14/08/2025
WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS
🌀London’s Guy’s Hospital was established in 1721 by Thomas Guy. It holds great historical importance and is central to medical education and research.
It possesses a vast collection of medical books from the 18th and 19th centuries, covering medicine, science, and philosophy, including a historic collection of thousands of titles published before 1901. This splendid library was inaugurated in 1903 as a research resource.
🌀As I was attending a lecture at the hospital, I inquired if they had any books on Natural therapeutics or related subjects, something I doubted. (This was way back in 1966.) When I returned the following week, I was surprised to find that they had the book, “The Science and Practice of Iridology,” by Bernard Jensen, D.C., Ph.D., published in 1952.
Bernard Jensen is recognised as the father of natural therapeutics. The librarian told me that I could borrow it for a month. I was so fascinated by the book’s content that I kept renewing the loan for many months.
🌀When I next went to renew the loan, the librarian told me that since I was the only person who had borrowed the book, I could keep it. That was not all; I was also presented with a box containing all the vertebrae of a real human spine, which they gifted me as well. I accepted the gifts with great thanks and wired up the spine as soon as I got home. As a point of interest, it can be seen how the sacrum is associated with the serpent power, referred to as kundalini in various traditions such as yoga and meditation.
The book appears to be a first draft edition, as it contains editing annotations.
🌀However, this was not the end of the story, as about twenty years later, I had the opportunity to speak with Bernard Jensen. This was made possible because Dwight Byers (whom I worked with) knew him well, and it is likely that his aunt, Eunice Ingham, also knew him.
Everything in our lives is interconnected — we are all pieces of the cosmic chessboard.
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Tony Porter
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