“George Carlin himself was lost and broken in many periods of his life. He got distracted with drugs and alcohol, like so many of our kin. We are probably fortunate that so very few of us can “read peoples’ minds.” His must have been an awful mess, at times.
 
Carlin went into rehab in his late 60s “because I used too much wine and Vicodin.” George’s mind was restored and renewed several times over – mostly through his own means. That is the case with many of us. But, there remain those whose minds seem beyond recovery. If we could draw the mental vortices in which they live and move, theirs would be disturbing if not downright scary.

We have been seeking a broader, clearer picture of Losing One’s Mind, Pieces of Mind, and Broken Minds. That clarity can arise even though the Mind is neither material nor visible nor tangible. So, we have asked the reader to use imagination to visualize Mind as well as Losses of Consciousness.

Along the way, we have proposed simple, holistic ways to look at body, mind and soul.
 
• The Body is in the Mind, rather than the reverse.
• The Body fits “normally” in comfort into the field of Mind – like hand in glove.
• Both Body and Mind reside within the subtlest energetic field of Soul.
• All that occurs in the body is ultimately due to Soul-Mind activity.
• Health is determined at Soul-Mind levels.
• Illness results from disturbances at those subtle levels.

Loss of Mind and Consciousness can occur suddenly or insidiously, and pose large challenges. Full Restoration of Mind is daunting and rare in a large portion of the ills we have discussed.

Generally speaking, major mental ills occur after single or repeated episodes in which fear, shock, and similar forces shake and rattle the integrity of the mind. Less dramatic but prolonged stress over time in weakened or hypersensitive beings can cause them to LOSE or BREAK their minds, to greater or lesser degrees.

We must emphasize that FEAR is almost as potent a Force as LOVE. FEAR can be so powerful as to fracture the subtle connections between Soul-Mind and Body. All manner of mental and physical ills – including death, as noted above – can follow on humans being traumatized or simply frightened. Anger, guilt and other negative emotions can also do great damage to human beings over the course of time. These often result in bodily rather than mental ills.

Over the centuries, remedies for dementia have covered a wide spectrum. Too often they have been versions of restraint, even imprisonment. Today, it seems we often restrain the demented and insane with chemicals instead of straitjackets, chains and bars.

Along the way, somewhat enlightened practitioners have occasionally tried “shock therapies” for those who were incapacitated from trauma or fright. Physicians actually endeavored to restore the mentally disturbed through attempted drownings or sudden frights, and the like. Sometimes, such efforts had beneficial results. More often than not they were fruitless, even though the healers appeared to have had some sense of causation of certain mental ills. The results surely depended on the care and concern of the treating persons as well as the karma of the afflicted ones.

Let’s take a breather from our narrative, and give an example of how “counter-shock therapy” can have effect even in the hands of a layperson in a much less traumatic fashion.

The actress Sarah Miles tells in her second memoir Serves Me Right how her assistant had been suffering for days from hiccups which nothing was able to relieve. So: “As I watched poor old Frannie standing there at the window, hiccuping away with her back to me, I suddenly had a brainwave. I crept over to her and, with phenomenal dexterity, slid my hands up her skirt and pulled her knickers right down to the floor. The look of shock on her face was perfect. What an unforgettable matinée that turned out for the pair of us, for it was the day her hiccups left her completely, apparently never to return.”
 
During the past century, “shock” therapies took on much more forceful methods. Those who have experienced them or even seen them administered can be pleased that they have largely passed into history. We refer to what amounted to sometimes violent experiments intended to jolt human brain-minds into sanity. Prominent among them were insulin coma and electroshock therapies.

Insulin coma was a form of  treatment in which patients were repeatedly injected with large doses of insulin in order to produce coma – loss of consciousness – lasting up to weeks of time. Electroshocks produced generalized seizures by passing a direct current through the brain, from milliseconds to a few seconds. Both procedures produce – dissociation – gradual or sudden – of the physical body from its inner core. Medics with their vague “scientific” theories imagined that these shocking treatments would remedy their patients’ mental ills while misunderstanding the nature of human consciousness. Insulin coma and ECT appeared to benefit a small percentage of patients who underwent them. But, they fell into disuse because of their own frightening nature at the same time that powerful psychoactive drugs appeared.

