I was reading an interesting conversation today in a popular online psychic forum about the idea of psychic healing. 

The work of George Chapman (who apparently worked under the guide of a Dr. Lang who he channeled from the other side) came up, with one of the particpants (a very reputable source and well known name in the spiritualist movement) claiming to have been treated, and cured by Champman many years ago.

Very interesting stuff…and of course, I have some of my own skepticism, as I do believe some of these cases have been pretty well debunked.

But the good ones….of which there are MANY, simply defy an ordinary explanation ( including some of the better and more well attested cases from the late Edgar Cayce) and are REALLY interesting to read nonetheless.

If you are equally as interested – here is a pretty good primer from Answers.Com – and some good links and resources to check out from there should you choose! Enjoy…and don’t forget to share your thoughts, or experiences below!

A term which is applied to two very distinct branches of psychic healing. It sometimes denotes psychic healers who believe that they are making "surgical" changes in the astral double that upon completion of the "operation" are reflected in the physical body.Such psychic surgeons believe that the spirit of a dead doctor influences them, and observers see them enter a trance state from which they mime an operation over the body of the person seeking healing.Typical of the first type is British healer George Chapman, who claimed to be controlled by the dead surgeon "Dr. Lang." Chapman diagnosed while in trance and simply laid his hands on the patient or made movements indicative of a phantom operation.More interesting to psychic researchers, because of their extraordinary claims, have been the psychic surgeons in the Spiritualist communities of the Philippines and Brazil.

They appear to perform real operations making an incision with bare hands, removing pathological matter, and causing an instantaneous healing of the incision. Such healers in the Philippines have been the subject of numerous popular books, including vivid pictures of apparent operations, and several volumes by observers who have dismissed the phenomena as a complete hoax.

The two most famous psychic surgeons of this second type have been Tony Agpaoa in the Philippines and José Arigó in Brazil.Accounts of Tony Agpaoa began to emerge in the 1960s. He used no anesthetic or scalpel, yet appeared to make an incision in which there was a liberal flow of blood. He appeared to insert his hands into the body and either remove pathological tissue with his hands or cut it away with unsterilized scissors. He then moved his hand over the incision, which seemed to close instantaneously, leaving no scar. psychic surgery: Information from Answers.com