Many miracles were performed by Jesus. In addition to his amazing healing powers, he walked on water, turned water into wine at a wedding feast at Cana and fed a crowd of 5,000 with five loaves and two fishes.

Jesus

If you do a survey of healing in the religions of the world, you will quickly see this truth emerging: True healing does not just involve the body, but also the spirit. Healing occupies a prominent place in world religions. Often the most important figure or symbol in any given religious tradition is the source of healing--it is not confined to the Christian tradition by any means.

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For example, Buddha is portrayed as a great healer in the Pali scriptures. He healed through his teachings on impermanence and through prescribing meditative exercises as therapies for illnesses which are bound up with psychic states that have gone awry. In cases where the Buddha healed directly, the episode of sickness and cure offered all concerned a new insight into the nature of things and, in some instances, the opportunity for complete liberation.

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we create the world."

The Buddha

In the Zoroastrian tradition of ancient Persia, the prophet Zoroaster taught that humanity was to use the techniques of divine cure to overcome evil in the form of sickness and to restore the world to its original perfection. The goal of the entire process of creation, fall, and salvation is frashokereti, which means both healing and renovation. Perfect healing would bring about the end of time and of death and would offer humanity a new existence in a timeless future body in Paradise.

In the Jewish tradition, God himself announces that "I am the Lord, your physician" (Exod. 15:26; Ps. 103:3). The rabbinic tradition of Judaism sought to justify human participation in the essentially divine activity of healing. Discussions centered around the interpretation of biblical verses dealing with restoration of property (Exod. 21:19-20; Deut. 22:2) and the commandment to love one’s neighbor (Lev. 19:18) and to tend to the vineyard that is God’s creation, taking the human body as the parallel of the Garden of Eden.

In Islam, the concern for healing expressed in the Qur’an and in the Hadith becomes an important part of revelation. In general, healing activity is attributed to God. Healing is so central a part of the revelation given through Mohammed that the Qur’an refers to itself as a "cure" for the mind or heart, the locus of mental, intellectual, and emotional life (10:57, 12:82, 41:44).

To the extent that they make healing a central tenet of their belief system and practical life, adherents of these religious outlooks join the ranks of human beings throughout history and around the world. Communities in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas have long made cure of the body an integral expression of their beliefs and attitudes toward the most profound powers in the universe.

So you can now easily see what a central part physical healing plays in the spiritual path, whatever that path may be. Although HLM is based in the mystical religious tradition, it is an interfaith and non-denominational organization--adherents of many faiths are a part of it and it does not require its members to forsake their respective churches or religions to belong to it. Accordingly, it offers its knowledge on healing to all who wish to learn it. You are not required to give up your own beliefs to belong to or study or join with The Church of Mind Body and Spirit.

Lastly, no matter what your personal beliefs, you must always endeavor to remember and follow the "Great Commandment" of Jesus, echoed in the Old Testament and other religious scriptures: Love your neighbor as yourself. It is only through the divine act of love that you can really reach others and yourself in the quest for total health.

Spiritual Healing