Impressive Healings Are Scientifically Documented

Mind over matter. Is this just an old saying, or wishful thinking--or is it really possible? Like so many things in life, it depends on the individual point of view. For many, modern medicine is in some ways headed for disaster; for others, it is only a matter of adequate funding and the necessary research--particularly in genetic engineering--for illness to be conquered. Many physicians are meanwhile perplexed. They have often been faced with the limits of the medically feasible. They have lost belief in the salvation that is supposed to come from unlimited research and they can hardly carry out their calling any more.

The system is ailing

"Natural physicians" or healing practitioners are expanding their sphere of influence only hesitatingly. Still, a change of thinking is becoming more and more common on all levels. The old idea, "the more funding, the better the health" isn't working any more. Health insurance plans can hardly cover the overwhelming costs, while at the same time it is very difficult for them to raise their fees. They are sounding the alarm. "If politics doesn't bring about serious policy changes, then it is only a matter of time before the health system is seriously damaged," said Herbert Rebscher, chairman of the Association of Salaried Employees' Health Insurance Plans to the "Berliner Zeitung". Yet, how do you put an end to the misery?

Body and soul are one

Patients who have been informed that there is nothing more than can be done start to wonder whether there isn't an alternative to "incurable". But what would it be? Physicians, too, seek ways to be able to really help their patients. But they hardly learn anything in their medical training about alternatives to traditional medicine. With a little luck they hear something about the "vis vitalis" or "life power" in their lectures on the discipline "History of Medicine". For modern medicine, this has become a relic of earlier centuries. Its existence is not a part of the subject matter learned by today's medical student. He usually no longer has access to the power of life and no longer knows its laws. "True science and true religion are one," a great thinker once said. Man cannot be separated into soul and body. They are deeply intertwined. The significance of the mental-spiritual attitude of a person for the health of his body is becoming ever more clear through psychosomatic medicine and the findings of a new sub-discipline of medicine, psychoneuroimmunology. Nevertheless, these fundamental relationships are all too often ignored, and patients are beaten with diagnoses and baneful prophecies concerning the course of illnesses. Yet the signs of a new time requiring a new way of thinking are becoming ever more evident.

How it all started

Matthias Kamp (39), a physician from Hamburg, was himself interested in increasing his knowledge of alternative methods of healing and therefore concerned himself with the subject of spiritual healing. At a meeting of the Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends he learned how one can take up a force called the "divine healing power". However, he quickly noticed that what was easy for children presented difficulties for him as an intellectually-oriented adult. But when he realized that this power, which you cannot see or touch, is not to be perceived through the head, but rather through the heart, he could also experience it. A pleasant, strong flowing, a tingling in his whole body, became more and more perceptible. It was something that caused a feeling of invigoration and well-being to rise up in him. He had never before experienced such a thing.

Cannot be explained by reason alone

Bruno Gröning, who became known in Germany in the fifties for the astonishing healings that occured during his lectures, called this force that can heal and help people the "divine power" or the "Healing Stream". It is supposed to be abundantly available for everyone; you just have to learn how to open yourself up to it. You cannot see or touch it, but it is perceptible through feeling. Gröning didn't want to be regarded as a healer, and emphasized time and again that no human being can heal. According to Gröning, "God is the great physician," and a human being can only be a mediator of the force that brings about the healing.

The founding of the physician's group

Convinced through personal experience, Kamp investigated with a colleague the healings that had been reported in the Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends. Mr R. (70) suffered from continuous headaches for 25 years. He also had severe chronic lumbago due to the degenerative process of his invertebral discs, heart pains, angina pectoris after the slightest physical exertion, pains from a lung contusion - an old war injury - a chronic gastric ulcer and a disturbed sleeping pattern. After making contact with the teachings of Bruno Gröning and absorbing the healing stream he was spontaneously healed from all his complaints. In the postinvestigation all signs of a circulatory disturbance of the heart had disappeared in the exercise electrocardiogram after the healing. Mr. R. began to walk in the moutains again. These and other inexplicable regressions of illnesses became the basis for the foundation of an international specialists organisation. In 1992 Kamp founded with several other physicians and medical professionals of the Circle of Friends the Medical Scientific Group (MWF). Now over 5,000 members of healing professions, among them hundreds of physicians, participate in this physician's group. In the year 2000 the volunteer physicians and healing practitioners reported in over 400 lectures in over 60 countries on their experiences with spiritual healing through the teachings of Bruno Gröning. The Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends is one of the largest associations for spiritual healing in the world.

Yet the physicians of the MWF are not only active with international lectures. The second task of the specialists of the MWF is the recording, verification, medical documention and scientific evaluation of the healings which take place.

The systematic recording of the Success Reports

The written recording of healings in the form of so-called "Success Reports" has proven time and again to be the indispensable foundation of the entire work of the MWF. It is especially important for people who have suffered for decades from chronic ailments and have tried everything to find healing--only to finally give up hope--that they regain trust and belief in their health. A Success Report describing the healing of a similar ailment can be a big help in this regard. The value of a person's faith is often underestimated. It is irresponsible to take away all hope from a patient, even in the case of "terminal" illnesses. Nothing paralyses more the effect of the healing forces than when a person gives up hope. The possibility of a healing can neither be arranged nor promised. It is always a only matter of "can be". Statistics on the possibility of healing are understandably impossible, since such studies cannot be carried out. The time spans leading up to a healing vary too greatly. Thus, spontaneous healings are observed, while others take weeks or months. In one case the illness may disappear immediately, while in another it may take years; in other cases there may be no healing at all. As important as scientifically-based research in this area may be, most of the knowledge about the "why" of an occurrence or non-occurrence of healing remains accessible only to a spiritual, intuitive, higher discernment. In the final analysis, man will never be able to be the "doer" here, for the gift of healing lies in the hands of the Giver of Life.

To document the work of God

The Success Report is recorded on the analogy of the anamnesis or medical history, with detailed description of the person's condition before absorption of the healing power and at the time of the contact with the teachings of Bruno Gröning, and of the course of the healing. The content of the recorded reports are inspected by physicians as well as by laymen. A summary is prepared in a separate working group, and--insofar as possible--documentation in the form of medical findings and witness reports is introduced. A central working group in Hamburg carries out the archival work. In the case of some reports, a short, easily understandable medical commentary is added to render the course of the illness more clear from a medical point of view.

The laws of healing

Gröning always pointed out that the effect of the healing power is subject to certain laws. Thus, reactions can occur that seem to be like a worsening of the earlier syndrome. He spoke about a cleansing and reversal process that he called "regulations".

Mrs D. M. (35) suffered from rheumatoid arthritis (rheumatism). Increasing pains, swollen joints and an incurvation of her hands marked the progression of the illness which antirheumatic preparations could not stop.

After absorbing the energy in the beginning there was increased pain and swelling of her joints. Everything seemed to be worser. Then all the symptoms of illness disappeared altogether. In an nine-year follow-up period no relapse has occurred. The healing is also impressively evident in laboratory tests.

These reactions, especially, which clearly document the orderly effect of a higher force, are carefully described during the recording of the Success Report. Interestingly, Paracelsus, the great physician of the early modern age, knew this cleansing process as an early sign of healing, "He who wants to become well must realize that it doesn't happen without pain (. . .) and just as we obtain our food through our sweat, it is the same here--in our sweat, we are cured of illness."

Homeopathy, too, speaks of a "initial worsening" that often precedes the healing. Spiritual healing, as it comes about on a large number of people in the Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends, has nothing to do with mysticism. There is nothing mysterious, nor any miracles. People receive the connection to a force that was always there for them--they have only forgotten about it.

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