Is Spiritual Healing Medically Verifiable?

By Sylke Wagner

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Belief in the good is as much a precondition as the will to become healthy.

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Bruno Groening – Healing through God’s power

     Bruno Groening was born in Danzig, Germany, in 1906, and moved to western Germany as a refugee after World War II. He worked in different jobs before attracting massive attention when, in 1949, he was called to a wealthy family with a totally disabled child and the child made a complete spontaneous recovery from muscular dystrophy. This is when Bruno Groening became famous.

     In the late 1940s and ’50s, “The Miracle Doctor” drew tens of thousands of people to healing services and was featured in newsreels, radio interviews, newspaper articles, and documentary films.
     Bruno Groening said there is no incurable disease. He also said people have just lost touch with what’s natural to human beings, but God’s energy is everywhere. Groening did not preach any particular religion and felt that divine healing energy was available to everyone. He compared human beings to batteries that lose energy through daily use and need to be recharged.
     Groening taught that there is a higher power, a source of vital energy that he called the healing stream. One of the requirements for being healed, according to Groening, is to avoid negative thoughts. “Belief in the good is as much a precondition as the will to become healthy,” he said. “We are surrounded by healing waves, which just need to be picked up.”
     In order to absorb this healing power, a person sits with hands open, palms upward, legs and arms uncrossed.
     Bruno Groening said it is important to tune into the healing stream every day, recharging one’s energy while focusing on positive, pleasant thoughts. He also urged people not to just take his word for it, but to put his teachings to the test. “Don’t be gullible. Convince yourselves,” he said.

Healing on the Spiritual Path – a simple, natural way for help and healing for everyone

     Today, nearly fifty years after his death, the teachings and practices of Bruno Groening, a simple blue-collar German man who helped thousands of people, are being carried on around the world.
     Since 1992, a group of physicians from sixty nations, the Medical Scientific Group (MWF), led by Dr. Gerhard Blaettner, M.D., of Germany, has meticulously documented thousands of cases of physical healings attributed to Groening’s teachings.

     The skilled health professionals who work in the MWF do so without compensation, as a gesture of thanks for the healing which they, or others, have received. It is their wish that as many as possible of their colleagues come to share their way of thinking and convince themselves that spiritual healing through the teachings of Bruno Groening offers them new ideas—or a way of healing.
     Spiritual healing is a phenomenon which scientifically oriented people often find difficult to accept without hesitation because it has no rational, intellectual explanation and therefore seems to be wrapped in an aura of mystery. This is where the work of the MWF takes over. A medical evaluation of the case histories submitted to them aims to make the healings understandable. This includes the documentation of medical reports made before the healings (when these are available) as well as follow-up examinations made by a panel of independent doctors. A detailed compilation of more than two hundred healings, and films of Groening’s miraculous healings are included at the official Bruno Groening Web site, www.bruno-groening.org/english.

     The Bruno Groening Circle of Friends (which was formed to preserve Groening’s legacy for posterity and offering people the possibility of obtaining help and healing) asserts that there are no obligations or pressures, financial or otherwise, on people who participate. All activities in the Bruno Groening Circle of Friends are free of charge. All expenses are met by voluntary contributions. Everybody can leave the circle at any time. There are no financial or legal liabilities. No medical advice, consultation, examination, or treatment is given, advised against, or interfered with.
     ”There are too many negative influences around us”, one Friend of Bruno Groening said, citing television commercials for pills and medication, ads for hospital treatments, and everyday comments from people who talk about illnesses. “It is important to have positive thoughts and to let go of negative thoughts. Negative thoughts and negative energy can cause disease. God’s energy can overcome anything, but there’s a struggle between negative and positive energy.”

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Dr. Michele Galante, a licensed medical doctor, and Mrs. Adeline Weiss, who has herself received healings, and who both belong to the Bruno Groening Circle of Friends, are giving lectures in the Chicago region explaining and demonstrating Groening’s teachings. They will give talks in Chicago, Willow Springs, Northfield, Elmhurst, and Rockford from June 23 through 28, 2008. Presentations at all locations will be given in English and German, and in Bulgarian and Polish at two of the Chicago locations. For more information, contact 708-839-2334 (English) or 773-622-9493 (Polish), and visit the website, www.bruno-groening.org/English and click the Lectures link.

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