(BQ) Part 2 book “Healing traditions of the northwestern Himalayas” has contents: Mystic healers, traditional herbalists, indigenous materia medica, material used by folk herbalists, mediators between materialistic and metaphysical worlds, sacred healing by buddhist monks, and other contents. | Chapter 4 Mystic Healers When someone gets healed, the Kingdom of God is revealed, for His Kingdom is a Kingdom or wholeness, of well-being, and of life Billy Joe Daugherty Abstract Communities have diverse sensitivities regarding the cause of diseases and these impersonations took years to develop and still prevail in the region. People believe that evil spirits are the root cause of large number of human sufferings which often appear in the form of diseases and these beliefs still prevails in society irrespective of caste and class. Curing through spiritual means, states that ailment can be cured by holy trust together with appeal and/or sacraments that inflame a divine having the power to remedying illness. Viewed as extremely sanctified, with height as a persistent commemoration to the eminence of human soul and its vastness, Himalayas exemplify universality of human realization. Communities living in Himalayas call mystic healers not only for seeking opinion for social problems but for getting refuge from illness caused by supernatural entities. Mystic healers act as priests, social workers, friends and advisors, psychologists, psychiatrists and philanthropist to traditional Himalayan communities and they seek refuge in the transcendent realm of supernatural world. Keywords Magico-religious healing Mystic healers Exorcism Spirit possession Sorcerer Shamans Magico-religious practices Mediators Witchcraft Evil-spirit Evil-eye Communities have diverse perceptions regarding the cause of diseases and these impressions took years to develop and still prevail in the region. Apart from minor diseases, a number of diseases are considered to occur due to imbalance of body humours. The cold climatic conditions are believed to be the cause of headache, fever, cough, respiratory diseases, body aches, etc. Of the various assumptions made to find the reason, some of possible causes of diseases are impact of supernatural powers, evil-spirit, .
