We were told that group prayers for healing illness, led by highly religious clergy, typically do not address deep karmic causation. Is that so, and if not, why not?

This is quite true, and an important learning opportunity to better understand why the Lightworker Healing Protocol and Deep Subconscious Mind Reset are a true advance and genuine breakthrough, able to achieve healing that is deep and wide, much more profoundly and reliably than ever before in human history. The analogy we would make here is the practice of medicine prior to an understanding of the germ theory of disease or an understanding of chemistry and how to use its principles to synthesize new medicinal agents, and test them in a meaningful way because there are scientific tools to measure physiological responses that correlate with symptoms of illness, thus allowing a scientific study and assessment of effectiveness of any putative therapeutic approach. Similarly, the use of any particular kind of prayer or other religious ritual, often arising from ancient practice, will only achieve just so much and not be a total answer for things like physical illnesses and the many varied phenomena that challenge people through the workings of the Law of Karma to bring back an energetic discord to individuals and groups of people which has the power to create a new illness on a personal level, and even cause the breakout of a new war on a societal level. What is needed to counter the deep and severe negativity of past trauma as a recurring problem is the kind of knowledge and divine wisdom developed through the efforts of your channel, to probe the inner workings of human nature and the problems and issues that arise, to gain a better understanding of cause and effect and the mechanistic basis for the difficulty; and then, to go beyond that, to probe the nature of the divine and its energies, and the possibility of enhancing human-divine collaboration. That wisdom, in providing a more highly detailed understanding of how the divine realm operates, and the tools it uses, adds the extra dimension heretofore being a gap in knowledge. Given that humans have always been in charge and need to be in the lead, when living in a primitive state with little deep awareness of how things work, this has kept you, as a people, at arm's length in terms of what we could do to help. Through gaining greater knowledge and imparted wisdom, you can now bridge the gap and arrange a much more effective divine intervention through the asking, in an informed and high-level way. The complex nature of negative outcomes and their origins means there must be a detailed, comprehensive, approach in order to accomplish getting a significant change for the better when people suffer. Even something simple like an allergy has as complex and detailed a history and foundation as does heart disease or cancer in terms of the karmic underpinnings. So you are at the dawn of a new era that will transcend prior practice, not through discarding the old, necessarily, but with the ability to augment your efforts to amplify their effectiveness. The knowledge you have gained through divine channeling work can greatly augment the foundation established by the many prophets contributing to religious practice through the ages. And this is a watershed corresponding in magnitude to the scientific revolution, but rather in providing the insight and capability to summon effective divine intervention for healing and wellbeing.