„Regelunglar“

Vücudun temizlenmesi ilk önce ağrılara neden olabilir

„Regelunglar“ temizlenme sürecinin bir parçasıdır

Bazı insanlarda Heilstrom’u alırken ağrılar meydana gelir. Bu olguyu Bruno Gröning „Regelung“ diye adlandırır. Vücutta dönüşümün başladığına dair bir işarettir. Regelung ağrıları hastalığın ağrılarıyla karşılaştırılamaz. Onlar Heilstrom’dan dolayı ortaya çıkar ve hastalanan organların temizlendiğine dair bir işarettir. (Şifalanmış, bir süre Bruno Gröning’in yardımcısı, gazeteci ve yazar olan) Kurt Trampler bu konuda şöyle yazıyor: ‚Regelung ağrısı da yardım arayanların kafasını sık sık karıştırıyor. Regelung ağrısının olması şart. Bazı insanlar, Regelung ağrısı başladığında, hastalığın nüksettiğini zannediyordu. Korkuyorlardı ve ‘Daha kötü oldu, doktora gidelim’ diyorlardı. Gröning şunu söyler: ‘Bu yüzden sizi, Regelung ağrıları olduğunda onlara katlanmanız için uyarıyorum. Kötü bir şey olmaz, bilakis insan iyileşir.’“

Regelung’un şekli oldukça farklılık gösterebilir. Ağrılar, hastalıktan kaynaklanan ağrılara benzeyebilir, hatta zaman zaman daha güçlü bile olabilir. Ama çok farklı da görülebilirler. Bu herkeste farklı olur, çünkü insan vücudu şifa gücüne karşı bireysel olarak tepki verir.

İnsan, Regelung ağrısından alıkonulamaz. O, hastalığın kirinin ruhsal yoldan vücuttan atıldığı temizlenme sürecinin bir parçasıdır.

Regelung Süreci

Bruno Gröning, Regelung olgusunu, kirli süt kovası örneğini vererek açıklamıştır. Kovadaki ekşimiş, kötü kokan sütün yerine taze süt doldurulcağı zaman ne yapılması gerektiğini sormuştur. Cevap açıktır: Önce bozulmuş süt boşaltılmalı ve kovanın içi temizlenmelidir. İnsanda da durum – mecazi anlamda - benzerdir. Eğer vücudu kova, hastalığı bozulmuş süt, sağlığı ise iyi süt yerine koyarsak insan ilk önce düşünceleriyle hastalıktan kopmak zorundadır – yani bozulmuş sütü boşaltmalıdır. Sonra vücut hastalığın “kir”inden arındırılır – işte bunlar Regelunglardır. Sadece temizlenmiş bir kovaya taze süt doldurulabilir – sağlık insanın vücuduna yerleşir.

Bir başka imajda insanı bir meyve kasesine benzetmişti: „İçinde her hangi bir şey, isterseniz meyve olan bir kase olduğunu ve günlerce öyle durduğunu, yani durmuş olduğunu ve hiç kimsenin ilgilenmediğini, hiç kimsenin onunla ne yapacağını bilemediğini ve içindekilerin bozulmuş olduğunu varsayınız. Artık bu meyveyi yiyemezsiniz. Şimdi biri çıksa gelse, size yeni, sağlıklı meyve vermek istese, iyi olan, yeni olan, sağlıklı olan meyveyi bozulmuş olan meyvenin üzerine koymak büyük bir budalalık olurdu, çünkü iyi olanlar da bozulmuş olan meyvelerin halini alırdı. Sağlıklı meyveyi almak isterseniz önce kötü olanı, sağlıksız, artık yenilemez olanı bir kenara boşaltmanız lazım; ama sadece bununla da kalmamanız gerek, o meyve kasesinin kendisini de temizlemelisiniz ki sağlıklı olanı teslim alabilesiniz. Bunu, yani kaseyi vücudunuzun, meyveleri ise hastalanmış organlarınızın yerine koyunuz, ve sizin ümit ettiğiniz şey sağlıklı olanlardır, ama kötü olanları atamazsanız, yani bu durumda hastalığınız ile ilgilenmeye devam ederseniz, bu imkansız olur.“

„Einstellen“

İlahi Heilstrom’un alınması için doğru bedensel duruş ve manevi tutum

Bruno Gröning, şifaya yol açan manevi gücü Heilstrom olarak adlandırıyordu. Şifa dalgası ve ilahi güç kavramlarını da aynı anlamda kullanıyordu. Ama insan Heilstrom’u nasıl içine alabilir, ilahi güce kendini nasıl açabilir? Bruno Gröning, yardım arayanlara aşağıdaki oturuş pozisyonunu önermiştir: Kolları ve bacakları bağlamamak ve avuçları yukarıya doğru açmış olarak baldırların üstüne koymak. Dıştan görünen duruşun yanı sıra tüm rahatsız edici düşünceleri bertaraf etmek ve tamamen vücudun içinde olanlara odaklanmak önemlidir. Açık, inançlı bir manevi tutum temel şarttır. İnsan bu şekilde kendisini şifa gücün akışına açabilir. Bruno Gröning şöyle demiştir: „Tanrı bize tüm iyilikleri veriyor, bizim O’nun bize göderdiği her şeyi sadece kendi içimize almamız lazım. O halde – bunu yapın!“

Bedensel duruşun neden bu kadar önemli olduğunu şu şekilde açıklamıştır: „Halen özgürce hareket ettirebildikleri bir vücuda sahip olanlar onu sık sık kenetlemeyi seviyor ki bu da bir kuvvettir, alışkanlığın kuvvetidir. Bacak bacak üstüne atar; tabi ki bazen tembelce oturabilir, yani vücudunu rahatça yayabilir, ama bunu iyiliği, ilahi olanı teslim almak istediği zaman yapmamalıdır. O zaman rahat olmalı, elleri açık, elleri boş bir şekilde oturmalı veya ayakta durmalı!“

(Şifa almış, bir süre Bruno Gröning’in yardımcısı, gazeteci ve yazar olan) Kurt Trampler, Büyük dönüş (Die große Umkehr) adlı kitabında şöyle yazmıştı: „İçsel hazırlığın yanı sıra görünürde küçük, ama çok önemli bir dış özelliğin de önemi var [...]. Sırtı bir yere dayamadan oturulmalı, ayrıca ne iki bacağı ne de iki eli bağlamamalı. Gröning’in görüşüne göre ellerin birbirine değmesi vücudun üst kısmında hayat akımının kısa devresine yol açıyor, bacakların birbirine değmesi, hatta bacak bacak üstüne atılması ise vücudun alt kısmında aynı hasara yol açıyor. Böyle hataları alışkanlık haline getiren insan, uzun vadede çok rahatsızlık verici hastalıklara bile yakalanabilir.“

Kendi vücudunuzda ne hissettiğinize dikkat ediniz

Bruno Gröning, gücün bilinçli olarak alınmasına „Einstellen“ diyordu. İnsan kendini Heilstrom’u teslim almak için „ayarlıyor„. Bunun nerede ve ne zaman yapıldığı önemli değil. Önemli olan sadece rahatsız edilmemek, tüm rahatsızlık verici düşüncelerin bertaraf edilmesi ve vücutta gerçekleşenlerin dikkatle izlenmesidir. Bruno Gröning, dinleyicilerine defalarca ne hissettiklerini sorardı.

„Sizin yegane göreviniz, burada gerçek, ilahi gönderiyi almak, daha doğrusu teslim almak için Einstellen yapmanızdır. Bu gönderiyi nasıl teslim aldığınızı farkedeceksiniz. Ama tekrar tekrar söylemeliyim ki sadece vücudunuza gerçekten dikkat ederseniz, dikkatinizi, onun etrafında değil de bilakis sadece içinde, kendi vücudunuzun içinde nelerin olup bittiğine yöneltirseniz bu olur.“

Her insan Heilstrom’u kendi vücudunda hissedebilir. Biri bir karıncalanma algılar, diğeri soğuk veya sıcak bir akım. Üçüncü kişi kollarını veya bacaklarını hareket ettirmek, dördüncü kişi silkinmek zorunluluğunu yaşar. Böylelikle Heilstrom her insanda çok farklı tepkilere neden olur.

„Heilstrom“

İlahi güç kaynağından gelen hayat akımı

Gröning, „elektrik santrali“ olan Tanrı ile „ampul“ olan insan arasında „transformatör“ görevini görüyor

Bruno Gröning kendisini, doğrudan Tanrı’dan gelen ve şifaya yol açan manevi bir kuvvetin aracısı olarak adlandırmıştır. Bu ilahi kuvvete „Heilstrom“ demiştir.

Heilstrom’un mahiyetini anlatmak için bir imaj kullanmıştır. Tanrı’yı bir elektrik santraline, insanı ise bir ampule benzetmiştir. Ampul, amacını ancak santralden gelen akım kendisine ulaşırsa yerine getirebileceği gibi insan da ancak Tanrı’nın gücüyle beslenirse ilahi düzende yaşayabilir. Kendisinin bir „transformatör“ görevi gördüğünü belirtmiştir. Sonsuz yüksek ilahi enerjileri öyle dönüştürüyor ki her insan sadece alabileceği kadar elde ediyor. Kendisinin gücü alma kapasitesi sınırsızdı. Örneğin Rosenheim’daki Traberhof’ta binlerce insanın aynı anda şifa gücünü hissetmesi ve büyük kitlesel şifalanmaların gerçekleşmesi mümkün olmuştu.

Tanrı ile insanın arasındaki bağlantı kopunca

Bruno Gröning, başlangıçta „elektrik santrali“ olan Tanrı ile „alıcı“ olan insan arasında doğrudan bir bağlantı olduğunu açıklar. İnsanlar, yer yüzünde Tanrı’nın çocukları olarak babalarıyla en üst düzeydeki birlik halinde yaşıyorlardı. Ama Tanrı’ya sırt çevirerek ilahi düzenden düştüler ve kendilerini sıkıntılara ve sefalete maruz bıraktılar. Tanrı ile insanlar arasındaki bağlantı koptu. Zamanla insanların artık kendiliğinden aşamayacakları, giderek derinleşen bir uçurum oluştu.

Tanrı ile insan arasındaki uçurumun üzerinden giden köprü yeni bir yaşama duygusuna götürüyor

Bruno Gröning şöyle der: „Ve insan artık asla esas olan, ilahi olan yola geri dönemeyeceği için, o yola götüren köprü yıkıldığı için, insanoğlu sanki bir avuç içine sıkışmış olup şaşkın şaşkın dolaştığı için – ben o gerçek ilahi yola götüren köprüyü inşa ettim, onu yeniden kurdum, ve siz bu köprüyü kullanırsanız, o köprüden geçerseniz, sizin de bundan böyle hayatınızı iyi, her şeyden önce sağlıklı yaşayabileceğiniz, o büyük, yegane ilahi eserle bağlantıda olacağınız, doğru, gerçek, ilahi hayat akımını alacağınız yola, ilahi yola gireceksiniz.“

„Bu köprüden kim geçer ve doğru, ilahi yoldan yürümeye devam ederse, çok farklı bir duyguya sahip olacak, varolan tüm şeylerden dolayı, bugüne kadar burada idrak edemediği şeylerden dolayı hayretler içinde kalacaktır. İşte o zaman büyük, ilahi eser ile bağlantıyı gerçekten teslim alacaksınız.“

Bruno Gröning’in öğretisini uygulayan ve kendisini ilahi güce açan herkes Heilstrom’u kendi vücudunda hissedecek. Kendisinde tamamiyle yeni bir yaşama duygusu belirecek: Ağrılar, endişeler ve sıkıntılar kaybolacak, onların yerine sağlık, ahenk ve sevinç gelecektir. Tanrı’nın acımasız bir hakim gibi yıldızların çok üzerindeki tahtında oturmadığını, bilakis sevgidolu bir baba olarak insanların yanında olduğunu ve onlara yardım etmek istediğini deneyimlemeye başlayacaktır. Uçurum aşılmıştır. İnsan tekrar en başlangıçta var olan hali deneyimleyecektir.

