On Perseverance: Summer Solstice Round Up: Signs of Contact with Sacred Fire # 9a in Series
As summer solstice draws near, I plan to end this series. This is the time of year that we celebrate the power of the unconquerable sun, the greater fire from which our little flames are sparks.
In my earlier posts I made the suggestion that our goal as human beings should in some way be linked with an awareness that a power beyond the physical body is the bedrock of our lives.
To be meaningful, life must be seen as part of a Greater Mystery. The relationship between the conscious mind and this Presence I have called the Sacred Fire metaphorically is one of unconditional love and absolute trustworthiness.
I have shown that our insights and inventions arise when we connect with this source.
In the next postings I give three examples of individuals who have persisted in honoring this friendship and what it did in their lives. Here is the first example:
During the Holocaust, Nazi soldiers grilled a seventeen-year-old Dutchman. When Jack Schwarz failed to reveal secrets about his two-year-involvement with the resistance movement, the soldiers whipped him with steel-hook-equipped cat-o--nine-tails. Then Jack sprawled on the ground, swimming in the pool of his own blood. He moved his head and looking into the torturers eyes said: "Ich liebe dich," I love you.
Surprised the Nazi tormentor decided to cover Jack with his shirt. The German noticed that the wounds were healing right before his eyes. The bleeding had stopped.
Jack Schwarz would come to the United States of America where he was the subject of many scientific studies. The photo above was taken at the Menninger Foundation, in the Research Unit of Dr. Elmer Green, in Topeka, Kansas. Jack Schwarz was demonstrating the power of the mind over the body on a bed of nails.
It was Jack Schwarz, more than anybody else, who showed convincingly under laboratory conditions that the human mind can control the body's response. But Jack was able to do this after practising yoga and reading Eastern scriptures extensively.
He showed the world that "All of your body is in your mind, but not all of your mind is in your body."
Aletheia Psycho-Physical Foundation
Comments
Wow. Amazing.
Posted by: Debby | June 20, 2008 08:40 AM