Quimby duplicated many of the healing
miracles
recorded in the Bible.
In brief, the argumentative method employed, according to Quimby,
consists of spiritual reasoning
where you convince
the patient and yourself
that his sickness is due to his false belief,
groundless fears and negative patterns,
lodged in his subconscious mind.
You reason it out clearly in your mind,
and convince your patient
the disease or ailment is due only to a distorted,
twisted pattern of thought,
which has taken form in his body.
This wrong belief
in some external power
and external causes
has now externalized itself as sickness,
and can be changed by changing
the thought patterns.
You explain to the sick person
that the basis of all healing
is a change of belief.
You also point out
that the subconscious mind
created the body and all its organs.
Therefore, it knows how to heal it,
can heal it,
and is doing so now as you speak.
You argue in the courtroom
of your mind
that the disease is a shadow of the mind,
based on disease -soaked,
morbid thought imagery.
You continue to build up
all the evidence you can muster,
on behalf of the healing power within,
which created all the organs in the first place,
and which has a perfect pattern
of every cell, nerve and tissue within it.
Then you render a verdict
in the courthouse of your mind,
in favour of yourself or your patient.
You liberate the sick one
by faith and spiritual
understanding.
Your mental and spiritual evidence
is overwhelming.
There being but one mind,
what you feel is true
will be resurrected in the
experience of the patient.
This procedure is essentially
the argumentative method
used by Dr. Quimby of Maine
from 1849 to 1869.
The Absolute Method
Is Like Modern Sound -Wave Therapy
Many people throughout the world
practice this form of prayer treatment
with wonderful results.
The person using the Absolute Method
mentions the name of the patient,
such as John Jones,
then quietly and silently thinks
of God
and His qualities and attributes,
such as, God is all bliss,
boundless love,
infinite intelligence,
all -powerful, boundless wisdom,
absolute harmony,
indescribable beauty and perfection.
As he quietly thinks along
these lines
he is lifted up in consciousness into a new spiritual wavelength,
at which times he feels the infinite ocean of God's love is
now dissolving everything un like itself self
in the mind and body of John Jones,
for whom he is praying.
He feels all the power and
love of God
are now focused on John Jones,
and whatever is bothering
or vexing him
is now completely neutralized
in the presence of the infinite ocean
of life and love.
The absolute method of prayer
might be likened to the sound wave or sonic therapy
recently recently shown me
by a distinguished physi
cian in Los Angeles.
He has an ultrasound wave machine
which oscillates at a tremendous
speed
and sends sound waves to any area
of the body to which it is directed.
These sound waves can be controlled,
and he told me of achieving remarkable
results
in dissolving arthritic calcareous deposits,
as well as the healing and removal
of other disturbing conditions.
To the degree that we give
rise in consciousness
by contemplating qualities and attributes of God,
do we generate spiritual
electronic waves
of harmony,
health and peace.
Many remarkable healings
follow this technique of prayer.
A Cripple Walks Dr. Phineas Parkhurst
Quimby,
of whom we spoke previously in this chapter,
used the absolute method
in the latter years of his healing career.
He was really the father of
psychosomatic medicine,
and the first psychoanalyst.
He had the capacity to
diagnose clairvoyantly
the cause of the patient's trouble,
pains and aches.
The following is a condensed account
of the healing of a cripple,
as recorded in Quimby's
manuscripts.
Quimby was called on to visit a woman who was lame,
aged, and bedridden.
He states that her ailment was due to the fact that
she was imprisoned by a creed so small and contracted
that she could not stand
upright and move about.
She was living in the tomb
of fear and ignorance.
Furthermore, she was taking the Bible literally,
and it frightened her.
