Translation of Vania Borges Camargo
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The healing mediunity does not come to supplant medicine and doctors; it simply comes to prove that there are things that they don’t know and invite to study them; that nature has resources that they ignore; that the spiritual element that they ignore is not a chimera, and that, when they take it into account they will open new horizons to science and will be more successful than now”. ( 1)
There are researches about the effects of the prayer in the health of people. One of them was performed by the Laboratory of Cellular Immunology of the University of Medicine of the University of BrasÃlia, with the active participation of more than fifty-two students of medicine, from 2000 to 2003. The research, as its results published in the major newspapers of the Country, showed positive results which were materialized in the increase of cellular stability in individuals who received prayers.
According to the study under discussion, one of the main defense mechanisms of the organism – the phagocytosis (*) – may have its function stabilized with prayers made at a distance. “In the analysis of the fifty-two volunteers, each week a pair provided blood samples and answered a questionnaire about stress. A picture of the volunteer would be forwarded, identified only by the name, to a group of ten religious people from different creeds, who, for one week, would make prayers for that person. Coordinated by the immunology professor Carlos Eduardo Tosta, the research lasted three years. ( 2) Read the rest of this entry »
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