Unknown Powers (1978) - full transcript

(guns firing)

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(plane engines roaring)

(bombs whistling through the air)

(wind blowing)

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- [Female Narrator] One
of the best-kept secrets

of World War II is that the Allied nations

used astrology as a counter-weapon
against Adolf Hitler.

Dr. John Manolesco,



internationally-known
astrologer and author,

has disclosed that he was a member

of a top-secret organization

charged with outwitting
Hitler's personal astrologer,

Karl Ernst Krafft.

The British War Office
knew that Krafft's advice

greatly influenced
Hitler's military strategy.

It was the task of the
Psychological Warfare Committee

to anticipate this advice by
using Krafft's own methods

of astrological charting to
predict Hitler's next move.

- Adolf Hitler was using
a personal astrology tool.

Plan his Blitzkrieg campaign.

We had to forestall him.

We had to learn all the predictions



that were made to Hitler.

We had to come up with a
counter-strategy, if necessary.

Well, we predicted, we knew in advance

what Adolf Hitler was going to get,

in the way of astrological advice.

When everybody expected
Hitler to invade Britain,

we were convinced that he wouldn't,

because his Jupiter cycle had run out,

and I know that Karl Ernst Krafft

would never advise Hitler

to expand in a non-Jupiter cycle,

because expansion,
Blitzkrieg -type of tactics,

could only be used during a Jupiter cycle.

(plane engines roaring)

The third area of our endeavors

was, previously, the most important one,

because we falsified
almanacs and calendars,

and we printed leaflets with

twisted astrological information

to influence, psychologically,
the German population.

These leaflets were
dropped by the millions

over German cities, German
naval installations,

and so forth, and we had

excellent reports from
Germany that this was

a major demoralizing factor,

especially in the later part of the war.

- What you are about to
see may be quite different

from anything you've
ever witnessed before.

There are no actors involved,

and events have been filmed
as they actually occurred.

You will meet some of the people

who claim extraordinary powers,

and experience their world yourself.

(eerie music)

Time has always seemed a
simple and obvious thing to us,

but, as we try to fathom its depths,

we are realizing that it is riddled

with unexpected mysteries.

For thousands of years,
man considered himself

a captive of time.

Einstein challenged
this theory, and proved

that time is relative.

Now, our conception of time is
being challenged even further

by people who claim to have the power

to see into the future.

Such claims may play havoc

with our contemporary notions of reality,

yet, we are intrigued.

Many of us long to step out of

our humdrum, technological existence,

and experience worlds beyond.

Are there other dimensions around us

that we can't yet detect?

Are psychics, sensitives,
prophets, and spiritual healers

pathfinders to these new worlds?

More and more, scientists
have come to recognize

that the real meaning of Occult

is not weird, or bizarre, but hidden.

They have begun to realize
that it is not just

the dark side of the moon
that needs exploration,

but the unknown side of
our own natures, as well.

(eerie music)

On a summer night in Los Angeles,

a man was murdered in
this apartment house.

The next morning, as they left for work,

residents of the buildings
found pieces of his body

placed in their doorways.

(police sirens)

(eerie music)

Beyond its twisted brutality,

this bizarre police case is unusual

in one other significant way.

Baffled by a lack of solid clues,

and daring to be original in
his search for the killer,

a detective assigned to the case

went to a beautiful woman for help.

The woman was Kebrina
Kinkade, and she is a psychic.

(eerie music)

- [Detective] Kebrina, this
is a picture of the victim

when he was alive.

- This man was mutilated.

I mean this was,

I feel his head gone.

His head and his hands and
his body is being cut up.

Do you know how this man was murdered?

Was he mutilated?

- He was.
- Okay.

- You described it.

- I drew a picture before you got here,

because I got an immediate impression

when I talked to you over the telephone

of what the murderer looked like,

and this is a picture,
here, of what I think

the man that you're looking for,

that killed the victim, looks like.

Now, is there an apartment building

directly in front of the house

where the man was murdered?

- There sure is.
- Okay, well, why is it

that I feel he's not there?

I mean, I get the picture of the victim

being in this building.

Do you know what I mean, like he's,

I hate to say it, but kind of
spread around the building.

- Well, you would be right there.

He's spread around the building.

- Oh, and they cut him, and put him out.

Oh, okay.

I think this man living in
what I want to call a shack,

'cause I can see an apartment
building in front of him,

but, in the back, I want to go behind,

it's like a little lean-to.

You can't even practically
call it a house,

but it's dirty and filthy.

I'm seeing the picture of a knife.

It's a long butcher
knife, and I can see it.

There's a hose out front, or
some kind of a water faucet,

and the murderer has washed off

the knife, to get rid of the evidence.

The manager of the building
had something to do with it.

I want to call penny-pincher.

He had something to do with the victim.

I get the electrical feeling
around him, very strong.

I see a light bulb, and I don't know

if that means anything to you or not.

What?

- Well, this is part of our evidence.

- What?
- The light bulb.

- [Ketrina] I don't understand.

How does the light bulb--

- He was taken out and placed

by one of the parts of the body.

- This man wasn't just
killed, he was dismembered,

because I can see parts of his body

being taken and placed all
over the apartment building.

I mean, it wasn't as
if he was just cut up.

This man deliberately
took, piece by piece,

like a hand, and put it here,

and a head, and put it here,

and pennies, pennies are very important,

because he was a penny-pincher.

I see pennies next to the parts,

and I think that's where
the light bulb came in.

He was a penny-pincher,

because he wouldn't pay his electricity.

He wouldn't pay his electric
payment, or something,

and the man wanted
electricity, and the manager

wouldn't give him electrical
things that he needed,

so the murderer, more or less,

did this as a vendetta
to the manager, too.

Okay, you penny-pincher,
here's a body for you.

You can have a body, and
here's all the parts,

all over your place, now
you clean up the mess,

and, if you can find out who
this man was living with,

and who his roommate was,
you'll know who the murderer is.

(eerie music)

- The department, as a
whole, we don't use psychics.

It's not our policy,
let's put it that way.

We need physical evidence to report,

but, myself, I took my
partner with me on this case.

He was a non-believer,
walked out being a believer.

He was amazed, and so was I.

- In the past year and a
half, I've been instrumental

in helping the police solve six murders,

and I've actually found
24 missing children.

I work with the Los Angeles
District Attorney's office,

and all the different District Attorneys

throughout the United States,
Canada, and even Europe,

and they've been very good
about working with me.

Most people would think
that it would be kooky

to work with a psychic,

but we have a very
intelligent police force now,

and I think that they're finally

accepting psychics as a science,

and this is something that I think

will be more accepted as time goes on,

because I think people
are beginning to realize

that there's more to this world

than what you can just see,
feel, taste, and touch,

and they want all the help they can get,

and, fortunately, I've
been able to prove myself,

because every murder that I've
ever worked on, I've solved,

and every child I've ever
looked for, I've found.

(eerie music)

- Stand by.

You're on.

- Good morning, this is Teddi.

I want to welcome our huge studio audience

here with us at Universal
Studios this morning,

and, of course, I want to
introduce my very special guest,

Bernadine Villanueva.

- Thank you.
- We have had Bernadine

with us a number of times before.

She is a very well-known
spiritual healer and prophetess,

probably one of the most accurate

psychics in the world today.

We have a lot of calls
waiting, as you know,

and, as I said before,
and told you before,

the show, the last time
you were on, we broke the

all-time record for KGBS Radio,

with over 60,000 people trying

to call and get your advice,
and your predictions,

so I am going to go to the telephones now.

If you'll please state
your questions briefly.

Let's get as many calls in as we can,

because a lot of people who wanted

to get in last time couldn't.

