Press reviews, Germany:
"Familie für den Frieden", dated No. 3, 2002

"Spiritual healing"

More and more people suffering from illness are not being healed. Traditional medicine can’t help them. Thus they look for new ways to regain their health. Long taboo, spiritual healing, too, is gradually gaining great respect. People suffering from pain and worry seek liberation from their suffering, and many turn to the Bruno Groening Circle of Friends, which is able to refer to numerous documented healings in cases where traditional medicine had long before given up.

During the last week in May, I took part in a congress of the Bruno Groening Circle of Friends in Rosenheim. The two-day event was the first of this kind that I have attended, and I would like to say a little about the Circle of Friends, its origin and its activity.

Bruno Groening was born in May, 1906 in Danzig. From childhood on he was seen to have special abilities. He seemed to exert a healing influence on his environment, on people and on animals. Since he was different from the others it was difficult for him from childhood on and he was misunderstood at home, rejected and very often alone. During the difficult period before World War II he had to fight for survival like so many others, yet healings occurred again and again around him.

In 1949 he began to appear in public. In a time of misery and distress - many people still suffered from the horrors of the war - the search for healing from external and internal ailments was incredibly great. Therefore Bruno Groening became the hope of many who had been given up by the doctors. Soon his picture was seen all over in the German press. As a result of severe hostility toward him by the medical profession, who portrayed him as a charlatan and fraud, the press turned against him and he was bitterly opposed. In the end the authorities
withdrew his permission to heal.

In spite of his efforts to cooperate with the public health officers there were numerous lawsuits against him until he died in Paris in 1959.

Bruno Groening was a simple man who felt a deep compassion and love for man and the environment. His motto was, "I don’t heal--God heals through me". He regarded himself as a tool of a higher power, informing man of the existence and omnipotence of God. But he didn’t only want to enlighten man; he also wanted to lead him to find access again to the all-encompassing creative power of God, the Healing Stream that we can absorb into ourselves and which heals us emotionally and physically.

It is a simple matter to absorb this "Healing Stream" into ourselves. According to the teachings of Bruno Groening an open body posture is required; arms and legs should not be crossed; and one should open up his heart. Our thoughts should be free from any negativity; they should turn away from illness and worry, and we should think of something beautiful while at the same time observing our body. Bruno Groening called this external and internal posture "tuning in". It is the prerequisite for receiving the Healing Stream. Sensations occur resembling a current flowing through the body, along with heat, occasionally pain, and often a feeling of inner peace and harmony. Buried feelings are awakened and tears sometimes flow. Healing through the higher power requires no great personal effort - it is a gift of God. This is true even when nothing perceptible occurs; the Healing Stream can also work in an unspectacular manner, as I have often experienced.

A healing will not always occur immediately and without relapse. A "regulation pain", a cleansing process, can appear in body and mind. It is a sign that the body is responding to the Healing Stream. At this point it is important that we don’t draw the illness (ailments) into us again, but rather make ourselves mentally free from them. All illness has a spiritual cause. Negative thoughts and feelings - hate, envy, worry, anger, selfishness - all evil spiritual energies bring disorder to the body and cause physical suffering and illness.

It is often necessary to change our attitude in order to remain healthy. We have to separate ourselves from evil. Therefore we should take 20 minutes in the morning and evening, always at 9:00, to tune into the Healing Stream and restore the divine order in ourselves and in the world around us.

The thoughts and teachings of Bruno Groening are passed on in the Circle of Friends. People who have been healed regularly meet in Communities and ask for the power for themselves and others. They distribute invitations, hold introductory lectures and give people new hope and energy. The Bruno Groening Circle of Friends has spread throughout the world and spiritual healings take place that are meticulously recorded, checked by doctors and published. An especially great effort is made to show this way to doctors, and many congresses are held for this purpose.

All of this happens without any billing or requests for costs, since the entire activity is supported by idealism and donations.