Psychic Healers Try To Gain Access To Churches
World Congress Urges Churches to Open Up to Shamanistic Practices

By Wolfgang Polzer
Special to ASSIST News Service

December 7th, 2004

BASEL (ANS) -- Psychic healers and practitioners of other psychic (Psi) phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psychokinesis (mind over matter) are trying to gain access to Christian churches.

Speakers at the Seventh World Congress for Psychic Healing in Basel, Switzerland, in November urged the churches to abandon their reservations and open up to Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP) experiences. The congress with 100 speakers from five continents introduced the 7,000 participants to the practices of shamanistic and esoteric healers as well as exorcists.

One of the organizers of the event, the German philosopher Harald Wiesendanger, urged churches and Christian hospitals to admit psychic healers. So far they seemed to be concerned mainly with salvation and to a lesser extent with physical well-being. Jesus, however, had a holistic approach, said Wiesendanger.

He claimed that Christians are more reserved towards psychic healers than medical doctors. Churches often regarded healers as "Satan's therapeutic vanguard". Jesus had faced the same allegation when he drove out demons, said Wiesendanger.

[Read carefully the next two sentences. The author of this 'news' story implies that whoever has the capability to manifest supernatural healing should be allowed in the Church.]

Churches should also realize that supernatural healing is not restricted to the Christian faith. Buddhist monks, for instance, had the same capability. Evangelical Christians and churches are seriously opposed to ESP and Psi (pronounced sigh), claiming that practitioners draw on occult and anti-Christian sources.

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