520-KGBS is our number.

(woman talking over telephone)

- Mickie and Teddi show.
You wanna talk on the air?

Okay, turn off your
radio and hang on, okay?

- [Bernadine] I feel that
there's been a problem there with

your blood counts.

I see you just losing energy,
it's as if you collapsed.

Physically, as if you're just
completely drained of energy.

With this, there seems to be

a tremendous deficiency with you, also.

I see that you will be better,

and this is very close to you right now.

Tonight, please be with
me between this period

of seven and eight pm.

Many times, the life of a
psychic is a lonely one.

In my own case, I work alone,

and pretty much walk my path alone.

In order to do my work, I must
have my moments of solitude,

of total quiet and peace.

During these precious few
hours that I seek to myself,

many of the visions come to me,

so, really, I would say
that I am never turned off.

It's 24 hours a day.

Let's go to you for a second.

With the hearing, I would
like to see you, also,

after the show, with the children.

Keep them with you.

They belong with you, and
you'll see that things

right now, I just see you

in tremendous turmoil with the children,

and this is not right.

There should be unity with you, and I see

the three of you in meditation.

Watch this happen, but keep them with you.

It is important, for
their safety and welfare.

I have seven children, three
sons and four daughters,

all very psychic, all truly
dedicated in this field.

The nine-year-old son has made
many national predictions.

What does psychic mean to you, Bobby?

- It's like when you get
messages in your mind.

The first time I got
my psychic impression,

when I was around five, and

I started seeing things happening.

First thing I saw happening

was when two trains were
coming together in my mind,

then, a few days later, two
trains did come together,

and it killed many people.

- [Bernadine] The visions,
many times, are terrifying.

The plane crashes are especially bad.

I feel, as it approaches
time for a plane to crash,

I feel this physically,

and there have been
hundreds of plane crashes

accurately predicted before the happening.

I see the plane crash, I see the bodies.

- A child dies in its mother's arms,

and you must share her grief.

A plane crashes in fog,

and a hundred people are burned to death.

You see it before it happens,

and know there is nothing
you can do to stop it.

This is called the gift of prophecy.

Bernadine Villanueva claims the ability

to see visions of your future.

Some of her terrible
visions are accompanied

by an inner feeling that
they can be prevented,

and some of the people
she warns listen to her.

(animal noises)

Doctor Doolittle, as you may have

had the pleasure of discovering,

was a delightful fictional character

who could talk to animals.

He could talks to birds and insects, too.

With his parrot, Polynesia, as a teacher,

and a meticulously-kept notebook,

the kindly doctor worked very hard

to learn the animals' languages.

(silly music)

(monkey screeches)

(swan calling)

If you think our illustration
is a little far-fetched,

drawn from a character
in the children's books,

meet Beatrice Cline.

She talks to animals, too,

and she says they talk back to her.

(silly music)

- Patches is being a lot better today.

The last time I came down here,

they kept making him talk about

a problem that he'd had when he was young,

and he didn't want to tell me about it,

so he got so mad, after a while,

he came over and lifted his
leg and wet all over me!

(laughter)

You are curious!

You know I'm talking to you, don't you,

and you really want to come
over and see me, don't you?

You bring her the little,
tiny, gray mice, don't you,

'cause I'm seeing little, tiny, gray ones,

and I'm seeing the little white ones,

but she says she likes
the gray ones better.

- It was very true, what she said,

about the white mice and all,

'cause I used to feed her white mice,

and she wouldn't eat 'em.

She'd just play around with 'em,

but when I started feeding her gray mice,

or darker-colored mice,
she'd eat 'em right up.

- I wanted to know if (mumbles) was aware

of the spiritual world,
and the world beyond.

- Yes, all animals are very much aware

of the spiritual world, and they can

see non-physical beings with their eyes.

They are not afraid of death.

Animals are not afraid of death,

and I've had older ones
that were very sick tell me,

"I want to go, but I don't
want to leave the family,

"because I don't want to hurt them."

- Can you tell me why the previous owner

of the goat gave him to me?

- He said that, where he used to live,

he was always getting into trouble.

He was constantly kicking at the barns,

digging underneath the corrals,

and there was just no way
the guy could keep him in.

Was this his problem?
- Yeah,

that's basically what it was.

- [Beatrice] But he's
very happy where he is.

He says he's not in with
the female now, though.

- [Goat Owner] No.

- [Beatrice] He says that female

is really a nice, sweet goat.

(laughter)

The most important thing that people

should remember about any animal

is to realize that the
animal is an animal.

It is not a human being,

and, if people can just realize

that an animal does not feel and react

to every situation in life
as we, a human being, would,

they would get along a lot
better with their animals,

and their animals would be a lot happier.

(dogs barking)

(planes engines roaring)

(eerie music)

- [Female Narrator] A
high-rolling Texas oil man,

down on his luck, is mysteriously drawn

to a mystic named Doc Anderson.

The result of their meeting?

17 straight producing wells
without a single dry hole.

All credited to the extraordinary
powers of Doc Anderson.

- Steve, I had a lot of trouble.

I'd go into the petroleum club,

and they'd say, "Please get away from me.

"Don't get close to me, you're jinxed."

They didn't want me
around. I was like a leper!

I'd lease a piece of land somewhere,

everybody would go the other way.

My name then was Dry-Hole Shaw,

and it's a nice thing to be in a hotel,

on your last go-around in a meeting,

and somebody page Dry-Hole Shaw.

That sure did help me with my
prospective investors, too,

but, since then, the
Dry-Hole Shaw's all gone now.

I guess I was the world's
champion dry-hole driller.

I thought the only place you could get oil

was at a service station.

(explosion)

The well blew out.

It blew me 30 feet in the
air, nearly killed me,

and the thing, of course,
that came to my mind then was,

God told me, "If I were you, buddy,

"I'd stay from gas wells."

Steve, before I met Doc Anderson,

I drilled 70 dry holes.

Lost everything I'd
made before that period,

and that was the end of the road.

Water rig left, wanted to pump more wells,

but I'd had it.

There was no way to come out
of that, $875,000 in the hole.

I put a .45 to my head,
and I pulled the trigger,

and it misfired.

Then, I read about Doc Anderson.

I figured, well, I have
nothing to lose at this point,

nothing to lose.

So, I went to see Doc Anderson.

- Mr. Shaw come into my office.

He was distracted,
mentally and physically,

and he talked of suicide,

and I told him, I said,

"How can you expect to be forgiven

"if you take your own life?"

- Wasn't it just possible, considering

the frame of mind you were in at the time,

you were down and desperate,
considering committing suicide,

you had even tried to commit suicide,

that you were very susceptible
to anyone's suggestion?

- I guess I was susceptible to anything.

Any man that has tried
to blow his head off

is pretty susceptible, I guess.

However, nobody knew I was coming there.

I didn't even know I was coming there.

I changed my ticket to Los
Angeles International Airport.

- John was the type of man

that he didn't believe in anything,

anything he couldn't touch.

In fact, I don't think he
believed in me very much.

At the time, I'm sure he didn't.

- When I walked in his office,

I said, "Doc, I wanna tell you."

He said, "No, son, I'm gonna tell you,

"you had a lot of financial trouble,

"you lost over $800,000.

"You're the most skeptical
man I've ever met in my life."

- But I talked to him for a while,

and I did something that I
hadn't done in many years,

is leave my office.

I said, "Son, I think God has
something in store for you.

"I think he has something
in store for both of us.

"I have a feeling, a spiritual feeling.

"My soul tells me to go with you."

- And the next morning,
we left for the oil field,

and, strange thing,

he walked out across the leaves,

and, as he walked across the leaves--

- I started to get weak,

and I looked down at my hands,
and my hand was bleeding,

and, actually, for the
first time, it shocked me,

and I figure I sort of passed out.

