Pacific Ocean Coast around Tokyo
A Japanese Female Psychic Healer 120 Years Ago
If you believe in authority and power of Christ Jesus, you will be given power to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, and cast out devils, so that you must freely give what you have received, as Christ Jesus declared.It means that Christians should be those who have power to heal the sick. Therefore, it is no wonder that water from a spring discovered by a pious girl in France has an effect to heal the sick. But, there have been psychics who are called psychic healers with power to heal the sick in this world. Such people have been found in England, Brazil, the Philippines, Japan, etc., although some of them are not Christians.
Christ Jesus did not teach His disciples medical technics or how to use medicines but only how to pray. And Japanese psychics who had psychic power to heal the sick had used only their psychic power to heal the sick, although they were not Christians but followers of religious schools of the Japanese Buddhism or Shintoism.
One of them was a woman named Toshie Chonan (1863-1907) who could produce special water (called shin-sui (divine water)) from nowhere in empty bottles brought by patients and set before an alter in her house. Each bottle was filled with special water effective to cure an illness of each patient. Her ability to produce water from nowhere was proven in a court where she was brought to prove her ability, which is officially recoded. At the time, the police suspected that it was a trick to bewilder people.
Christ Jesus did not teach His disciples medical technics or how to use medicines but only how to pray. And Japanese psychics who had psychic power to heal the sick had used only their psychic power to heal the sick, although they were not Christians but followers of religious schools of the Japanese Buddhism or Shintoism.
One of them was a woman named Toshie Chonan (1863-1907) who could produce special water (called shin-sui (divine water)) from nowhere in empty bottles brought by patients and set before an alter in her house. Each bottle was filled with special water effective to cure an illness of each patient. Her ability to produce water from nowhere was proven in a court where she was brought to prove her ability, which is officially recoded. At the time, the police suspected that it was a trick to bewilder people.
It is said that she did not take any foods or tea for more than a decade, but she showed strength enough to carry a bale of rice and a big container full of water. She could even defeat a strong man in arm wrestling. She loved hill climbing. She even quickly climbed Mt. Fuji, carrying her blanket, so that her followers could not keep up with her.
Although Toshie was born as a daughter of a samurai family, her farther had died when she was a child and she worked as a maid in a rich shop where her spiritual ability appeared. Then, she lived as a professional prayer to heal the sick by praying. Her fame prevailed so much and many people came to her village and home where the police sometimes interfered. While she was confined in a jail for investigation for weeks, she did not take any foods and water and bathe, but her health was in good conditions and her hair was shining with good aroma although she did not evacuate at all.
She was an illiterate, but she could write a good Chinese poem as a spirit guided her, according to her testimony. It is said that she could feel a deity coming to her house with heavenly music. And, in an occasion she was brought by a spirit to a remote mountain. She revered Kukai, a notable psychic Buddhist monk who had lived 1,000 years ago, and other deities of Shintoism. She was a typical of the masses in Japan who lived in the Meiji era (from the late 19th century to the early 20th century) when Japan was in a process of modernization. In this period, some many psychics emerged in local areas of Japan, some of whom established their own unique religious bodies that are still active today, although the tension was sometimes caused between such religious bodies and the government of Imperial Japan authorizing a school of Shintoism that revered the emperor as a god.
The most impressive character of Toshie Chonan was being humble and good natured. She freely gave goods and gifts given to her in return by healed patients to poor neighbours. She was not a foolish woman but acted as if she had been a poor girl even before her death at the age of 43. Her brother described her as a too good-natured woman behaving and acting as if she had been a fool. She did not request any money from patients. But after her death, a humble religious body was established as a school of Shintoism by those who respected her.
No scientific study was made on the psychic ability of Toshie, although her brother tried to take her to Kyoto University for scientific investigation, which she rejected as opponents were also so strong as to take her to a court. But, her miracle performances are well known by some Japanese even today. She cured patients by giving special water automatically and mysteriously generated from nowhere, while she was praying, in empty bottles patients brought in her house. Each patient received unique color of water which fit with each disease.
She was not a follower of Christ Jesus, but a believer of traditional Japanese deities of the Japanese Buddhism and Shintoism. And, as she was so kind and compassionate to the poor enough to be loved by the God, she must have been given such psychic power. She mostly lived with her mother in a village of Yamagata Prefecture, north of Tokyo, without being married. Toshie Chonan is undoubtedly one of great psychics in Japan in these centuries.
As a conclusion, if you have genuine faith in the God or other deities, you must be given psychic healing power. Or, if you do not have psychic healing power, your faith must be doubted and suspected, even if you are a priest or bishop or even the Pope.
Toshie Chonan (https://ameblo.jp/chupa-0119/entry-11203297203.html)
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Mark 7,King James Version
7 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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Mark 7,King James Version
7 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.