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Faith Healers and Faith Healing: The Healers of Pateros, Philippines

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dc.contributor.author Domingo, N.P.
dc.date.accessioned 2015-06-16T04:29:32Z
dc.date.available 2015-06-16T04:29:32Z
dc.date.issued 2015
dc.identifier.citation Domingo, Nenita Pambid 2015. Faith Healers and Faith Healing: The Healers of Pateros, Philippines. Heritage as Prime Mover in History, Culture and Religion of South and Southeast Asia, Sixth International Conference of the South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture and Religion (SSEASR), Center for Asian studies of the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. (Abstract) p.74. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-955-4563-47-6
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/8277
dc.description.abstract The objective of this study is to describe the beliefs and practices of the local healers of Pateros, Rizal, Philippines. Based on interviews and participant observation, it was found out that the local healers believed in the following: (1) They believed in the five gods called Cincovocales (five vowels of five springs of water) A, E, I, O, U, or God the Father (Dios Ama); God the Mother (Dios Ina); God the Son (Dios Anak); God the Holy Spirit (Dios Espiritu SantongWagas), and God who is the core of knowledge permeating both darkness and light (Dios UbodUtakKarununganKalangkap ng Dilim at Liwanag) as taught by Valentin de los Santos, the supreme or head of the Lapiang Malaya (Freedom Party) whose members were massacred by the troops of Marcos government in 1967; (2) They believed in reincarnation and astral travel; (3) They believed in deriving wisdom and knowledge from nature; and (4) They believed in spirit possession or medium ship. The local healers believed that healing is effected through the performance of the following ritual: cleansing one’s soul or loob (literally, inside) by kneeling before a light bulb with the filament removed and then filled with water. The initiate then or the healer has to miraculously cause water to drip from the bulb by sheer will power and purity of intention, as well as purity of the loob. Being able to let the water fall in drops from the bulb is, according to them, a sure sign that one is completely cleansed of all sins and that said person is endowed with supernatural powers in the form of healing, clairvoyance and prophecy. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Kelaniya en_US
dc.title Faith Healers and Faith Healing: The Healers of Pateros, Philippines en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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