Just got weak.

I felt my soul leaving my body.

(suspenseful music)

- First thing that I thought
about was Doc with the blood,

so I started sticking
handkerchiefs in his hands,

and I held onto his arms,
and he just shook me,

just holding onto him.

- Now, I didn't know I
was gonna have stigmata,

but I could feel it.

I've done it before, and my hands bled.

Of course, my spirit left my body.

Fact of it is, I didn't know
exactly what was happening,

but I learned afterwards,
because I was told,

and they drove the flag
where the blood dripped off,

little puddle of blood, and
that was our first well,

a very successful one.

We have struck wells where geologists says

there's no oil there.

- You spoke of this
bleeding from the hands.

Something like that could
really be interpreted

as a theatrical kind of stunt.

How do you explain it?

Were there holes in his hands?

Where was the blood coming from?

- There is no so-called theatrics.

Happened 2,000 years ago on a hill

called Golgotha, in Jerusalem.

Now, those miracles haven't passed.

The day of miracles are still here.

It's a miracle I'm sitting
here, talking to you.

- Stigmata will come on you
when you're concentrating deep,

trying to really help someone.

If I'm trying to help myself, no,

but if I was trying to help you,

if you were in serious trouble,

and concentrate, and project, and pray,

the body is just like a
log, or something lame.

Spirit takes over,

and, after the spirit takes
over, these things happen.

When the stigmata comes, I pass out.

I'm just like a dead man.

(eerie music)

(wind blowing)

(singers vocalizing)

(flute playing)

- The oldest literature known to man

tells of an all-powerful force

underlying everything in nature,

and occurring throughout the universe.

This mysterious force was called prana,

and those who learned how to tap it,

to channel it through themselves,

were said to become like gods.

(mystical music)

But the world was barbarian.

Plunder and root power were

easier to understand than godlets.

Gradually, blood and sand

covered the ancient texts.

Countless generations would live and die

before Western civilization took hold

on the shores of the Mediterranean.

Less than 100 years ago, Western scholars

began to translate what they
took to be ancient Hindu myths,

a literature richly imaginative,

with its talk of cosmic energy

and chariots of fire flown
by gods from the sky.

Every culture in the history of man

has had individuals claiming

to possess extraordinary powers.

Will we be the first to prove

that such powers actually exist?

(gong resounds)

Geniuses,

psychics,

superstar athletes,

masters of the martial arts.

What is it that they all have in common?

(gong resounds)
(martial artist yells)

(East Asian music)

(gong resounds)

(martial artist yells)

(block breaking)

(block breaking)

(East Asian music)

(yelling and grunting)

(fists and feet whooshing)

On the surface, it might seem ridiculous

to compare a brilliant pianist

with an unstoppable running back,

but they have one
significant thing in common.

They are extraordinary.

Why?

Where does their gift come from?

Is it possible that they are able

to tap some sort of force

which is generally unavailable
to the average person?

The Lee brothers, Joo
Bang Lee and Joo Sang Lee,

are masters of the Korean
martial art Hwa Rang Do.

Using key power over internal energy,

they are able, they say,
to make their bodies

lighter, heavier,

hard like steel,

or capable of blocking out pain.

Key power supposedly resides in everyone

in an area about three
inches below the navel,

but only masters have learned

to manipulate it, like the Lee brothers.

They are able to push their bodies

seemingly beyond human endurance

without injury.

(grunts)

(East Asian music)

(martial artist grunts)

A steel wedge pressed against the throat,

struck by blows hard
enough to splinter wood.

(martial artist yells)

(wood breaks)

(martial artist yells)

(suspenseful music)

(man yells)

- [Man] The concentration
aspect is the most important.

Preparatory exercise
beforehand is one method

of building up this power,

controlling it for short periods of time.

Then, when the truck
passes over the stomach,

as long as the mind does
not lose concentration,

then there's no problem.

If he loses concentration,
even for one instant,

then injury can occur.

(men talking)

(truck engine revs)

(suspenseful music)

- It's impossible to tell whether

a phenomenally-gifted athlete
is simply doing things

any good athlete can do,
but doing them better,

or whether he is also tapping
an entirely different level

of human capability.

(martial artists yell)

(bodies hit the floor)

In the extraordinary experiment
filmed by Soviet scientists,

which you are about to see,
there is no such confusion.

The gifted subject is
clearly doing something

people are supposedly not able to do.

Either the film is scientific fraud,

or Nina Kulagina is moving
objects with willpower alone.

(mysterious music)

American scientists
who have seen this film

do not consider it fraudulent.

Madame Kulagina has become quite famous

for her controversial, and
still unexplained, power.

(mysterious music)

Whatever it is, it reportedly
leaves her exhausted

after a session like this.

Doctor Thelma Moss, a
leading American researcher

in extra-sensory phenomena,
was impressed enough

by witnesses' reports of
Madame Kulagina's feats

that she designed some willpower
experiments of her own.

These were in conjunction
with her pioneering work

in Kirlian photography,
which some researchers

believe to reveal some form of
energy surrounding the body.

- [Thelma Moss] Here
we see one man's finger

and another one interacting with him.

As we watch, we can observe
that, while the two fingers

are in fairly close
position to each other,

the person on the left is
blank in this interaction.

As soon as the other
person removes his hand,

the emanations come out
brilliantly all around.

Here, we have an
interaction between two men

who are having an argument.

As they continue with their
verbal fight with each other,

the person on the left
gets weaker and weaker.

By an act of will, the man on the right

is actually erasing that other person,

but, suddenly, he fights back,

(suspenseful music)

and here, you can watch, slowed down,

that extraordinary interaction
between the two men.

- No camera is used to
make a Kirlian photograph.

A weak current of electricity
passing through the film

to an object in direct
contact with the film

produces the picture.

For Kirlian movies, objects,
in this case, fingertips,

are placed against a transparent electrode

and filmed by an ordinary
motion picture camera.

Alright.

You're neither a tenth-degree blackbelt,

nor a mysterious woman from
behind the Iron Curtain.

Let's say you're an ordinary person.

Suddenly, you're singled out by crisis.

A friend is trapped under
the wheels of a car.

You have to lift the car to save his life.

Could you do it?

Most of us have heard
stories of people who did,

and, of course, they're never able

to repeat the action later.

Where did that burst of
superhuman energy come from?

Jack Schwartz says there
was nothing extraordinary

about his powers of concentration

until he found himself fighting
with the Dutch resistance

during World War II.

Suddenly, he had to
become almost superhuman,

just to stay alive.

Now, he is the favorite subject

with several leading
researchers in parapsychology.

- [Scientist] Alcohol to
get rid of any of the oils.

What I'm doing right here.

There's glow on there, just to

evaporate some of the alcohol,

and I just rub some electrode
paste into the scalp.

A little glob more,

and let us repeat this once again.

- [Researcher] Eric.

Keep this up.

Control frontal area.

- [Scientist] It goes into number eight.

- I'm going to push this needle

through the left bicep,
and I'd like to state

it is an unsterilized needle,

and let it totally penetrate.

It will go in on this side
here, on the inside of the arm,

and come out on the outside,

and I'll leave it in for several seconds,

and then we'll pull it out again

to show that, the first place,

and the recording that's,
at the moment, being done

of my brain waves, my heart
rate, and my muscle motion,

and the graph and the skin response

to see what kind of changes
would occur, physiologically,

and then, when I pull it out,

the attempt is going to be
made not to make it bleeding,

and to have the holes
close as fast as possible.

Would you like to comment
something on this?