Büyük dönüş

Hastalıktan kopmak ve sağlığa inanmak

Düşünceleri hastalığa odaklamak, onu tutmak demektir

Bruno Gröning insanları tekrar tekrar „büyük dönüş“e çağırmıştır. Onları, iyiliğe olan inancı uygulamaya koymaları ve kötü alışkanlıkları bırakmaları için uyarmıştır.

İnsanların ilk etapta hastalığı düşünmemelerini istemiştir. Hastalığın kötülükten kaynaklandığını ve kötülük olduğunu daima vurgulamıştır. Onunla ilgilenmek, kötülükle haşır neşir olmak anlamına gelmektedir. Bu, şifalanma sürecini engeller, hatta onu imkansız hale getirebilir. „Hastalığa odaklanan onu tutar ve ilahi gücün yolunu kapatır.“

İnsan hastalıktan kopmalıdır, onu kendi mal varlığı olarak görmemeli, bilakis onda bir fenalık görmelidir. „Hastalık insana ait değildir!“

Hastalığı Bruno Gröning’e teslim etmek

Bruno Gröning insanlara, hastalıklarını kendisinin üstlenebileceğini teklif etti: „Hastalıklarınızı ve endişelerinizi bana verin! Siz tek başınıza üstesinden gelemezsiniz. Onları ben sizin için taşırım. Ama onları bana gönüllü olarak teslim edin, ben hırsızlık yapmam!“

„Hastalığı sizden alabilmem için serbest bırakırsanız iyi olur; ama onu sıkıca tutarsanız benim bir şey yapmama müsade yoktur. Yedinci emir bunu yasaklar: ‘Hırsızlık yapmamalısın!’ İnsanın hastalığını zorla alırsam, günah işlemiş olurum. Benim hırsızlık yapmama müsade yoktur! Hastalığını seven, onu sıkıca tutar, onu unutabilen kişiden ise onu alırım, ancak o onu serbest bırakmalı, sadece düşüncelerinde değil, eylemleriyle de. Siz benim sözümü dinlemelisiniz! Ben sizi etkilemek istemiyorum. Hastalığı serbest bırakırsanız sizden bütün dertleri teslim alırım!“

İnsan önce kendi içinde bir içsel dönüş gerçekleştirmeli

Bruno Gröning’in her bir kişinin içsel dönüşümünü ne denli önemsediğini, (şifalanmış, Bruno Gröning’in bir süre yardımcısı, gazeteci ve yazar olan) Kurt Trampler’in Büyük Dönüş (Die große Umkehr) adlı kitabından alınan aşağıdaki bölüm belirtmektedir: „Özel sohbetler sırasında da, Tanrı’ya karşı ‘saf ilahi güç aracılığıyla şifayı’ sadece en azından ilahi kanuna göre yaşamaya yönelik iyi niyete sahip olan dertlilerde gerçekleştirme ve kötülükten vazgeçmeye hazır olmayanları şifadan hariç tutma sorumluluğunun olduğuna dair kararlı ifadesini sık sık işittim. „Ben“, derdi, „bir kitlesel şifayı şöyle diyerek de gerçekleştirebilirim: Bir şehrin veya bir ülkenin tüm hastaları şifalanacak! Ama öyle yapsam kazanılandan çok kaybedilen şeyler olmaz mıydı? Hstaların arasında kötü olanlar dönüş için hazır olur muydu? Yeniden kazandıkları sağlığı sadece istismar etmezlermiydi? Hayır! İnsan önce kendi içinde bir dönüş gerçekleştirmeli, önce şeytani olanı kendi içinden söküp atmaya ve Tanrı’ya giden yolu bulmaya hazır olmalı. Ancak o zaman şifa almaya değerdir.“

Başlangıçta insan hasta değildi

Bruno Gröning’in aşağıdaki sözleri bu ifadeyi anlaşılır hale getiriyor ve hastalıkların oluşumunu açıklıyor:

„Nasıl oldu da insan hastalandı? Başlangıçta insan hasta değildi. İnsanlar kötüleştiler, nesilden nesile gitgide daha kötü hale geldiler. Kötülük o kadar yayıldı ki yakında yaşamak bile mümkün olmayacaktı. Ailelerde bile kavga ve dövüş var, halklar arasında barıştan çok savaş hakim! Endişeler insanlığı ruhsal acıya boğdu ve o kadar derin kökler saldılar ki insanların hastalanması kaçınılmaz oldu. Biri diğerini ruhsal olarak rahatsız ediyor. İnsanlar yanlış eğitilmiş, doğal olandan uzaklaşmışlar, birçoğu Tanrı’ya olan inancını yitirmiştir. Ama ilahi yolu kaybeden, sağlığını da kaybeder.“

İnsan Bruno Gröning aracılığıyla sağlığını yeniden elde etmek isterse, „kötülüğü“ bırakmaya hazır olmak zorundadır. Kötülüğe, hastalığa sırt çevirmelidir, ondan kopmalıdır, „astımım, romatizmam vs.“ diye düşünmemelidir artık. Bu her zaman kolay değildir. İçsel bir dönüşüm gerektirir. İnsan düşünce tarzını temelden değiştirmeli. Alışmış olduğu gibi hastalığa değil, bilakis sağlığa inanmalıdır. İyileşemeyecek dertlerin bile iyileşebileceğine dair inancı içine almalıdır.

„Beni akıl ve mantıkla anlamak mümkün değildir“

Bruno Gröning yardım arayanlardan ne bekliyordu böyle! Her türlü mantıklı düşünce, böyle bir talebi ciddiye almaya direnmez mi? Romatizma yüzünden deforme olmuş eklemler nasıl düzelsin, felçli uzuvlar nasıl işlevini tekrar görür hale gelebilsin? Bruno Gröning, en ufak tedavi uygulamadan, hatta ona derdi anlatmadan dahi ona hastalıkları teslim etmek nasıl mümkün olabilir? Makul düşünen her insan için bu bir hakaret değil midir?

Gerçekten büyük bir dönüştür Bruno Gröning’in insanlardan beklediği, çünkü bu her türlü bilimsel, mantık odaklı düşünce tarzını bertaraf etmek ve daha yüce olan bir şeye olan inancı benimsemek anlamına gelmektedir. Onun öğretisi, günümüzde geçerli olan materyalist bir zamani akımın ürünü olan mantıklı düşünce tarzından tamamen farklı temellere dayanmaktadır. Bu yüzden kendisi sık sık şöyle derdi: „Beni akıl ve mantık ile anlamak kesinlikle mümkün değildir.“

Hastalıkların nedeni

İlahi güç kaynağı ile bağlantı olmayınca

Bir hastalık tesadüf değildir

Günümüzde birçok insan, bir hastalığın tesadüfen ortaya çıkan, insanda aniden beliren bir şey olduğuna inanır. Oysa Bruno Gröning şöyle demiştir: „İnsan, bilerek ya da bilmeyerek Tanrı’dan ne kadar uzaklaştıysa vücudunda o denli az hayat kalmıştı, hatta o kadar az hayat kalmıştı ki organları onun istediği gibi tepki vermemişti. Hayatını tam bir güçle yaşayamaz olmuştu. O, burada güç kaynağını yitirmiştir. Sonunda büyük, ilahi güç kaynağıyla olan bağlantıyı kaybetmiştir. Tanrı’nın gücünü içine alamaz olmuştur. Ve böylece o ve vücudu bir harabe haline gelmiştir.“

Tanrı ile insanların arasında derin bir uçurum oluşmuştur

Bruno Gröning, insanın tekrar sağlığına nasıl kavuşabileceğini şu şekilde anlatıyor: „Tanrı insanı güzel, iyi ve sağlıklı yaratmıştır. Onun işte öyle olmasını istiyor. Başlangıçta insanlar Tanrı ile tamamiyle bağlantı halindeydi, orada sadece sevgi, ahenk ve sağlık vardı, her şey bir idi. Ama ilk insan, kötü olan ve bu birliğin dışında olan o sese kulak verince ve bunu gerçekleştirince o bağlantı koptu ve o zamandan beri Tanrı burada, insan ise oradadır. Tanrı ile insanlar arasında derin bir uçurum açılmıştır. Artık bir bağlantı yoktur. İnsan – tek başına kaldığında - istediği kadar inançlı olsun ve dua etsin, hayat yolunda kötülük tarafından saldırıya uğrar ve derinlere çekilir. Siz hayat yolunuzda işte oraya, aşağıya ulaştınız. Uğursuzluk, acılar, iyileşemeyecek dertler deneyimliyorsunuz. Ben size şunu söylüyorum: Daha aşağıya doğru inmeyin, bilakis ben size büyük dönüş yapmanız için çağrıda bulunuyorum! Yukarıya çıkınız ve ben size uçurumun üzerinden bir köprü kurayım! Çililei yolu terkedin, ilahi yola girin! O yolda uğursuzluk, acılar, iyileşemeyecek diye bir şey yoktur – orada her şey iyidir. Bu yol Tanrı’ya geri götürür!“

Bruno Gröning’in Öğretisi

Ruhsal Yoldan Yardım ve Şifa

Bruno Gröning’in öğretisi ruhsal güçlerin etkisinden yola çıkar. Bu güçlerin etkisi, çoğu insanın tahmin ettiğinden daha büyüktür.

İnsan „batarya“ gibidir – görevlerini yerine getirmesi için sürekli yeni yaşam enerjisi almalıdır

Bruno Gröning insanı bir bataryaya benzetir. Günlük hayatta herkes güç harcar. Ancak ihtiyaç duyulan yeni yaşam enerjisi çoğu zaman yeterli miktarda alınamamaktadır. Boş bir batarya işlevini nasıl göremiyorsa, gücünü kaybetmiş bir beden de görevlerini yerine getiremez. Bunun sonucunda halsizlik, sinirlilik, yaşamla ilgili korkular ve nihayet hastalıklar meydana gelir.

Bruno Gröning, kişinin nasıl yeni enerjiler elde edebileceğini açıklar. Sağlıklı olma isteği kadar iyiliğe olan inanç da bir önkoşuldur. İnsan, her yerde şifa dalgalarıyla çevrilidir, onları sadece teslim alması gerekir. Bruno Gröning’e göre iyileşemeyecek bir hastalık yoktur, doktorlarca onaylanmış olan şifa raporları da bunu destekler. Bu şifalar sadece ruhsal yoldan gerçekleşir ve bu nedenle Bruno Gröning’in fiziksel bedeniyle bağlantılı değildirler.

İnsan Heilstrom’u en iyi şekilde nasıl alabilir

Yardım arayan kişi, Heilstrom‘u almak için elleri yukarıya doğru açık bir şekilde oturur. Kollar ve bacaklar Helistrom‘un akışını kesmemek için çapraz olmamalıdır. Hastalık ve endişe ile ilgili düşünceler engelleyici etki eder, güzel şeyleri düşünmek ise faydalı olur.

Heilstrom bedeninizde akarken hastalığın etkili olduğu organlara rastlar ve orada temizleyici etkisini göstermeye başlar. Bununla birlikte vücudun temizlenmeye başladığına dair belirti olan ağrılar ortaya çıkabilir. Hastalık, özelliği itibariyle Tanrı’nın istediği bir şey olmadığı için adım adım ortadan kaldırılacaktır. Bazı durumlarda bu bir anda da gerçekleşebilir. Bunun için bir insan, düşüncelerinde artık hastalıkla meşgul olmamalı, bilakis Tanrı katında „iyileşemez“ diye bir şeyin olmadığına inanmalıdır.

Bundan böyle de sağlıklı kalmak için Bruno Gröning Arkadaşları her gün Heilstrom‘u teslim almak için Einstellen yapmaktadır. Sağlıklı bir beden, insanın kendisiyle, diğer insanlarla ve doğayla barışık bir hayat yaşayabilmesi için bir temel oluşturur.

Bruno Gröning insanlığa bir öğreti verir

Bruno Gröning‘in öğretisinin hedefi, herkesi fiziksel ve ruhsal rahatsızlıklardan özgürleşmiş, yaşamdan keyif alan bir insan haline getirmektir.

