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Spiritual healing has today become an accepted form of healthcare. Even alternative practitioners and other healing professions have completely lost their fear of coming into contact with energy work, with shamanic rituals and other kinds of spiritual healing. This doesn’t simply involve a booming segment in the health market but rather reflects a living spirituality that is to be placed at the service of something positive. Underlying it can often be found a sound training in energy work. Even more frequently, though, one can identify an additional far-reaching experience of life, of having to start out from nothing once more, and it is this that makes the life history and work of many healers credible.

Since the 1950s legal opinion had maintained that spiritual healing was nothing more than charlatanism unless the healer was able to prove the contrary in individual instances. Now this picture had undergone a radical change. The German Federal Constitutional Court’s well-known ruling on spiritual healers established them as an independent group of professionals. It was of the opinion that the client who sought spiritual healing was primarily interested in spiritual support accompanied by an alteration to his or her world view; it did not therefore place the healer on the same level as the traditional doctors and other healthcare professionals. From the outset the client did not expect to be undergoing treatment in a medical or psychotherapeutic sense, and for this reason the legal system too should regard healers as a completely independent group within the healing professions.

In the seven years of its existence this famous decision, reviewed by other courts, has become widely known and has thereby contributed significantly to establishing the profession of healer. This has brought consequences with it, including limitations on advertising being imposed by the Law on the Advertising of Medicinal Products (equally applicable to healers) and the question of whether all healers should be obliged to provide clients with guidance. The point at which a healer has to produce a non-medical practitioner’s certificate has of course been newly defined, as has the point at which spiritual healing overlaps with medical or psychotherapeutic treatment.

With this background in mind one must welcome with open arms the fact that books such as this have become so successful. Because in the final analysis we need to be grateful to each individual element for the fact that spiritual healing has been dragged out of its niche as an esoteric field and been seen for what it really is: a possibility for clients to find their personal healing path, to lay it out, and in so doing to become aware of their own creative abilities.

Anette Oberhauser, Doctor of Law

Solicitor