- Well, I think I'd
like to say, Jack, that,

although, under some circumstances,

this could occur without bleeding,

certainly, most often,
with a needle of this size,

pushing it all the way
through the upper arm,

you would get a reasonable
amount of bleeding,

and particularly if you
happen to hit a larger vein.

- Do you think, Dr.
Leslie, that there will be

any indication of physiological
changes taking place?

- Right, I think that would be

a much better way to evaluate it.

You're hooked up to this apparatus,

and I think that would
give a much better idea

of what response is occurring.

- [Jack] Okay, I will
now start penetrating.

(suspenseful music)

- [Dr. Leslie] There doesn't
appear to be any bleeding

at this point, and,
certainly, I didn't detect any

particular appreciation
of pain on Jack's part.

The instrumentation will, perhaps, show

whether there's been a
change of any sort or not.

- [Jack] Could you give a comment
on what it has penetrated?

Has it gone just through skin,

or has it gone through tissue?

Has it hit some veins?

- [Dr. Leslie] It appears,
Jack, as though it's

gone through, certainly, the skin,

possibly a small vein in this area,

and, I think, through the
bicep's muscle, as well.

- [Jack] I'm now going
to pull the needle out,

and then you just observe
what happens with the arm.

(suspenseful music)

Now, Dr. Leslie, would
you be so kind to put a

physical tourniquet on that, to see

if we can get any blood out of it?

(suspenseful music)

- [Dr. Leslie] Certainly,
there's no evidence

of external bleeding, and
no evidence of any hematoma

underneath the skin.

No swelling of any kind, really.

(dramatic music)

- The Lee brothers.

Nina Kulagina.

Jack Schwartz astonish us.

But, spectacular though they are,

their feats alone can
hardly be said to prove

the existence of an unknown force.

If only we could see it somehow.

Perhaps we can.

Again, through Thelma
Moss' Kirlian photography,

and the mysterious phenomenon
of the phantom leaf.

- [Thelma Moss] Well, this was a very long

and frustrating process, the
search for the phantom leaf,

and it was only after two years

that we finally obtained this.

Our procedure evolved so that we would

cut a leaf directly from the plant.

Then, before the leaf
was ever placed on film,

part of it was cut.

It was then placed in contact

with the four by five piece of film,

covered with a piece of glass,

and with a piece of copper backing.

An electrode was attached
to the stem of the leaf.

Suddenly,

the phantom.

(mysterious music)

Not only do we see the edge of where

the leaf has been sharply cut,

but continuing beyond where, we assume,

the leaf would show, had
it not been cut away.

This particular leaf has
been cut in a pie shape.

We can see that the
phantom gradually emerges.

When the emanations do emerge

from where the leaf has been cut,

it shows the same jet-like emission

that the rest of the leaf reveals.

Here's a phantom-produced,
not in our laboratory,

but by Mr. Robert Wagner
at Cal State, Long Beach.

He chose an ivy leaf for this portrait,

and, very brilliantly, one can see

that the tip of the
leaf is clearly visible,

even though it has been cut away.

- Is the energy body of the leaf,

which we seem to see in
the Kirlian photograph,

related, in some way,
to the invisible energy

with which Nina Kulagina
manipulates objects,

or which the Lee brothers are,
apparently, able to focus?

In the electromagnetic spectrum,

radio and television waves
are transmitted and received

with the use of antennas.

If what we are looking
for is a form of energy,

would an antenna of some
kind help us to find it?

Dr. Paris N. Garefis, a
Los Angeles dental surgeon,

read some amazing accounts
of dental implant operations

performed beneath pyramid structures.

The reports stated that pain and swelling

were significantly reduced,

perhaps due to something
called pyramid power.

- The first operation, a year ago,

was done without the pyramid grids,

because, by that time, we didn't have them

in the ceiling of our operatory.

Today, we will perform this operation

under the pyramid grids,
which, at this point,

are hanging in the
ceiling of our operatory,

and we are very curious to find

to what extent we will have
different type of phenomenon,

pain-wise, healing-wise, as well as

from the personal point
of view of our patient.

We have been using, though, the pyramids,

installed in one of my operatories,

for about four months, and

my observations were very encouraged,

to the point that we
don't have as much pain,

and, in sets of those
heavy operated patients,

we didn't have pain at all.

Swelling-wise, which is a procedure

that always comes post-operatively,

we were doing very, very well,
and, in several instances,

people went right away into their jobs.

In any kind of surgical procedure,

we incise and we break the tissues,

and there is a theory that, that way,

we break that magnetic field.

Pyramids, as antennas,
take, concentrate, give back

bioplasmic energy to
the surrounding field,

and we don't have as much
breakdown of this magnetic field,

therefore, we have a
better kind of healing,

post-operatively, as well
as we have elimination

of the pain procedures.

There is a definite fact that
there is a source of energy

activated through the pyramids.

- This is a pyramid system

which I designed about three years ago,

and it's a very advanced system.

We have been able to sleep as
little as three hours a night

for the last three years, but
very good dream remembrance,

and a very good charge of body energy,

which will give us energy
throughout the rest of the day.

- I have to get up very
early in the morning, and

one that likes to sleep, as I do,

I have no trouble at all getting
up, and feel just terrific.

- The system, itself, is actually a lens

of 25 individual pyramids, curved to

concentrate or focus the pyramid energy

resulting from the shape of the pyramid.

Hi, Courtney!

(baby fussing)

- Hi, sweetheart!
- Hi!

Courtney was conceived
underneath this grid.

We had tried three years to have a child,

and we found, as soon as
we put up the grid, then

conception occurred within 30 days,

and, in fact, sex became
a lot more pleasurable,

and one's sexual awareness
or sensitivity to it

is increased dramatically,
and this is the result

of one nice try!
(laughter)

- All of these theoretically
and seemingly-disparate forces

are being evaluated scientifically today.

Is it possible that they
are all different aspects

of something in the universe

which we are only now
beginning to glimpse?

Visionaries say that we are
multi-dimensional beings,

but that we identify with
only one level, the physical.

We think that we are our bodies.

We consider ourselves individual entities.

The development of the individual

is a fairly recent
occurrence in our evolution.

We tend to think of it
as the ultimate level,

but is this necessarily so?

There are those among us who say

that this image of ourselves
limits our further growth,

pointing to the ecological imbalances

that have forced themselves
upon our awareness.

They say that the time has come

to participate in the forces of nature

which we have, unsuccessfully,
tried to master.

Perhaps, then, we will
find that our real selves

are far greater in scope
than we have ever imagined.

Perhaps we will discover
that we, ourselves,

are the unknown force.

(mysterious music)

(bird cooing)

(wheel spokes clanging)

- I feel, when you're dead, you're dead.

You either go to heaven or hell,

and live in a coffin forever.

That's about it.

(tree limb hits the ground)

- When a person dies, he's dead.

Just like the Word said, he's gone.

It's the end, it's the living end.

There's nothing left.

- I need help.

I need people to pay
attention to my fear of dying.

I need them to let me feel it,

and I need them to help me.

(voice breaking) It's so hard
to ask for help like that.

- I lost my fiance in a plane crash,

but I remember the day
that he appeared to me

vividly.

He stood in a blaze of light,
and he held out his hands,

and he said just two
words, "Please believe."

(piano chord plays)

- We would ask, now, of death.

(choir vocalizing)

You would know the secret of death,

but how shall you find
it unless you seek it

in the heart of life?

For life and death are one,

even as the river and the sea are one.

In the depth of your hopes and desires

lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.

Your fear of death is but
the trembling of the shepherd

when he stands before the King

whose hand is to be laid
upon him in great honor.