A still more horrendous treatment known as lobotomy had a thankfully brief vogue. Even cruder than insulin or electroshock, lobotomy was a procedure in which nerve pathways were severed in areas of the brain theorized to be the cause of mental disorders. The surgeons selected their operative sites with little “scientific” detail when making their incisions into brain substance.


Rosemary Kennedy, sister of John and Robert and Ted, was one such person subjected to this crude operation. Prior to surgery Rosemary experienced seizures and mood swings and was mentally challenged – especially compared to her siblings. But after surgery at age 23, Rosemary’s mental capacity regressed to that of a two-year-old, she could no longer walk nor speak intelligibly. She was housed in an institution for the rest of her long life.


There always have been better ways. To truly heal Body and Life functions. The powers of Soul and Mind – and Nature – can be tapped, stimulated, quickened rather than attacked or stifled. Over the years, there have been some imaginative systems of treatment for mental ills in the likes of the more severe kinds of dementia. Weir Mitchell, the noted 19th-century American neurologist, offered his “rest cure,” quite similar to many f0rms of spa therapy. Robert Carroll had his “compassionate” sanatorium at the Highlands Hospital in North Carolina at which Zelda Fitzgerald spent many months. Zelda also stayed at Craig House in New York where Jonathan Slocum offered “intensive talk therapy” as well as occupational and recreative activities.


More recently in the 1970s, Leonard Mosher founded an innovative home-like Soteria Project for patients with newly diagnosed schizophrenia. The program was designed to create “an environment that respected and tolerated individual differences and autonomy,” focusing on non-drug treatments in a quiet, calming environment.

Mosher’s premise was that the Soteria patients were not diseased but experiencing personality fragmentation and the loss of sense of self. While psychiatry is still “looking for the magic answer from a pill” for a mental “disease” and attempts to treat for cure, Soteria offered residents dignity and respect, personal touch and most especially the gift of “being with” – being rather than doing.  

The Soteria House and sister facility Emanon limited care to no more than six clients at a time. They were staffed largely by non-professionals and offered patients community activities including yoga, massage, art, and music. They were allowed solitude as needed and safety in the midst of turmoil. Less than ten percent took neuroleptic meds.

Sitting and talking with patients has been of low priority in “usual psychiatric care.” Hospital staff typically are expected to touch patients as little possible while maintaining proper professional relationships. But, creating relationships was a key element of the Soteria program. Touching – gentle physical contact – actually turned out to be an important part of communication at Soteria.

There was a shared view that psychosis could be a positive learning experience. Without drugs, patients could be valued, validated, attended, and empowered. Real relationships with caring individuals in a nonjudgmental, reciprocal, social subsystem opened up possibilities largely unimagined in typical psychiatric institutions.

Soteria closed in 1983 when funding from the National Institutes of Mental Health dried up. That was even after an NIMH committee’s final review concluded that “this project has probably demonstrated that a flexible, community-based, non-drug residential psychosocial program manned by non-professional staff can do as well as a more conventional community mental health programs.” Other studies have suggested that “the Soteria paradigm yields equal, and in certain specific areas, better results in the treatment of people diagnosed with first- or second-episode schizophrenia spectrum disorders (achieving this with considerably lower use of medication) when compared with conventional, medication-based approaches.”

In more recent times, there is supposed to be growing interest in the Soteria approach in Europe, North America, and Australasia. These include Soteria-Israel, the Soteria Network in the UK, McAuliffe House in the USA, and Soteria-Bern in Switzerland.

Soteria adds extra dimensions to the care of the psychotically demented, treats them with respect, and provides humane person-centered attention. It appears to be a large “step up” from typical medication-focused psychiatric intervention. But there are always “better ways” which can be uncovered or discovered.

So, the largest “hands-on” and substantively effective healing center for serious mental ills in modern times produced 50 years of simple yet wonderful results. But, the sanatorium closed decades ago. Moderns have and still expect quick results with most any therapy; which helps explain the development of shock therapies and powerful antipsychotic agents which have held sway in orthodox medicine in psychiatry for generations.

The story of the Still-Hildreth Sanatorium in Macon, Missouri, reads like a modern fairy tale. Still-Hildreth was founded upon the genius of the original osteopath Andrew Taylor Still and guided by two of his sons, Charles and Harry, and one of his students, Arthur Hildreth. The Still-Hildreth Sanatorium had impressive low-cost successes with the depressed, demented and psychotic long before psychoactive drugs became widely used.


