“Els nens tenen la llibertat de ser ells mateixos”

 

Vist a e-learning, conocimiento en red i m’ha portat a la nostàlgia de quan varem començar a pensar que amb l”educació hi havia una oportunitat de canviar el món.

Das folgende ist, wie angekündigt, eine Fortführung meines Antwortschreibens auf Heiko Lassek. Ich verweise auf den Kommentarteil von Dr. Baker und der Mensch in der Falle, wo Herr Lassek auf einige Leuchten der „Wilhelm-Reich-Bewegung“ verweist. Auf den einen oder anderen dieser Stars werde ich im folgenden eingehen.

Die Geschichte der „Reichianischen Bewegung“ in Europa zwischen den 50er und 80er Jahren läßt sich in etwa wie folgt grob (sehr grob, aber nicht entstellend) zusammenfassen: Paul Ritter – David Boadella – Luigi de Marchi – Federico Navarro – Roger Dadoun und Gérard Ponthieu – Heiko Lassek und Bernd Senf.

Über Ritter, der von 1954 bis 1964 gegen den Protest von Reich die Zeitschrift Orgonomic Functionalism herausbrachte, schrieb Reich am 21. Jan. 1956 an seinen Freund Neill (den Gründer der Summerhill-Schule):

Neill, wir sind uns hier darin einig, daß [Ritter] von Leuten der extremen Linken benutzt wird, um meine Arbeit in Mißkredit zu bringen. Er und seinesgleichen versuchen mit allen Mitteln, bei uns „einzudringen“ (…) Wir kennen sie mittlerweile und gestatten ihnen den Zugang nicht. Wir verlangen äußerste wissenschaftliche Disziplin und in jedem Fall die Gewißheit, daß keine Verbindung zu Moskauer politischen HIGs (…) besteht.

Was Ritters Freund David Boadella betrifft, verweise ich auf die mittlerweise eingestellte Zeitschrift Emotion (4:138), wonach man Boadella zufolge Reichs „wütenden Antikommunismus“ nicht für bare Münze nehmen darf. Die französischen „Reichianer“ Roger Dadoun und Gérard Ponthieu nennen entsprechend die heutigen Orgonomen „reaktionär“ und „antiradikal“, was beunruhigend ist“. (Emotion 3:57)

Luigi de Marchi, ein Produkt Boadellas wie dieser ein Produkt Ritters war, will wie alle in dieser Reihe „die Tragödie der Linken heute“ lösen und zwar mit Hilfe der Orgonomie. Auf der einen Seite wäre sozialdemokratische Versumpfung mit ihrer „unverzeihlichen ‘Schüchternheit’ vor der konstituierten Ordnung“ auf der anderen Seite der wohl ökonomisch korrekt denkende aber dafür im „Autoritarismus“ endende Kommunismus. (Sexualität und Politik bei Reich und Marcuse, Wien 1977)

Diese Konzeption von der Überwindung der Spaltung entspricht der Taktik, die einst Moskau anwandte: Man sucht „demokratische Bündnisse“ á la SPD-SED, die die „Tragödie der Linken“ überwinden und innerhalb der „monopolkapitalistischen Gesellschaft“ zur „demokratischen Wende“ á la Die Grünen führen soll. Diese leitet dann ihrerseits zur „antimonopolistischen Demokratie“ und von dort zum „Sozialismus“ über. Man schaue sich doch aktuell an, wie Die Linke das wohlbestellte Feld aberntet!

Um einen guten Kontakt zwischen seinem inneren und seinem äußeren Ich – oder genauer: zwischen ihm selbst, den anderen und dem Milieu herstellen zu können, besitzt das Lebewesen ein Ensemble von Faktoren an Wechselbeziehungen und Anpassungsfähigkeiten; jede existentielle Äußerung basiert auf der Wechselfolge von Verwirklichungen und Potentialisierungen, wobei die einen die anderen hervorbringen, wie es Lupasco ausdrückt.

