the System of Healing Used by Filipino Espiritistas

Abstract the System of healing used by the Filipino espiritistas: An Archival Study ScottMatthew Taubold Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center The purpose ofthis dissertation was to describe the system of healing used by the Union of Espiritistasof the Philippines as perceived by the espiritistas themselves (in accordance withthe National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine standards), fromtheir own cultural context, not from the view of the parapsychological investigators,psychologists, medical doctors, alternative practitioners, and laypersons that haveprovided most of the existing information on Filipino healing practices. The rolesof indigenous healers were presented by prominent theorists, placing the practices ofmediumship and psychic surgery into perspective as indigenous healing phenomena.The essential principles and common factors in healing as described in other systemsof healing models were also presented. Following this description of the Filipinoespiritistas' indigenous healing system, while incorporating these essential elementsof healing (according to the prominent systems of healing theorists), this author'sconclusion is that more research of indigenous healing practices in the Philippinesis vital to a better understanding of the role of human consciousness in illness andhealing experiences. The research question was: What is the system of healing usedby the Filipino espiritistas? The study concentrates on descriptions of the Filipinoespiritistas' system of healing in accordance with the parameters for a healing systempresented in a journal article in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine,"Defining and Describing Complementary and Alternative Medicine" by O'Connoret al. (1997).

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