Is the shepherd not joyful
beneath his trembling

that he shall wear the mark of the King,

yet is he not more
mindful of his trembling?

(tires screeching)

(choir vocalizing)

For what is it to die

but to stand naked in the
wind, and to melt into the sun?

(tires screeching)

(car crashing)

(glass shattering)

Bring yourself out of mourning,
and to a moment of peace.

Think on what it took
to create a human life.

In the time of pregnancy, a woman

tells the entire story of evolution,

and in every one of us is that story,

starting from one seed, into a fish,

into a mammal, into
man, breaking of the sac

and coming into life.

(wind blowing)

(choir vocalizing)

- It has been said that, of
all the world's creatures,

only man has been cursed
with the knowledge

that he must, one day, die,

yet, down through the
ages, we've also been told

that there is a world of
the spirit beyond death.

Is it possible the real curse
is not our knowledge of death,

but our ignorance of immortality?

Would we live our lives differently

if death held no fear for us?

We only live once, we are warned,

and we try to crowd as much
into that lifetime as possible.

At my back, I always hear

time's winged chariot, hurrying near

And yonder all before us lie

deserts of vast eternity.

(wind blowing)

How we do grieve,

but how would the death of
our loved ones affect us

if we could really believe
that they have simply

entered another dimension of existence

where we will soon join them?

If some part of our being does, in fact,

survive the disintegration
of our body, what is it like?

Where does it go?

Are we reincarnated, born
again as a new human being?

Do we enter another system,
a higher plane of reality?

Fear and grief, death's grim mourners,

have driven man to seek answers

to the riddle of immortality
for thousands of years.

For some, faith alone and
some sort of hereafter

has never been enough,

while the idea of our total annihilation

at the whim of nature is intolerable,

but people have continually
sought evidence,

convincing evidence, of
a world beyond death.

Off the coast of Fort
Lauderdale, Dr. A Brown,

a physician and amateur diver,

experienced the most extraordinary event

40 feet beneath the ocean.

- The divers got too close, and the eel

got tangled up in his glove.

While trying to get the
eel off the diver's glove,

I ran out of air.

In the excitement of
fighting with the eel,

I forgot about air.

I didn't experience fear at this point.

I was excited about whether
I would make it or not,

but the worst I expected was to pass out,

which some divers do
when they run out of air,

so I relaxed and started up,

and I didn't become excited or fearful

until the Fort Lauderdale
tour boat pulled over,

and I started look up
through the glass ports

at all these people, and I don't know

who was putting on a show for who.

Apparently, I was the joke piece this day,

because the announcer was
announcing, "Look at the divers,"

so I had to scoot to the
side, try to survive.

Brushing past the large props,

I went to the side of the boat.

A speedboat decided it would squeeze

between the tour boat
and our anchored boat.

I'd just broke the surface in time to see

the front of the boat right at my head.

I rolled forward, the boat struck me,

and I slid right down to
the center of the boat,

and I went through the prop.

This drove me down in the
water approximately 40 feet.

All kinds of thoughts
went through my mind.

I was worried about what was happening,

and I realized that I was dying,

that this was death,

and I could see a little trickle
of blood flowing past me.

I felt shock.

My arms were extended, and
I was just floating free.

At 40 feet, you're weightless.

You don't go up or down, you just float,

and it's like being in space,

and, all at once,

a deep relaxation came over
me, and I felt as though

someone had thrown a switch,
and everything in me relaxed.

I could see sea life, sea anemones,

all of the tropical fish,
and I was so absorbed

in this beautiful scene

with a clarity that I'd never had before,

I forgot all about what
was happening physically,

and this awareness, or this visual impact,

grew, it was so intense, and it was like

dropping water in a pond, and it began

to expand like a wave.

It kept growing and growing,

and I'd expanded clear around the globe.

After overlapping the
planet several times,

this awareness gathered
potency, and, all at once,

it burst free, and I was totally
free, flying through space,

outside of the confines of the earth.

My awareness, with full
vision, was traveling outward,

and I was touching other planets.

I was aware of going beyond this universe

into other galaxies,
and it just kept going,

all 360 degrees, expanding.

I observed other life forms,
other worlds with people,

and it just kept going and going.

(singers vocalizing)

I was shaken away from
this when I felt a hand

reach up and grab my shoulder,

and then I was aware
of someone pushing me,

pulling me through the water
and pushing me to the surface,

and then, after being pushed
up onto the deck of the boat,

I was lifted into the
Coast Guard helicopter,

and paramedics were shining
lights into my eyes,

and they were talking with each
other, saying, "He's dead,"

and, all the time, I'm very awake,

and I'm literally, to
myself, shouting, "I'm okay!"

But my voice isn't working,
nothing's happening,

and, until they landed on the hospital pad

and used the respirator
on me, I was still quiet,

and then, all at once, this
switch that turned off,

all of a sudden, I felt it turn on,

and the life force
jumped back into my body.

It was like sort of an electric shock.

As a doctor, I realize that it's

not an easy thing to explain

how something like this can happen.

Logically, you do not survive after

four or five minutes without air.

The only explanation that I have is that,

in this experience, my body
did, in fact, shut off,

and, by not having any requirements,

my organs survived this experience.

(suspenseful music)

(mysterious music)

- Spirit photography is nearly
as old as the camera itself.

In the earliest use of
films, mysterious photographs

with unexplained figures
in the background have been

haunting the seemingly-ordinary
people who took them.

Are these apparitions
the products of fakery,

or is photography somehow
capable of recording

what the naked eye cannot see?

(mysterious music)

The sound of footsteps walking downstairs

when no one is there.

We are at Raynham Hall, Norfolk, England.

This apparition is said to
resemble a female ancestor

of the estate's current owner.

Queen's House, at the
Naval College in London.

On June 19th, 1966, Dr. Ralph W. Hardy,

an orthodox Methodist minister,

made a time-lapse photograph
of this staircase.

A ghostly, hooded figure appeared somehow.

A woman in Minnesota snapped
a picture of her husband.

Suddenly, she said, a free-floating hand

appeared on top of the television set.

Before she could get a
picture of it, it disappeared,

but, when the photograph of
her husband was developed,

the disembodied hand
appeared on the TV screen.

The Phantom Bulb-Snatcher of Lake Tahoe

was caught by a woman
photographing her new house.

When a light bulb suddenly went out,

she replaced the bulb
and took another picture.

When the photos came back, she discovered

this possible explanation for
why the bulb had gone off.

(mysterious music)

This old-fashioned portrait has been

in the family since 1888.

The little girl in the photograph

is a sister of the elderly woman,

but the family says
there was never a picture

taken of the youngster, who
died at the age of seven.

The family can't even identify

the other two faces in the photograph.

(mysterious music)

A bizarre substance called ectoplasm

is said to be released by a medium

while in a certain state of trance.

Ectoplasm, supposedly,
can vary in consistency,

from vapor to solid.

It is said to smell like
ozone, and to range in color,

from white, which is
most common, to black.

(eerie violin music)

This is, reportedly, ectoplasm,
being materialized here.

Spiritualists believe that
ectoplasm is drawn from a medium

by a spirit influence,
often forming itself into

representations of spirit
entities, or have human features,

like the human-looking faces here.

Those who claim to have
handled ectoplasm in seances

report that it has an
alive, pulsating feeling.

Some mediums forbid
touching it, insisting that

this could result in their death.

Whether spiritualist-inspired,
biophysically-produced,

or ingeniously-hoaxed,
ectoplasm has become

part of the dramatic
trappings of the seance,

but, until the day when we see

cooperation between scientists and mediums

supposedly capable of producing ectoplasm,

we will not know whether
it is the stuff of which

disembodied spirits provide
proof of their survival,

or, simply, a grotesque gimmick

by which charlatans manipulate
the emotions of the gullible.

