C. Mamo Kim is a Native Hawaiian leader and political activist in Hawai'i. In 1986 she began healing people of diseases from which their doctors had already pronounced they would be imminently dying or chronically doomed to suffer. By merely placing her hands on or near the body she was able to completely reverse the diseases or chronic illness they had. These experiences led her to question the Western concept of health and healing and the way she was raised to think of it. This article presents an inquiry that is based on her encounter or lived experience with a kind of knowing that is not necessarily rational or linear, in a Western framework of intelligibility. She calls this "knowing: and the healing that springs forth from it, "spiritual". In the literature and oral traditions of many people, the term "spiritual" is used for the kind of "knowing" that she is referring to. In this article Kim writes that through her research, she has grown stronger in the conviction that what she has experienced of the spiritual healing phenomenon is a regularly occurring "human" phenomenon not necessarily bound to one culture, but informed by many cultures. She says that although everyone is not proficient in this particular skill set, this particular kind of "knowing" can be refined with training and practice. Kim then asks herself: What forces were in play that influenced her to self-repress and self-deny to abnormalize and pathologize herself instead of accepting and welcoming her experiences as a gift or a skill?