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Here below is an interesting article from Pravda, Moscow, about stigmata
and other wounds that appear mysteriously. When the sensation called the
Morph first appeared in March 2001, women noticed they got small bruises
on their legs overnight. The marks were normally about the size of a
quarter and sometimes the bruises came in threes making a triangle. Then
when the ghoul-wars got really bad (August 2001) we’d take inner-world
hits from what looked like grey snowballs. They caused scratches and
bruises that sometimes were the size of a teacup. An attack in the
inner-worlds can show up on your physical body here. We have hundreds of
documented cases of Morph wounds. And one of our friends has had
stigmata twice.
© Stuart Wilde 2004
www.stuartwilde.com
Mystery of Christ's Wounds
08/30/2004 15:35
Stigmata appeared for the first time on the hands of the founder of the
Franciskan order, St. Francis
Mental processes, emotions and feelings are
closely connected with the human body. The interaction of 'body and
soul' is exposed most explicitly on human skin. The phenomenon of
stigmata is still considered a religious enigma. However, one may say
there are a lot of religious people, whose hands may start bleeding on
religious holidays, particularly during The Passion. "In Christian
mysticism, bodily marks, scars, or pains suffered in places
corresponding to those of the crucified Jesus-on the hands and feet,
near the heart, and sometimes on the head (from the crown of thorns) or
shoulders and back (from carrying the cross and being whipped),"
Encyclopedia Britannica says.
The phenomenon appeared long ago. At the end of the 19th century doctors
examined Louise Lato - bleeding wounds appeared on her hands during
religious holidays for no particular reason. Doctors put a sealed
bondage on one of the girl's hands prior to a religious holiday. The
bondage was removed on Good Friday - members of the Belgian Academy of
Sciences saw bleeding ulcers on the girl's hand.
Teresa Neiman (deceased in 1962) was kept under profound medical
supervision for a very long time. Teresa was suffering from Christ's
Wounds too: blood would start flowing spontaneously, causing terrible
pain to the woman. Wounds would then heal up in a week without scarring.
Furthermore, the woman was suffering from bloody tears and bloody sweat.
As it is known from the history of religion, stigmata appeared for the
first time on the hands of the founder of the Franciskan order, St.
Francis (1182-1226). Over 300 cases have been described since then. It
is noteworthy, religion is not the only ground that causes stigmata to
appear. Writers may suffer from them at times too, when they become too
much preoccupied with their own characters. Charles Dickens wrote, for
instance, that his face had swollen when he was working on the story
"The Chimes." Soviet writer Maxim Gorky fainted, when he was writing a
scene, in which a jealous husband stabs his wife in the liver. A
bleeding wound soon appeared on Maxim Gorky's body, in the area of his
liver.
Mysterious bodily wounds may appear, if relatives endure too much of
their relatives' sufferings. A sister witnessed her brother being
whipped - her back was then covered with bleeding scars reminiscent of
her brother's. The fact was officially documented. Doctor Faivishevsky
described similar occurrences with women, who were forced to witness
their children being beaten.
Stigmatization as a result of nightmares has also been described in
medical literature. A medical college student attended the autopsy
procedure for the first time in her life. The next day she said she had
had a very bad dream, in which the dead man was choking her and grabbing
her hands, trying to drag her away. When she woke up, she found her neck
and wrists bruised. Doctor Kolbin described a child, who had lost his
hair after a nightmare. The little boy had a dream, in which his
grandfather rose from the casket and grabbed the boy's hair. The child
had the nightmare several nights in a row, losing more and more of his
hair.
The phenomenon of imaginary pregnancy is to be categorized as
autosuggestion, when sterile women develop lipopexia on their stomachs,
which in its turn incites adequate breast changes. "It comes from your
head, your dreams, to influence such a quiet vegetative process as the
augmentation of adipose tissue," scientist I.Pavlov wrote.
Some experts believe stigmata appear due to brain activities, such as
imagination. A religious fanatic may suffer from Christ's Wounds, if he
or she thinks too much about the crucified Jesus. Writers may suffer
from this bodily ailment if they share the suffering and pain of their
own literature characters.
Doctor A. Lechner hypnotized a girl in 1993, having reproduced Christ's
Wounds on her hands. Doctor A. Kartashev was keeping a female patient
under his observation in 1936. In a state of hypnosis the woman had been
convinced she had been taking quinine. Nettle-rash developed for the
woman several hours after the seance. Bruises, frostbite, edema, rash
and pigmentation are possible to be caused with hypnosis.
The above-mentioned story about the boy, who had lost his hair because
of the nightmare, can also be classified as autosuggestion. A well-known
Russian "psychotherapist" Anatoly Kashpirovsky was very popular in the
USSR. He conducted healing sessions and seances for audiences numbering
in millions on live Soviet television at the end of the 1980s. A girl's
body was covered with hair as a result of one of such "healing
sessions." One may assume Kashpirovsky caused a rough dysfunction of
endocrine glands, which made hairs appear all over the girl's body.
Kashripovsky claimed he did not use hypnosis in his session - he did not
say the world "sleep," as he explained in an interview. One has to
acknowledge, however, modern medicine does not identify hypnosis with
sleep now. An up-to-date definition says hypnosis causes a state of
constricted conscience, which may evolve not only as a result of a
verbal influence. "Extrasensory individuals," "sorcerers" and other
"healers" use the effect of autosuggestion in their practice. However,
they do not think that hypnosis reminds the work of a surgeon. Putting a
person in a hypnotic trance can be compared to an abdominal surgery.
Just a cut on a patient's stomach does not determine the skills of a
surgeon. The mastery of a psychotherapist implies the reasonable
influence on a patient prepared to comprehend the medical treatment by
suggestion. The diversity of this influence is similar to the diversity
of illnesses. Complications are possible to occur when this condition is
broken.
V. Lebedev
Doctor of psychological sciences
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