Harry James Edwards (May 29, 1893 - December 7, 1976) is a self-proclaimed spiritual healer, teacher and spiritual writer who has a career of nearly 40 years.
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Initial years
Born in London as one of nine children, Harry Edwards is the son of a printer and tailor. In 1905, aged 12, Edwards joined the Church Diocesan Church's Army Brigade. In 1907 he left school and began a seven-year apprenticeship to a printer. Unsatisfied with his career, he developed political aspirations and joined the local branch of the Liberal Party, for whom he campaigned.
At the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Edwards enrolled in the Royal Sussex Regiment and in late 1915 he was in Bombay on the way to Tekrit, where he worked to build the railroad between there and Baghdad. He was assigned in the field, and reached the rank of Captain. In 1921 he returned to England and married Phyllis. The couple opened a stationery and printing shop in Balham, and Edwards tried to launch himself into a political career, standing for parliament and council seats as a Liberal candidate on several occasions, but to no avail. At this stage he also has four children to support.
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Spiritual Healing
Edwards became a spiritual healer when he attended a meeting at a spiritualist church in 1936 and was told by the media that he had healing powers. His early attempts at spiritual healing were met with success, and gradually his reputation as a physician spread and his services became more needed. During World War Two Edwards served in the Home Guard and continued to run his printing business along with his growing practice as a healer. Gradually, as his fame spread, his recovery took over from his printing business, which was then run by a brother. He moved to Stoneleigh in Surrey shortly after the war, where he used his front room as a refuge.
Finally, due to the increasing number of patients visiting him, Edwards left the house, so in 1946 he moved his family and his healing practices to Burrows Lea, a large house with acres of gardens and woods in Shere, where he founded 'Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary'. When his fame as a physician spread, he received 10,000 letters a week asking for help and distance healing.
In 1948 Edwards held a healing demonstration in Manchester attended by 6,000 people. In September 1951 during the Festival of Britain, he appeared at the Royal Festival Hall in London, where he demonstrated spiritual healing into a crowded hall. In 1955 he founded and was the first President of the National Federation of Spiritual Healers (NFSH). Edwards visited the island of Cyprus for his initiation into the inner circle of Daskalos "The Truth Researchers". The ceremony took place on April 1, 1954.
An 'Archbishop's Commission on Divine Healing' was founded in 1953 to investigate spiritual healing, and Edwards spoke to the Commission in 1954, providing documentary evidence of a number of successful healing cases for examination. At the same time he held a public demonstration in front of 6,000 people at the Royal Albert Hall to launch the '10 o'clock Healing Minute '. The Commission's report, published in 1958, states that both the Church and the medical profession accept the healers claim that they are responsible for successful healing. Despite the fact that Harry Edwards had appeared before the Commission, he never sent a copy of the final report.
Edwards claims that some dead scientists are working through it, including Lord Lister and Louis Pasteur. The founder of Aetherius Society, George King is the liberation of his healing power.
Harry Edwards died in December 1976, 83 years old.
Acceptance skeptic
A study in the British Medical Journal (Rose, 1954) investigated spiritual healing, therapeutic touch, and faith healing. In a hundred cases investigated, none of the cases revealed that the healer intervention itself resulted in improved or cured of measurable organic defects. Edwards claimed he had healed about a hundred thousand people in England but Rose could not verify one drug by Edwards. Rose visits a healing session held by Edwards and observes that an elderly woman confessed to have recovered during the session and walked without her wand, but by the time the session was done walking with two sticks out of the hall.
Bibliography
- Edwards, Harry Harry Edwards: Thirty Years of Spiritual Healers Jenkins (1968)
- Edwards, Harry Guide to Mediumship Development Spiritualist Aszon, [n.d.]
- Edwards, Harry Spirit Healing Science Riders & amp; Co., New York (1943)
- Edwards, Harry Mediumship Jack Webber Riders & amp; Co., New York (1940)
- Edwards, Harry A Guide to the Understanding and Practice of Spiritual Healing The Healer Publishing Company Limited (1974)
- Edwards, Harry Medium Medium Arnold Clare Rider & amp; Co., New York (1941)
- Edwards, Harry Psychic Healing Spiritualist Press Ltd., London (1946)
- Edwards, Harry Life in Spirit: with Guide for Mediumship Development Healer Publishing Co. Ltd. (1976)
- Edwards, Harry The Power of Healing , Tandem Publishing (1967)
- Edwards, Harry with Paul Miller Science, Art, and Future of Spirit Healing Healer Publishing Company, Ltd (1975)
- Edwards, Harry, " The Healing Intelligence"
- Edwards, Harry, " Guide to Mediumship Development"
- Newman, F Terry, "Journal of Spiritual Healers", Editor.
Select bibliography
- Branch, Ramus Harry Edwards: The Largest Healer's Story Since the Time of Christ Guildford (1982)
- Miller, Paul Harry Edwards, The Healer The Spiritualist Press, London (1948)
- Miller, Paul Born to Heal: Biography of Harry Edwards, Spirit Healer The Spiritualist Press, London (1962)
- Barbanell, Maurice Harry Edwards and His Healing The Spiritualist Press, London (1953)
References
External links
- Website of Harry Edwards Healing Pain
- Website from Harry Edwards Healing University
- Edwards in Medium Spiritualist
- An article about Harry Edwards
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