Dies ein typischer Satz aus dem psychotisch zerblasenen Machwerk Die sieben Stufen der Gesundheit (Frankfurt 1986) von Federico Navarro. Diese Ausdrucksweise ist typisch für „Reichianer“.

Der Orgonom Robert A. Dew (Journal of Orgonomy, Nov. 1980) schrieb über Schriften aus dem Dunstkreis der bereits erwähnten französischen „Reichianer“ Dadoun und Ponthieu:

Oft arrogant und spottend im Ton sind die Jahresprogramme von LOG in einem übertriebenen, langatmigen Stil mit unzusammenhängenden absatzlangen Sätzen geschrieben. Ihre Wortwahl und Struktur weist oft auf eine schizophrene Denkstörung hin.

In Navarros Buch, das vom Standpunkt des „dialektischen Materialismus“ geschrieben wurde, kann man selber nachlesen, wie er von de Marchi in den Reichianismus eingeführt wurde. So kam es, so Dew weiter, zur Gründung des

Movimento Reichiano, eine Reich-Bewegung, die durch mannigfaltige Interventionen auf schulischer, universitärer, kultureller und politischer Ebene von sich reden macht. Unter denen, die sich um das Movimento Reichiano verdient machen, fällt besonders der Name des Anarchisten Pinelle auf, der im Verlauf eines Polizeiverhörs durch Fenstersturz „geselbstmordet“ wurde.

So etwas hat dann „revolutionäre Gerechtigkeit“ zur Folge. So wurde dem italienischen Orgonomen Giuseppe Cammarella von „Reichianern“ angedroht, man würde seine Frau „gambizarre“. Damit ist das Zerschießen der Kniescheiben gemeint, eine bzw. die Terrormethode der Roten Brigaden.

Ich zitiere aus 1981 geschriebenen anonymen Briefen an den damaligen europäischen Vertreter („europäischer Reichianischer Diktator“) des American College of Orgonomy („hausgemachter Modju der Bakerianischen Sekte“), die ich Dr. Guiseppe Cammarellas italienischer Zeitschrift Scienza Orgonomica (3) entnehme: L’Anonima Reichiana non gradisce Scienza Orgonomica.

[...] Nun haben wir Reich den Ufologen! [...] Und während sich Reich wieder im Grab umdreht (es ist Schicksal, daß die Emotionelle Pest ihn sogar nach dem Tod verfolgen muß), mystifiziert und verdreht eine Gruppe von Desperados [...], die sich selber Reichianisch nennen [„Man braucht nicht Baker & Co.s Arsch zu lecken, um ein Reichianer zu werden.“], die Forschung in der Orgonomie. Aber ist es wirklich möglich, daß Reichs Name immer in einer destruktiven Art und Weise angewandt wird? Was für eine Scheiße [„die Bakerianische Kirche (...) ist SCHEISSE“] von Reichianer bist du [„eingebildeter und fanatischer, gefährlicher Pestilenter“], wenn dein Scienza Orgonomica [„(...) ist der Abfalleimer, worein du das Gift deiner emotionalen Pestilenz reinkotzt und wo die wahren Reichianer reinscheißen“] dazu gedient hat, Reich in den paranoidsten Ufologen zu verwandeln? Du [„kleiner Grünschnabel“, „Guru der Ejakulation“, „Kleiner Mann und großer Idiot“, „verrückter Don Quichotte“, „Armer Idiot! Armer Schwachsinniger!“, „Paranoider“] willst das nur, um ein sogar noch größeres Vakuum in der offiziellen Wissenschaft um Reichs Entdeckungen zu erzeugen.

