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...brother, and things seemed to be getting better again. One day Harry's legs began to tighten up and then they began to draw up, until the backs of his heels touched his buttocks. No one seemed to be able to find out why--including the old faith healer who came by to say a verse from Ezekiel and "I cain't say as I've ever seed laigs jest like them. But them is the Lord's laigs and he's seed them laigs and He's laid His hand on them laigs and He knows...
...what else is going on at the 18th annual gathering of the American Society of Dowsers Inc. in the picture-book town of Danville, Vt. (pop. 2,000)? Well, over in the American Legion hall, a psychic healer from Arizona is lecturing about how he knits up broken bones by gently running his hands over the injured area. He also performs exorcisms. In a classroom at the Danville high school, a retired Texas Instruments engineer, Edward Jastram, is busily attributing illness and depression to mysterious "entities" that invade the body, "like mischievous angels." Says Jastram: "Psychedelic drugs especially expose...
Wesleyan University Robert Coles, L.H.D., author, psychiatrist. You are an angry man who at the same time is gentle and compassionate; a Jeremiah who is also a healer...
...football star--and after he is released from the confines of his bed to a wheelchair, he changes. The blond-haired, bearded wonder becomes totally hip--sympathetic, concerned, committed to the anti-war movement rather than despair, and the model responsive lover. His abilities as a teacher and healer are unsurpassed--from helping Fonda achieve her first satisfying orgasm (in a surprisingly graphic love scene) to consoling the chronically depressed brother of Jane's roommate. In the end, Voight's role as an analyst is more important than his role as a veteran. But he is too perfect, especially...
...Prayer Tower. Opened in 1965, the campus cost $150 million and is all but paid for. "I had to have a university to show that it was not a fly-by-night thing," Roberts says. Though he folded "the world's biggest revival tent" in 1967, the former faith healer now preaches via TV; an estimated 60 million people watched his latest variety special...