(eerie music)

Have you ever walked
into an unfamiliar room

and been overwhelmed by the sensation

that you had been there before?

Met someone for the first time

you were sure you had known before?

Why do some people feel ties

to a particular time in history,

or experience coming home
to a foreign country?

The French have a term
for this eerie sensation.

They call it deja-vu, or seen before.

Those who believe in reincarnation

offer a possible explanation.

They maintain that, because
we've lived many previous lives,

we have made connections with
many more people and places

than those we are consciously
aware of in this lifetime,

yet we retain, subconsciously,
the indelible impressions

of these past encounters and experiences.

Regression is a psychological technique

used to reach back into
these alleged past lives.

By getting in touch with
past life experiences,

one may gain insight into
the continuity of life,

the eternity nature of
one's individual existence.

Death, then, is seen as part
of a perpetual evolution,

rather than an end, in itself.

Sometimes, the subject
is even taken through

the experience of a past death,

with often dramatic results.

- I believe that God is a merciful God,

and, because he is, he
gives us many opportunities

to come back and grow,
both mentally, physically,

and spiritually, until we can
grow to a higher consciousness

through the process of reincarnation,

because, if all of nature recycles,

why not man?

And what is your married name now?

- James.

- [Woman] Did you ever have any children?

- [Girl] One's five, it's a little girl.

- [Woman] Can you see yourself at 50?

- Yes. We have a ranch now.

- [Woman] Can you see yourself at 60?

- Mm-hmm.

- [Woman] Alright. Are you still happy,

and everything is alright?

- Mm-mm.
- What's the matter?

- One of my children's just died.

- Of what?
- Train crash.

- [Woman] How many people were killed?

- 20, 25.

- Now that you've been able
to see the train crash,

advance in time,

and I want you to take me
to the hour of your death.

- I'm about 63 or 64.

- [Woman] Okay.

- I'm suffering from a concussion.

I tripped down the
stairs, and I hit my head.

- [Woman] And you hit your head?

- Yes.

- [Woman] Is somebody taking care of you?

- Yes, a doctor, but he's not
sure if I'm gonna make it.

- Now, I want you to
rise up above yourself.

Can you see yourself rise above your body?

What does it feel like?

- There's no more pain.

- Does that feel good?

Alright, if you are shot with an arrow,

how long is it before you die?

- Hours.

- [Woman] Hours. Does
anybody try to help you?

- I was alone, just looking at the sky.

- [Woman] What do you feel right now,

as you're laying there, dying?

- My body getting numb.

- [Woman] What do you feel about this man?

- [Man] He hates me.

He wanted my position,
and his face is very mean.

He's fat.

- [Woman] Rise up, and then look down.

Can you see your body?
- Yes.

- [Woman] Alright. How do you feel now?

- Light.

- [Woman] Open your eyes.

Just open your eyes.

- Ever since I was small, I was afraid

of the Chinese opera mask.

Whenever I look at them, I get a chill,

and now I realize why, because

the person who shot me looks
like the Chinese opera mask.

Had the same features.

- [Woman] And what about your stomach?

Why are you, what's going on?

- Yeah, I always have stomach problems,

and there's sort of a hollowed hole here.

Now I know it's where the arrow landed.

- [Woman] And you can still feel it now?

- [Man] Yeah.

- [Woman] Try to visualize
a door. Any kind of door.

Just let it come to
your subconscious mind.

Do you see a door?

What does it look like?

- It's a double door.

- A double door?
- Yes.

- Alright. I want you to open the door.

- Okay.
- I want you, quickly,

to step through it.

What do you see?

- A well.
- Go to the well.

- Alright.
- Alright.

I want you, now, to get a bucket,

and I want you to fill it full of water.

I want you to look into the pail of water,

and quickly see the reflection.

What do you look like?

- A little boy.
- A little boy.

- [Woman] How old?

- Six.

Six, seven, somewhere in there.

- What does your father do for a living?

- He works with horses, he shoos horses.

- [Woman] Go to your
father, where he works.

- Okay.
- Alright.

Quickly go there.
- Alright.

I see the fire, it's a fire pit,

and there's horseshoes around,
and I see some furniture

that looks like he's been working on.

He has talents.

He can do anything.

- [Woman] Alright, I want you, now,

to let yourself advance in time.

I want you to see yourself
go through the years.

Try to see yourself--
- I'm wanting to cry.

- [Woman] What's happening
there, at that time?

What's happening?

- Something's happened. He's gone!

- What's wrong?
- I think he's died.

- [Woman] How did he die?

- I think a horse fell on him.

- How did it happen? Describe it to me.

- I called to him!

And then it come back on him!

(man sobbing)

- It's alright, it's alright.

- And the horse jumped up and kicked him.

- It kicked him?
- Yeah.

- [Woman] Alright, okay.

It's alright.

You don't have to be afraid.

This all happened in the past, okay?

You don't have to be afraid of the past.

It's alright, 'cause
you don't have to worry.

Your past can't hurt you.

(air puffing)

(liquid bubbling)

- [Male Narrator] The last
few minutes before death

can be one of the most
enlightening experiences

of a lifetime.

Tim Mings has only a short time to live.

- Feels good.

It's an interesting sort of cave.

I wonder if people find this often.

There's a rock.

Let's sit on the rock for a while.

It's beautiful, peaceful, perfect.

You are totally free, Tim,
totally free from pain.

Your breathing is perfect.

You're perfect in all ways.

Tim, I want you to experience

and feel that peace and fluidity.

Feel it, reach out, touch it.

Feel the water.

Smell the water, Tim.

Take the water and splash it
on your arms, on your chest.

- [Mrs. Mings Voiceover]
My friend was trying

to help Mr. Mings be more relaxed,

and have more control over his body,

so that he could endure this.

He is very weak.

We had a very serious time last night,

and talking a leading a person down paths,

you are helping them to relax the body,

so that the spirit has more
chance to control the body,

and you find a lesser
physical reaction to pain.

- [Therapist Voiceover] What
I've been doing with Jim is

working with him to relieve
any amount of tension I can,

and I can help him get away from himself,

away from the pain for temporary periods.

The things that Tim is anticipating,

because of the release from the pain,

is far greater, at this point
in time, than the pain itself.

Tim, are you afraid of dying?

- No, I have no fear of dying,

but, when you have cancer,

and you're in the condition that I'm in,

the one thing you do know is

that you can no longer
perform your daily functions

that you have always performed,

and the misery,

it is hell on earth, at times.

Indescribable.

No way you can describe it.

(deep, wheezing breath)

Just to live to go through that

when everything else has come to an end,

and I see no point in it, and

I prefer to die, myself.

(wheezing)

(coughing)

- You're hearing my voice.

- [Mrs. Mings Voiceover] He
becomes very frustrated, and,

at times, almost panicked,
because of a lack of air.

- I'm going through the cough area,

and soothing, and breathing better.

- And the most important thing
is there's no fear of death,

there's total acceptance,
total recognition.

It's inevitable.

In this particular case, he
knows that it's very soon.

Most of it's done.

So, for Tim, I believe
it opened new doors.

Evaluation processes,
straightening things out,

and I think, in many ways,
it's been a benefit to him,

and I think that's very
important, and I feel that

people, in general, should try to help

someone that's passing over,
not pretend it doesn't exist.

I wish more people could find the peace

and the tranquility that we have found.

The thing that I feel for my husband

will be a loneliness, and a deep grief,

because of a short of
companionship of 35 years,

but I won't feel a sorrow for him.

I know that our spiritual companionship,

and the love we have
shared, will go on forever.