Hier eine Ansprache Navarros, die für sich selber spricht (z.n. Dew):

Genossen, Freunde, meine Damen und Herrn! (…) Ich empfinde vor allem das Bedürfnis meine ganz persönlichen Gefühle und all jener auszudrücken, die die Erinnerung an Wilhelm Reich in Ehre halten auf dieser offiziellen Gedächtnisfeier zum 20sten Jahrestag seines Todes; einer Gedächtnisfeier aufgrund der Sensitivität eines qualifizierten militanten Kommunisten wie Luigi Nespoli (…) und durch ihn der [kommunistischen] Regierung der Povinz Neapel. (…) Marx hat uns die Methode gegeben die Gesellschaft zu verstehen und zu verändern; Freud hat uns ein Mittel gegeben den Menschen zu begreifen; aber leider erzeugt die heutige Gesellschaft eine Panzerung im Menschen gegen seine Emotionen, die ihn als einen Automaten erscheinen läßt. Und es ist dieser Krieg gegen die „Panzerung“, der die Diskussion über Reich zeitgemäß macht, der als erster versuchte Marxismus und Psychoanalyse zu verbinden.

Im letzten Satz wird besonders deutlich, wie bei den „Reichianern“ „Panzerung“ einen ganz bestimmten Sinn bekommt. Es geht um den Kampf gegen die „Erstarrung“ der lebendigen Arbeit im „Kapital“, um den Kampf gegen das „System“! Das zweite Element des Reichschen Ansatzes, die Orgasmustheorie, wird ebenfalls, wenn sie überhaupt „anerkannt“ wird, ideologisiert und zum Element kommunistischen Utopismus.

Um de Marchi und Navarro haben sich im Italien der 70er Jahre diverse Gruppen gesammelt:

Movimento Reichiano (Umberto Rostaing) Quarderni del Movimento Reichianodi Napoli

Il Centro Studi, W. Reich 1971 (Luciano Rispoli) Quarderni Reichiani 1973-77

Instituto de Bio-energetico (Luigi deMarchi) Revista Bio-energetics

Associazione Italiana l’Orgonomie 1975-78

Societa Italiana di Ricerca a Terapie Orgonica (SIRTO) (Federico Navarro) seit 1978 Sesso, Carattere e Societa

Scuola Europea di Orgonoterapia (SEOr) 1979 (Federico Navarro)

Instituto di Bioenergetica „W. Reich“ (Luigi deMarchi, Alberto Zucconi) Pulsatione seit 1977

CORE Institute for the Study of the Biopathy and Biotherapy (Enzio Zucconi)

Forum Italiano di Vegetoterapia Carattero-Analitica (Enzo Liberto) seit 1979.

Dazu hat Reich in Christusmord geschrieben:

Je zahlreicher und unterschiedlicher die Hoffnungen sind, die den Nervenkitzel erzeugen, desto schlimmer wird das allgemeine soziale Chaos.

Hier ist übrigens die erste Folge der BBC Serie, die über Summerhill gedreht wurde. Ist ganz unterhaltsam. Man kann sich dann in youtube zu den nächsten Folgen durchklicken.
Viel Spaß

Rut

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AaMRkCLQUU

heyya…

first of all..THANKS to Lorraine (WM Siew) for the Nicol David postcard! YEAYYYYYY bestnyaaa.. thanks girl.. terima kasih banyak2 yaaa

Next week i’m going to move out from Kairanga court and flatting in the Summerhill area.. beautiful place, beautiful house, nice environment! Photos below are the evidence! Hee.. i will be missing Kairanga..and looking forward to living into this new house. Heee..

In front of the house:

In the house…

And… this is the spectacular view up from the summerhill! just in front of my house. One of my attraction to live up here! hehe

Beautiful right? hehe… okay,  See ya later~

By Evan Sage

Summerhill runs north of Ramsden Park, East of Avenue Road and on both sides of Yonge north of the train tracks all the way up to St Clair, David Balfour Park and The Rosehill Reservoir are natures boundaries to the east.

Notable streets in Summerhill include (description and recent sales): Balmoral Ave, Farnham Ave, Woodlawn Ave, Walker Ave, Alcorn Ave, Birch Ave, Summerhill Ave, Shaftsbury Ave.

