Word: healers
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...paying attention. "The principle here is to look at the mind, body, heart and spirit," says a corporate spokesperson, who asks that her employer be identified only as a "major petrochemical company." This company provides its employees with regular workshops in stress management; it has hired a faith healer to "read auras" for ailing employees and run her hands over their "fields of energy." Even the U.S. Army has commissioned a West Coast firm to explore the military potentials of meditation and extrasensory perception...
...impersonal, costs so much and fails so often. Greg Schelkun, for example, graduated from Dartmouth and was working for a Boston publisher when he got a chance to go to the Orient with his mother, who was suffering from chronic chills and fevers. In the Philippines she met a healer who laid his hands on her and cured her. The healer also cured Schelkun of migraine headaches, which he had suffered for 15 years. "At the time, I didn't know what was going on," says Schelkun. "All I knew was that the headaches stopped...
...Angeles-based Correspondents Michael Riley and Jon D. Hull, Dolan spent the past month digging into the finances and organization of Jim Bakker's Praise the Lord and other major television ministries. While waiting to see Oral Roberts at his university in Tulsa, Dolan came upon the famous faith healer, his pants rolled up, knee-deep in a medium-size artificial pond, where he was anointing 200 of the faithful. Recalls Dolan: "That scene gave me an insight into the impact of these television preachers on their followers...
Since then, few semesters have gone by without a performance in the tiny space, which only holds about 30 people. This semester the space has hosted a work by Stewart Thomsen '83, The War Years, and Brian Friel's The Faith Healer. Says Laurence Thomsen '89, who directed The War Years, "It's an intimate space. My favorite part about it is that it's so stark. It creates its own atmosphere...
...dramatic monologue is probably the hardest thing an actor can master; the fact that only one of the three actors in Faith Healer can get it right should serve as a warning to others eager to get on the soloshow bandwagon...