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The New Thought mental healing cults do not understand the difference between those occult powers (healing is one of them) performed by the ego deliberately and those occult powers performed through the ego spontaneously at the Overself's bidding. The first kind are on an inferior level and keep the practitioner still enchained within egoism. But of course, by contrast to the orthodox church teaching, this New Thought teaching is certainly broader.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 5 : The Healing Power of The Overself > # 24 -- Perspectives > Chapter 10: Healing of the Self > # 24