Caution : As narrated by John Davidson in his book Subtle energies on Spiritual Healing where he says that “Within the sub-astral realms of the Universal Mind, there are souls, often of good intention, love and humility, who perform what is known as spiritual healing, for the souls living on the physical plane. Some are living in a physical body, others are in higher regions - mostly sub-astral, working through a medium in the physical world. Their mechanism is to consciously or unconsciously take into themselves some of the negative tendencies and entanglements or karmas of those they desire to heal. This is good for the one who is healed, but the healer always does it at his own cost. He has to take the negativity onto himself. Healing from this level, therefore, however pure the motive, is not recommended by mystics of the highest order. Rather, they specifically advise against it. The same applies to yogis and mystics who have not gone beyond the realm of the Universal Mind and who take on some of the karmas of their disciples. It is done, ultimately, at the cost of their own spirituality. Their ‘eternity’ being a relative one, the reservoir of their spiritual strength is ultimately exhausted, because it is not consciously linked to the everlasting source of spirituality. In fact, the world spiritual, in the context of this kind of healing is, strictly speaking, incorrect. It is a healing of mental, emotional and physical energies, using mental and very occasionally higher mental, astral or causal power. The spirit does not come into it. True spiritual healing is to free the spirit or soul from the mind, and that can only be performed by a true mystic. The spirit is then healed of its connection with mind and matter. In fact, the word ‘astral’ is very loosely used by the majority of western people. These days very few people reach the astral and at this level the pull begins to be upwards. There is no encouragement for it to travel downwards to cure physically. I am aware that many good and loving people are involved in this kind of work and that benefits are felt by those who are healed. But it is indeed a trap of the mind for such kind-hearted and evolved humans and the burden of the karmas of those healed often leads such healers to distress in later life. Many of them both look and feel burdened beyond the average. There is no need for us to become a carrier of other’s burdens, we have enough karmas of our own. There are many ways of healing that do not drain one’s own energies.“