(liquid bubbling)

(somber guitar music)

(woman vocalizing)

"Death be not proud,"
wrote the poet John Donne,

more than three centuries ago,

"For those whom thou
think'st thou dost overthrow

"Die not, poor Death."

Dr. Kubler-Ross's 10-year
study of death experiences

has convinced her that
there is life after death.

Of hundreds of people
declared clinically dead

who were later revived,

not one was afraid to face death again.

You know, these people are
the only real experts we have

on the experience of death.

When they speak of dying as
an indescribably beautiful

transition to another world,

why does death terrify us so,

if not from our own ignorance?

This blind fear exacts a
terrible cost in human suffering.

Perhaps fear, then, is our real enemy,

while death may be only change.

(audience cheering and whistling)

(musicians playing and
singing religious song)

- He told me things that no human being

in an ordinary state of
consciousness could possibly know,

and, even though I was a lawyer,

and, even though I'm a skeptic,

I had to be convinced,
because what's real is real.

What I could see, I could see, and then,

he told me about my back,

and he told me about all
the treatments I'd had,

and how they hadn't worked,

and then he reached out
his hand, and he said,

"In the name of Christ, you're healed!"

And my pain was gone, and
now, a year and a half later,

it's still gone, and
I praise God for that!

(audience cheers and applauds)

(crowd sings upbeat gospel song)

- What is the mysterious
force called healing?

Western science and
medicine have traditionally

looked for answer in the laboratory.

Startling and sophisticated
methods of healing,

predating the beginning of
science by thousands of years,

have generally been ignored or ridiculed.

The scientific method to man's

controlled experimental
conditions, and results,

which can be measured and
duplicated for verification,

but, today, we may be on the threshold

of balancing the scientific
side of our nature

with its non-rational counterpart,

the vast world of human
knowledge and belief,

ranging from orthodox
religion to the Occult.

Modern technology is finally

enabling a few pioneering scientists

to measure and verify
extremely subtle energies,

which science has long
refused to acknowledge,

phenomena which, until
now, have been detectable

only by those rare individuals

with extraordinary sensitivity
called mystics and psychics.

In the present atmosphere of tolerance,

which prevails in much of society

and the scientific
community, toward the study

of so-called paranormal phenomena,

nothing strikes so strong a chord

as the voice crying, "I am healed."

(wind blowing)

(snake hissing)

(orchestral music)

The Caduceus of Mercury,
symbol of medicine.

Could it have originated
as an Occult symbol

for a system of healing far older

than the physical science of medicine?

Such a theory maintains that
the staff of the caduceus

represents the human spine.

The two snakes symbolize
Kundalini, or serpent fire,

a tremendously powerful
force believed to lie dormant

at the base of the spine
in all human beings.

Although alien to most Westerners,

the principle of Kundalini
is significant in Hinduism,

yoga, and most mystical
and Occult doctrines.

It is gradually being
introduced in the West

as an element of bio-energy
forms of therapy.

Supposedly, the rare individual

who can learn to tap this natural force

will attain an increasingly-higher
level of consciousness,

as symbolized by the
wings of the caduceus,

even eventually being able
to leave the body at will.

(gentle orchestral music)

This esoteric interpretation
of a familiar, yet mysterious,

symbol in the midst of everyday reality

may be an important key to understanding

the phenomenon of
psychic or faith healing.

Many alleged healers claim
that their powers are directed

not to the physical body,
which we can see and touch,

but to far more subtle
energy bodies surrounding it.

(church bells ringing)

For some, Kathryn Kuhlman was a saint.

To others, she was sort-of
superstar of the bizarre,

a possessed-looking
woman in a flowing gown

whose temple of healing was the TV tube.

One thing fairly certain
about the charismatic woman

who liked to call herself
the Handmaiden of the Lord

was her ability to
transfer a strange power

to those with whom she came in contact.

- [Kathryn Kuhlman Voiceover]
I stood there, amazed,

in 1948,

when the woman

told me that she'd been healed of a tumor

in Franklin, Pennsylvania.

I was awed.

Oh, but this Mr. Orr came,

and said that he'd
received sight in an eye,

because I'd never touched
him, I'd never prayed for him.

I, too, was curious as
to what had happened.

Recently, the St. Louis Globe Democrat

reported that, since 1948,

and this is a figure that they gave,

that at least 2 million people

had been healed by the power
of God through this ministry.

- At one time, I thought

this was phony, but,
when it happened to me,

I'll just tell the
whole world that this is

the truest thing that ever was,
and I've seen healings here

that'll make your hair stand on end!

- Hi!

My name is Carol, and I
had a healing last month.

I had ankylosing spondylitis, which is

arthritis of the small
joints of the spine,

and it has been verified by x-rays

that calcification had set in,

and the doctors had confirmed
it as being incurable,

and that it would get progressively worse.

I had a healing, and my spine is straight,

and I'm fine, and praise the Lord,

I'm better than I have ever been,

and I'll never be the same again!

(crowd talking)

- Two million people.

This is what the news media has given.

That's the reason you know
the ministry needs no defense.

(laughs)

The miracles of healing need no defense.

Sitting there, there are
thousands who are watching,

and they may feel as though

that I am over-dramatic when someone is

winfully healed by the power of God.

What they don't understand is

that I'm just as thrilled
with the very last miracle

that I saw God performed
as the first time.

There are no words in the human vocabulary

to describe spiritual

experiences and emotions,

because these things are spiritual,

but as real as the air that you breathe.

- I thought they needed
more air conditioning,

I was getting so terribly hot,

and then, all at once, when
I turned to look at Bernie,

my head turned without holding it up.

Now I can feel my hands and everything,

and I noticed, as soon as I
stood up, I could feel my feet,

and, with multiple sclerosis,
you don't have any feeling.

- I was a 245-pound
vegetable, all humped over,

stiff neck, left side paralyzed,

as I walked in this auditorium.

God performed a miracle, and he

straightened my body completely up.

I had no ill feeling, and
my hands straightened up.

I could turn my neck, my
left side had use in it.

I was a new man.

- I know, from my own experience,

and my 30 years in surgery

and working with patients of this kind,

that this is medically impossible,

that this has to be a miracle of God,

to give me this healing of my back,

and to relieve this constant
pain that I had in my leg.

- [Interviewer] How do you feel now?

- I feel vibrant.

I feel like I could shock the world.

- [Interviewer] By doing what?

- Praising the Lord.
(interviewer laughs)

- I was blind, and was lead
around like blind people.

- [Interviewer] Had you
seen a doctor about this?

- [Woman] Oh, yes, for years.

- [Interviewer] And what
happened this afternoon?

- I don't know.

I started to cry, and
I'd never cried much,

because I think that's one
of the things about glaucoma.

You don't have much fluid
in the eyes or something,

and then, I thought I saw the stage,

but I didn't believe it.

I thought it was in my
mind's eye that I saw it,

and I took my glasses
off and rubbed my eyes,

and I said to Tequan,

"I see a little boy in a green sweater."

I was stunned!

I couldn't say anything!

I kept wanting to cry, but I couldn't!

It was just that I was
walking around, dazed.

I couldn't believe I was really seeing it!

- Even though I believe in
the supernatural power of God,

I'm not personally immune to sickness.

I, too, can become ill.

- Kathryn Kuhlman died
following open heart surgery.

It's likely, however, that
her legacy of love and healing

will be an inspiration
for generations to come.

The lady from the little
town of Concordia, Missouri,

made too strong an imprint on
too many millions of people

to be soon forgotten.

(dramatic music)

What you're about to see is
upsetting to many people.

However, the controversial nature

of what is known as psychic surgery

must not stand in the
way of the West's attempt

to explore and understand
this mysterious phenomenon.