Bruno Gröning, bu konuda şöyle konuşmuştur: „Benim öğretim, hayata dair bilgeliğin belirgin bir ifadesidir, pek çok arkadaşım onu uyguluyor ve başarılı olmuştur. Bu öğretiyi benimseyerek kendilerinde, çoğu kez sağlık açısından başarıya götüren bütünsel bir değişim meydana gelmiştir.“

Bruno Gröning’in tüm çabaları tek bir amaca yönelikti: Sıkıntıda olanlara yardım etmek. Onlara, entellektüel düşüncelere dayalı olmayan, bilakis ruhsal kanunları sezgisel olarak algılamasından kaynaklanan öğretisini sundu. Onunla yakından ilgilenen herkes, umulmadık bir karmaşıklık keşfedecektir ve onun, şifadan çok öteye gittiğini, insanın sadece bedensel olarak değil, ruhsal olarak da şifalandığını idrak edecektir. O, insanları iyiye inanmaya ve iyiliği uygulamaya çağırmıştır.

Photo gallery

Photos from Bruno Gröning’s life

Quotations

Core statements from lectures of Bruno Gröning

Statements about Bruno Gröning

Prominent figures comment on Gröning

Eye witness Mrs. Anni Ebner von Eschenbach

"As though the physician had to get used to seeing his wife healthy again"

For some time during the years 1950-51, Bruno Gröning held lectures in the Weikersheim boarding house in Graefelfing. Anni Ebner von Eschenbach had attended some of these lectures and recorded several events in writing. Here is an example:

"Once a young woman was wheeled in in a wheel-chair, her face white as snow. During the lecture she lost consciousness and looked as though she was dead. Bruno Gröning gave her a short glance and calmed down the attendees who were distressed, particularly her husband at her side.

After barely half an hour she woke up, stretched and, rosy-cheeked, got out of the wheel-chair and went towards Gröning. She still walked a little unsteadily, but with shining eyes, radiant with happiness and astonishment.

‘It is nice, dear lady, when one can stand again on one’s own feet and when one’s little heart is beating normally again! But don’t make up for the lost years all at once – guide the body slowly back to doing its duties.’

As the woman wanted to thank Gröning, he stated, ‘Thank God! I am only his little helper; prove now, that you are a true child of God!’

The man who had brought her in stood up and said in an emotional voice, ‘Mr. Gröning, I am her husband and a doctor. For me, my wife was incurable, even though I had tried everything. She still had only one wish: to visit you. I was convinced that she would die on the journey here, for her heart had been so severely burdened, that every movement could threaten her life. I am shaken by this miracle and can hardly believe it!’

Crying with joy, he wheeled the empty wheel-chair out of the room and took a seat with his wife, as they participated in the following two-hour lecture. He glanced often at his wife, as though he had to get used to seeing his wife healthy and happy again."

Eye witness G. Clausen

Liberation from leg pain that had lasted many years

In the 1950’s, I used to live near the Uetersen air base. One day Bruno Gröning walked past our window, and my children drew my attention to him. We knew Mr. Gröning from the newspaper. When I saw him at the window, I thought to myself, "Where is he going?'' When I saw him going into my neighbour's home, I ran over to her and knocked on the door. I learned that my neighbor was Bruno Gröning`s sister. I was invited into the kitchen and allowed to take a seat at the table opposite Bruno Gröning. His sister sat between us at the long side of the table. Bruno Gröning told me to sit comfortably, not to cross my arms and legs, and to pay attention to what I was feeling. He said to me, 'Take in as much of the healing stream as you can.' And then I felt, to my astonishment – for he was sitting at the other end of the table from me – a sort of breeze in the palms of my hands, as if somebody was gently blowing into them; I am prepared to swear to this. And then suddenly and unexpectedly, his sister felt pains in her leg and cried out, "Ow, ow, ow!"

And I was thinking, "But that is my pain, which has always tortured me." For years it had felt to me as if my leg did not belong to me, as if it was only glued on. No medical treatment had been able to relieve me of this condition.

I called out loudly, “But those are my pains! I have them all the time!" Bruno Gröning only said one word: 'Had!' At that moment the pain left his sister, and my leg felt totally normal again. I was free, without pain; my leg belonged to me again, and from that moment I no longer had a limp. I was healed and have remained so.

Bruno Gröning did not ask for money. On the contrary, he gave me a sheet of tin foil, with "God's blessing wherever you go" written on it. The visit lasted half an hour. Afterwards I walked back to my home, completely healed."

Eyewitness Gottfried Kalz

"The news ‘She can walk!’ spreads like wild fire"

The mother of my colleague had been wheel-chair bound for 25 years. When the conversation turned to Bruno Gröning, I said to her, ‘Try it, let the man come...’ That was, I believe, in 1956. They got in touch with Bruno Gröning, and he promised to come and see them one morning.

When Bruno Gröning arrived, several friends of the family were there, because they were curious to see what was going to happen. Old Mrs. W. was taken out of her bed and put into the wheel-chair in the living room, opposite where Bruno Gröning was sitting. Nobody was allowed to stay in the room. Everybody had to leave.

Old Mrs. W. and Mr. Gröning were left alone. All agog, we were listening outside the living room door, hoping to hear something. Suddenly we heard Bruno Gröning saying loudly and clearly, 'Get up and walk...' I can swear that the old lady could not walk one single step before! When we heard these words, nothing could keep us behind the door any longer. We threw it open and saw that old Mrs. W. could now walk. My colleague's wife wanted to give her mother-in-law a helping hand, but Bruno Gröning told her that Mrs. W. could walk by herself. She really got up and walked freely, without help, all by herself! We all had tears in our eyes. It was hard to believe, but we had seen and witnessed it with our own eyes.

Bruno Gröning had neither hypnotized old Mrs. W., nor touched her. He had only looked her firmly in the eye, and had said, 'Stand up!' And lo and behold, she got up and walked.

It made me think, ‘Could it be that there really is a God?’ There was not a single person in the room who was not crying for joy. It was simply a deeply moving experience. And then Bruno Gröning said, 'You can walk now.'

Mrs. W. was the talk of the town. It was a sensation. The news spread like wildfire. She can walk! Within a very short time, approximately 200 people had gathered, wanting to see Mrs. W. walk. She walked up and down the street to show the people.

Bruno Gröning did not ask for payment for coming. I can only report good things about him; he had a very special charisma. Mrs. W.’s healing has lasted.

Eyewitness Christa Hinz

War invalid jumps over a paddock fence

"I heard about Bruno Gröning’s work at the Traberhof from an acquaintance. After that, I also drove over there for two days. There were at least ten to twenty thousand people on the property when I arrived. Bruno Gröning was not to be seen. We waited for him for hours.

Then he arrived and spoke to the people from a balcony. I felt an electrifying, vibrant tingling in my whole body. Other people were also moving noticeably: their limbs seemed to be flying around. I would never have believed that something like this was possible if I hadn’t experienced it myself. A woman began to shout, ‘I don’t need a walking stick any longer! I can walk again.’

Although the crowd was very dense, I managed to make my way through it, because I was so interested in what was happening.

Red Cross workers were helping a man to his feet from a primitive stretcher of wooden boards. He lifted his hands, looking for help. Sweat was running off him in streams. I asked him what was wrong with him and he said, ‘I am a war invalid.’ Later this man was able to leave his stretcher.

Then I saw a crying grandfather with his eight-year-old grandson. The boy had not been able to walk. They had cobbled together a little wagon from simple wooden boards to bring the boy to Bruno Gröning here at the Traberhof. Now, in tears, the old man told me that the boy could walk again.

Nearby, a man jumped over a fence and I said to him, ‘Well, you’re in the wrong place here.’ He replied, ‘Last Sunday I was crippled and was dragging myself around on crutches.’ Five days later this man was jumping over fences! He beamed with happiness and showed me his war invalid ID card.

I also met an old man sitting in a wheelchair. He had lost his healing. People had told him that his healing would not last and that Gröning was a charlatan. He had believed their words.

The place was full of people day and night. The whole time I was at the Traberhof I was not hungry. There was no hysteria among the masses. They all hoped and believed that they would regain their health. When I saw these people lying on stretchers and propped on their crutches, I was so inwardly moved, that I could not talk and could barely look at them.

I think Bruno Gröning had a very special bond with God. I regretted that I was not able to encounter him more often. Today I still often think about what I experienced.”

Eyewitness Report

Healing from constipation and embolism. “That event was the talk of the town”

At the same time that people were waiting for help at the Wilhelmsplatz, events like the following were taking place elsewhere.

Doctors had given up on the mother of our eye-witness. She had had no bowel movement for six weeks. Enemas and laxatives had no effect. She also had an embolism.

Eye-witness: “We, all the family members, were at our wits’ end. We grasped at every straw that could help our mother. This was the situation when we heard that Bruno Gröning was here in Herford with a very sick person in Wittekind Street. I went there. There were already twenty other people, all of them seeking help. When Bruno Gröning came out to greet us, he said to me, ‘Wait for me in the kitchen. This evening I’ll go with you to your mother.’ I don’t know how he knew that I had come because of my mother. I had said nothing to him.

While waiting in the kitchen, I witnessed the following scene: A mother arrived with her child who had terrible whooping cough. We had already heard this dreadful whooping from afar. The child and the mother were led into the kitchen. Bruno Gröning stroked the child’s hair tenderly. Turning to the mother, he said, ‘Pay attention to your child. In a quarter of an hour she will vomit yellow mucus.’ Then he left the kitchen to attend to the other people. Suddenly the child began to retch. I just managed to pick her up and hold her over the coal box before she vomited. I had never seen such an attack of vomiting in my life. Later Bruno Gröning said to the mother, ‘Your child is healthy…’ She left, and the girl did not cough again.

At midnight we drove to see my mother in Bielefeld. While we were on our way, Bruno Gröning said that I should not worry, as the healing power comes from God. A human being must believe in the Good. Furthermore, Bruno Gröning told me that he was already now, during our trip in the car, attending to my mother; indeed, he was spiritually focusing on her.

When we entered my mother’s bedroom, Bruno Gröning sat down on her bed. To my great joy, I saw that her eyes were already noticeably clearer. Her stomach, however, was swollen like a barrel. Bruno Gröning then spoke to her, and I could see how the joy of life flowed back into my mother. Her heart opened to Bruno Gröning; she believed in him. He asked for a glass of water for my mother and said that it would do her good. I fetched fresh water from the pump in the yard, and my mother drank it. Bruno Gröning then turned to my father and said, ‘Pay attention to the stools and urine of your wife. You will be amazed how everything is loosening up inside and at what will come out.’ My father asked Bruno Gröning what he should pay him. Bruno Gröning simply said, ‘We should thank God, and write a letter of appreciation outlining what we have experienced.’

The next day my mother’s stomach started to rumble. Father said that the stools she passed filled seven pans. Two days later my mother got out of bed, completely healed. From that moment, her ulcerated legs and varicose veins were also completely healed, without any medical attention. Her doctor was speechless. This event was the main topic of conversation in our village.

When I looked Bruno Gröning in the eyes, I knew. Here is a true believer! His personal charisma was unique. If anyone had told me about such an experience before, I would have thought, ‘Come on, you’re crazy!’ But you have to experience it for yourself to be able to believe it. This event was a unique experience for me.”

Eyewitness L. Schlüter

Healing from deafness, blindness, paralysis, in Herford. Gröning's energy said more than a thousand words

Herford, a town in Westphalia, was where Bruno Gröning’s work began on a large scale, and where the press issued the first reports of what was happening there. Thousands of people seeking help came from near and far to experience healing. Among the crowds stood Mrs. Schlüter and her blind mother-in law. The latter was physically very weak and always needed help with her daily washing and getting dressed.

Mrs. Schlüter reported as follows: “I learned about the many healings from a magazine. The pictures showed what was happening in Herford, and I said to myself, you must go there with your mother-in-law!

