The Science of Psychic Healing

About this book

The healer concentrates, the patient hopes and an invisible vital force is said to pass between them. Yogi Ramacharaka brings such ideas together in an early manual of psychic healing.

Writing under a pseudonym, William Walker Atkinson combines New Thought and occult concepts with selected language from yoga. The book's medical claims are not established treatments and should not replace professional care. Its historical significance lies in showing how spiritual belief, suggestion and the desire to ease suffering became closely entwined in the alternative-healing literature of its era.