spiritual healers
Faith-based curers
Spiritual healers are people who claim to treat illness or suffering through supernatural or metaphysical means—prayer, energy manipulation, laying on of hands, or channeling divine power.
The term encompasses faith healers, Reiki practitioners, shamans, and similar figures across traditions.
She visited a spiritual healer after conventional medicine failed.
The practice is ancient and widespread but scientifically unverified.
- curanderosTraditional spiritual healers
- initiation ritesFormal admission procedures
- ancestral worshipReligious honoring of forebears
- divination practicesMethods for foretelling outcomes
- past life regressionAccessing supposed previous existences
crystals · shamans · sacred sites · holistic wellness · mediums · mystics · animism · ancestral wisdom · laying on of hands · Ayurvedic medicine · herbal remedies · clairvoyants · divine intervention · Tibetan Buddhism · aura reading · aura cleansing · sound therapy · chakras
- healersnurse, doctor, physician, surgeon, medic
- traditional religionancestors, ancestral spirits, deities, rituals, sacrifices
- tribal beliefsanimism, shamans, ancestral spirits, nature spirits, totemism
- tribal religionshamans, totems, taboos, nature spirits, rituals
- Shintokami, torii, jinja, shintai, kagura
spiritual healersphysicians
Medical doctors collectively
medical doctors · surgeons · medical professionals · scientists · psychiatrists
spiritual healerssorcerers
Practitioners of magic arts
necromancers · malevolent spirits · demons · brujos · evil spirits