Packed like sardines in a tin, we stood among all these people in front of house number 7 in Wilhelmplatz. On our right there were around 30 people in their wheelchairs. We all waited and waited. Nobody spoke. Everyone was in suspense and kept looking up to the balcony where Bruno Gröning was to appear. It was already very late in the evening when somebody came out on the balcony to pacify us. He said Bruno Gröning was still busy with other people needing help. ‘Be patient! Bruno Gröning will definitely come!’ And so we waited. Three days and three nights.

Suddenly Bruno Gröning was there, and everyone was overjoyed. He began to speak, telling us that we all needed help and healing and God was the greatest doctor for all mankind. Then he called on the paralyzed people to get up from their wheelchairs. ‘You can walk! Get up!’ Nobody moved. Again he encouraged them to have faith in God and stand up. ‘Just believe that you can do it; stand up!’ Then, one after the other, they stood up. They could walk! Nobody could believe what they saw. We were all speechless. People began to cry when they saw it.

Then Bruno Gröning said, 'I would like everyone who is blind and deaf-mute to come to the front door of the house.’ So we went there and he spoke to these people, also to my mother-in-law. He took a two-year-old girl from her mother’s arms. She was deaf-mute. Mr. Gröning stroked the child and spoke to her. Then he held a tuning-fork to the child’s ear. She turned her head towards it. It was quite obvious that the child could now hear. Another child recovered his sight. These were the most moving scenes I’ve ever seen in my life.

Later we went home. My mother-in-law had recovered her sight to the extent that she could move freely around her house on her own. Her general condition also improved, and she no longer needed the daily help with dressing and washing that she’d had to have before.

Bruno Gröning was simply dressed, like everyone else, but he radiated love like nobody else. One could trust him immediately. His energy said more than a thousand words.”

Witness E. Süffert

Healing of asthma in Munich

"A neighbor introduced me to Mr. Gröning in Munich. She knew that I had suffered serious asthma attacks for 14 years, and that my courage to face life had often faltered.

I was charmingly received. Bruno Gröning sat behind a desk, and I sat opposite him. Neither of us crossed our arms or legs. He asked me to breathe quietly and deeply. He did the same, which struck me as very funny, and I wanted to laugh. In...out...in...out. Then I felt heat in my legs. Mr. Gröning said that my recent operation had healed well. I had not mentioned one word about that to him. He explained to me that he felt everything in himself, and this was how he knew. He knew about my previous infectious jaundice, that I often had to get up at night to pass water and sometimes had no bowel movement for days. He knew simply everything, and then I was less inclined to laugh. He asked me to continue the breathing exercise. Then a bad attack suddenly started and I felt as though a heavy rock was lying on me. Mr. Gröning was breathing as loudly as I was. Suddenly, just as I felt that my air supply was being cut off, I had the sensation that energy was streaming through my body, from my head to my stomach. After this, I was able to breathe freely and deeply. That night I slept so quietly that my husband woke me to make sure I was still alive. Previously, I had spent the night sitting, rather than lying in bed, and my breathing sounded like an express train pulling into Munich station.

I experienced Bruno Gröning as a very spiritual person. I felt there was a spiritual bond between us. He gave me three small tin foil discs, which I was to place on my chest and stomach, and he said I would then be able to breathe freely. I did this, and since then I have never had another attack.”

Eyewitness H. Steurer

Bruno Gröning helps a war veteran

Bruno Gröning often traveled by train to people seeking help, and the following occurred on one of these journeys.

H. Steurer: “The train in which Bruno Gröning was traveling arrived at Innsbruck station, where it was making only a short stop. Bruno Gröning pulled down the window of his compartment and looked out. I happened to be standing on the platform, and I was in great pain.

I had read in the paper about his work among suffering people. Now, there he was, looking out of the train window. I went over to him and asked him please to help me, as I was in great pain. He got up and went to the back of his compartment, then came back and handed me a tin foil ball through the window. He told me to lay the ball against the parts of my body that pained me, and that I should pray. Then his train began to move.

My pains were caused by a mine explosion and resulting splinter injuries. I had lost my right eye and an arm. I followed Bruno Gröning’s advice at once and held the ball close to my body. In a very short time the pains were gone and never recurred. From the very first moment, Mr. Gröning made a particular and wonderful impression on me. I had the feeling that here was a person who could really help. He did not ask for payment for the ball. He just helped me selflessly.”

A REVOLUTION IN MEDICINE?

"Revue", 14.8.1949 Clarification of a fateful question

The future activity of the Herford miracle man Bruno Gröning, who, according to eyewitness testimony, healed thousands of hopelessly ill people in May and June, 1949, has been made impossible through the intolerance of physicians and officials in northern Germany. On May 3, 1949, Gröning was forbidden to further pursue his healing activity. Since June 29, Gröning has withdrawn from the public eye. But Bruno Gröning has not disappeared; nor is the question of his wonderful healing power settled. For the Revue (a magazine) has opened the way for Gröning to participate in a large medical clinical trial, where he can prove his healing power to critical, but unprejudiced physicians. Thus, the Revue gave Gröning the chance to prove to modern scientists, "I heal the incurable." Today, the Revue begins by publishing the findings of 150 indisputable experiments. Read what our correspondents Bongartz and Laux report in the Revue, under the scientific direction of the psychologist and physician, Prof. Dr. Fischer.

THE PLAN OF THE REVUE

Today, the Revue begins a publication, whose subject matter goes far beyond the purely journalistic. Its focal point is a man who, though simple, has risen to fame in but a few months: Bruno Gröning who, in Herford and other cities, has healed or improved in a wonderful, mysterious way the ailments of thousands of sick people, who had been considered incurable. No politician, no economist, and no artist has moved people in the post-war years as Bruno Gröning has done. Other countries as well, even England and America, have been stirred by the spread of his fame and the sensational press reports that have alternated between praise, skepticism and arrogant rejection. The derisive contempt fed on sensation, uncontrolled rumors and contradictory statements. Almost everywhere there has been a lack of the necessary seriousness, responsibility, impartiality and knowledge of the significance of the problem that Bruno Gröning has brought overnight to public attention from the narrow realm of medical disputes.

The medical collaborators of the Revue have already long concerned themselves with the question of the emotional causes of most illnesses, and have been studying the development of relevant research in the non-German world, which often goes unnoticed in Germany. In the case of Gröning, it is a matter not only of the person of the miracle doctor, but of the significant question of the psychological, i.e., mental causes of illness and of the consideration of these causes in the psychotherapeutic treatment of patients. Gröning may be a phenomenon in the area of the treatment of mentally-caused illnesses. Therefore, as the campaign around Gröning in northern Germany took on a more and more chaotic form - on some days, as many as 6,000 people gathered in front of his place of activity - the Revue came to what is an unusual decision for a magazine.

The conflict between Gröning's countless followers and his few, but influential, opponents had meanwhile increased to an intolerable extent. A medical commission and the Herford officials issued Gröning a prohibition to heal. In Herford, Hamburg and many other cities, however, thousands of sick people continued waiting for the miracle man’s help. Finally, the official authorities were seized by a great helplessness in the face of the Gröning phenomenon, so that one had to fear an unhappy end to this phenomenon itself. Would Gröning be worn out between the power of the opponents and the power of the believers? Would the simple, intellectually clumsy man Gröning - who is, however, filled with a genuine sense of mission and honest readiness to help - perish because of ‘supporters’ who sidled up to him to cash in on his healing power and thus exposed him to his opponents in numerous cases? Or would a medical or other scientific institute in Germany - out of an honest desire to do research - agree to give Bruno Gröning the opportunity to clinically verify his abilities? Any larger clinic in the USA today would readily agree to this. After fruitless discussions, it was to be feared at the end of June that Gröning would be worn out. The question as to whether he would be acknowledged as having a wonderful, salutary ability to influence others spiritually, or whether it would be certified that his alleged abilities were a mistake - even charlatanism - remained unanswered for millions of suffering people.

At this point in time, the Revue decided to send a special staff of correspondents to northern Germany, consisting of Helmut Laux, Heinz Bongartz and a scientist, the Marburg psychologist and physician Prof. H.G. Fischer. The staff were supposed to locate Gröning, whose tracks were already starting to blur. They were supposed to carefully examine a large number of cases treated by Gröning and give a convincing account of the success or failure of his healings. In the case of a positive outcome of this preliminary examination, the Revue staff were supposed to form an impression of the circumstances surrounding Gröning and of the person of Gröning himself. Depending on the results of these investigations, the staff had the assignment and the means to separate Gröning from the possibly unfavorable influence of his environment and pave the way for him to escape the smothering chaos among believers, physicians and bureaucratic authorities. After obtaining his approval, Gröning would be provided asylum in an unknown, secluded place. At the same time, the Revue staff - in the case of a favorable outcome of the preliminary examinations - would make preparations to win the cooperation of a leading German university clinic. It would give Gröning the opportunity to prove his abilities in the presence of a committee of scientists. In the case of failure, a clear, incontestable report would inform the public of the negative result. This was the Revue’s plan.

Its realization began on June 28, 1949. It brought with it difficulties, adventure and surprises. But the plan succeeded, without the public being able to find out about it - to assure its success - until today. For them, Gröning had disappeared on June 29, 1949 at 11:45 PM in Hamburg. Today, the Revue begins with the in-depth report of the correspondents and the leading physicians on the prehistory and history of the greatest and most astonishing medical experiment that was ever made possible with the help of a magazine.

Bruno Gröning: the phenomenon of a doctor of the soul

By Helmut Laux and Heinz Bongartz, under the scientific direction of psychologist Professor Fischer

On the tracks of Bruno Gröning

The attitude of the doctors

We left Frankfurt on June 29, the very same day that Gröning disappeared from Hamburg without a trace. We journalists were naturally curious, and, although he was reserved, Professor Fischer couldn't completely hide his curiosity. But he was determined to approach the Gröning case systematically and to form a judgment slowly and conscientiously. Our collaboration with Professor Fischer was excellent from the very first day. He had gone through the usual medical education. As a traditional physician, he was in a position to assess cases of illness and to judge whether they had deteriorated or been healed. On the other hand, he was a psychologist and practiced with the help of psychoanalysis (analysis of the mind) and psychotherapy (therapy of the mind). If it did actually prove to be effective, however, Gröning's method would have to be categorized as therapy of the mind – unless Gröning had other powers at his disposal that are still unknown to psychotherapy today.

On behalf of the Revue the psychologist Professor Dr. Fischer (on the right) discusses the preparations of the clinical tests with Gröning.

We arrived in Bielefeld on the evening of June 29, and since Professor Fischer coincidentally already knew the director of the healing institutions in Bethel, Professor Schorsch, we went to him first. Professor Schorsch had played an essential role in the medical commission whose decision had contributed to the prohibition against healing for Gröning. At first he didn't want to see us journalists and received only Professor Fischer and told him of the impression he had of Gröning: He is a totally primitive person; above all, he has no "charisma." For those who don't know the word, we should add that the scientists define that as "a sense of mission". Schorsch said that the “sense of mission” that Gröning often spoke of in Herford and elsewhere is "pure dramatics". It is much more a matter of egoism and arrogance. As proof of what he said, Schorsch showed us a written expert opinion that stated the same. Professor Fischer took notice of his judgment. By the way, Professor Schorsch did not give the impression of conscious prejudice. He seemed somewhat uninterested. He was plump and pleasant, and it seemed as though he would prefer to hear nothing more of the Gröning case. He probably did not like to plunge into emotional excitement and wanted to have no further inconvenience. He said we shouldn't depend on his judgment, but should dig into the case for ourselves.

Prof. Dr. Wolf, the head physician of the city healing institutions in Bielefeld, was more open. He definitely appeared to share our opinion that the Gröning case had to be checked out without reservation. He pointed out, however, that it was well known that they had offered Gröning the opportunity to prove his ability in clinics. What should he think of the fact that Gröning rejected this offer? Could one blame the physicians if they observed a man with extraordinary skepticism who had refused to demonstrate his abilities to them?