Hildreth tried to get to the bottom of things while reaching for cures: “To what are nervous and mental breakdowns due? This cannot be answered in a single word. The one word, however which comes nearest, is ‘strain’ – physical strain, mental strain.
Mental overwork, grief, worry, religious excitement, etc., physical overwork, injury to head or spine, exhaustion from hemorrhage, operations, childbirth, etc., acute and chronic infections, and diseases of metabolism, are causes.

“Physiological crises, such as puberty and menopause, inheritance of nervous instability, toxins or poisons, whether taken as drugs, formed by bacteria, absorbed from sluggish bowels, or formed in the tissues and retained in the blood through failure of elimination – all these are possible factors the production of mental disorders. Of these, heredity is just a predisposing cause.  Nervous instability is all that is inherited. Probably every case is the cumulative result of a number of causes acting in concert.

“Break into the circle of causes. Remove all that are removable. Leave the rest to nature. Thus assisted, she is usually able to ‘come back.’ Such is the philosophy of treatment of Still-Hildreth.”


The regimen at the Still-Hildreth Sanatorium was drugless for most of its years from 1914 to 1968. While also functioning as a local hospital, the Sanatorium consisted of grounds of 270 acres with a main building, an annex, a gymnasium, a pool, a large sun parlor, a library, a music room, two lakes, a boathouse, tennis courts, stables, an archery range, vegetable gardens, an orchard, a greenhouse, and a dairy.
 
The mission of the Sanatorium was to CURE patients of psychiatric disorders, whereas many contemporary and present-day institutions for the mentally ill focus on combatting symptoms with pharmaceuticals and restraints. The atmosphere of the institution promoted cleanliness, courtesy, respect, rest, good food, exercise, group activities, and socialization. The surroundings were cheerful and homey, the treatment dignified in the manner mentioned at Abe Gardens where Glen Campbell lived in his latter days.

Activity, nature, care, and touch via OMT – Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment – were provided in a supportive and inexpensive environment. Patients received OMT at least 3 times a week, and it was described as the “basis of the cure of the patients.” The Sanatorium method was able to return up to 70 percent of patients to full lives in a matter of weeks.

In a later generation, other therapies and psychoactive drugs were introduced into the regimes of patients of some of the attending physicians. Those doctors chose medications over personal touch. That change was the beginning of the end for the Sanatorium.  
 
Osteopathic and orthodox approaches to medicine and psychiatry have been two different horses. Orthodox – allopathic medicine has long relied on pharmaceuticals to “combat” illness and disease. In the modern era, the advent of powerful drugs beginning with Thorazine appeared to “Do Battle” with all manner of mental disorders. They and their descendants do produce significant mental changes – as they artificially manipulate the mind-body connection. Inevitably they also produce wide-ranging side and ill effects without ever coming close to touching the real problem.

There are better, simpler, as well as less expensive, dramatic and dangerous means to approach mental disorders – and even to heal them, as demonstrated at the Still-Hildreth Sanatorium. Rather than combat symptoms, they quite naturally help to rebuild tattered minds, to restore lost functions, to heal broken beings – a manner similar to how Nature does quite invisibly and gently over time with broken bones. Those means allow mind and body to realign and coordinate in health. Nature needs to be given time and space and human support for Her work of restoration. Why can’t we act similarly with cracked and corrupted minds?

Paradoxically, medical practice to this day turns to Nature as the Healer of Last Resort. “It’s in Nature’s (God’s) hands now.” But, shouldn’t Nature, which is the Handmaiden of God and the Real Healer, be called upon first, last and always. The greatest of human healers have always consulted and bowed to Nature in their attempts to bring forth health and healing.


Our fundamental aim is to get lost minds back in their rightful bodies again – meshed flowingly and comfortably.

We now make suggestions for practices which most anyone – even the reader – can do. They are akin to those used at Soteria and the Still-Hildreth Sanatarium, decades ago. But, they do not require degrees or money to be put to use. The means we suggest are simple and gentle, and support Nature’s own ongoing efforts to restore and revitalize human minds and bodies. Success is not guaranteed, but there will certainly be no adverse side effects.

These practices can be readily undertaken to aid the demented, disturbed and distracted. They are not specific, “scientific” one-on-one treatments. But, they can join forces with each other to heal all manner of ills – especially mental ones which are our particular focus. They can also help make healthy beings healthier.

