Aloha,
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:51:29 -0700, Magliocco, Sabina
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> In my book _Witching Culture: Folklore and Neopaganism in America_
> (2004), I discuss the use magic in a ritual to heal a woman who had
> cancer (pp. 136-8). Despite the severity of her illness, she
> experienced a remission and lived another 10 years.
As I recall, an interested group of friends and acquaintances
carried out a series of localized and distance rituals dedicated
to the healing of this woman. I was a participant in some of
these distance healing rituals. They were among the first rituals
I experienced that were organized and managed on the internet.
And they affirmed that the internet could be fruitfully applied
to magical endeavors in some fashion.
Taking part in this magical endeavor led to the expansion of
my personal pantheon in a way that I certainly not anticipate
at the time--into the Pele family of Hawaiian deities and the
lore of Hawaii. This established healing of others as a feature
of my practice (which it had not been previously).
My own sense is that the ritual series did succeed as a
contribution to her healing. But that it did so via a more or
less diffuse input of energies and vitality. Maybe it's just me,
but I don't feel that magical healing manipulates biomolecular
processes like modern medicine often does.
Musing I Have No Incontrovertible Evidence Of Magical Healing,
But I'm Nonetheless Certain That It Happens & I Can Get In On It! Rose,
Pitch
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