Beliefs
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Power of vision and our beliefs.
Dr. Viktor Frankl, psychologist and author of "Man's Search for
Meaning" talked about a dramatic demonstration he had with a block warden in the
concentration camp, the warden had confided in Victor one day saying, "I had a dream
last night, a voice told me that I could wish for something and I should only say what I
wanted to know and my questions would be answered" What do you think he asked for? He
asked to know when the war would be over, he wanted to know when the camp would be
liberated and when the sufferings would end! He had this dream in Feb 1945, he confided in
Viktor at the beginning of March, Dr. Frankl had asked to what did the dream voice answer?
The warden answered March 30th! When this man told Viktor about this dream he was still
full of hope and confidence that the dream voice would be right, but as the dream date
drew near war news reached the camp that it would be highly unlikely that anything would
change by the dream date, by March 29th the news had not changed and he started to become
very ill and ran a fever, on March 30th , the day the prophecy was to be he became
delirious and lost consciousness, on March 31rst he was dead. The loss of hope had
dramatically effected this mans ability to fight, his bodies ability to fight off typhus
and his body became victim to the disease.
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