to move to Poughkeepsie, New York) Seer and Clairvoyant of the 19th Century, was be able to enter into a higher sphere of consciousness and obtain higher spiritual and physical knowledge. He could, read more...

Edgar Evans Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945) was an American who was allegedly psychic. He demonstrated an ability to channel answers to questions on subjects such as health or Atlantis, while in a self-induced trance. Though Cayce considered himself a devout Christian and lived before the emergence of the New Age Movement, some believe he was the founder of the movement and had influence on its teachings. Cayce became a celebrity toward the end of his life and the publicity given to his prophecies has read more...

Mother Teresa (August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997), born Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. By the 1970s she was internationally famed as read more...

Harry Edwards was born in London in 1893. One of nine children, his father was a printer and his mother had originally been a dressmaker. As a young man, Harry entered a seven-year printing apprenticeship and also became interested in politics - an interest that was to stay with him for many years. Following the completion of his apprenticeship in 1914, he enlisted in the Royal Sussex Regiment in order to serve his read more...

Francis Schlatter (1856. 1896); mystic and miracle worker of the nineteenth century. Born in Alsace in 1855, he emigrated to the United States and traveled the country with head and feet bare, preaching the love of God and peace amongst men. When imprisoned as a vagrant, he continued to preach in jail. He had a gift of healing and cured many sick individuals merely by placing his hand on their heads. He appeared in read more...

Billy Parish, originally a supporter of the opinion that spiritual healing was an occupation for intellectually restricted women and men who are unable to think, changed into a successful spiritual healer who treated more than 500,000 help-seeking patients either by contact or by absent healing. He too was told about his abilities as a healer by a medium, when his wife was suffering from cancer. After he had been able to help his wife, which was confirmed clearly by physicians, he dedicated his whole life to healing.

Frederick Joseph Jones was the first English spiritual healer with a large clientele. He took up to healing after having visited a spiritual training group, where he heard a voice asking him to agree to being a healing medium. Subsequently, he started first attempts in a group of six patients in Wimbledon. When he had seen he was successful, he dedicated his full life to healing. One day, a physician sent him read more...

Bruno Gröning (Danzig-Oliva, May 30, 1906 — Paris, January 26, 1959) was a spiritual healer in Germany. In 1949 the name Bruno Groening became a household word in Germany overnight. Reports about him appeared in the press, in newsreels and on the radio. Events surrounding the "Miracle Doctor" as he soon came to be called, kept the whole country in suspense. A film was made about him, scientific investigation committees were set up and read more...

Mary Baker Eddy (born Mary Morse Baker July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was the founder of the Christian Science movement. Deeply religious, she advocated Christian Science as a spiritual practical solution to health and moral issues. She wrote Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, founded The First Church of Christ, Scientist of Boston in 1879, and several periodicals including The Christian Science Monitor. She took the name Mary Baker Glover from her first marriage and was also known as read more...

Roberts Roberts (? – 27 October 1996) was a medium and spiritual healer who had been channeling a spirit guide called “Ramadahn”. Ursula Roberts had been struck down by a disease in childhood, which left her with a slight limp for the rest of her life, that she realised the importance of being compassionate towards her fellow beings. In adulthood, as a medium, she certainly demonstrated her compassion to as many millions of people as she could rich read more...

Matthew Manning is a UK healer who lectures and demonstrates his techniques all over the world. He has been involved in more scientific research and testing than any other healer in the world and has addressed the Royal Society of Medicine and spoken to MPs in the Houses of Parliament about his healing work. Regularly featured in the media, he is the author of One Foot in the Stars, his autobiography, No Faith Required, The Link and The Healing Journey. Matthew Manning shot to fame in 1974 with the publication of his first book The Link. Read more...

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (February 16, 1802 – January 16, 1866) was a New England philosopher, magnetizer, mesmerist, healer, and scientist, who resided in Belfast, Maine, and had an office in Portland, Maine. Quimby was a watch and clockmaker by trade, and held several patents for mechanical devices. “The Father of New Thought” Although there are many opinions on who the actual founder of New Thought is, since read more...

José Arigó was a psychic surgeon and healer. Known mainly from the Philippines and Brazil, psychic surgery is a supposedly paranormal medical practice where tissue is removed from the patient's body by a 'psychic doctor' in a painless operation, performed without the use of anesthetics or antiseptics. The procedure is often undertaken with bare hands or extremely basic medical instruments and leaves little if any trace read more...