Among those he claims to have helped are severe migraine sufferers, stroke victims and people with cancer and AIDS.
While he finds his vocation most rewarding, David says he can understand people’s cynicism. After all, he insists it isn’t’ him performing the healing, rather the ghosts of an English Doctor and nurse from the 1800’s.
His mysterious circle of healers also includes deceased blue robed nursing nuns and the guiding spirit an American Indian chief.
“I'm not a quack” laughs David good naturedly. “What people need to realize is the spiritual world is more real than the physical world. We live in an illusion, and that real world is over there. “That’s where the healing power comes from”

For much of his young life, David kept being told he was a healer. “It was like I was being maneuvered and directed into this,” he says. “I must admit I didn’t know much about it, but people kept telling me that I had this gift. “A clairvoyant friend of mine said, ‘You’re definitely a healer, that’s what your path is, that’s what you’re supposed to be doing’.” So, David decided to pursue his “undeniable path” and returned to England, where healing was being recognized as legitimate therapy by the country’s health authorities.
“Another psychic friend told me, “when you go to England, you will meet an older man who will take you under his wing and he’ll look after you” he recalls.
Sure enough, David had a chance encounter with a man named Ron Broadbent who, it turned out, ran a healing centre in Bromley, Kent, Near London.
”He was the ‘older man’ I’d been told about, “ David says. “So I went to work with him to learn more about healing. Within a month he said to me, ‘You don’t need to work with anyone…you already know what to do.’ And I did really. So I set about working in hospitals, particularly with cancer patients and people with AIDS.”

David is not the only one in his family with healing power. He works closely with his cousin Penny Barry, who says she has the ability to see and hear his spiritual guides. “Penny has actually seen my doctor, who had told her his name is Charles Roberts,” David says. “We managed to trace Charles back to St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, where he worked s the head physician for about 10 years. He was ahead of his time. “The nurse in our healing circle also worked with Dr Roberts, and her name is Janet.”
David is quick to point out that it’s his spiritual guides who perform the healing, not him. “I'm just the vehicle in between the link between the source and the patient,” he says.

Often when I lay my hands on a person, they tell me my hands feel very hot. But I don’t generally feel anything, so it’s not my energy they’re receiving. In fact, I don’t really need to talk to a patient to find out background information, as it’s not me doing the healing. My guys upstairs already know what’s going on.”
However, while David says he has helped many, Penny laments that people often seek David’s healing service when their condition is already too far deteriorated.
”Some people come wanting a miracle,” she says. “That’s puts us in a very compromising position…we get called quacks because we didn’t provide that miracle cure.”
David hopes that one day the Australian Medical Association will embrace the idea of doctors and healers working together, but can understand why a lot of doctors wouldn’t acknowledge healers.
”Doctors have done six year’s study at medical school to get where they are, whereas anybody can do a six week course and claim to be a healer or counselor, “he says. “There should be a lot more regulation of people claiming to be healers. They should have qualifications and should be tested. There’s a lot out there preying on very vulnerable and gullible people –

The pile of letters of thanks on David’s coffee table at his Perth home is testimony to the positive influence his healing service has had on countless lives.
One of David’s clients, Carolyn Sheppard, 59, swears that years of suffering with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) have dissipated after a healing session with him.
“My attacks are in t eh form of severe stomach pain that immobilizes me for most of the day. As a child I endured endless tests and at 21 I was seeing a specialist, all to no avail.”
Then Carolyn saw David on TV in 2003 and booked in for Treatment. “Amazingly, I could still feel the imprint and heat from David’s hand for the next 24 hours after the first session, she says. “Within two to three days, there was a dramatic lifting of my spirits and energy levels. It felt like a recharging of my batteries, a clearing of all emotional blockages. “Ive since had two mild attacks, but they were 50% less painful compared to the full blown attacks.”

By Glen Williams – Woman’s Day Magazine January 16th 2006