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  • Mysterious Ways

    Q&A   Charlie Goldsmith

    Jul 25, 2018 5 minutes

    Are some of us born with unique spiritual gifts? At 18, Charlie Goldsmith says, he discovered he could inexplicably ease the pain and ailments of people he barely knew, a realization that led him to become a healer. Now the 37-year-old Australian is starring in TLC’s The Healer. He works full time as an entrepreneur and doesn’t charge for healings. Instead, he wants to be studied by science to determine how healers—who have a long tradition in the faith community—can assist traditional medicine. He recently spoke to Mysterious Ways about his gift and what science has to say about it.

    How did your gift first make itself known?

    I was always a sensitive and intuitive kid. In 1999, I graduated high school and my father sent

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