Please remember: Those with sick minds are often hard to motivate and may not respond to reason. Words often don’t get through and hold meaning for them. That is why the means outlined require little or no talking. While gentle, supportive words can be helpful, these wordless methods go beyond the conscious mind.

Inactivity can lead to or add to problems and even to disability in all of us. “Use it or lose it” is an aphorism worth considering. Once a person is immobilized by bodily injury, it is often very hard to get him/her going again. Mentally distracted and disturbed people need to move their bodies regularly and frequently whenever reasonable. Their minds will be carried along with their bodies. Then, the activity will be stimulating and refreshing – and maybe even healing. As with all of our suggestions, gentle guiding hands to share if not lead the way can be quite health enhancing.

Many elders and disabled folks find themselves not only with little activity but little apparent usefulness. If efforts to be more active can be charged with purpose and value, all the better. We all like to imagine that at least some things that we do add to the side of goodness and beauty in the world. Thus, finding ways to promote the sense of being useful can be life affirming and mentally stabilizing.

Whenever possible, the mentally disturbed should be encouraged to participate in arts, music, dance and the like. These parts of life touch into depths of body, mind and soul. They are innately fluid and can stimulate motion in beings whose streams of life have been blocked, even broken. “Art therapy is able to provide an alternative channel of communication for dementia patients with impaired language abilities, so that, they can have self-expression, and a catharsis of negative emotions.” Q.Y. Yang

Oliver Sacks’s work with patients suffering “the sleeping sickness” detailed in his book Awakenings gives clues to how the Arts and especially Music can stir the mentally disturbed into health and action. Sacks’s book Musicophilia widens the scope of ills which involvement in music can benefit. The experiences of Mc Ferrin, Campbell, and Bennett noted in an earlier chapter may bear further consideration. It should be added that one does not have to be a professional musician or have studied music in any form to be touched, nourished, and even healed by the wonders of melody, rhythm and harmony.

Nature itself should be part of any healing process. Now, Nature is everywhere. But, it is much more readily accessed in the out-of-doors, in fresh air and sunshine, amidst the elements, and surrounded by the greenery of animate life. The Sun has been known over the ages as not only our immediate Source of life but also as a generator of health and healing. Most everyone has experienced the wonder and magic of the Natural World. Nature in its greenery and grandeur is ever waiting to share more of its abundant life for the betterment of humans and all sentient beings upon the planet.

The earth itself – the soil under foot can be healing in many ways. Grounding has been renamed and is now called Earthing. Mother Earth constantly radiates vitalizing and healing forces into us, regardless of our state of awareness. She also absorbs our own spent and disturbed vibes. So, do get those with mental ills into the flow of Nature as much as reasonable.

We all certainly have the potential to heal ourselves – and the healing force must work out its will within the individual’s form. But, in serious illness – whether appearing as physical or as mental, aid beyond the affected one is needed in most cases. Illness in some sense is a loud call for help from others. Unfortunately with the civilization and specialization of modern life, we have often lost community involvement in some of the most important areas of life.

“It takes a village,” to do many things. Healing should be on the list. Family and community care can have huge impact for those with mental illness. Many indigenous cultures around the world understand how important this factor can be for the sick and injured. In communities, like the Kalihari Kung in Africa and in various American Indian tribes, frequent gatherings for hours or days – rather than the minutes western medicine devotes to those in need – can stir wonderful healings.

Personal contact and especially touch is also lacking in modern life. Even in medical situations, so much is protected and gloved, sanitized and sterilized. How often do the ailing elderly make appointments to see medical professionals mainly because they need someone to talk to, to listen to their woes, and maybe even to touch them? The mentally disturbed also fit the bill in needing to be touched. Gentle touch as shared by Soteria staff and like the OMT used at Still-Hildreth can open the gate to the flow of wonderful curative forces.

