Filipino psychic surgery: Myth, magic, or miracle

Autor:	H. Newton Malony, Stephen H. Allison
Rok vydání:	1981
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Psychoanalysis media_common.quotation_subject Public health education Religious studies General Medicine Mythology Magic (paranormal) humanities Psychic surgery Psychic Miracle Law medicine Literature survey Psychology General Nursing media_common Skepticism
Zdroj:	Journal of Religion & Health. 20:48-62
ISSN:	1573-6571 0022-4197
Popis:	This essay considers the current impact and evaluation of Far Eastern psychic healing typified by the psychic surgery of the Philippine Islands. On the basis of a literature survey as well as interviews with persons who had visited the healers and received psychic surgery, an analysis of the spiritual dynamics and physical effects is reported. An attempt is made to balance the positive reports of those who were healed with the more objective and/or skeptical reports of religious and scientific leaders. Cultural, psychological, medical, and magical aspects are considered. An expansion of philosophic outlook coupled with a search for new tools of investigation is suggested.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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