PRAYER AND MENTAL HEALING
By the Bishop of Bloemfontein
This paper is concerned with Mental Healing;
its object is to suggest, in a tentative way,
how Mental Healing may be effected by Mental
Prayer. But, in order to do this, it is necessary
(at the risk of repeating what may have been
written by others) to refer to certain premises
leading up to the conclusion which I wish to
draw.
(1) In the first place it is coming to be recognised that 'consciousness' must be understood in a far wider and more general sense than we have been accustomed to associate with it. Alongside of the active work of the intellect with which, e.g., we study mathematics or pursue our profession, there is a large, dreamy, half-conscious tract of mind, not sharpened to a single point, like the active intellect, but consisting in a multiplicity of mind-centres (mental ganglia, as we might call them) diffused throughout the body. We knew before that our body was a microcosm or an epitome of the world in which it was
