Spiritual Therapies
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Mystical, religious, or spiritual practices performed for health benefit. |
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GEN or unspecified; prefer specifics |
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Spiritual Healing |
Spiritual Therapies Categories.
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Faith Healing - The use of faith and spirit to cure disease. |
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Magic - Beliefs and practices concerned with producing desired results through supernatural forces or agents as with the manipulation of fetishes or rituals. |
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Occultism |
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Radiesthesia - Therapeutic cult concerned with intangible energies surrounding the living body and based on the detection of these intrinsic radiations by dowsing, or divining, or the use of more elaborate instruments (radionics). |
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Witchcraft - An act of employing sorcery (the use of power gained from the assistance or control of spirits), especially with malevolent intent, and the exercise of supernatural powers and alleged intercourse with the devil or a familiar. (From Webster, 3d ed) |
Spiritual Therapies Definitions and Terms
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