The System of Healing Used by the Filipino Espiritistas

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>Abstract the System of healing used by the Filipino espiritistas: An Archival Study Scott</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>Matthew Taubold Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center The purpose of</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>this dissertation was to describe the system of healing used by the Union of Espiritistas</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>of the Philippines as perceived by the espiritistas themselves (in accordance with</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine standards) from</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>their own cultural context not from the view of the parapsychological investigators</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>psychologists medical doctors alternative practitioners and laypersons that have</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>provided most of the existing information on Filipino healing practices. The roles</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>of indigenous healers were presented by prominent theorists placing the practices of</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>mediumship and psychic surgery into perspective as indigenous healing phenomena.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>The essential principles and common factors in healing as described in other systems</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>of healing models were also presented. Following this description of the Filipino</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>espiritistas' indigenous healing system while incorporating these essential elements</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>of healing (according to the prominent systems of healing theorists) this author's</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>conclusion is that more research of indigenous healing practices in the Philippines</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>is vital to a better understanding of the role of human consciousness in illness and</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>healing experiences. The research question was: What is the system of healing used</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>by the Filipino espiritistas? The study concentrates on descriptions of the Filipino</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>espiritistas' system of healing in accordance with the parameters for a healing system</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>presented in a journal article in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>Defining and Describing Complementary and Alternative Medicine by O'Connor</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>et al. (1997).</span></p>