We ourselves naturally also wondered why Gröning had avoided such a clinical observation and appraisal of his treatment methods. Did Gröning have reason to doubt Professor Wolf's objectivity? When Professor Fischer arranged a few weeks later for Gröning to practice before the physicians of the Bielefeld city healing institutions, he had to experience that only one intention existed, namely to destroy Gröning; while giving the appearance of being obliging, they brought him only cases that were beyond help, even for Gröning. Professor Fischer therefore had to abstain from allowing Gröning's methods to be appraised by the Bielefeld physicians.

Further, it was said that the Detmolder public medical officer, Dr. Dyes, had told Gröning that it didn't matter how much proof of his healing ability he furnished, they would prevent his work anyway! Therefore, Professor Fischer called Dr. Dyes by telephone from Herford and asked him about this, and Dr. Dyes made no bones about his statement. Gröning had made a bad impression on him. Dr. Dyes was full of medical arrogance, and extraordinarily satisfied with his own position.

In this way, Gröning was to lose all faith that the physicians would have an objective attitude, so one cannot blame him for not accepting the offer of hospital experiments. The natural, simple man’s instincts had sensed the unfair intentions that lay in wait for him.

The flood of chronic illnesses of psychological origin

On June 30, we first started in Northrhine-Westphalia, but thereafter went up as far as the Hamburg area, examining patients Gröning had treated and apparently healed. This was easier said than done.

The sick people treated by Gröning had returned to their home areas. No one had recorded their exact names and addresses. Gröning, like a wandering healer in the true sense of the word, went around healing wildly, and except for stories, press notices, allegations and rumors, no exact material about his activity was available, even from his followers. We would probably have had to overcome considerable difficulty if pure coincidence had not connected us with a man in Bielefeld who had already attempted to get a certain overview of Gröning's actual successes before us.

This man, by the name of Lanzenrath, was the district director of a health insurance fund. He was smart, down-to-earth and farsighted. He had been able to penetrate the "entourage" that had formed around Gröning – at that time we couldn't yet judge whether they were believers or profiteers – some members of which had remained in the Hülsmann home, where Gröning had been active, after his departure for Hamburg. He was just as convinced of Gröning's ability to influence and heal numerous illnesses as he was of his personal modesty. But he was afraid that the "entourage" would direct Gröning's good attributes in the wrong direction. Lanzenrath himself was at first mistrustful of us. But at the same time, it was also Professor Fischer who opened doors for our group and moved Lanzenrath to help us further and to cite cases he knew of, where closer investigation could lead to conclusions about the seriousness of the Gröning phenomenon. The motives that had led Lanzenrath to Gröning's entourage, by the way, were extraordinarily interesting. An illness, a painful kidney ailment, had also led him to Gröning. Since then – two months had passed, meanwhile – he had been free of pain. At the same time, the fate of his health insurance funds had caused him to seek a connection with Gröning. He told us that the German health insurance funds were threatened with financial breakdown because they were confronted with a sea of chronic illnesses that simply would not heal. He thus naturally confirmed something that is well known to the psychotherapists who pay attention to what has been happening in our time. The Second World War, with all its trauma, left behind a real flood of illness that, for the most part, would have had emotional causes, which are, however, expressed organically, from countless stomach and rheumatic ailments to marked neurosis or paralysis. For these illnesses, the psychologists have created the concept of the so-called 'psychosomatic' illnesses. After the currency reform, they were able to statistically identify a new rise in the number of illnesses that had never before appeared to this extent and which could hardly be attributed to organic causes. Lanzenrath had actually hoped to find a method of healing through Gröning that could perhaps serve to relieve the overburdened insurance funds. Lanzenrath had carefully observed a large number of treatments and healings. He first introduced to us to 20 cases. In the period of a week we carefully analyzed and investigated these cases and, wherever possible, interviewed the respective family doctors in order to clarify the question that was decisive for us: "Can Gröning heal?”

On July 8, we surveyed the results of the 20 investigations. Among the 20 cases there were seven that were perhaps interesting, and here and there even somewhat mysterious, but they gave no clear picture for or against Gröning. Of all cases we first worked hard on these seven. On the third day of investigation we were inclined to despair. At least that was true for us laypersons.

The Housing Office

There was, for instance, the Klüglich case in Bielefeld. Klüglich, an ordinary white-collar worker, had been shot through the kidney during the war. The injured kidney functioned only partially. After the war, the second kidney became greatly inflamed and it advanced to that stage that the doctors treating him were considering an operation. We saw the x-rays and other findings. Before Pentecost, Klüglich had approached Gröning through a letter to Lanzenrath. At first, he "distance-healed" and asked Klüglich to carefully observe what happened in his body over the next days. Klüglich noticed an increased activity of the kidneys and a lot of dark-colored urine and after that, a growing relief from his complaints.

The doctor treating him also confirmed an improvement. Afterwards, Gröning visited Klüglich personally, and the improvement continued. Klüglich had left his bed and went on walks. However, when we visited him and Professor Fischer examined him, his condition had worsened again. The Professor soon learned that Klüglich had been granted an additional room from the Housing Office due to his illness. Since word had quickly gotten around about his "healing," the Housing Office had informed him that, under these circumstances, they had to take back the room. On the same day, the worsening of his condition set in again. It was obviously not a pretense, but a genuine worsening, which was however, doubtless to be attributed to a mental cause, namely fear of losing the room and the association between the ideas of illness and possession of the room. It was naturally nonsense to speak of a healing. In this case, traditional medicine could point out that Gröning had merely succeeded in bringing the sick person out of his lethargy and thereby temporarily increased his resilience. They admitted the immediate relationship between psychic treatment and the power of the body to resist illness, but rightfully rejected the idea of a healing. The question naturally remained open as to what Gröning could have achieved, had he been able to continue to influence the patient.

She sat on her cash-box

The second case was that of Mrs. W., also from Bielefeld. She was a widow and owner of a bicycle shop. She oversaw the shop and the family from an armchair in the kitchen behind her shop. For 15 years, she had suffered from demonstrable problems with walking and dropsical swelling of her legs. Her heart and kidney activity were, however, normal. On the other hand, there were signs of rheumatoid arthritis. Gröning had sat with her for half an hour and predicted a quick recovery. After that, she was able to walk around the yard and felt quite well. The professor determined that the edema was only negligible. An examination by the physician who had also treated her found considerable decline in the swelling since Gröning had visited Mrs. W. Recently, however, the complaints appeared to slightly worsen again. In this case, too, did the psychological uplift and stimulation bring about a temporary improvement which – while again pointing out the close relationship between emotional condition and illness – was not sufficiently conclusive for us? That is, unless one in this case also expected a continuing and conclusive success through regular treatment by Gröning. It is also an interesting discovery that Mrs. W. had sat for many years on her cash-box, and that the difficulty in walking, which bordered on paralysis, could have been exacerbated by the compulsion to continually guard the cash-box. Gröning had probably also temporarily eliminated this compulsion, which is in itself a remarkable achievement, which, for a normal psychotherapist would have required days or even weeks, instead of half an hour. But this achievement, too, did not suggest anything unusual enough in Gröning's work to justify our support of major clinical experiments.

Gröning gave her a silver ball...

Then there was the Schwerdt case in Bielefeld. This concerned two patients: a girl, the daughter of a minor official or white-collar worker, whose mother exerted an oppressive influence on her; and, secondly, a factory owner who seemed to be watched by his inheritance-seeking relatives. The man and the girl had begun a relationship with one another, and as a result, the man came into violent conflict with his family. The girl was faced with continual reproach from her mother, who wanted nothing to do with the rich man because "nothing could come of it." Both of them, the man and the girl, finally lost courage. They separated. The girl became ill with an unusually severe cardiac neurosis, which forced her to lie down continually. The man had an accident at the same time and stayed in bed, even after the injury was long healed. He felt drawn to his beloved. To avoid following this urge, he grew obsessed with being ill and took to his bed. Gröning treated the case. On his first visit with the girl, he effected a considerable improvement, so that Miss Schwerdt could leave her bed. She then visited Gröning and gave him the name of the factory owner, among other names of persons he should help, without saying anything further about him. But Gröning obviously suspected the true circumstances. He took the silver paper of a cigarette package out of his pocket and gave the ball he made from it to the girl with the command to hold it in her hand until she could personally put it in the hand of the man she had named. He would then regain his health. Miss Schwerdt carried the ball in her hand for 36 hours.

Meanwhile, through the rumors that were circulating, the man heard about Gröning's successes and his instructions to Miss Schwerdt. Curiosity drove him from his bed to the girl. The severed relationship was thereby restored, and both felt healthy again. In reply to Professor Fischer's question as to whether they both saw one another regularly, the girl said, "Yes, unfortunately." The actual conflict that had brought on all the havoc, the tension with the mother and with the relatives respectively, had not been removed – for she had said "unfortunately" - and could sooner or later give rise to the old situation again.

The impression in this case was also unclear. Nevertheless, here, too, Gröning had removed an ailment brought about through emotional complexities in an amazingly short time. He had correctly recognized the situation with remarkable powers of empathy and had employed a trick with the little ball method which the best psychotherapist could be proud of. He had, however, failed to see that the cause had remained. The Schwerdt case was the first case that began to convince Professor Fischer about Gröning. If there was nothing else of an unusual nature to find out about Gröning, it couldn't be denied that he possessed a surprising natural talent for psychotherapy.

The recalcitrant motorcycle

The so-called "Wehmeyer case" was very strange. Wehmeyer was a haulage contractor in Herford. He was active, powerful and with healthy nerves, certainly not the kind of man who would kid himself. He had also gone to Gröning to get help for his wife, who lay in a clinic in Münster with a chronic illness of an indeterminable nature. Gröning had explained to him, "Your wife will, after a certain time, express the wish to come home. But you are not allowed to go there earlier and prompt her to come home." Wehmeyer was, as mentioned, a man who neither believed in clairvoyance, nor liked to take orders. So, against Gröning's instructions, he got on his motorcycle and went off to Münster to see his wife. It was then that a strange event took place that he simply couldn't cope with. Along the way, the motorcycle stopped running. He then went to a repair shop in Bielefeld. They examined the cycle from top to bottom – the cycle was in good condition. It should have run. The mechanic changed the plugs, did everything possible, but couldn't understand why the motorcycle wouldn’t work. At a loss, he told Mr Wehmeyer he’d better drive home again. Wehmeyer started back. And the moment he turned back toward Herford, the motorcycle ran as if nothing had been wrong. He happily turned it around. It immediately stood still again. It wouldn't run in the direction of Münster.

Still completely shaken by this spooky event, Wehmeyer then went a short time later to Münster by train. There his wife indeed spontaneously said she would like to go home at once. She felt considerably better and the physician treating her also said that he had finished his treatment.

The hot current
An unusual preliminary success

On the fifth day of our investigation, we experienced our first really great surprise. And from that day on, there was one surprise after the other, which finally led to an incident that, without exaggeration, must be called a sensation.

We had all driven to Hamburg, because Lanzenrath knew of a case there that seemed particularly impressive to him. Moreover, the case had been closely medically monitored. It was a matter of the little daughter of Mr. Mendt, who ran a car repair shop in Hamburg. The child had survived spinal poliomyelitis, but was left with paralysis in her legs.

Here there was a precise, carefully-compiled case history with clear diagnosis. Gröning had treated the child in his usual way, through calmly sitting opposite her, slowly asking her about her physical feelings, and perhaps lightly stroking her with his hand. Then he left, after instructing them to carefully write down what else the child felt in her body in the days to come. This had been carefully done, and Prof. Fischer now read that the child had felt tugging pains in her legs going toward the lower back. These increased and gave way to an increasing warmth and strong flow of blood in the paralyzed legs. The child began to make movements again, which she previously had not been able to make. Professor Fischer carefully examined the limbs of the child and found that the circulation of blood was astonishingly good. The entire process reminded him of the principle of "autogenic training," although it had not as yet been successfully applied to spinal poliomyelitis. "Autogenic training" was developed and taught in Germany by Prof. I. H. Schulz, former lecturer in psychotherapy at the University of Jena. Schulz's methods were basically nothing other than the application of the old, well-known and – for every European – mysterious practice of Indian yoga in modern European medicine. It put all physicians trained by him in a position to steer the blood circulation of their patients into particular parts of the body through an emotional influence that should not be confused with hypnosis. They didn't succeed in all cases. Above all, it demanded weeks, sometimes months of effort, which really deserved the name "training." Here in the Mendt case, Gröning had chalked up an initial success that was completely unusual. Even if a medically-trained psychotherapist had tackled the case, he would at best have required many weeks to achieve the result that Gröning brought about in half an hour. Fischer had another long conversation with the Hamburg Professor Burckhard, and both were so excited that Professor Fischer said for the first time that he was now of the opinion that Gröning possessed unusual psychotherapeutic powers, that he emitted a vibration or something else which had to be investigated in a large clinical test. In the same way, the possibility of influencing spinal poliomyelitis and its consequences should be observed over a long period through a continuing treatment.

