Beings of Healing, through our link with Pir-o-Mur-
shid Inayat Khan, founder of this order. Members
work with healing practices on a daily basis to
increase their capacity for the Divine Healing Power
to come through. A commitment to healing includes
one’s own personal healing and involves ongoing
purification and clarity of intention. The Healing
Order aims to make the Sufi Teachings about heal-
ing available through seminars and workshops. Spe-
cial training courses are provided for conductors as
well as for members who are involved in profes-
sional healing work. The Healing Ritual is a group
activity of the Healing Order, in which members
pray for the healing of those who have asked for
their names to be on the Healing List. Healing circles
are facilitated by healing conductors and serve those
who have asked for healing. Healing conductors
may also provide classes in healing. Candidates for
the Healing Order are encouraged to contact their
local conductor. In addition members are encour-
aged to visit hospitals, and to help their friends when
they are not well.
“The purpose of the Sufi Healing Order is to
awaken humanity to a greater realization of the
power of the Divine Spirit to heal, thus to bring
about a better state of physical, mental and spiritual
health, and so to fulfill the law of God. The basic
principle of the Healing Order is that the soul is the
Divine Beneath; it purifies, revivifies and heals the
instrument through which it functions,” said Hazrat
Inayat Khan. “The secret of healing is to rise by the
power of belief above the limitations of this world of
variety, that one may touch by the power of intelli-
gence the oneness of the whole Being. It is there that
one becomes charged with the almighty power, and
it is by the power of that attainment that one is able
to help oneself and others in their pain and suffer-
ing. Verily, spirit has all the power there is.”
“The beauty of the group work is that it illumi-
nates the personal satisfaction of being endowed
with special powers. Healing is looked upon as a
gracious act of solidarity with human suffering,
inspired by attunement with the Holy Spirit and
allowing oneself to become a pure channel for the
divine power. We therefore beckon upon your
cooperation and goodwill in helping us to fulfill
this great task, if indeed it finds a resonance in your
being,” said Pir Vilayat Khan.
According to the practitioner Ismael Mazzara,
“Sufi healing practices cover a number of thera-
pies, including traditional Eastern aromatherapy
(based on fragrances called ‘attars’), and tradi-
tional cupping, which is practiced in both tradi-
tional Chinese and Islamic medicine. I find it
particularly effective with dancers and athletes
who need fast relief from muscular aches and
pains. (See http://www.chishti.com.) Other aspects of
Sufi healing work are best discussed in personal
consultation. Imaginal Therapy, a system of thera-
peutic visualization (http:www.farancenter.org) is
effective in helping you change how you see your-
self in your present situation, and change toward a
direction you want. It’s particularly effective in
pain relief and in helping to cope with the fear and
anxiety that often accompanies serious illness. In
combination with auricular acupuncture, the bene-
fits are enhanced. We periodically offer workshops
in London for health professionals and for the gen-
eral public.” (See [email protected].
The U.S. website is Sufi Healing Order. The contact
in Germany is Kabir, email CaduceusFindeisen@
T-Online.de; telephone 011 05821-477129.)
See also FAITH HEALING; PRAYER, POWER OF.Issels’s fever therapy An alternative cancer treat-
ment, a method of raising body temperature to as
high as 105° Fahrenheit in order to stimulate the
immune system, one of several whole-body thera-
peutic methods developed by the German physi-
cian Josef Issels. Part of Issels’s “whole-body
therapy,” as it was known, active fever, was
induced on a monthly basis by administering the
drug Pyrifer, which was made from treated
Escherichia colibacteria. Passive fever was produced
by placing the patient in a cylinder containing elec-
trodes that administered ultrashort waves.
Issels also advocated a diet of raw organic
foods, very low-dose chemotherapy, surgery, radi-
ation, ozone therapy, administration of organ
extracts and organic ribonucleic acid (RNA) and
deoxyribonucliec acid (DNA) (proteolytic
enzymes to destroy the protein coating around
tumors), vitamins and minerals, and psychother-
apy. In addition, he recommended the removal of
infected teeth and tonsils and of metallic dental
fillings (particularly mercury amalgam), sinceIssels’s fever therapy 67