- [Woman] Sometimes they feel the touch,

or the pushing down.

They feel pressure when he's pushing down

on a particular part of the body,

but there is no actual pain.

They're using their bare hand.

There is no sanitation,
no anti-sepsis whatsoever,

and, as far as the
operating area is concerned,

or even the area on the body
that is being operated on,

but no one has ever gotten an infection

as a result of these operations.

There are some who believe
that it is psychologically,

but when you go out there,
say, with a cancerous tumor,

or with a crippled bone, or something,

and you come back without
that cancerous tumor,

and with your limb working again,

well, something happened.

It is not necessary to open
the body and show blood.

Only in primitive areas is this done

for the benefit of primitive people.

The (mumbles) kind of stumbled on this,

and they insist on seeing the blood.

When the healer takes his
hand out of the opening,

it closes by itself, and there's no scar.

A reason that there is no scar

is because there's no incision made.

There's no sharp object, no scalpel used

to damage the tissue.

There's no anesthesia, no hypnosis.

The healers control the
bleeding and the pains.

Representatives who have
taken an official stand,

and a negative stand, is the
American Medical Association.

They are the ones who
definitely call this quackery,

and who say that it's just absolute fraud,

but it's interesting to see that

no scientific team from the AMA

has ever gone out there to investigate.

- Why did you go to the Philippines?

- There were three things,
actually, that I went there for.

The main one was endometriosis.

Endometriosis is a condition
in which the endometrium

has grown into the muscle
wall of the uterus,

and the result of that is
excess bleeding and pain.

I had low back pain,

basically from a slipped disc,

and also, a few months previous to this,

I'd been in an automobile accident,

and had a whiplash injury.

- How have you felt since you returned?

Have you been back to a doctor since then?

- Since being in the Philippines?

- And being treated?
- Yes.

I was back, obviously,
before the endometriosis,

and, as far as the doctor's
concerned, I'm just fine.

He was very pleased.

The whiplash injury is completely healed,

and I don't have to have a hysterectomy.

When I first went into the room,

I was, really, a little nervous.

However, there was no pain at all.

There was a kind of pulling, and tugging,

and kneading that I could feel,

and, actually, fairly deep.

It wasn't simply on the
surface, but there was no pain,

either in the uterine operation,
nor in the back operations.

The only time there was something

slightly different from that was when

Juan Blance was working with me.

He said he felt that I
still had a blood clot

connected with the whiplash injury.

He was working on my neck, and

made an incision which I felt,
sort of like a razor cutting.

- [Man] Oh, yeah, I see it right here.

Just a razor hairline.

- Right.

He didn't come close
enough to use a razor,

either in my case, or with
the other men that I saw.

What I saw Juan Blance do is

to stand about 18
inches, or two feet, from

the area that he's working on,

and make a motion in
the air with his finger,

which did not touch the body at all,

and an incision appears.

In this particular case,
he used my hand in the air,

made a motion in the air with my finger,

and, as soon as the incision appeared,

I was able to inspect the area.

- Besides having a Ph.D. in counseling,

Dr. Veets is a licensed
physical therapist,

quite knowledgeable in the composition

of the body's various tissue layers.

She examined the incision

that Juan Blance, apparently, made,

using his hand to guide her finger.

She was able, she said,
to distinguish clearly

the appropriate layers of
fat, muscle, and tissue.

A phenomenon, primarily, of
the Philippines and Brazil,

psychic surgery will strike
many as entirely alien

to healing practices in the West.

(crowd cheering)

(singing uptempo gospel song)

(crowd screaming)

- Now, if each of you
would give a fond embrace,

a salutory kiss of
greeting to your neighbor.

Let's fill this atmosphere
with warmth and love.

(organ playing)

(crowd talking)

How much I love you.

Now, as we medidate, God is love.

Love is a healing remedy.

We're going to reach out to areas

where man has seemed to have difficulty.

As we concentrate, let the gifts

of the Holy Spirit might function,

or what the secularists might
speak of as the paranormal,

let us believe.

Let us believe.

Sister Ingram,

you're concerned about

losing your sight.

You're not able to see me clearly.

Things just a blur to you.

You have to stumble around,
lately, through crowds,

and are not able to

see even people's faces
close-up to you clearly.

- It's true.

- You've told me nothing
about your condition,

is that correct?
- No, I haven't.

(baby cries)

- Give that little sweetheart
a little bit of love.

(baby stops crying)

Thank you, baby.

(crowd cheers and applauds)

Peace.

Now,

take your glasses off.

Let's just dare in our face.

We've seen Sister Brown, here,

who was blind totally, healed,

saw one of our sisters,
blind from her childhood,

it could be hysterical
blindness, whatever.

We're not concerned. She was
blind, and could not see.

Now,

look at my face.

I'm going to hold up some fingers.

You concentrate hard.

I love you, the people love you,

and, most importantly, Christ loves you.

What do you see?

How many fingers?

- Three.

(crowd cheers and applauds)

(crowd screams)

- One finger.
- One finger!

(crowd cheers and applauds)

You don't even need your glasses, child!

Let's all be thankful,
as she cries back there,

let's cry and rejoice with her.

(women screaming)

Edie?

Are your fingers numb?

In your right hand.

And you're having enormous
headaches in your head.

- Yes.

- Reach your hands out.

Reach your hand out to me.

Reach the fingers out
that are bothering you.

(crowd cheers and applauds)

Now, is the pain gone?

(crowd cheers and applauds)

(choir sings gospel song)

Willa May Conley.

Who's Willa May Conley?

I had a sensation about you.

Did you once lose a loved one,
I think, the name of James?

- Yes, that's my brother.

- [Jim Jones] He was 14 years of age, and

he was reading something,
and someone asked him

what he had, and he
didn't want to give it,

- Yes, he did.
- And that person

shot him to death.
- Yes, he did.

- [Jim Jones] I'm saying
this to give you faith,

so that you can mount up,
because you've been feeling

pain here, in the chest,
- Yes.

- And in the back,
- Yes.

- And you injured your
foot, some time ago,

and you've been having
constant pain in it,

where you had to move around with a chair.

- Yes, I did.

- I do not know you, and you've told me,

or no one else, the things
I've just mentioned.

Is that true?
- No, you sure haven't.

- [Jim Jones] Now, where's your pain?

- I don't feel it, Jim!

(crowd cheers and applauds)

(choir sings gospel song)

- [Jim Jones] The doctor has
relieved you from your work,

in the second row.

You have a bad spinal condition.

- Yes.
- And your hip is injured.

- [Woman] Yes.

- [Jim Jones] Step from your wheelchair.

Step from your wheelchair.

Try it, just try it, just try it.

We have nothing to lose,
we have no face to lose,

because we've said we're no panacea,

but I have seen more healings here

than I've ever seen anyplace.

(crowd cheers and applauds)

I love you.

Jesus Christ loves you.

Jehovah Jireh,

all the goodness of all
the world's great religions

in the name and the mercy
and the goodness of Jesus,

wherein I stand,

come forth, my dear.

Stand up.

Take that step.

Bless your heart, take that step.

(crowd cheers and applauds)

Now, now, come on, now.

Now, now, move forward.

Move forward.

(woman screams)

Move forward.

Move forward.

Move forward, darling.

You can do it.

Move forward.

Move forward, child, sweetheart.

Just a moment, sir, just
keep her from falling.

Now, move forward,

freely, freely, freely.

Now, begin to exercise the joint.

(woman screaming)

I love you, Christ loves
you, the people love you.

(crowd cheers and applauds)

Now, Sister, walk briskly.

Walk!

Walk briskly!

Walk!

Walk!

(crowd screams)