A favorite story about Kenneth Cohen’s medical friend, Dr. Wong, from the former’s book The Way of Qigong follows:

“You know, Ken, I have become too popular! I have so many patients that sometimes I have to schedule them one or two weeks later. But if their problem needs more immediate attention, this seems very unfair. I had to find a solution.”
This is how my old teacher and beloved friend, Dr. Wong, began a conversation as we sat down in our favorite restaurant. It had been several years since my last visit, yet it seemed as though we were resuming a conversation we had begun only the day before. When good friends meet, time is irrelevant. They start up from where they left off. As in the past many of my “lessons” took place over a meal or informally in his living room.
“Did you find a solution, Dr. Wong?”
“Oh, yes,” he said with a twinkle. “Provided the patients are not suffering from a contagious disease, I ask a group of them to meet me in a café for a cup of tea.”
“Yes … ?”
“Then I shake hands with each of them. By the next day, some of them call me back, saying, “Dr. Wong, cancel my appointment. I don’t know what you did when we shook hands, but I am feeling all the better!’”

Re-education of the whole of western society is warranted to promote contact similar to that which is naturally given to animals and shared instinctively by mothers to little ones. The simple fact is that subtle forces pass between humans through personal contact and especially the touch of the hands. Vital, healing forces directed through touch have long been known – from Biblical times and before – to pass from those in health to those in need.

Like Nature, the world of Spirit is all around – and even within us. “The Kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke 17) There are angels and spirits waiting upon us constantly, however unnoticed. They can act in force to our particular aid when invited even at the darkest moments of despair and distraction. Then, there is an even greater Power which can be attracted through communal effort, “Wherever two or more are gathered in my name …” (Matthew 18)

All of these means should be harmonized to stimulate those in need toward wholeness. Harmony itself, as in a musical selection, can bring beauty and joy to one and all. Helpers ought to promote safety and sanity, benevolence and balance of the whole life of the ill person and all those around that one. As they do, they will find their own lives becoming more harmonious and happy. We also ought to remember: Healing others is really healing self.

We dare not forget that laughter can be a key to healing and relief from stress and pain. Norman Cousins used Candid Camera videos and Marx Brothers’ movies quite inventively to overcome a major health challenge at gus midlife. He retold his experience in Anatomy of an Illness.

Let us be reminded of the wonderful gifts of laughter that George Carlin shared for so many years and in so many ways with the American public. You and I can set aside time to tell stories and share reflections on the joy of living. Surely, laughter will arise in the midst of those moments.


It may seem impossible to blend all of these means in seeking to aid the mentally challenged. But, helpers can start by taking them one at a time. When they do so with sympathy, compassion, and love, the results can be magical.


It cannot be repeated too often that Mind is the builder, the centerpoint of human life, and the key to healing. This simple fact is quite relevant even for those who experience Dementia in one form or another. If necessary, others can put their own minds to work for them.

In any case, there is need to bring the Mind into broad relief and action so as to open restricted worlds. As divine justice allows.


The force back of the universe is mind. The controlling and directing power in humanity is also mind. Conscious, intelligent thinking is the key to all accomplishment regardless of who or what is involved. Every plan, design or purpose in life has its origin in mind.

Mind is fundamental to life as well as to health. Imagination and faith can move mountains, and can cure diseases as well as cause them. With Mind, all things are possible. With Mind distracted or disturbed, humans are prone to forebear Imagination, Faith, and Possibilities. Then, there commonly follow grave Losses of Consciousness.

As we have seen, the brain is optional under varying circumstances – hard as that may be for some to imagine. The Mind often overrides the learned repetitive functions of the brain “consciousness.” The brain, like muscles and flesh, as well as the tissues of lesser beings – even plants and insects – develops learned behaviors which emulate what we understand to be mental activities. The brain then acts like a robot more often than we dare to imagine.

Then too, whatever happens in the body or brain is first previewed and prepared in the vehicle of mind – as we have noted in our discussions. Like a chemical reaction, the seed of a reaction precipitates into visible matter. Thus material manifestation results from the mind manipulating and molding matter into one form or another.

We repeat: The brain is a computer. However fantastically it works, the brain – like the body – is operated consciously or unconsciously by mind – mental forces.
    
Elmer Green wrote words which fit here: “The sentence being processed this very second by the optical scanning system of your physical body is being relayed to your brain, and there being deciphered by you, a soul.”

• The brain is the instrument of the Mind as the mind is the instrument of the Soul.
• The Mind is the Eye of the Soul as well as our Sixth Sense.
• Mind is the subtle Worker waiting for scientists, medics and common people to re-discover in our very midst. Then. “greater things than these will ye do …” (John 14:12)

Let us learn to put mind to work – consciously, communally, consistently – for the good of all beings.


