Laying on of hands : a form of healing practice that involves the healer placing his or her hands near the body of a sick person. For more information see also: absent healing, faith healing, spiritual healing and reiki.
A "laying on of hands" therapy using a technique (according to practitioners, a "spiritually guided life force energy") for stress reduction and relaxation, ...
Therefore it is of prime necessity that any healer should [PAGE 538] THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS have a knowledge of Astrology and the law of compatibility, whether he be- longs to those who admittedly heal by magnetism and the laying on of hands or to ...
That confirmation was to me a very solemn matter; the careful preparation, the prolonged prayers, the wondering awe as to the "seven-fold gifts of the Spirit," which were to be given by "the laying on of hands," all tended to excitement.
Was this Simon's real intention for offering money for the power of the laying on of hands? Yes, is the only answer concerning most Bible readers.
"The excerpt is the ritual of consolamentum, which is...the baptism with the Holy Spirit by laying on of hands that made one a full Cathar."
- Dennis Stallings (private correspondence) ...
In many contemporary indigenous circles, knowledge is transmitted through a direct "laying on of hands" or through other esoteric means, such as an eagle feather or ceremonial use of sacred cedar and sage.
Many Cathar doctrines, such as individual spirituality, rejection of the corrupt church, rejection of the sacramental system (or any other intermediary between God and the individual), asceticism, apostolic poverty, laying on of hands, ...
from the apothecary, neither did they possess any secret remedies or magical essences; they possessed an inherent power to heal diseases, and by words they cast out devils, restored the dead to life, healed, through prayer and the laying on of hands, ...
 See also: Spiritual, Spirit, World, Ritual, Psychic
  
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