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  THE QUESTION:  I would suppose that one of the other more popular accounts was your rather dramatic healing of the blind man.  Is this particular account one that you actually remember?  

 

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THE ANSWER:  Yes, and it too ranks along with the others questions thus far as having a less than dramatic explanation that simply doesn't qualify the reported event as some unique miracle more commonly associated only with that of some divinely decreed “gift.”  I would suppose that there are those that would wish to believe that I actually touched some totally blind man due to some irreversible injury or gross malformity and that the man somehow miraculously regained his full and natural sight accompanied with the visual evidence oh health eyes.  The truth must be known that I actually never healed anyone of a totally physical ailment and the stories that naturally grew from the appearance of such acts of healing were embellishments of some hopefully unintentional and probable exaggeration of the truth.  There was indeed a particularly well-known beggar that sat seeking alms who appeared blind because he had simply decided to keep his eyes closed to a reality that he had come to despise.  This should be easily understood considering the oppressive nature of those hard times.  I believe that the expression today might be, "He's in total denial!"  I really don’t remember all the particular details that had initially discouraged this poor man from dealing with his reality, but I do remember that several individuals pointing this poor soul out to me and then suggesting that I might ‘heal’ the man of his blinding infirmity.  I was indeed blessed with that most remarkable ability to compassionately touch people’s inner spirit and to re-empower them with a more optimistic view of their once deplorable life and suggest a more abundant future.  I must point out to you that I would not have necessarily chosen these particular words to describe this event some 2000 years ago, but with Lamah’s mind and his incredible memory it becomes such a pleasure to employ his images in order to describe my own images from the past.  Well, for the rest of the story; this man had apparently heard of my enthusiastic promise to deliver oppressed individuals from their bondages whether perceived as physical or spiritual.  The truth is that I did possess this unnatural ability to heal one’s spirit and if their spirit had indeed affected their physical well being, well, that infirmity was just as apt to disappear as well with their renewed confidence.  I guess there was a certain element of the miraculous since I was one of the few caring individuals who even made the effort to reach out to some of these disenfranchised individuals.  For the most part there just weren’t those who had the time or ability to do what is only now more commonly referred to as “social work” or any of those now popular “psychological” services.  And of course, the whole field of modern medicine has certainly reached an incredible level of understanding of the human body and its needs both physically and emotionally, the result; incredible healings.  This is all an incredible twist on man’s intuitive and continued need to somehow associate the healing of physical ailments with those unseen powers of the “witch doctor.”  It is another of those natural associations that probably had it same origins with the worship of the sun.  The warmth of the life-giving sun that certainly ‘heals’ the earth and causes it to be reborn and once again grow out of the very death it experienced during the cold winter months.  Why not innocently assume that this same miraculous power is able to renew the body as well.  Just as the witch doctor capitalized on the ignorance of his subjects with his knowledge of what was “unknown” to the populous, the Christian clergymen took the same sort of advantage of their own captive congregations.  And should their magic not be successfully experienced, they would simply caulk it up the “lack of faith” of the ailing subject.  What an easy out for their own bastardized form of witch-doctory.  It is sad, but ignorance is such a fertile field for those who wish to command or simply oppress, and unless the truth of the matter is clearly presented, those unfortunate souls go to their ultimate end without even realizing that life could have so easily been such a far greater joy to have experienced.  I like the handle that Lamah employs to describe his own take of the over-all helping of others; the “Freedom Seeker.”  In so many ways, that was the real gist of my own ministry; to set my people free from their employed ignorance.  Not to have borrowed anything from Lamah!  I’m afraid that any of your other anticipated questions that might address any of these other accounts of a miraculous nature will no doubt be addressed in much the same simply manner, and perhaps it would best serve us all if we simply avoid this unnecessary repetition.  Surely you have gotten the point by now?

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