Sceptic became healer

Press, 2 November 1984, Page 4

Sceptic became healer

By

CINDY BAXTER

Mr Edmund Harold, a

professional psychic, first entered the world of spiritual healing with the intent of disproving it.

“I started to learn about spiritual healing so that I could disprove it. I thought it was a load of rubbish,” said the British writer, lecturer, and healer who is in Christchurch to conduct workshops on self-healing. "I had had a lot of friends telling me about it . and I was beginning to get tired of perfect strangers coming up to me and telling me about it”

However, after Mr Harold was approached every day for three weeks by a strange woman who was able to tell exactly how he was feeling by just looking at him, he started to wonder.

"I was still trying to prove that this thing was a set-up and did it for some time without really understanding that I was a medium myself,” he said. Mr Harold, a merchant banker at the time, then began three years of serious study with the strange woman, who was a spiritual healer herself. That was in 1964 and now, 20 years later, he has written four books, has a large healing centre in Sussex, has given up his lucrative job, and given away all his possessions and his home to travel and heal people. Mr Harold believes in healing, but a kind of healing within the mind. t *All sickness is in the mind, so if you can help people to eradicate that, they will heal,” he said. One of his first experiences with healing was with a child, one of twins, aged eight years, who could not walk.

Through the use of a rock crystal and positive prayer, Mr Harold discovered that the child did not have polio but a damaged spine which had occurred during her crawling days. Three days later the child took her first steps. She later had corrective surgery on the spine. "The problem lies in the body and the mind of the patient It also depends on divine intervention and the Kof God. I don’t mean religious sense, but in the power of love,” Mr Harold said.

In South Africa, Mr Harold healed a man who had been given five days to live — “I was not with him, but the power of prayer worked for that man.” Mr Harold has been in Clnichurch for several ween, and will remain in New Zealand until January,, a series of workshops

seminars, and radio talkbacks.

He will conduct a one-day seminar in Christchurch on Sunday on the use of rock crystals and their spiritual use. Another seminar on meditation will be held next week-end.

One of Mr Harold’s books, published recently, is on the subject of numerology. His knowledge of this topic and his credibility were Proved when interviewed in hristchurch yesterday.

Demonstrating the use of numerology — “the date you are born is a blueprint for life” — he proceeded to outline my personality and general outlook on life and people. This was all uncomfortably accurate, especially coining from someone who had met me only 10 minutes before. All I told him was my date of birth.

Mr Harold’s work and theories with quartz rock crystals cleared up the mys-

tery of the “crystal ball” tales of mediums and fortune tellers.

Crystal, he said, emitted electromagnetic energies, and had the knack of being able to magnify thought patterns which were also electromagnetic.

When a thought was directed at the crystal, it was magnified, and, if used correctly, could be directed at the individual being spiritually healed.

Positive thought patterns could be magnified and transmitted into the mind of a sick person. “A crystal is about 20 million years old; it is a rock crystal which grows in the body of the planet,” said Mr Harold. He maintains that the “key to everything is love.” Therefore, if you focus that love at people through the crystal, it can be used as a power of healing.

of rock crystals

for healing was centuries old, he said.

The original capstones to the great pyramids were made from rock crystal. There were so many people who were starting to use the crystals now, but one reason Mr Harold was conducting a workshop on them was to make sure that people used them correctly. “The crystal can magnify positive thoughts, but it can also magnify negative ones, and can be extremely destructive.”

Recently, doctors had discovered that the electromagnetic fields surrounding power lines had caused a lot of allergies.

Scientists and computer experts used rock crystals in computers and other technological tools involved in transmitting information. This was the reason why the main source of rock crystal in Arkansas had been bought by a big computer company.