The Spiritual Healer Providing Alternative Forms of Medicine

The Spiritual Healer Providing Alternative Forms of Medicine



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This close look at forms of alternative medicine – spiritual healing and psychic healing – includes interviews with healers and their patients and orthodox medical doctors.

This film was first broadcast: 01 May 1990

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25 thoughts on “The Spiritual Healer Providing Alternative Forms of Medicine

  1. A Pennsylvania couple who told police their faith forbids any kind of medical treatment were charged Wednesday in the pneumonia death of their 2-year-old daughter, becoming the latest members of their sect to be prosecuted for failing to take a dying child to a doctor.

    Jonathan and Grace Foster attributed the Nov. 8 death of their daughter, Ella Grace Foster, to "God's will," according to a police affidavit.

    They were charged with involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment.

    "Our laws recognize that you have a duty to care for your child's health and welfare, and we cannot justify a parent not seeking health care for their children when their children are ill," said Berks County District Attorney John Adams.

    The couple lives in Upper Tulpehocken Township, near the village of Strausstown. It wasn't clear whether they have attorneys who could comment on their behalf, and a number listed for them was busy on Wednesday.

    The Fosters were released on unsecured bail and are back home with their six other young children. Adams said the parents have agreed to take their children to doctors when they are sick. Child welfare officials are monitoring compliance, he said.

    The parents told investigators they belong to the Faith Tabernacle church in Mechanicsburg, and that "as part of their faith they do not believe in any medical treatment," including medication and doctors, according to court documents.

    In Pennsylvania, at least 10 children whose parents belong to various branches of the fundamentalist sect have died of treatable illnesses in the last several decades. Several church members have been prosecuted for failing to seek medical care.

    The Fosters told authorities that Ella began showing symptoms of a common cold two days before she died, including lethargy and a sore throat. Her breathing eventually became labored, then rapid, and she died in her father's arms.

    A forensic pathologist told investigators Ella would have had a 95 percent chance of surviving if she had been given a routine course of antibiotics. But Jonathan Foster told police "it would be frowned upon and against their religion" to have taken Ella to a doctor, an affidavit said.

    Adams said Pennsylvania case law does not recognize a religious exception to a parents' duty to provide appropriate medical care. He warned that other members of the congregation would face prosecution if they fail to care for their sick children.

  2. Going to a physician for their help is not necessarily what I call self healing if you are using the practices of a therapist you're not using self-healing

  3. Doctors have always known these things work. The power of touch, the power of hope in the brain. I never thought I would come to this place in my life, but this does work. At times.

  4. Darf ich mich kurz vorstellen. Ich habe ganz normal mit einem Spark 530 aber mit KT100 angefangen und einer Audion 300B mit brauchbarem Bass. Das Projekt von Mad finde ich auch sehr spannend. Nicht ganz verstehen kann ich aber dass Stefan Noll sich warm anziehen soll. Ich hatte nur einmal kurz die Ehre Stefan Noll kennenzulernen, als er meinen Cayin 500 für ein paar Kröten eingestellt und geprüft hat. Die kurze Begegnung mit ihm hat mich sehr beeindruckt. Ich kenne die Lyric Verstärker nicht gut, aber der Typ hat Röhren im Blut. Wie schnell der einen komplexen Verstärker analysiert und wie er sich routiniert Reparaturen aus dem Ärmel schüttelt hat bei mir höchsten Respekt geschaffen. Er öffnete den Cayin vor meinen Augen, ein Modell, das über 20 Jahre ist und hat mir sofort zwei Messungen durch geführt und den Verstärker als gesund bezeichnet, obwohl er überhaupt keinen Ton von sich gab. Der hat Rohren-Schaltung im Blut und dementsprechend ist das extrem günstig, weil er alles auswendig weiß, wenn Spark, Cayin und Lyric draufsteht.

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