Born to Heal - a Biography of Harry Edwards, spirit healer.

Born to Heal - a Biography of Harry Edwards, spirit healer

By Paul Miller and Maurice Barbanell

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Written at the time Harry Edwards was taking the world by storm by his success in helping those called ‘incurable’ by the medical profession. It was added to, 14 years later, by Maurice Barbanell as the Healing and opposition to it by the Medical Establishment reached its peak.

The healing done by Harry Edwards was unique in the sense that it conformed to no rule laid down either by medical schools or by those churches which still retained what they call the "ministry of healing."

He had no medical or surgical training; neither was he interested in any schools of psychology. His successes were due entirely to co-operation with those healers in the spirit world who are dedicated to the task of eliminating disease, restoring sick minds, and bringing new life to deformed or useless limbs.

Well worth a read to show what Dedication and Determination can achieve.

This reprint has been illustrated with photographs of his healing successes printed in copies of "Psychic News" at the time.

Product Details

• Paperback: 212 pages
• Publisher: Saturday Night Press Publications (9 April 2026)
• Language: English
• ISBN-13:978-1908421708
• Language: English

Excerpt from Chapter 8 - New Technique in Absent Healing

Now in the midst of all these considerations a new one arises. It is that there is no need for a patient to concentrate or meditate, or to link his thoughts with those of the healer at the moment of healing. That is what Edwards has found in his own case, and it arose in this way. In June, 1944, two V-1 bombs destroyed his home. Before this he made appointments for a fixed time with all patients so that they could concentrate on the healing. But the dislocation which followed from the bombing and changing into another home caused him to miss many appointments for absent healing, and he did his work when circumstances permitted. He expected the healing to decline, but the reverse was true. He learned that more progress was made by patients during the irregular healings than before when all was done to a time-table.

.Edwards is also of the opinion that when the mind is in a relaxed state, as opposed to the tension which so often passes for concentration, it is easier for spirit healers to work and make their influence felt….

He therefore "came to the conclusion that in the majority of cases a time appointment for the patient to ‘link up’ with the healer-medium and spirit healers produced the reverse mind-condition to that needed and that the healing was being hampered rather than helped."…

So, from November, 1944, he adopted a new method of dealing with patients. Apart from not making fixed time appointments for patients to concentrate, he does not do his own co-operation with his healing guides at a fixed time. He does not begin this phase of his work till all the day's duties are over, and it may be midnight when he starts his period of association with his guides. Then, he reckons, most of those who have sought healing are asleep and their minds are still.

Excerpt from Chapter 18 - Sanctuary for Sufferers

…. Then, also in 1947, two new friends came to him, Mr. and Mrs. George Burton, of Reigate. Both had been interested in psychic development, but there had been a break in it, and when they came to him they were unaffected by orthodox ideas of healing.  Nor were they of the class of those who idealise guides until they become almost gods. When the Burtons entered the Burrows Lea sanctuary—a separate part of the house—for the first time, Edwards had a vision of their home life and of their own healing sanctuary, which he said had been made out of a ‘war refuge’. They confirmed the details he gave, and said that they had turned their air-raid shelter into a place of healing. It is remarkable that not before or since has Edwards had clairvoyance of that kind while healing.

Co-operation between the three grew. They attended first for one healing session a week, then came to all, and later accompanied him in his public demonstrations. Then he tried an experiment to see whether they could assist in the absent healing. He gave them sixty applications for healing which no one else had touched, and by employing a code number he arranged that they should receive the reports sent in by the sixty patients. Of the sixty who asked for help, forty continued to report, and in each there was an improvement or complete restoration to health. That settled his opinion of them, and from early in 1948 they have shared with him all his absent healing. To these two Edwards owes a debt of gratitude which he now gladly acknowledges. On an average they spend ten hours a day with him voluntarily on four days a week. This involves Mr. Burton taking time off from his business, and Mrs. Burton has to give up much of her home life. Normally they do not leave Burrows Lea for home until about midnight.

Because of the co-operation between these three, Edwards says that there has been an improvement in the absent healing, and it is easier now to cure the difficult cases, whether by absent treatment or on the public platform.

In 1954 The Archbishop of Canterbury set up a commission asking the British Medical Association to investigate incidences of Healing. The following is one that Edwards submitted:

Excerpt from Barbanell’s Postscript Chapter 7

"I Challenge the Commission"

"The case of William Olsen, (the medium) was the last straw. Two months later, Edwards announced in The Spiritual Healer that he had written to Dr. Ernest Claxton, assistant secretary of the British Medical Association, to say that it was a waste of time to attempt to convince clerical and medical diehards about the reality of spirit healing. The healer's article was illustrated by a striking cartoon showing three monkeys refusing to pay any attention. The caption beneath the first monkey was, "Hear no evidence," beneath the second, "See no evidence," and beneath the third, "Make no statement."

Why was Edwards so perturbed by the medical equivocation concerning Frederick Olsen. The answer is a recital of the facts involved. Olsen awoke one night with a dreadful pain in his back. His doctor sent him to hospital, where he was X-rayed and diagnosed as having a prolapsed spinal disc. All they could do for him medically was to put him in a plaster spinal jacket weighing about fourteen pounds.

The agony he endured was so great that he practically had no sleep. For five days he was confined to his bed, unable to move. When he tried to move, he fell out of bed and had to be helped back.

A second examination by the specialist led to no tangible result, except that Olsen was given tablets to ease his pain. "How long will it take to get better," he asked the specialist. The reply was that he must come and see him again in three months’ time. The trouble might last another six months or longer, Olsen was told, and there was always the possibility that he would have to undergo an operation.

After five weeks, in which life was a living hell, Olsen reached the end of his tether. Fatigued by constant pain, wearied by lack of sleep, and with no appetite, he telephoned Edwards in despair and explained his trouble. "If you can get to me I think I can put you right," was the answer. "But it is no use your coming to see me with a spinal jacket."

Olsen asked his doctor to remove the jacket, but he refused. With the help of his wife and son they succeeded in removing it—after an hour! The son drove him to Edwards' sanctuary, where the healer diagnosed the trouble, the spine was out of alignment. In less than three minutes Edwards straightened the spine and ended Olsen's agony. That night the patient had his first real sleep, for seven hours. He began to eat normally. Moreover there was no recurrence of the pain.

When Edwards submitted Olsen's case to the commission, they displayed remarkable ignorance by asking the patient to produce medical confirmation that he was cured. This naturally Olsen could not do, simply because medical records are not given to patients. Edwards then decided to take a hand in the matter. The healer wrote to the BMA. They were, in this instance, good enough to ask the specialist who had treated Olsen to see him again.

What was the specialist's verdict? Yes, he agreed that Olsen was cured of his trouble and that there were "no residual effects", but he could make no comment because the healing was eighteen months old!

This case was rejected by the Commission