In most cases, the client learns to practice this new mode of consciousness. Someone coming to this view for the first time is likely to find it strange, for it violates so many important concepts in the normal view and creates so many complicated simplifications. But it is a widely used form of healing, best known in the form of Christian Science, also used in Science of Mind and Unity, and considered in some schools of yoga to be the highest form of healing. Books by Joel Goldsmith provide articulate modern descriptions of a spiritual healer at work. Another form of spiritual healing that has a long history believes that the physical universe is the product of normally-unseen spiritual forces.
Practitioners call upon the assistance of spiritual beings or angels.
Others consciously communicate with their guides. This is not a game for amateurs. An ancient method for the systematic use of the imagination has recently become widely known in the adaptation of shamanism for Westerners. Shamanism is, in one teacher's terms, a traditional technology for developing intuitive guidance in life. It is one of the most vivid methods for discovering that there is more to the world than Westerners ordinarily believe.