This letter appears in today's Leicester Mercury:
Feature revealed a narrow-minded attitude to spiritual healing
In response to Lee Marlow's so-called report on Vaughan Way Spiritualist Church (Mercury, January 22), it seems that it is more acceptable for reporters to criticise some religions and not others.
If the job of a reporter is to be sarcastic and patronising he did a very good job! Maybe he should consider partnering God in Heaven as he seems to have all the answers already!
If he'd bothered to learn about spiritual healing properly, he would probably have been told that, like anything, results vary, depending on whether the individual needed to experience certain conditions as part of their Spiritual Path, as most Spiritualists believe that Earth is the classroom in which we learn various lessons, not just health-related ones.
Saying that he could not feel anything when he reluctantly took part in a 10-minute healing session, is like trying to love someone who doesn't want to be loved. In other words it helps if you are open to it.
Also spiritual healers always insist you see your GP as the healing is there to support, not to replace.
Maybe Mr Marlow should visit a synagogue, Catholic church or mosque with the same attitude, or does he just visit soft targets?Spiritualists respect all religions as at the end of the day they believe it is the same God that we pray to but is just given a different name.
I hope the Mercury will encourage this equality.
I am not saying he shouldn't have a view – it's his narrow-minded disrespectful attitude that I find annoying.
Russell Smith, Coalville
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