Pioneer British spiritual healer, whose profession commenced in 1929 after a surgeon warned that his wife would die from inoperable cancer within six months. A Spiritualist friend suggested psychic healing, and during a Spiritualist séance, a spirit guide informed Parish that he was a natural healer and would cure his own wife.
Parish did in fact effect a cure within nine months, after which he began regularly to practice as a healer. Over seventeen years he received more than 500,000 letters of thanks from grateful patients, many of whom had been declared incurable by doctors. He became popularly known as "Parish the Healer." He died in January 1946.
Sources:
Barbanell, Maurice. Parish the Healer. London: Psychic Book Club, 1938.
