Israel Regardie - The Art of True Healing: The Unlimited Power of Prayer and Visualization

Copyright 1932 Dr. F. I. Regardie

This edited version 2007 Marc Allen

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Regardie, Israel.

The art of true healing : the unlimited power of prayer and visualization / by Israel Regardie : edited by Marc Allen.

p. cm.

Hardcover ed. published in 1991 with no subtitle.

ISBN 978-1-57731-012-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Mental healing. 2. Meditation.

I. Allen, Mark, 1946. II. Title.

RZ401.R37 199796-43004

615.852dc20 CIP

First printing of third edition, February 2013

ISBN 978-1-60868-167-9

Printed in the USA on 100% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

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These are the methods by which the dynamic nature of the subconscious can be stimulated so that the human personality becomes transformed into a powerful magnet attracting to itself whatever it truly desires or is necessary to its welfare.

Israel Regardie

S o much has been written and discussed lately about healing and the mind. The two are, of course, intricately connected, and understanding about the mind-body connection has now merged into the common culture. Most people are at least aware of it in some way, through some book or magazine article or TV or radio show. Israel Regardie wrote brilliantly on the subject over seventy years ago, and he wrote about the mind-body connection in a way that no one else has written before or since.

I discovered The Art of True Healing about twenty years ago, and it has been my constant companion ever since. As soon as I did the Middle Pillar meditation, I had no doubt that every premise in the book, and every promise in the book, is true and, as you will see, the book deals with not only physical healing, but healing every aspect of our lives. Dr. Regardie says it best:

These are the methods by which the dynamic nature of the subconscious can be stimulated so that the human personality becomes trans- formed into a powerful magnet attracting to itself whatever it truly desires or is necessary to its welfare

Perhaps sickness is present. Or we need money. Or we have undesirable moral or mental traits or whatnot. We can elevate our minds by utilizing this energy, so that the desire of our heart automatically realizes itself with practically no effort at all.

This is a bold premise, and a great promise. In my experience, he delivers on his promise.

The original subtitle describes this book as A Treatise on the Mechanism of Prayer, and the Operation of the Law of Attraction in Nature. Though the wording seems a bit bulky by todays standards, the meaning of the words is profound and powerful. Through the exercises in this book, we turn prayer or any wish for improvement in our lives or the lives of those dear to us into a powerful instrument for change.

Once you try the Middle Pillar meditation, once you experience its effects, you will probably agree with me that true magic actually exists and each of us can be a magician, and a healer, capable of improving our lives and the lives of those we love.

Of course, as Dr. Regardie states, these exercises are in no way a substitution for competent medical care or therapy when necessary but they are a wonderful addition to it, for they are able to aid the healing process in a great many mysterious, profound, and positive ways.

I do the Middle Pillar exercise several times a week, and have modified it somewhat over the years in a way that works for me. (I rarely use sound, for instance.) I encourage everyone to try the exercises, and to feel free to modify them in any way you wish. This form of meditation has definitely contributed to my health, success in the world, and ability to help others.

Besides, its a great excuse to stay in bed in the morning for another fifteen or twenty minutes, and still feel that youre doing yourself and the world a favor.

Marc Allen
Editor

Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life.

Properly used, it can heal every affliction and ailment we may have.

W ithin every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal every affliction and ailment we may have.

Every single religion affirms this fact. All forms of mental or spiritual healing promise the same thing. Even psychoanalysis and other forms of therapy employ this healing power: The insight and understanding that effective therapy can bring releases tensions of various kinds, and through this release the healing power latent within and natural to the human system operates more freely.

Each of these systems teaches its own specialized methods of thinking or contemplation or prayer that will, according to the terms of their own philosophies, renew our bodies and even transform our entire environment.

Very few of these systems, however, actually fulfill in a complete way the high promises they have made. There is little understanding of the practical means whereby the forces underlying the universe and permeating every cell of our bodies can be utilized and directed toward the creation of a new heaven and a new earth.

Each one of us has the power to begin the process of reconstruction for ourselves; each one of us can discover the force that can bring us true healing of our bodies and minds.

The central question, then, is how are we to become aware of this force? What is its nature? What is the mechanism whereby we can use it?

A great many different systems have evolved, widely differing processes by which we may discover the presence of such a power. Meditation, prayer, affirmation, invocation, emotional exaltation, and other forms of declaration made at random upon the universe or the Universal Mind are a few of the methods. All have this in common: By turning the fiery, penetrating power of the mind inward upon itself, and exalting our emotional system to a certain pitch, we may become aware of previously unknown currents of force, currents that are almost electric in their interior sensation, and that are healing and integrating in their effect.

It is the willed use of such a force that is capable of bringing health to body and mind. When effectively directed, it acts like a magnet: It attracts to every one of us who employs these methods the things that we require or fervently desire or that are needed for our further evolution.

The fundamental, underlying idea of this powerful healing system is this: In the ambient atmosphere surrounding us and pervading the structure of each one of our bodys cells is a force, a field of energy. This force is omnipresent and infinite; it is as present in the most infinitesimal object as it is in the most proportion-staggering far reaches of the known and unknown universe. This force is life itself.