No physician could help him

The very next day brought a new, impressive surprise. Lanzenrath had brought us to another patient of Gröning, a Mr. Kargesmeyer in Bad Oeynhausen. Kargesmeyer was 47 years old, and from two years of age had suffered from headaches that developed over time to a severe trigeminal neuralgia. This involves pain in the facial nerves that is one of the most terrible forms of suffering there is. The severity of this pain can drive people to suicide. The ailment can rarely be influenced by a normal physician. Medication offers only partial relief of the pain. In totally desperate cases, they try to obliterate the nerves through alcohol injections or simply by severing them. In both cases it is a matter of a difficult operation with uncertain results. Kargesmeyer had undergone various operations. Finally, they removed his tonsils and sinuses through a radical operation in a clinic in Münster, since it was suspected that an inflammation located there was the cause of the facial pain. The operation had had no effect on the neuralgia. Naturally, it was possible that the inflammation mentioned had originally provoked the neuralgia. But after the removal, the pain remained "fixated" in the facial nerves, similar to the terrible pain that amputees often feel in the nerves of the amputation stump and thus have the impression that the pain runs through the whole arm or amputated leg which is no longer present. Gröning had treated Kargesmeyer. He had asked him to hold his head firmly between his hands.

After that, Kargesmeyer felt a hot current in his face. The pain continued for a few days, but then disappeared more and more, day by day. He had already been free of pain for four weeks.

Here also, an unusual ability to steer the circulation of blood had obviously led to success. Perhaps other factors were also involved. But at this moment, they could not play a role for us. Up until then, only a miniscule number of trigeminal neuralgia cases were known to have been treated by psychotherapy. And in those cases, it had taken weeks and months before success was achieved. Gröning had done it in a short session – an achievement that is unparalleled to this day.

The famous case of Dieter Hülsmann

The next day we were in Herford again, and Lanzenrath suggested to Fischer that he take a look at the case of Dieter Hülsmann. It involved the nine-year-old son of the engineer Hülsmann, whose alleged healing had brought Gröning out of seclusion. For the first time, we entered the house from which Gröning's fame had gone out and in which he had stayed until just a short time before. Dieter Hülsmann had never learned to walk properly. But they had not recognized the true character of his ailment. For a long time, he was forced into plaster casts. Finally, they determined at the university clinic in Münster that he had progressive muscular dystrophy, which is advanced muscular atrophy.

After the almost one-year stay in Bethel that followed, one of the physicians there declared, "You can leave the boy here. You can also take the boy home. No one can help him." After all, the child could no longer sit, and his legs were ice-cold. Heated blankets, hot-water bottles and electric pads could not get rid of the incessant coldness and numbness. Gröning had carried out a one-time treatment while he was in this condition. Shortly thereafter, the boy felt an intense burning in his back and a sudden warming of his legs. It persisted, and thus the boy was able to walk again, although in a wobbly fashion.

The case of Dieter Hülsmann was drawn with vehemence into the controversy of opinion, and both sides indulged in untenable exaggeration. It could surely not be called a "healing." But in the same way, the assertion that nothing had changed through Gröning's treatment was a malicious distortion. After a careful examination, Professor Fischer was of the opinion that it was indeed a neurotic, progressive muscular atrophy, that is, a degeneration of the nerve that runs from the spinal cord to the muscles and obviously influences their nourishment and development. The starting point of the degeneration is probably located in the cells of the anterior horn. The nerve fibers coming from the cerebrum come together here. A transfer or commutation of the impulses coming from the brain takes place here, without these fibers coming into immediate contact with the nerves leading to the muscles. It could not be denied that the degenerated nerves had experienced an unusual stimulation, which was then passed on to the leg muscles. What astonished us the most, however, was the fact that Gröning had made a diagnosis which had been uncannily close to the anatomic reality.

Kargesmeyer had already maintained that Gröning had told him, unsolicited, that he suffered from facial pain, and that this had tormented him since the age of two. We had regarded this as the exaggeration of a grateful patient. With Dieter Hülsmann, however, there was a definite report on Gröning's diagnosis, confirmed by witnesses. Gröning had spoken of a torn nerve in the spinal cord, defining the place in which the diseased cells of the anterior horn are located. This is where the boy had then experienced the previously-mentioned burning and thereafter, a strange fluttering, which Gröning called a beginning regeneration and which he compared with the flickering of a light bulb into which electricity slowly "flows." This explanation sounded primitive. But it came so close to reality, that this experience moved us profoundly.

On the verge of the uncanny

The last decision in favor of Gröning came about, however, through an experience that we had shortly after Professor Fischer's examination of Dieter Hülsmann. We were led into a living room, without suspecting that Gröning had worked here. Professor Fischer sat down wearily on one of the arm chairs that were there. At almost the same moment, his face became deathly pale. He gasped for breath, but quickly got control of himself. Then he looked at us through narrowed eyes, as if a mysterious power, whose origin he could not explain, had just touched him. He told us that at the moment he sat down, he had felt a violent pain in the area of his right kidney and, simultaneously, palpitations of the heart and shortness of breath. His right kidney had been inflamed several times in the past. It was his body’s weakest organ. As we further puzzled over the strange phenomenon, Lanzenrath came into the room and said that the professor was sitting in the very chair in which Gröning had treated his sick people.

Prof. Dr. Fischer’s unusual healing success by means of the arm chair, in which Gröning healed numerous sick people in Herford. When Prof. Fischer sat down in this chair, he felt touched by a mysterious energy and got the idea to use the energy active in this chair for a treatment of a young woman suffering from paralysis for years. The treatment forms the highlight of our report today.

Gröning had always maintained that he could leave special power behind in a chair. Had the professor perhaps perceived some of that? "Certainly," said Fischer, in the somewhat oppressive stillness that emanated from us. But he was already occupied with some kind of plan. He suddenly asked Lanzenrath to come with him and went into the garden where, just as on the day we’d arrived in Herford, the sick people were waiting patiently or desperately. He looked for a paralyzed person and found a young girl, who lay helpless in an arbor, her legs immobile. With Lanzenrath's help, he carried her into the living room, where she was put onto the mysterious chair. Then he began to treat her in his usual way, as a psychotherapist. He quickly determined the cause of her paralysis.

The girl, Anni Schwedler, 21 years old, came from Darmstadt, and had experienced a heavy air-strike on the city in the autumn of 1944. Anni was buried with her mother and around 20 other people in the air-raid shelter of a brewery. All of the others, including her mother, were able to escape through an emergency exit that they had been able to open wide enough for a person to get through. Somehow, however, the girl’s body got stuck in the opening in the wall. The house was ablaze. The girl's hair had already caught fire. At the very last moment, the air-raid warden was able to pull Anni out and extinguish her burning clothing with a jet of water. Even as she was describing it, her horrified facial expression showed the inner process that must have taken place within her back then. Shortly after her rescue, she already had felt insecure when walking. A few days later, she began to stumble. Her walking became more and more unsteady, until her legs were completely paralyzed. All medical treatment proved unsuccessful. And now the girl sat in the strange chair that had given Professor Fischer such a severe shock.

As the girl finished her description, the professor reached the following conclusion: if Gröning had left mysterious healing powers in his chair, then these powers should still have an effect on the sick people in his absence. He briefly told the girl about Gröning and that he had already helped many paralyzed people in this room. And he did something else – he showed the girl a picture of Gröning. Then, charged with inner tension, he very abruptly commanded, "Stand up!" He thought that Gröning would act in a similar manner. The girl's face all of a sudden shone, and Anni got up from the arm chair almost boldly, and was so astonished and overcome from her ability to stand up, that she at first didn't dare to take a step. The professor commanded again, "Now walk!" Lanzenrath, who stood nearby, had to take the girl lightly by the hand, and then she walked with still insecure steps and with tears of joy across the whole room to the chair where Anni's completely overwhelmed mother sat. But here, Anni Schwedler collapsed. The experiment had to be carried out a second time. In this second attempt, Fischer also showed the patient Gröning's picture, and as he did so, noticed signs of a stronger circulation of blood in the previously paralyzed legs, redness and a developing warmth. The girl got up again. The professor commanded her to stand up and sit down again a few times. Standing up got better and better. Finally, the girl was able to go out of the room and all the way over the courtyard to a nearby street. From there she was then taken in a car to a relative in Herford.

We had all watched the experiment in breathless suspense. On that same evening, we notified the Revue that we had to extend our stay in northern Germany. There was no longer any doubt that Gröning was a phenomenon that had to be clarified through the planned clinical experiments. We wanted to try to make contact with Gröning the next day, in order to pave the way for him to the physicians of the Heidelberg University Clinic, so that he could prove his abilities in their presence.

Sequence of events surrounding Bruno Gröning from March 1949 onwards

The confusion of these events is so great, that only with great trouble were we able to half-way bring them in order for the outside observer.

March 18, 1949
Bruno Gröning's star is suddenly rising in Herford. The alleged or actual healing of Dieter, the son of the Herford engineer Hülsmann, who was suffering from muscular atrophy, has become known to the public. News of further healings follows. Rumors and reports spread like the wind. Great crowds of the sick gather before the Hülsmann home at 7 Wilhelmsplatz in Herford, where Gröning is staying.

April 4, 1949
The beginning of Gröning's public healing activity in Herford. A huge response. Gröning becomes the Miracle Worker of Herford. He is elevated by some to the status of a kind of messiah, all the more since he himself attributes his effect to divine powers.

April 27, 1949
As a result of the huge crowds of people, the authorities, in particular the health authorities, intervene. Gröning and Hülsmann are asked to meet with the director of the health department in Herford, Senior Medical Officer Dr. Siebert. Siebert explains that he had tolerated Gröning's activity up to then, but must now step in because of the great number of sick people and his responsibility to the public health system. He attempts to determine the details of Gröning's work in a rather tactless, provocative manner. Gröning says he has no right to do this and instead invites him to convince himself of his methods and successes at his place of work. Siebert rejects this on the grounds that he couldn't make a fool of himself.

In the days that follow, Hülsmann, Senior Medical Officer Dr. Siebert, and the Herford Detective Investigator Auer meet three times. Hülsmann insists - as an enthusiastic follower of Gröning, also not in a very clever way - that the gentlemen should convince themselves of Gröning's successes. Siebert declines. Auer behaves objectively.

April 30, 1949
In the face of the growing crowd of people seeking healing and the growing difficulties with the authorities, Gröning holds a kind of press conference at the Hülsmann home. The press had meanwhile seized upon the Gröning case, sensationalized it and published numerous false reports and distortions of the case. The Herford Chief Municipal Director Meister comes to the conference along with Superintendent Kunst. Gröning corrects the false reports. However, no real relationship is established between the somewhat insecure and inhibited Gröning, who has had no experience negotiating with physicians or in dealing with people from the press, and the others who are present. The authorities' fear of a disturbance of public order by the huge crowds of sick people, mistrust or open rejection of the physicians and lack of objectivity by the press prevail.

May 3, 1949
Chief Municipal Director Meister makes a visit to Gröning in the Hülsmann home. He personally chooses a woman with signs of paralysis from the crowd of those waiting and leads her to Gröning. Gröning achieves an obvious success, and Meister leaves greatly impressed.

