Lecture will explain spiritual healing path

“I could feel the healing energy. Dramatic stories of healing were reported that had unbelievable documentation. I started to participate and have since met many people who experienced healing.”

Dr. Lucia Colizoli

Psychiatrist

Healings by Groening have been documented..

YOUNGSTOWN — Dr. Franz Gringinger of Austria and Dr. Lucia Colizoli, a psychiatrist from Shaker Heights, will present and explain the teachings of spiritual healer Bruno Groening during a lecture at 7 p.m. Saturday.

The event at the Northside Medical Center Medical Education Building, 500 Gypsy Lane, is sponsored by the Bruno Groening Circle of Friends. It’s free and open to the public although donations will be accepted, said Dr. Colizoli, who graduated from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and finished her training at the Cleveland Clinic. She said she and Dr. Gringinger are donating their time and expertise for the lecture.

Dr. Colizoli said she became involved in the Circle of Friends about 18 months ago by attending a lecture like the one she is giving Saturday.

“I could feel the healing energy. Dramatic stories of healing were reported that had unbelievable documentation. I started to participate and have since met many people who experienced healing,” she said.

Dr. Colizoli said the healing is achieved by tapping into a greater power, a process she described as a cross between meditation and prayer. She said that though the experience is spiritual —- one has to have an awareness of God or some higher power — the Circle of Friends is not associated with any religion. Some healing is spontaneous, but most occurs over a period of time, she said.

She said Bruno Groening (1906-59), the inspiration for the Circle of Friends, did not touch anybody. He just stood and spoke, and people would be healed.

Dr. Colizoli, 60, said she has been on a spiritual path all her adult life and believes that “illness is a struggle between positive and negative energy. If we believe in illness, we won’t get well,” she said.

“Attitude is so important. You have to believe and trust in the healing,” she said.

Healings of Groening, who lived in Germany, have been documented by an international group of physicians and medical specialists in an international medical-scientific group consisting of working circles that voluntarily meet on a regular basis. According to a Circle of Friends Web site, the work of Groening is financed exclusively by voluntary donations. In accordance with the way Groening himself worked, there are no medical consultations, examinations, diagnoses or treatments in the Circle of Friends.

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