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The Jedi Healer
Jedi Healers were specialized Jedi that aimed to use the Force to heal instead of (or in addition to) using it in combat. Known Jedi healers were Barriss Offee, Stass Allie and T'ra Saa.
They were stationed at the Jedi Temple's Jedi Medical Corps Infirmary. At least some of them were members of the Circle of Jedi Healers.
Cilghal, a Calamarian discovered to be Force Sensitive by Leia Organa Solo, was the first Healer of the New Jedi Order. Tekli, her padawan, also praticed as a Jedi Healer, including work as a battlefield medic during the Mission to Myrkr.
The skill mastered by Jedi Healer is the FORCE HEALING or HEALTH.It permits to accelerate the natural healing process.
Initial levels required meditation, but greater aptitude usually granted faster regeneration, without need of meditation. Greater levels of attainment were also able to mend far more severe injuries, even complete damage to flesh and bone, even going as far as to mend internal damage, such as damage to the heart, lungs and so forth. This was shown in a more perverse form by Darth Vader, but utilized by the most skilled of Jedi. It was unlikely, however, that this power was able to regenerate lost matter, as neither Luke Skywalker nor Darth Vader utilized the ability to replace their severed limbs.
There is a variant requiring immense knowledge of the dark side of the Force that is known as Force Heal. It is the ability to create, maintain, or save life by the influencing of midi-chlorians to a certain degree. Darth Plagueis stated that a child born of this power would be the embodiment of the force. Plagueis could have used this power to create Anakin Skywalker, but this has never been proven. Darth Plagueis is the only person known to have complete control over this power, although Darth Sidious, the apprentice of Plagueis, and the man to whom the knowledge of this power was passed, may have had access to this technique. It is questionable whether Darth Sidious was either capable of, or had access to, an application of this power maintaining life indefinitely; his comments to the newly-appointed Darth Vader would seem to suggest otherwise.
Jedi Healers used this power to diagnose and treat the ailments of their patients. A notable case of this use of Force Healing was Cilghal using the Force to cure Mon Mothma of a molecular poison that was incurable by conventional means, although strictly speaking the method of healing involved Cilghal's Force-powered detection and removal of the nanomachines afflicting Mon Mothma rather than a direct application of Force energy against the damaged cells themselves.
Obi-Wan Kenobi used a basic form of this ability on Luke Skywalker after his confrontation with the Tusken Raiders on Tatooine in 0 BBY.
The Children of the Green Planet may have all possessed this technique.
The Jedi of the New Jedi Order use this ability in the form of a healing trance.
In Shadows of the Empire, Vader experimented with Force Healing in an alternate form, in which meditation on anger and frustration at his life and circumstances would allow his lungs to function without the aid of his hyperbaric chamber or his life support suit. Having said that it appears to have been a perversion of true healing in that the damaged alveoli of his lungs did not heal permanently, but rather seemed only to return to a functional state as long as the power of the Dark Side was focused through his anger. He only managed to maintain this power for a brief time; the pleasure he received from the healing process caused a break in his concentration?although Vader's perception was that joy and happiness poisoned the Dark Side's power, and as such sabotaged the temporary healing the technique afforded. However, he perceived that, with practice and willpower, he would eventually no longer be constricted by his life support system.
In KotOR 2, another Dark Side healing technique (or variant of the power) that was unique to Darth Sion was revealed. Sion could focus on his pain and recover from grievous wounds or death (or close to it as he could get with his power) nearly instantly, similar to what Vader would do later. Sion's capability with this technique was nearly totally perfect; and to accomplish this, he would channel the force constantly allowing the technique to always be in place. His Force-channeling ability was demonstrated with his ability to retain his body's cohesion. Sion died only when the Jedi Exile sowed doubt in Sion's mind, and convinced him that his Force-dependant life was not worth living.
They were stationed at the Jedi Temple's Jedi Medical Corps Infirmary. At least some of them were members of the Circle of Jedi Healers.
Cilghal, a Calamarian discovered to be Force Sensitive by Leia Organa Solo, was the first Healer of the New Jedi Order. Tekli, her padawan, also praticed as a Jedi Healer, including work as a battlefield medic during the Mission to Myrkr.
The skill mastered by Jedi Healer is the FORCE HEALING or HEALTH.It permits to accelerate the natural healing process.
Initial levels required meditation, but greater aptitude usually granted faster regeneration, without need of meditation. Greater levels of attainment were also able to mend far more severe injuries, even complete damage to flesh and bone, even going as far as to mend internal damage, such as damage to the heart, lungs and so forth. This was shown in a more perverse form by Darth Vader, but utilized by the most skilled of Jedi. It was unlikely, however, that this power was able to regenerate lost matter, as neither Luke Skywalker nor Darth Vader utilized the ability to replace their severed limbs.
There is a variant requiring immense knowledge of the dark side of the Force that is known as Force Heal. It is the ability to create, maintain, or save life by the influencing of midi-chlorians to a certain degree. Darth Plagueis stated that a child born of this power would be the embodiment of the force. Plagueis could have used this power to create Anakin Skywalker, but this has never been proven. Darth Plagueis is the only person known to have complete control over this power, although Darth Sidious, the apprentice of Plagueis, and the man to whom the knowledge of this power was passed, may have had access to this technique. It is questionable whether Darth Sidious was either capable of, or had access to, an application of this power maintaining life indefinitely; his comments to the newly-appointed Darth Vader would seem to suggest otherwise.
Jedi Healers used this power to diagnose and treat the ailments of their patients. A notable case of this use of Force Healing was Cilghal using the Force to cure Mon Mothma of a molecular poison that was incurable by conventional means, although strictly speaking the method of healing involved Cilghal's Force-powered detection and removal of the nanomachines afflicting Mon Mothma rather than a direct application of Force energy against the damaged cells themselves.
Obi-Wan Kenobi used a basic form of this ability on Luke Skywalker after his confrontation with the Tusken Raiders on Tatooine in 0 BBY.
The Children of the Green Planet may have all possessed this technique.
The Jedi of the New Jedi Order use this ability in the form of a healing trance.
In Shadows of the Empire, Vader experimented with Force Healing in an alternate form, in which meditation on anger and frustration at his life and circumstances would allow his lungs to function without the aid of his hyperbaric chamber or his life support suit. Having said that it appears to have been a perversion of true healing in that the damaged alveoli of his lungs did not heal permanently, but rather seemed only to return to a functional state as long as the power of the Dark Side was focused through his anger. He only managed to maintain this power for a brief time; the pleasure he received from the healing process caused a break in his concentration?although Vader's perception was that joy and happiness poisoned the Dark Side's power, and as such sabotaged the temporary healing the technique afforded. However, he perceived that, with practice and willpower, he would eventually no longer be constricted by his life support system.
In KotOR 2, another Dark Side healing technique (or variant of the power) that was unique to Darth Sion was revealed. Sion could focus on his pain and recover from grievous wounds or death (or close to it as he could get with his power) nearly instantly, similar to what Vader would do later. Sion's capability with this technique was nearly totally perfect; and to accomplish this, he would channel the force constantly allowing the technique to always be in place. His Force-channeling ability was demonstrated with his ability to retain his body's cohesion. Sion died only when the Jedi Exile sowed doubt in Sion's mind, and convinced him that his Force-dependant life was not worth living.
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