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he is unable to communicate. We believe one is unconscious when living in selfish and greedy ways.
During the Indian occupation of the penal island of Alcatraz some years ago, one Mohawk leader, Richard Oakes, was struck down with a severly fractured skull. He lay in a state of unconsciousness nearly a month. Across the room from him, in the San Francisco General Hospital I.C.U., was another man who suffered similar injuries in a trucking accident. He was not from California and knew nothing of the occupation of the islands. Yet often, I myself, and others heard this man speak of Alcatraz, Richard's wife, Mad Bear, a Tuscorora medicine man, and other things pertaining to the Indian struggle. Richard was never left alone. We touched him, made gifts for him, and waited for the hospital authorities to give permission for Richard to be doctored Indian way. When he finally reached critical crisis and was pronounced clinically dead, the Medicine Men were allowed to do what they had waited a month in the hall for. Richard lived. They said he would never walk or talk again. He did both.
We know so very little of worlds beyond the physical. My own personal experience while in a coma was frequently seeing the events around me from outside my body.
Children are extremely receptive to magnetic and spiritual healing. They have not attached themselves to illnesses and their minds are still free and receptive enough to respond. Babies are like wondrous little sponges and their fields will absorb healing energies quickly, for there is no resistance to shield them from its influences. Because of this sensitivity, one should be very gentle in dealing with infants and little people. The same is true of animals.