May 3, afternoon
Nevertheless, in the afternoon, the Chief Municipal Director sends Gröning a prohibition against any further healing activity. It allows for an appeal period of three weeks. The relationship between the authorities, Gröning and the waiting masses, among whom numerous remarkable healings have taken place during the previous weeks, becomes ever more complex.

May 13, 1949
Just ten days after the prohibition, which is superficially based on the Non-Medical Practitioners Act of the Third Reich, a medical commission appears in the Hülsmann home. It consists of the director of the city hospitals of Bielefeld, Prof. Dr. Wolf, the director of the healing institutions in Bethel, Prof. Dr. Schorsch; and the Senior Medical Officer of Bielefeld, Dr. Rainer. Also present are Chief Municipal Director Meister and Superintendent Kunst. Kunst and Wolf try to remain objective. Dr. Rainer is completely negative. He declares, "Gentlemen! Nothing which will be shown to you here is new to medical science. We can treat these kinds of cases with the same success. If I come here, I want to see miracles." The alliance between Gröning’s medical opponents and the helplessness of the authorities in the face of the phenomenon of Gröning and his ability to move the masses, solidifies. However, Gröning receives the offer to prove his healing ability in clinically verifiable cases by a deadline of June 28 in any university clinic of the British zone of Germany, in the Bielefeld city hospitals, or the Bethel clinic, following arrangement with the senior physicians.

In the next days:
Despite verbal and written notices by Gröning and his assistants of the healing prohibition and the uselessness of waiting, the seekers of healing persist in staying in front of the Hülsmann home. Healings which are difficult to verify also occur. These are only explicable as occurring through a distance effect by Gröning on those waiting.

May 20, 1949
Gröning declares himself ready to prove his healing ability in the city hospitals of Bielefeld, but aborts the trip to Prof. Wolf out of an instinctive distrust, a fear of a possible trap on the part of the physicians. A Mr. Klemme, whom Gröning had healed, plays a role here. Klemme suggests to Gröning that he give up the battle with the Herford authorities and instead negotiate with the district president in Detmold, Drake, whom he knows well.

May 23, 1949
The relationship is formed with Drake under unfortunate circumstances. At the insistence of a Mr. Egon-Arthur Schmidt, who has appeared in Gröning's circle and who calls himself an editor, Gröning gives a so-called "distance-diagnosis" of the condition of Drake's health on the evening before the visit with Drake. Gröning's distance-diagnoses are a very special thing that are not easily interpreted in medical terms. (In the course of the Revue report, they will be covered in detail). Convinced of Gröning's ability, Schmidt presents the distance-diagnosis to Drake. He notices some mistakes in it. The Detmold Public Health Officer, Dr. Dyes, a definite opponent of Gröning who took part in the meeting, wins the upper hand. He literally declares to Gröning that he can do and prove what he will, but the healing prohibition will not be lifted (Dr. Dyes confirms this statement himself to the Revue collaborator, Dr. Fischer). Dyes' words have a disastrous effect on further developments. Gröning's instinctive distrust of the medical profession is finally solidified and renders a reasonable collaboration impossible from his side, too. Dr. Dyes had not pointed out to Gröning the sections of the Non-Medical Practitioners Act that deal with exceptions. They state that in exceptional cases, special permission for the carrying out of a healing practice can be granted, notwithstanding the sections of the law.

May 24, 1949
A meeting takes place between Gröning and city director Wöhrmann, a representative of Chief Municipal Director Meister, who is on holiday. According to the statement of eight witnesses, Wöhrmann uses words to the following effect: If 1,000 people are waiting in front of the house at 7 Wilhelmsplatz, this crowd doesn't interest him. The healing of sick is of secondary importance. What interests him is only salvation and the forgiveness of sins. All physical suffering is small in relation to salvation. Since Gröning does not answer the question as to whether he could carry out the forgiveness of sins, Wöhrmann is completely dissatisfied with the conversation with Gröning.

June 7, 1949
Another medical commission – this time including Wöhrmann and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Siebert - visits Gröning. A five-hour confrontation. The prohibition of all healing activity is upheld. Extension of the appeal deadline until July 28. Gröning is again given the previously-known offer to prove his healing ability in clinics and hospitals. As a result of Gröning's deep-rooted mistrust, this does not come about. (As Revue representative Prof. Dr. Fischer later determines, this mistrust was not unjustified).

June 18-19, 1949
In order to calm down the thousands of sick people waiting for Gröning at the Wilhelmsplatz, Wöhrmann feels forced to temporarily relax the prohibition on healing.

June 20, 1949
Demonstration of those waiting for healing in front of the city hall and the Wöhrmann home. The police are powerless.

June 21, 1949
The prohibition is relaxed again.

24 June, 1949
Chief Municipal Director Meister returns and confirms the prohibition. Renewed demonstrations. The confusion of circumstances becomes more and more dreadful.

June 25, 1949
At the invitation of the Hamburg merchant Westphal, whose asthma had been improved by Gröning, Gröning goes to Hamburg. He hopes to be able to continue his healing activity there. However, this also proves to be impossible in Hamburg.

June 29, 1949
Gröning leaves Hamburg for an unknown destination. He is accompanied by Hülsmann and his wife. The public and the police lose trace of him.

Caption:
Sick people who had been treated by Gröning, whom Dr. Fischer visited before he met with Gröning himself.

1. Mr. Klüglich in Bielefeld, with renal disease, who lived in continual fear of an operation. Our report describes the condition he was in when the Revue's representative, Prof. Fischer, met him weeks after Gröning's treatment.
2. The little daughter of the Mendt family of Hamburg proved to Prof. Fischer that the Gröning effect must be utilized by medicine. Gröning had successfully influenced spinal poliomyelitis in a psychotherapeutic way.
3. Mrs. Wehmayer. When Prof. Fischer visited her and heard of her hospital stays, he was very impressed with Gröning's distance effect and the experience related by her husband (see the report).
4. Miss Schwerdt related the encounter with Gröning described in the report, to Prof. Fischer, about how he had led her back to the man she loved with the help of the tin foil ball, l and how he healed both of them.
5. Mrs. W., who runs bicycle shop in Bielefeld of her husband, who died in 1946. Prof. Fischer spoke with the doctor who had carried out the protracted and seemimngly hopeless treatment before Gröning.
6. The down-to-earth businessman Kargesmeier in Bad Oeynhausen, for whom no operation could stop the excruciating pain caused by trigeminal neuralgia. After Gröning's treatment, Professor Fischer found him to be healed.
7. Dr. Morters, who treated the patient before Gröning's influence, sits at the bedside of Mrs. E. This case also caused the Revue to convince the physicians of a university clinic of the necessity of a clinical test, about which the Revue reports in the next issue.

"The Night of the Great Healings"

"Zeitungsblitz", Sept. 1949: Special Edition on Gröning´s Successes

In the following lines, we bring you an objective report of the facts from our special correspondent, who, as a representative of the press, was able to stay on the heels of the great healer, Bruno Gröning, for 15 hours during the healing efforts witnessed by many hundreds of people at the Traberhof on August 27 and 28.

The first healings of the day

Our correspondent reports: The morning already brought the many seekers of healing, who at noon called out in chorus for "their Gröning". They had the good fortune that he addressed those waiting in a short speech. But I don’t want to report about that, but rather about the unprecedented and unforgettable hours of the late afternoon and evening.

Somehow the air is especially laden with suspense, and for some reason or other, many suffering and curious people have come together today, Saturday, in front of the Traberhof and in the garden, and this suspense grows from hour to hour after it becomes known that Mr. Gröning will speak again this evening to those waiting. Film equipment is already being set up on balcony, terrace and parking lot, and more and more people flock in.

Meanwhile, I inquire about the most recent healing successes and feel obliged to give a sober report, free of sensationalism, to the reader and the circle of people around Gröning.

Mrs. Würstl of Rosenheim, Münchnerstr. 42, reports to me credibly that until noon today she could neither bend over nor lift her feet from the floor because of paralysis. Beaming with happiness after Gröning´s speech, she had walked toward her husband for the first time without help from others, and can bend again like all healthy people.

Then, just like Mr. Haas from Munich, a woman from Endorf whom we had only ever known recumbent, gets up out of her wheelchair and makes her first attempts at walking.

I sit down at the table of an acquaintance, whose wife is the film actress Karin Lembeck, from Munich-Laim, a striking brunette known to all the "regulars." She tells me of her healing from a nerve paralysis of her left arm lasting many months by Gröning through remote healing over the telephone one morning at 10 o’clock. From the moment of his arrival at the Traberhof, Gröning’s "circle of radiation" becomes suddenly and so abruptly effective, that Mrs. L. is overcome with hot and cold shivers that cause her to cry out: "For heaven’s sake, what has happened to my arm? I can’t feel it any more!" And with the same "missing" and paralyzed arm which she had not even been able to move to table height before, she reaches automatically to her face and, a few moments later, up and over her very large summer hat. Then she breaks into tears of joy and gratitude out of inner emotion, tears that have to make up for lack of words. Only hours later is it possible for her to shake hands with an overflowing and grateful heart, but the great helper Mr. Gröning stops her humbly, saying, "You owe thanks not to me, but rather to the Creator above, who gave me the power this morning when I was on the telephone with your husband to initiate this healing, which God completed on your arrival here without my doing anything. Your belief has helped you, dear madam!".

A second lady, Mrs. Wagner from Munich-Laim, from the same district as Mrs. Lembeck, had been suffering for four years from a brain embolism with left-sided nerve paralysis, which had improved in the meantime. She is "focused on from a distance" in the garden by Gröning, who works with her from the rooms above. We follow the effects intently, but with all the surrounding hustle and bustle, the lady cannot muster the necessary concentration. For the same reason, a later attempt that night, face to face with the master brings no satisfactory result, since the inner readiness, the concentration of the senses and the additional meeting only a few hours after the distance treatment, was very obstructive.

Here, as in two further cases, striking evidence was produced that her additional admittance into Mr. Gröning’s private quarters – on the assumption that the telepathic treatment had not been effective - was a sign of mistrust toward the great healer.

And now the time has come. Many hundreds of people stand closely packed together. It is 7:30PM. The evening shadows spread. The horses have long since disappeared from the paddocks, and the sun gilds our magnificent blue mountains. The suspense becomes greater and greater; it becomes unbearable. Then Gröning steps for a moment onto the balcony, accompanied by shouts of joy, and asks for a few minutes’ patience to allow him to tune in silently to the many people, whom he is also asking to concentrate. Mr. S., from his group of assistants, directs the sick toward the front into the field of vision, gives quiet instructions on what they should do, hands flat on the knees, no physical contact with others, thoughts turned away from the sickness – that is the advice. Just this suspense-filled, silent expectation, this inner, spiritual preparation for the moment when Gröning’s healing power takes effect, is what brings the greatest possible healing success. There is hardly a whisper in the crowd of people. It is impossible to describe the situation and the mood, the stirring, faith-filled atmosphere in which these poor, tormented people, with all their visible and invisible ailments, wait, more or less firm in faith, for the moment of their healing.

Meanwhile, 15 minutes have been taken up by preparations for the shooting of a documentary film – minutes which one feels will only be experienced once in a lifetime, so full of energy-filled expectation that one can hear his own heartbeat and that of his neighbor as well. Now and again, an assistant of Gröning asks individual persons where they are from. Locations from all parts and zones of Germany are represented – from the Allgäu and the Swabian area, from Cologne and Frankfurt, from Upper and Lower Bavaria, from Lake Constance and the North Sea – yes, even from Berlin, and then, naturally, many locals. Later on, it gave Mr. Gröning a special, personal pleasure when an old fellow-soldier present among those who were waiting came up to the one who had had to share with him the hard lot of Russian imprisonment in Karelia and Finland. The crowd is asked again to not ask Mr. Gröning any questions, and to focus completely on what Gröning will say.

