ABSTRACT
Over the past few years, the author have had the privilege of being able to discuss these issues with about 25 practicing healers, nearly all in the UK. As part of a formal research project in the early 2010s, he recorded and transcribed long interviews with ten of them, and he have had less formal discussions with the others. He made notes soon after each meeting, and what follows derives from those notes or from transcripts of the recorded interviews. He met most of the healers in their homes or offices, but some meetings were in his university office or on neutral ground. The first thing that struck me about these conversations was that many of the participants had early life experiences that made them feel different and extra “sensitive” to others.
