Chapter 9
The Haunted MoundThe winter passed in training for healing.
They learned a great deal about the body and the natural ways it had of healing itself. They learned how the mind, clouded by fear and doubt, could hinder these natural ways, and how they as priest healers could bring back confidence to the patient so that the ways of nature could work again freely.
It seemed the mental image a person held of himself had great power to influence his body. They were taught to change, with great tact and skill, the self-image of illness the patient held tenaciously within his mind, to one of well-being and health. The image changed, the patient visualising himself well, the healer’s work was done. Nature did the rest.
They learned that when the illness had gone too far for the patient’
