About Harry Edwards Medium

As well as relieving countless patients of enormous pain and suffering, Harry Edwards also did much to promote healing. His demonstrations in places like the Royal Albert Hall and his books did much to bring this spiritual science to the attention of the public.

My first contact with this remarkable man was in the late 1960's. I had heard of him several years before when I had begun to give healing myself. I had a few patients who visited me twice weekly and had also accumulated a fairly long list of people to whom I sent absent healing. They included a very sick man whose condition did not appear to respond to the healing. His illness was causing such distress to his family that they too had to be sent absent healing. My concern became so great that I wrote to Harry Edwards and asked if he too could send him absent healing. I felt like an infant school pupil asking a professor for help with his homework! I was, however, soon put at ease by his swift, very helpful reply. He stated that he would be pleased to send this patient healing and that he hoped our 'combined efforts' would soon ease his suffering. Throughout the months I sent Mr Edwards regular reports to which he always replied in a very encouraging and positive fashion. Although the patient did not improve in the way we hoped, he became more settled and easier for his family to manage and eventually passed on very peacefully.

It was during this period that I arranged to visit one of the weekly healing sessions at Harry Edwards' sanctuary as an observer. I arrived at the house in the beautiful Surrey countryside and was shown into a chapel where about thirty others were already seated. A few minutes later three white-coated people entered the room; one of them was Harry Edwards. He spent about a minute in silent prayer and then looked up and smiled, saying 'Who can I help first?' Over the next hour or so I witnessed healing feats which were truly wonderful. Every recipient had immediate benefit in varying degrees. One of the most impressive cures was performed on a young woman who had injured her spine in a riding accident. Doctors could do nothing more for her. She had spent months on crutches and had to use them to approach Harry Edwards from her chair. He laid his hands on her back and said 'Let's try and free the spine'. Seconds later he said 'Now try to walk'. She walked back to her chair without assistance. 'Don't forget your crutches!' said Mr Edwards.

Afterwards he asked me to join him for a chat. It was interrupted by a member of staff who announced that a patient had just arrived. A woman came in with a toddler aged about three. Mr Edwards had given healing to the youngster several months earlier for a severe nervous condition that had made the child constantly cling to her mother and scream if anyone else came near. 'Now look at her!' said the mother. Mr Edwards chuckled to see the youngster chatting to just about everyone in the room. The mother then explained that during a recent hospital visit it was discovered that the child had a hole in the heart and the doctors predicted that she only had months to live. 'Let's see what we can do' he replied and then lifted the infant on his knee.

At that point I started to move away but Mr Edwards said 'Stay here. Now put your left hand over her heart.' I did so and felt her little heart pounding at what seemed like twice the rate of a normal heartbeat. He then placed his right hand over mine and said 'Let's try and restore a normal heartbeat'. Within seconds the racing heart, which moments earlier seemed destined to burn itself out within a few months, gradually slowed down to a normal rhythm. The mother thanked Mr Edwards profusely, and as he put the child down he must have noticed an awe-struck expression on my face. He responded in his characteristic no-nonsense but humble manner by saying laughingly 'Come on. Let's have a cup of tea !'

I cannot claim to have known Harry Edwards well, but I later met a number of healers and mediums who had known him for years. They all said that, as well as being a great healer, Harry Edwards was a man of true faith and humility. Dr. George King during his early lectures on the science of spiritual healing often referred to him in a very complimentary manner. He stated that two great scientists, Lord Lister and Louis Pasteur, worked through him and that it was easy to see. Easy for Dr. King, perhaps, but not so easy for people like me!