... in the Cratylus, love or desire enters us as an “influx”— a cosmic gift—that, flowing into us from without opens ... our lives and all our relationships to become “a magnetic influence for good,” he turns to an unexpected source: My mind read more...
... Purdue University, and while recovering from the Spanish flu in 1918, he spent hours studying his father’s electrical ... extended beyond his businesses, and the money, power, and influence that they brought were ultimately only a means to a read more...
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... childhood spiritual experiences as being defining early influences on his entire life’s journey. These two episodes gave ... of John’s youth occurred when he was sixteen. The swine flu epidemic was sweeping through wherever there were read more...
... read it. (Laughter) And about that time, 1918, the first flu epidemic (Spanish Influenza) came through the country. At ... and he just couldn’t handle it. I came down with the influenza. My mother came down with it, and the several others in read more...
... 17 (in 1918) of being given up for dead due to the Spanish Flu; he survived the night and dedicated his life to the ... by the loss of his ‘first love’ in the WWI- era Spanish Flu Epidemic, with John subsequently contacting her through a read more...
... sure. The incident that happened to him when he had the flu really shook him, and for whatever reason, the promise he ... things. But then it got sidetracked , with too much influence , other than © 2018 The John E. Fetzer Memorial read more...
... and the Institute he founded were the products of many influences, several of which were esoteric in origin; but given ... his 1967 “This I Believe” essay • three memos on Masonic influences on John • two memos on John’s belief in reincarnation read more...
... But what I would say to your question, about Jim’s influence on John, is that John took these materials to be quite ... an historical context, the importance is: How did this influence John? Larry That’s very important. Tom That’s the read more...
... had a daughter who died at the age of 9—she caught the flu and died in two days. And to my brother the medium said, ... childhood love-of-his-life” who had died in the 1918 flu epidemic—Red Robin, perhaps? But it is at least as likely, read more...