This section hopes to look at the personal experiences of some of our healers, and some of our patients. We hope that members and friends of York Spiritual Centre will be able to contribute some of their own healing experience to this page. Please email the Webmaster if you would like to do this.
Introduction
Just as each person receiving spiritual healing experiences it differently, so every healer's experience of giving spiritual healing is personal and unique too. All spiritual healers will be aware from time to time of the spirit forces working through them. Some are aware of definite personalities working with them, while others are not. Our third principle is: "The Communion of Spirits and the Ministry of Angels". However we understand that principle in action, we accept that there is communion with spirit beings, which works to our advantage in the mediumship ability, guidance and understanding that they bestow. This communion with spirit beings happens in spiritual healing too, when, we believe, spirit beings who specialise in this work, work with us and channel the Divine healing energy through us. Members and friends of York Spiritualist Centre are invited to share their personal experiences of healing, and/or giving healing.
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The Communion of Spirit Healers
In the Tuesday evening meetings of our Healing Group, we pray that the spirit healers, guides, and healing angels who work with us will be present, to help our healers with their ministry of healing. We are conscious that without their help we would be very ineffective healers indeed. It is only by the channelling of the divine healing power through the spirit healers and healing angels in the spirit world, to us, that we are able to do our work. Some people who come to our Tuesday meetings may be able to sense their presence. Few will remain unimpressed by the tranquil atmosphere that their healing and loving energy brings.
Storm Petrel
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Jo writes: "The renowned medium Maggie Carrington told me that I have a healing shaman working with me, whose name is Storm Petrel. During a workshop with her, we worked on auras and spirit drawings. That was the start of being more aware of spirit influences on my art work and when working as a spiritual healer. I asked Maggie if she could tell |
me what Storm Petrel looks like. She said that I should sit quietly at home and ask him to come through so that he could inspire me to paint him. Later, I did this, working with ink and oil pastels. Normally it takes me a long time to finish any art work. This took hardly any time at all, just a few minutes. He chose the colours. I know that, because they are not the colours I normally work with. I don't really know what the light and dark background signifies. Perhaps it means that there is always a promise of light to come to brighten any darkness.
I have always had an interest in shamanism and Native American culture, so I was not surprised, though thrilled, to learn that my main healing guide was a shaman. I have other helpers too, but he seems to be around the most."
A Storm Petrel
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In some Native American tribes, a child was named after the first thing an elder noticed in nature after the child was born. A storm petrel is a sea bird, so this shaman was perhaps born near the sea. They are the smallest of all sea birds, and can hover close to the sea then step over the surface with their feet, to give the impression that they are walking on water. This name, then, might have appeared an auspicious |
omen for the namer of the baby shaman-to-be. Children were usually named by an elder who could be their grandmother, grandfather, mother or father. The elders often relied on the 'Great Spirit' to give them dreams, visions or signs to determine the name of the child. The name took many different forms such as the characteristics of the person, the dreams, visions or signs that the elder may have had, or the name of a family member who had died. In some Native American tribes, children were given a ceremony when their names were given. Two Native Americans in the same tribe could not share the same name, so it was not used again until after the person had died.
It is said that Native Americans believed that they should not address the infant by the name that they were given because if the name was used too often, the child or infant might be called back to the spirit world; this is what caused many Native Americans to be given nicknames, by which they were more commonly known.
Native Americans were deeply spiritual people, with a much clearer insight into the spirit world than most westerners have today. It is not surprising, then, that they are well represented among the spirit guides, helpers and inspirers who choose to make themselves known to the sensitives they work with.
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Any enquiries regarding the ministry of Spiritual Healing offered by York Spiritualist Centre should be addressed to:
The Healing Group Leader - Tel: 01904 647072
The YSC President - Tel: 01904 488636
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