craazyman
06-16-2007, 03:44 PM
Strange days, strange developments, cooincidences or synchronicities, I don't know. Probably just good luck. I had wanted to re-read Patrick Harpur's "Daemonic Reality" (I saw that Daniel also cited this book favorably in 2012), a magnificently lucid and elegantly written work whose title about sums up its contents, which are conveyed with an elegant directness of expression that, to me, is a surpreme benchmark of a top-notch writer. If that one wasn't available, I wanted to get a copy of Mr. Harpur's other book, on the Imagination, which I have yet to read. The local county library here in Virginia didn't have a copy of either (no surprise there).
My search revealed another author named Mr. Harpur, who worked in a related territory apparently--Tom Harpur, a Canadian and former Anglican clergyman turned journalist, whose book "The Uncommon Touch" about faith healing caught my eye. Well, why not. I checked it out.
Here was another literary Harpur who hit what he aimed it. The book was a fascinating survey of healing by "laying on of hands", both historical background, as in the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles, and contemporary practitioners. Tom Harpur concluded that something quite real is going on, the western medicine would do well to study. Although he's no gullible new age quack pusher either. He's a serious journalist.
One contemporary healer he mentioned was a Mr. Mietek Wirkus, a Pole by birth who emigrated to the U.S. in 1985. Mr. Wirkus, born in 1937, is a world-famous bio-energy healer with a long track record of remarkable healings going back to his work in Poland, and apparently a quiet and humble soul in real life, who has sought no publicity or fame and turned down many invitations for TV appearances. Mr. Harpur recounts many examples of Mr. Wirkus' healings. When the book was published in the early 1990s, Mr. Wirkus worked out of Bethesda, Maryland, about 10 miles from where I am staying. I looked him up on the internet and found that he still does.
Without going into great detail, job stress and life stress have taken a rough toll on me in recent years. From the perspective of internal allopathic medicine (traditional medicine) I'm in very good health, but I know that I've been worn out, utterly, and it has taken a hard toll on my emotional life and presented a number of somatic complaints that defy any traditional diagnosis. In other words, I'm a prime candidate for Lexapro or one of the anti-depressants, which so far I've refused to take, favoring exercise, nutrition, yoga (when I can discipline myself) etc.
I called Mr. Wirkus office and, to me incredibly, got an appointment for a healing session for the following Friday (last Friday). The narrative here understates, I think, the remarkable sequence of events that introduced me to his existance and placed me in his office in such a short time frame.
The experience was quite remarkable. His office is a modest two room affair in a well-groomed office park in Bethesda, MD--a reception room and his office. He saw me promptly at the appointed time. He had no air of officiousness or granduer about him at all. He radiated a quietude and humility and he simply asked me in a friendly voice why I was there. I told him as best I could. He seemed to understand and interrupted me and said "OK, stand up here and get comfortable." So I stood up in the center of the office. He put has hands a few inches from my head and worked down both sides of my body and around back, and in front, breathing quietly but forcefully. I didn't know whether to engage him in conversation or just keep quite. I decided to keep quiet and closed me eyes and stood as still as I could. I was frankly, a little nervous for some reason.
This went on for about 12 minutes. He didn't say a word. I could feel a heat raidating from his hands that I assumed was due to the proximity to my body (about 3 or 4 inches.) Although he also backed up and made hand movements 2 or 3 feet in front of me too. There were times when I felt a release of tension that tried to take the form of a hysterical laughter, but out of politeness and good manners I checked the instinct.
Then he said, "OK" and stopped. He had a big, kind smile on his face and when he looked at me it almost seemed that his eyes were hidden inside indistinct pools of light. I forgot his exact words, but he told me my heart chakra was wide open and that I am a very kind person. He seemed to approve of me existentially. But the chakra below it was totally blocked, he said. He also said I had some blockages in the throat chakra (Some people have you by the throat, he said, sort of humourosly). He asked me what I felt and I told him the heat of his hands. He said, "That was energy" and he held his hands up as if to say they have no heat.
He told me I'd be tired for the rest of the day and that I might feel like crying. To be honest, I sort of did already, and if I'm wasn't so sociallized to be a tough alpha male SOB, I probably would have.
It's hard to describe how I felt the remainder of the day, and now, still. Sort of like I've taken several Zanax. Walking out of there my mind was clear and quiet and my vision seemd sharp and clear, with an awareness of light and space that seemed to feel like I'd had my windshield cleaned. Certainly something interesting happened there, and it's still with me.
I have another session next Friday.