Hopefully, some of the ideas shared in this little book will increase understanding of mind over matter as well as the potential to lift, aid, and heal the demented. Dare we say that we are all a bit demented and that we can all use help at times to be drawn back into sanity and health.

The ideas shared here have been wide ranging, but we certainly have not covered the whole field of mental health and illness. WHOLE is a big IDEA, as is the human potential for growth, healing, and transformation.

We have repeatedly touched on the importance of considering the WHOLE person – body, mind, and soul – when endeavoring to aid the demented as well as any individual with a health challenge. We must also remark that the WHOLE person is part of a WHOLE community which itself most likely can use aid, nurture, and support.

George Carlin spoke many times of how humans pursue pleasure and avoid pain at most any cost. He was prone to pleasure himself with drugs intensely and persistently for years. Eventually, he seemed to learn the lessons that intoxicants may bring pleasure for a time, but they will inevitably produce more pain and problems. Likely some of those will be mental ones. Again, let us repeat how important and influential, disturbing and often dangerous are many, many drugs, even the prescribed kind, in the modern world.

The whole arena of psycho-pharmaceuticals is now coming under closer scrutiny. Numerous investigators are saying that psychiatric drugs may be causing as much harm as good for the patients who take them – maybe even more. Their complaints and warnings are backed up by evidence which has been to a greater or lesser degree stifled by professional and commercial conflicts of interest. Look up Deadly Medicine and Organized Crime by Peter Gotzsche.

Conflicts of interest can even interfere with supposed sacrosanct medical practices. Read How We Do Harm by Otis Brawley, the former chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society. Psychiatrists and drug companies tend to downplay or hide the negative effects of medications; much like tobacco companies did for many years regarding the ills of smoking.

This line of thought leads us to recount the fact that western society in recent years, with all its comforts and benefits, has become sicker and sicker. “According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), nearly 60% of American adults have at least one chronic health problem, such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, or diabetes. This number is expected to increase by 15 million by 2030, reaching 170 million.” So it follows that 60% of American adults are taking prescription medication. Between ten and thirty percent of children now have chronic diseases and thus take prescribed drugs.

It seems that western wealth may not be good for western health in many ways. Science and technology have brought wonders and comforts. But to what ultimate effect – as with George Carlin’s thoughts on pleasure and pain.

Life and livingness have been almost subsumed by the medicalization of modern society.  [Read Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich.] We avoid and medicate pain often to great excess. We move further and further away from natural life to artificial living. But to our detriment. We forget that we humans are in fact part of the natural world. And we must recover our places therein; personally and collectively. Until we do, we suffer consequences.

But one day, we will realize that we are really part of greater Wholes. That Everything Is Alive. That a great Order reigns over us All. That as we grow into and relate consciously with the Whole, we become Whole Beings. Then, our lives and health inexorably upbuild the Whole. We will, as individuals and as communities and nations, fulfill our destiny and work within that Whole.

Another step toward recognizing and honoring that Wholeness is to highlight the Law of Karma and Rebirth. We have already recognized the idea of Past Lives as claimed by numerous celebrities while trying to explain the phenomenon of MIND. But to approach Wholeness and Completion, it is important to address Karma and Rebirth in the lives of everyone. We have all been here – in physical bodies – many times. We pick up each lifetime where we left off in the last one. Then, we meet people and forces which shaped us in the past and can help us take the next steps along the way back to Home – eventually with full consciousness.

Along the way, our Karma determines the lessons and ills, problems and opportunities necessary for our development. So, we must consider – if we dare – that the ills we bear at any moment in any lifetime do not happen by chance. They are not random events. They are part of the Grand Order which exists quite intangibly in our very midst.

The Universe in which we live and move and have our being emulates the most awesome, magical computer – ONE beyond our wildest imaginings. Its computations are always perfect – regardless of how daunting and disturbing the outer world events and its players may appear. All of life, every person we meet, every incident we confront has meaning. If we can’t recognize such things, we have not peered hard or long enough.

So, illness and injury, disease and dementia are part and parcel of the human passage. Which will bring us to WHOLENESS eventually – however long it takes. There may be mystery to our ills; but there can also be magic to them. When we dare to look beyond our physical wounds, we may pick up the trail of Mental Wonders and Spiritual Secrets. Seek and we may find, among other things the reality of the following: