Healing, magic, mind over matter, invoking the gods, ancestors, or higher consciousness - they all are, have been, and probably will continue to be a part of our eternal quest to understand the workings of the cosmos and how much we actually control ourselves.
Since the beginning of time on this physical earth plane of existence, we human have reached for a higher spiritual power to work on our behalf, or for others. Many have even noticed that there have been times when this higher power does not seem to work in ways that were anticipated. Was this a case of the incorrect prayer or incantation being used? Where the planets not in alignment? Maybe the higher power was uninterested or displeased with the offering being made?
Even in our modern high-tech world today, prayers for health, healing, prosperity, love, and other humanistic needs and desires are not all answered? Are some prayers chosen or favoured while others are not? Is it a matter of good or bad karma, the wrong ancestor or religion, or the wrong slant on spirituality?
Regardless of what you believe personally, no one has any extra or special spiritual power going for them, despite what they might imagine from their false sense of personal ego identity. Spiritual power that is active in anyone’s life is available only when the personal ego is not trying to influence it.
In ego-conscious human reality, all may seem possible in regard to spiritual power as harnessed or brought about through many diverse forms of spiritual practice. While it is true that prayers or other spiritual practices seem to be answered, however, is this not an aspect of human consciousness perceiving it as such in order to gain a connection with the greater cosmos?
In actual reality, human consciousness, as it is currently collectively awakened in the mass of humanity, is not capable of influencing spiritual power. If it were, the entirety of the universe would be one gigantic cosmic mess — one explosion after another as human beings in their present states of consciousness attempt to influence and find balance within the energy forces of nature on an universal scale.
Anyone who is at a deep level of spiritual slumber, though they may seem to be awake, may believe that even if they cannot invoke spiritual power themselves, there are others who can. And certainly there are those who are lined up and ready to fulfill that fantasy, either for their own personal good or in some way to satisfy their own self-delusions of spiritual power at their disposal.
Albert Schweitzer once say, in relation to healing in the practice of medicine: “The role of the physician is to amuse the patient long enough to give nature the time to do the actual healing.” Indeed, from a more metaphysical view point, ultimately it is nature (the cosmos) that does the bottom-line healing. Inn such examples, the role of a spiritual healer, therefore, is to give hope to the person in need of healing until the higher forces (whatever tern you would like to ruse) actually does the healing — be it instantaneous or over a period of seeming time. That is if a healing is to take place, whether through medical or spiritual practice.
What needs to be remembered is that spiritual power, or in the case above, spiritual healing, will manifest on its own terms and through its own desired results - these could actually be completely different to our ego-centric assumptions and expectations.
In the song “Que sera, sera” there are the lyrics, “Whatever will be, will be.” Add to this phrase the words, “for it already is.” There are times when we simply need to let go of our expectations and truly trust in the higher powers of the universe, whether we perceive them as ancestors, spiritual guides, deities or our higher consciousness. Have faith in your belief in these higher energies for they are your connection to the spiritual power. If you do not believe in an external source, then that is perfectly fine as well. We are, after all, all connected to the same cosmos regardless of how we may individually perceive it to be.