Gröning speaks to those waiting

It is now dusk. The film lights flare up on all sides, and the film equipment starts to get under way softly. All other sounds cease, and all eyes are directed to the balcony, onto which Mr. Gröning steps along with his host, assistants and healed persons at 8:15 PM. Minutes of very deep silence follow, during which the great helper of humanity folds his hands and looks toward heaven. Then he establishes complete contact with his faithful seekers of healing by looking into each of their excited faces.

Gröning begins now to speak simple, measured words of deep faith with that warm, sympathetic voice that is capable of captivating so many.

"My dear seekers of healing! Just as people are gathering here every day, today, as well, poor and tormented people who seek healing are gathering and will also find it. But there are also people who have been driven here out of pure curiosity, individuals who know themselves that they are skeptics. I feel that with great certainty, and I ask you to please cover up your thoughts and let yourselves be convinced by the facts. It is not a matter of entertainment and cheap demonstrations of miracles – this hour is too serious for that, and the suffering of the people around me too great.

I have called no one here; on the contrary, I have asked them to wait until the day when they can receive help under orderly circumstances. He who doesn’t believe in me doesn’t need to come any more!

I know that many among you are on the way to a healing in this moment! I intend to remain here in Upper Bavaria and ask you to have patience until I receive the permission for public healing and the healing centers are set up. But only those who carry within themselves the divine faith have a right to healing. Unfortunately, there are people who lost this years ago, or have dragged it through the mire.

I say unto you, the only doctor, the doctor of all people is, and remains, our Lord God! He alone can help. But he only helps believers who are willing to throw off their old ailment. You don’t have to believe in the little Gröning, but you must have trust in me. I do not want your gratitude – it belongs to God alone; I am only doing my duty!

Since you do not know, I say unto you that you can leave fear and money at home, but you must always bring your illness and much time with you – of which I then rob you. You should all be humane with one another – not hateful, not false. Never treat anyone badly, never be envious. The best and greatest gift in this life on earth is not riches, not money, but health, which is worth more than all the possessions on earth. You have heard from my assistant what you should do in order to experience the greatest possible effect. I do not want to carry out a public healing here! I must first know for certain that I am allowed to help publicly. However, up until now it has always been the case that people in my proximity have already regained their health. They do not have to specify their illnesses – I see through them and know everything about them.”

Mr. Gröning now gives a few simple examples of the power of his influence, which are confirmed by shouting, and then he continues: “Everyone has now received what he wanted; but only he who felt connected to his Lord God. If everything goes well, I want to set up several healing centers with this place as the nucleus, in close cooperation with the doctors, in order to help all of you. To all of you who have come to me for your sick relatives, I want to say, ‘I am already with them!' When you go home, you will see that the sick person is no longer exactly the same as when you left him!" The selfless man is thanked for his words with a long applause.

Two government representatives for Gröning

Then, entirely unexpectedly, the Chief Constable of Munich, Mr. Pitzer, spontaneously stepped up from the background. "My dear people of Rosenheim! I speak to you from my own personal experience here today. I have come here primarily as a sick person, but also as Bavarian official and observer. I have never in my life received such an outstanding diagnosis – not even from the most famous professors - as I did here from Mr. Gröning in the space of a few moments, without him even touching my body. I myself firmly believe in my healing, and I bear the responsibility for what happens here up to the highest government agencies, whether it suits certain gentlemen – you already know whom I mean – or not. The crucial thing is for the sick to be helped. I have been on duty day and night for four years, and in the process have acquired a severe ailment, for whose healing I have already sacrificed half a fortune, in vain. I speak for myself and for all of you – and it should be heard everywhere, because I must stay healthy for all upright people. I thank you, Mr. Gröning, for your help. May the Lord God grant you the power to help all the many people who come to you with firm belief and open hearts.

To overcome the final difficulties, continue having total trust in Gröning’s healing ability and help, all of you. My friend in the State Parliament will see to it that one day, perhaps even soon, Mr. Gröning will receive the license to heal."

At this point, Mr. Hagn, representative of the State Parliament for the CSU, spoke. "I really didn’t want to speak, because I was very skeptical in the matter of Mr. Gröning and wanted to convince myself personally of what happens here. Today I have experienced such moving things that I don’t have the words to describe them. That is all I can say to you. I ask you all to believe in the calling of Mr. Gröning!" Uproarious applause again surged forth from the excited crowd.

The night healings at the Traberhof

Now Gröning himself addressed several severe and pitiable cases of paralysis from the balcony.

Mrs. Monika Baumgartner of Bad Aibling, who had waited for days at the Traberhof, and who three years before had suffered a spinal injury with complete lesion of the entire lower body in a fall from the Watzmann mountain, struggles with great effort and tremendous perspiration to stand again – if only for a short time – for the first time in years. Now, Gröning asks other invalids with paralyzed and stiff limbs to move or bend them. Only with effort can I push through to the pitifully disabled Mr. Georg Aigner, of Rosenheim-Thallerbräu, who, beaming with joy, doggedly demonstrates for me with loud crackling, how he can bend his dried-out joints and proudly puts his left ankle on his right knee and vice-versa. That was the second case for the skeptics, and all present were able to convince themselves. Finally, a baker from Bad Aibling got rid of shellshock that had lasted for years in but a few minutes, with the exception of a few residual traces, which Gröning promises to remove in a few weeks.

Now Gröning speaks again to the astonished crowd, “If an improvement has taken place with your acquaintances and relatives at home, inform me here as soon as possible with today’s date as the reference date, so that I will know how many healings were accomplished today. I wish you all a really good night and complete recovery, in the name of God."

Then the great healer went back with his assistants into the living quarters in order to further successfully prove his healing ability on cases which had been brought to him ceaselessly by doctors and the press from early morning on.

Since until now I had exclusively stayed near the sick in order to have the closest contact with them, I was now able – at the invitation of the Hawart family – to be directly present at the treatment of the most severe cases. I entered the private quarters through the long queue of those waiting in the anteroom. In spite of all my objectivity, I could not help perceiving, already upon entering, a certain aura. Then Mr. Gröning came up to me and shook my hand firmly. For a moment I had the feeling as if his strong, but extremely friendly gaze would go through me. His first words to me testified to the great disappointment he had already experienced with the press.

During a few interesting treatments of infantile paralysis with visible success, a circle is formed around midnight in the exotically furnished winter garden. Under the beams of four klieg lights, 24 persons come together, among them a doctor attending two patients, Dr. Meyer from the hospital for the disabled in Bad Tölz, as well as a lady doctor, a medical student and the people accompanying those who could not walk. The rain ceaselessly beats a continuous rhythm on the glass roof, and three film technicians fix their cameras on on the patients. Each individual case is filmed before, during, and after the treatment for a documentary film for the enlightenment of the masses. As always, Gröning prepares himself for the treatment in the adjacent room. His assistant, Mr. Schmidt, appears and also asks those present here to concentrate both inwardly and outwardly on the upcoming healing attempts. Then he makes the amazing announcement, probably as Gröning’s medium, that among those present there is a gentleman who should either inwardly change his unwarranted skepticism or leave the room – in order not to disrupt the psychic connections with the seekers of healing. No one, however, leaves the room.

Then Gröning appears in the doorway and asks those present to concentrate only on what is happening in each individual body. Gröning steps into the circle and busies himself intensively with Mrs. Baumgärtner from Bad Aibling, who is personally introduced to him again up here. Expectant silence sets in. The pieces of film equipment take turns humming. Suddenly Gröning turns around and asks the patient under discussion, "And what do you feel now?" Usually the answer is a tingling in the feet, a twinge in the calves, a piercing pain in area of the kidney or bladder, a violent rumbling in the bowels, or a pressure in the pit of the stomach – or a violent shaking of the entire body manifests itself for all to see. The treatment symptoms reveal themselves like this or in a similar manner with almost all of the patients. Now the master fixes his gaze on the exact spot - to the centimeter - which has brought about the paralysis. He asks Mrs. B. to take three deep breaths. Then the patient suddenly cries out, “It’s gone through!” Facing away from the patient and not visible to her, Mr. Gröning demonstrates to the doctors with an amazing sign language how one can sever a particular nerve and sew it together again without an operation, during which time the patient feels all the pain of this operation. As the treatment progresses, the patient feels “light,” hardly senses her body any more, and manifests increasingly euphoric sensations; unsteadily, she lifts her left arm, supports herself on the backs of chairs and makes her second attempt at standing up. “She will walk again before long!” is Gröning’s prognosis.

Treatment of difficult cases

Evelyn Gschwind from Munich, an eight-year-old girl who was almost totally blind for years had severe damage of the cornea and had already had five operations. After several treatments on the same day without glasses she already sees more than she has ever seen – for example, the passing train at a distance of 500 metres. Gröning has little Evelyn take away the blur before her left eye by putting her left hand over her eye socket, and then on his command taking it away, after which she can, relieved, describe every detail of the room.

Now Gröning requests that three gentlemen who were accompanying patients be brought forth and asked to step onto the balcony, since they are distracting their wards. Now he distributes little foil balls which he rolled himself from cigarette packets and which apparently contain a repository of magnetic force. They are in such demand that they are already sold on the black market in Munich and are, of course, fakes. These “power carriers” are supposed to bring about contact between patients and Gröning over spatial distance and facilitate the concentration absolutely necessary for remote treatments.

Meanwhile, day begins to break in the East, and the master still shows no signs of fatigue. He obviously transfers his stamina to his visitors, for no one among them wants to leave the “place of miracles”, either. The concept of “sleep” is a foreign word for Gröning. A quick movement of his hand from his forehead over his distinctive cranium to the back of his head takes away the slightest sign of fatigue. However, the cigarettes glow incessantly in his hand, and his nourishment consists only of small portions.

Then the man who is in continual demand is brought to a very severe case in the back yard, where 35-year-old Mr. Fischhaber from Bad Tölz has already waited for him for days as his last hope. As a result of bobsled and motorcycle accidents, Mr. F. incurred paralysis of parts of his body which has continually worsened since May, 1949. Three medical opinions from prominent Munich professors vary, from petrol gas poisoning, spinal injury, and tumors of the main nerve trunk to – the latest finding of the doctor who brought him to Gröning today – injury of the interbrain. Two months ago, Mr. Fischhaber had already sought out Gröning in Herford, where he promised him healing. While the kidney disease caused by many years of drug treatment completely disappeared after the Herford visit, a partial success with the other symptoms of illness failed to occur. Gröning already prepared for this morning’s consultation during the evening hours through a remote treatment via an assistant, at which time Mr. Fischhaber could feel an intense tingling in his left hand, as well as feelings similar to sore muscles in his left calf and the front of his foot.

Mr. Gröning gives a downright sensational, "clairvoyant" reason for the previous absence of an obvious healing or improvement, and says literally: “Beware of a married couple with whom you are friends, and who are not well-disposed toward you. The woman has black hair, the man is dark blond with a part, and is about 1.70 m. tall. This man will – if you want to know exactly – step into your house two days after your return from here, at six o’clock in the evening. You will recognize him by the fact that, before closing the door, he will clean his nose with a white handkerchief. This man has been preventing your healing through me up until today, since he has already spoken disparagingly about it in public. This person stands between you and me and cuts off the necessary contact. Avoid this man, and you will be healed in a short time.”

The healer’s final words, which he offered me on the way home, and which indicate the path of his future work, were, “I want to heal my patients in a few minutes with the following words: GOOD DAY! YOU WERE ILL! GOODBYE!”

A. Stecher

Note from the Editor:

That is the report of our correspondent, which we reproduce without comment. Based on these factual descriptions, our readers can now form their own opinion about Mr. Gröning’s “healing art” and about whether it is necessary for the responsible state ministry to immediately grant him permission to act as “doctor of natural healing.”

Since Gröning intends to continue staying at the Traberhof near Rosenheim for the time being, we will issue further "special editions" at the appropriate time.

It is not possible for us to in any way forward letters or other communication to Mr. Gröning. Of course, those interested may direct letters (without photos) or other messages to his address: Mr. Bruno Gröning, Traberhof, Rosenheim-Land. Other addresses that may be circulating on the black market are false. Mr. Gröning asks that you refrain from personal visits until he is officially licensed.