This is his website: http://www.mietekwirkus.com/bioenergy.html
He invited me to sign up for his classes and to learn how to protect myself and my energy. Yes, he sounds to a cynical mind a little like a self-promoter. But not in reality, not at all, not at all. I know self-promoters and cynics, I can feel them before I see them. This man felt to me like a living doorway, a passage way, that's the best I can describe it. I might actually take a class, if I can fit it in to my own self-promotion and cash flow chasing. LOL. Seriously, I may just do it.
My search revealed another author named Mr. Harpur, who worked in a related territory apparently--Tom Harpur, a Canadian and former Anglican clergyman turned journalist, whose book "The Uncommon Touch" about faith healing caught my eye. Well, why not. I checked it out.
Here was another literary Harpur who hit what he aimed it. The book was a fascinating survey of healing by "laying on of hands", both historical background, as in the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles, and contemporary practitioners. Tom Harpur concluded that something quite real is going on, the western medicine would do well to study. Although he's no gullible new age quack pusher either. He's a serious journalist.
One contemporary healer he mentioned was a Mr. Mietek Wirkus, a Pole by birth who emigrated to the U.S. in 1985. Mr. Wirkus, born in 1937, is a world-famous bio-energy healer with a long track record of remarkable healings going back to his work in Poland, and apparently a quiet and humble soul in real life, who has sought no publicity or fame and turned down many invitations for TV appearances. Mr. Harpur recounts many examples of Mr. Wirkus' healings. When the book was published in the early 1990s, Mr. Wirkus worked out of Bethesda, Maryland, about 10 miles from where I am staying. I looked him up on the internet and found that he still does.
Without going into great detail, job stress and life stress have taken a rough toll on me in recent years. From the perspective of internal allopathic medicine (traditional medicine) I'm in very good health, but I know that I've been worn out, utterly, and it has taken a hard toll on my emotional life and presented a number of somatic complaints that defy any traditional diagnosis. In other words, I'm a prime candidate for Lexapro or one of the anti-depressants, which so far I've refused to take, favoring exercise, nutrition, yoga (when I can discipline myself) etc.
I called Mr. Wirkus office and, to me incredibly, got an appointment for a healing session for the following Friday (last Friday). The narrative here understates, I think, the remarkable sequence of events that introduced me to his existance and placed me in his office in such a short time frame.
The experience was quite remarkable. His office is a modest two room affair in a well-groomed office park in Bethesda, MD--a reception room and his office. He saw me promptly at the appointed time. He had no air of officiousness or granduer about him at all. He radiated a quietude and humility and he simply asked me in a friendly voice why I was there. I told him as best I could. He seemed to understand and interrupted me and said "OK, stand up here and get comfortable." So I stood up in the center of the office. He put has hands a few inches from my head and worked down both sides of my body and around back, and in front, breathing quietly but forcefully. I didn't know whether to engage him in conversation or just keep quite. I decided to keep quiet and closed me eyes and stood as still as I could. I was frankly, a little nervous for some reason.
This went on for about 12 minutes. He didn't say a word. I could feel a heat raidating from his hands that I assumed was due to the proximity to my body (about 3 or 4 inches.) Although he also backed up and made hand movements 2 or 3 feet in front of me too. There were times when I felt a release of tension that tried to take the form of a hysterical laughter, but out of politeness and good manners I checked the instinct.
Then he said, "OK" and stopped. He had a big, kind smile on his face and when he looked at me it almost seemed that his eyes were hidden inside indistinct pools of light. I forgot his exact words, but he told me my heart chakra was wide open and that I am a very kind person. He seemed to approve of me existentially. But the chakra below it was totally blocked, he said. He also said I had some blockages in the throat chakra (Some people have you by the throat, he said, sort of humourosly). He asked me what I felt and I told him the heat of his hands. He said, "That was energy" and he held his hands up as if to say they have no heat.
He told me I'd be tired for the rest of the day and that I might feel like crying. To be honest, I sort of did already, and if I'm wasn't so sociallized to be a tough alpha male SOB, I probably would have.
It's hard to describe how I felt the remainder of the day, and now, still. Sort of like I've taken several Zanax. Walking out of there my mind was clear and quiet and my vision seemd sharp and clear, with an awareness of light and space that seemed to feel like I'd had my windshield cleaned. Certainly something interesting happened there, and it's still with me.
I have another session next Friday.
This is his website: http://www.mietekwirkus.com/bioenergy.html
He invited me to sign up for his classes and to learn how to protect myself and my energy. Yes, he sounds to a cynical mind a little like a self-promoter. But not in reality, not at all, not at all. I know self-promoters and cynics, I can feel them before I see them. This man felt to me like a living doorway, a passage way, that's the best I can describe it. I might actually take a class, if I can fit it in to my own self-promotion and cash flow chasing. LOL. Seriously, I may just do it.