A Japanese Physician with Psychic Power
There are reportedly hundreds of professional faith healers in Japan. When putting the keyword of "psychic healing" in Google research in Japanese, about 4 million sites are returned. Indeed, spiritualism has prevailed in Japan.
One of them was Toshiko Yamazaki who was born in 1922 and died about two decades ago. She became a medical doctor as she had heard a spiritual voice of a deity of Japanese Buddhism encouraging her to become a medical doctor when she had been an elementary school girl. So, she became a physician with psychic power. She practiced modern medical services while sometimes performing psychic healing or faith healing. She studied and respected Harry Edwards of England (1893 – 1976), a notable faith healer.
It was when she became about 30 years old that she was clearly aware of her psychic power. When diagnosing a patient, she felt a pain in a part of her own body that corresponded to the affected area of the patient. She found that illness was caused by evil spirits as well as by casual agents. She applied modern medicines to ordinary illness but her psychic power or faith healing to illness caused by evil spirits.
She also scientifically studied medical effects of far infrared rays and germanium stones. But she also enhanced her psychic power to launch a religious body based on Japanese esoteric Buddhism. In her faith healing, she said that she was guided by a high-level spirit while receiving advices from the spirit. She moved her hands on an affected area of a patient as if she had been cutting and taking it out of the body of the patient, following guidance of the spirit.
As her reputation was televised in 1960s and 1970s, many patients visited her clinic in Nara Prefecture. She also performed distant psychic healing with possessions of a patient at her hand while the patient was far away from her clinic.
But, her own son, in his 40s, suddenly became a nephritic patient in 1990s and started to receive a dialysis treatment in other hospitals. Unfortunately, due to poor handling by medical staffs there he almost accidentally died. She wrote a book to point out mistakes of a primary doctor, nurses, etc. Her book contributed improvement of dialytic therapy in Japan.
Dialysis patients cannot live long, 10 to 20 years shorter than healthy people, while they have to receive a dialysis treatment a few times per week all through their lives. Therefore her son planned to have an organ transplant in China. Yet, before he flew to China, he fell to death due to sudden deterioration of his kidney conditions in a hospital nearby.
It is a tragedy that her psychic healing power could not work on her son while she had cured many patients. But from another point of view, it might be God's will to stop her son from receiving kidney transplant in China. In these decades, there have been various reports on unethical or criminal ways that China has promoted organ transplants. They have reportedly collected human organs from criminals on death raw. They took big money from foreign transplant patients visiting China for transplant surgeries. It is said that those Chinese criminals on death raw to have their organs taken include followers of the Falun Gong, Uighurs, other dissident activists. So, the God might stop her son to go to China for kidney transplant.
Anyway modern medications and faith healing should advance more so as to heal dialysis patients.
Luke 1, King James Version
12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.
13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.