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Healing: the Divine Art

by Manly P. Hall

Topics
Preface

Introduction

Part One: The Historical Road to
The Metaphysics of Medicine

1 - The Beginnings of Metaphysical Healing, p. 33
The Witch Doctor
The First Priest-Physician-Psychologist
Candidates from the Selected Neurotic
Trances and Dream Consciousness
The Prestige in Masks
Masks as an Escape from Self
Medicine Songs and Dances
Early Medication by Fetishes and Herbs
The Witch Doctor's Practices Not Evil
Inexplainable Modern Witchcraft
Doctors as the First Administrators of Law
The Use and Abuse of Magic
Devil Dolls

2 - The American Indian Medicine Man, p. 63
Priest, Prophet, and Healer
Miracles under Ever Watchful Eyes
Methods of the Specialists in Healing
Suffering as Punishment
Religious Beliefs and the Good Spirit
Masters of Hypnosis
The Indian Hope of the Messiah
Sitting Bull and the Miracles
Holy Men of Medicine
Healing by Sand-Painting
Intellectual Birth by 'Flying Seeds'
Conclusions of the Misinformed and Uninformed
Guidance through Prayer

3 - The Healing Cult of Asclepius - - Hippocrates, p. 95
The 'Blameless Physician'
History in Times Prehistoric
Diagnosis and Treatment out of Dream Experiences
The Record of Recoveries
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine
In the House of the Healing God
The Celebrated Oath
Treatment by Natural Means Alone
The Writings of Hippocrates
Origin of the Bedside Manner
The Oracles and Healing Shrines
The Severed Connection
Secular Medicine in Rome
The Influence of Beauty on Health
Spiritual Healing and Outgrown Beliefs

4 - Healing During the Rise of the Christian Church, p. 125
Evil Demons in the Healing Arts
Sainthood Only through Proved Miracles
Galen and Avicenna
The Plagues of the Dark Ages
Mumie, the Gum from Mummies
Our Great Misfortune to be Born
Obedience to Doctor and to God
The Era of Witchcraft
The Devil Fixation
The Causes of Plagues
Paracelsus, the Mystic Doctor
The Protestant Reformation
The Parting of the Ways
End of the Christian Ministry of Healing

5 - Modern Healing Cults, p. 157
Their Classification According to Method
Occult Healing
Magnetic Healing
Mystical Healing
Mental Healing
Physical Healing

Part Two: The Philosophy of Healing

6 - Esoteric Physiology, p. 187
Some Fundamentals
Man's Three Invisible Bodies
The Body and Indwelling Divinity
The Human Aura
The Secret of All Function and Growth
The Four Ethers
The Physical or Chemical Ether
The Functional, or Vital Ether
Emotion or Psychic Ether
Mental or Intellectual Ether
The Human Will
The Voice of Conscience
General Observation

7 - The Pineal Gland and the Mental Focus, p. 217
Governor and Regulator
The Organ of Spiritual Sight
Visibility of the Gland's Aura
Diseases of the Pineal Gland
Extra-Sensory Analysis of the Pineal Gland
The Seat of Spiritual Powers
Control of the Mental Life
The Functioning of the Pineal Gland
Definition of Mind and Brain
The Subconscious Mind
Thought Patterns
The Conflict between Thought and Impulse
The Magnetic Field of the Brain

8 - The Point of Conscious Awareness
and the Technique of Suggestion Therapy, p. 247
The Nature of Self
The Center of Awareness
Beautification and Adornment
Attitudes toward Health Problems
Skill as a Form of Self-Control
Singing with the Mind
Sudden and Dramatic Compulsions
The Negative Emotion of Fear
The Seven Kinds of Love
The Religions Fixation
Intelligence and Intellect
Motions of the Mental Point of Attention
The Destructiveness of Worry
Demoralizing Remorse
The Divinity Complex
The Need for Usable Directions
Ten Commandments for Right Living

9 - Ailments Psychical and Pseudo-Psychical, p. 282
Treatment and Case Histories
Misinterpretation and Misuse of Knowledge
Popular Metaphysics and Self-Styled Psychologists
Indigestive Thoughts and Ideas
Psychical Phenomena Are Mostly Psychological
The Persecution Complex
The Case of the Scarab Ring
The Case of the Devil's Weather Vane
Turnabout Malevolence
Pseudo-Psychical Phenomena
The Case of the Phantom Bridegroom
The Case of the Gettysburg Ghost
Voices from the Great Beyond
The Case of the Moving Fingers
Delusions of Rebirth

10 - Diagnosis and Treatment:
Concluding Notes and More Case Histories, p. 312
The State of Easy Believing
The Unreality of Matter
Diet Faddists
Breathing Exercises and Meditation
Prosperity Teachings
Conquering Human Weakness First
Obsession and Divided Personality
The Case of the Twin Brothers
Basic Principles of Treatment
Strict but Sympathetic Guidance
The Physical Examination
Emotional Frustrations
The Hopeless, the Cooperative, the Mistaken
Restoration to Normalcy

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