Bruno Groening - A Revolution in Medicine

Foreword 

The number of people who find that conventional medicine does not heal them and therefore look for other ways to restore their health keeps growing. There is not only an expanding interest in naturopathy, but spiritual healing, for many years a taboo, claims increasing attention. On the other hand, this subject is repeatedly dealt with in a negative manner by the media which, by indiscriminately citing individual cases, manages to question the phenomenon of spiritual healing in general. 

The plethora of opinions - usually totally devoid of any sound knowledge of the subject and often polemic - underlines the urgent need for a dispassionate report. In particular, the steadily intensifying crisis of the modern health systems, whose explosive costs in the last decades have only been equalled by the rapid escalation in the numbers of sick people, leaves little room for speculative controversies but rather calls for resolute action from responsible circles. 

Based on the principle "Whoever heals is right" 200 hospitals in the National Health Service in Britain adopted spiritual healing at the end of the 1950's. Today about 1800 hospitals welcome spiritual healers.1 The British General Medical Council concedes that "medical science cannot account for the physical recovery brought about through spiritual healing."2 

In Germany, on the other hand, the acceptance of spiritual healing in governmental and orthodox medical circles still seems to be at developing-country level. Spiritual healing does not feature in German legislation and the spiritual healer has no legal recourse. Professional rules and regulations in the Federal Republic even forbid doctors to cooperate with alternative medical practitioners or with spiritual healers.3 It is beyond the comprehension of many members of the medical establishment that an invisible healing power can have an effect on the human organism, for they find it difficult to look beyond the narrow confines of orthodox science. 

If, in this present decade and particularly in Germany, there is still such enormous opposition, prejudice and wrong information about spiritual healing to be overcome, one can imagine what great difficulties Bruno Groening had to face once his sensational healings in the 1950's were publicised. 

Ignorance, envy, ideological opinions formed without recourse to fact and appallingly superficial research created a picture of this man in the media that was in flagrant opposition to the testimonies of contemporary eyewitnesses, professional opinions (see chapter 2) and healing reports made available to me for this book. In addition I was able to speak to many people who had known him. 

In the course of my investigations I obtained a more profound understanding of spiritual healing and the background to the, in part, massive resistance of the established institutions of society to this ancient and primary form of healing became increasingly clear. I realised why a man like Bruno Groening, whose radical representation of the suppressed knowledge of the power of the spirit, offered free of charge and achieving the complete recovery of thousands of sick people declared incurable by conventional healing methods, would have to become a danger to those forces of society whose power was based on the ignorance and suffering of the population. 

Previously unpublished material will shed light on the roles played by medical science and the pharmaceutical industry, with its disastrous integration with medicine and public institutions, but also by the leading churches and their responsibility for the untold misery of our time. 

The motive for writing this book was ultimately the fact that not only during Bruno Groening's lifetime did these healings occur, but even today they continue to occur in an ever-growing number of cases of severe organic ailments, simply by following his teachings.

At a time when faith is sadly lacking, the teachings of Bruno Groening - and as a doctor I am convinced of this - offer healing possibilities I could not have deemed possible. Even sick people who have been labelled "incurable" by conventional medicine are able to access a healing power which does not know the word "incurable". 

It is for these people that I have written this book. But I also call upon my colleagues to realise that they should extend the boundaries of their knowledge as a moral obligation towards their patients, and free themselves from the dogmatic restrictions of one-sided and physiologically oriented orthodox medicine. They should attune themselves to spiritual healing. Only when they learn not to work against, but rather together with the Supreme Physician for all mankind, as Bruno Groening called God, can they break away from the shadowy existence of a man of medicine and become a true doctor. 

The success of doctors who have dared to take this step signals an unmistakable message. 

Dr. Matthias Kamp, M.D. 

"I believe that metaphysical healing, through spiritual methods, has undreamed-of possibilities in the future. And I believe that its range will eventually exceed what we today, rightly or wrongly, call `functional' and also embrace everything organic. I see the dawn of a new age before me when man will consider certain surgical operations, for instance on internal growths, as mere patchwork, and be absolutely horrified that the knowledge of healing was once so limited. Then there will barely be room for time-honoured remedies. Far be it from me to demean modern medicine and surgery; on the contrary, I hold both in great awe. But I have been allowed to see the colossal energies inherent in a personality as well as those in extraneous sources which, under certain circumstances, flow through the former and which I can only describe as Divine. Energies which cannot only heal functional, but also organic disorders, which manifest as symptoms of emotional and mental disturbances." 

Professor Doctor Carl Gustav Jung 4