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MAMA MONA NDZEKELI
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They have been told to bring a shirt or trousers, jacket or shoes. As soon as these are placed before the healer, the guides have come through with remarkable messages and remedies that cure the alcoholics, as well as skeptics and scoffers and other similar patients. What is the most cooperative and ideal behavior on the part of the patient?
Patients keeping appointments on time respond very well. Guides keep time, and when the time expires they go away. That is a difficulty we have had in the healing center. Guides have said, “Tell him to come at 9:00 A.M. tomorrow and we will have something for him.” If the patient is not there, the guides hang on a few minutes, then leave. We have experienced our troubled moments in the center when the appointment has not been kept and the guides are unavailable to the medium. Comments by Reverend Ndzekeli, Mama Mona's husband.
I would like to say a few words about the dangerous loss of our old knowledge with nothing but scientific know-how to replace it. If we could only combine the values of the old and the new.
Our old, instinctive knowledge is receding to the far past as our ancestors pass away. When I grew up as a small boy, stories of the wrath of the gods and of our ancestors were very common. The anger of our ancestors was due to their descendants not keeping to the divine laws as they understood them. My ancestor, who is now my spirit guide, used to tell me miraculous things that happened during our early days. Some of these he never saw, but the stories were brought down from generation to generation.
But man has fallen away from the gods except in a few cases. In the early days of Africa, the gods spoke to every
| SR No. | 006995 |
| Book Title | Five Great Healers Speak Here |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Nancy, Esmond Gardner |
| Publisher | Theosophical Publishing House |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 166 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 15 MB |