The Philippines appears to be the only country where faith healing flourishes. There are some 30-50 known faith healers and a thousand more are practising, unknown to many people and the government authorities. Furthermore, it is only in this country that faith healers and psychic surgeons are given training as part of religious rituals by various spiritist churches. Origin of Faith healing A recent theory purports that Filipino faith healers are descendants of the Kahuna, a tribe that used to heal in old Hawaii. Then shamans (priests who used magic to cure the sick, to divine the hidden, and to control events) were said to have the power to dematerialized tissues and bones and to rematerialized them in perfect order. The kahunas have long since vanished but the magical practices of these old Philippine tribes still exist. Two beliefs are common as to how faith healers receive their powers: First, the power is given by spirits. Eleuterio Terte, for example, became a faith he...
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