The area began to grow rural roots shortly after the Heath family had purchased 40 acres at Yonge and St Clair. In 1842 the transportation baron Charles Thompson built a hillside cottage on his 200 acres and he gave it the name Summer Hill. In the 1860’s his surviving family subdivided the hill that they had spent their summers at. In the 1880s the North Toronto Railway Station was built on Yonge Street. This led to speedy development of the direct neighbourhood, Summerhill and Rosedale.

The homes of Summerhill were in place before the estates of Rosedale simply because the workers needed somewhere to live before they could spend the time building the larger more detailed homes in Rosedale. Summerhill’s homes were built between 1880 and 1915. They are mostly either Victorian or Edwardian style. The current residents are overhauling the homes so that they have the beautiful Victorian exterior with updated interiors. Some properties are ripped down and modern townhouses or low-rise luxury condominium buildings are filling in the space. The high-rise condos were built in the 1980s and 90s and are undergoing interior renovations as well. Some of the best views of Toronto are found in these buildings, views of parkland, ravines or city skylines you really get it all.

In the 1920s the Canadian Pacific Railway made Summerhill Station their main stop in Toronto, until everything was centralized downtown at Union Station. That move eventually allowed the LCBO to build their flagship store in the beautiful old North Toronto Railway Station, which has become the anchor for the Summerhill neighbourhood.

Summerhill is an excellent area for transportation. Yonge St, Avenue Rd and Mt Pleasant Rd all provide quick escapes. There are 3 Subway stops that service the area and most of the homes are within a 5-10 minute walk to one of the stations. There are excellent public schools elementary, primary and high schools. Upper Canada College, Bishop Stachan School, Branksome, St Michaels College and De La Salle College are all nearby. University of Toronto and Ryerson are also easily accessed via the Yonge- University/ Spadina Subway line.

Evan Sage is a Sales Representative with Royal LePage R.E.S./Johnston & Daniel Division. Evan is also a regular contributor to the Muddy York Blog.  Evan’s web site is located at www.evansage.com.

Seit der humanistischen Revolution im Kielwasser der Aufklärung, seit der Sturm- und Drangzeit der Reformpädagogik zu Beginn letzten Jahrhunderts, seit Alexander Neill und den Matschkindern der 60er sind viele junge Menschen durch Schulhäuser geströmt.   Wo steht die Reformpädagogik heute?

Wer sich über aktuelle Trends informieren oder vernetzen möchte, ist auf der Website des Archivs der Zukunft willkommen. Dort gibt es Links zu interessanten Projekten.

Ans Herz legen möchte ich allen Leserinnen und Lesern das Buch … und ich war nie in der Schule (… et je ne vais pas à l’école) von André Stern.  Hoffentlich finde ich demnächst Zeit für eine gesonderte, ausführliche Besprechung um den Unterschied zwischen kreativ-individueller Begleitung und institutioneller Verwahrlosung aufzuzeigen und einige mögliche Brückenformen zu skizzieren.

Der Däne Jesper Juul hat viel zur Verbreitung einer neuen, verbindlichen Offenheit im familiären Umgang miteinander beigetragen. Ebenso wie Peter Fratton (hörenswerter Vortrag, ca 66 min). Ihre Überlegungen und Beratungen sind lesens- und empfehlenswert. Für eine unkonventionelle Methodik wirbt auch ein Bestseller: Tag und Nacht und auch im Sommer (Teacher Man) von Frank Mc Court.

Zuletzt möchte ich noch auf das durchaus kontrovers diskutierbare Werk von Grace Llewellyn aufmerksam machen. In Das Teenager Befreiungs Handbuch. Glücklich und erfolgreich ohne Schule (The Teenage Liberation Handbook) wirbt sie für eine alltagsintegrierte Lernkultur.

Auf die hier beschriebenen Arten – wie auch auch viele andere Weisen – ist Lernen und Wachstum in Bewegung. Es ist wunderbar, zu sehen, wie viele Antworten es auf die Frage  nach der Weiterentwicklung dessen, was wir sind, und dessen, was wir tun, in der kommenden Generation gibt. Antworten, die sich ergänzen oder in Konflikt miteinander geraten, Antworten innerhalb und außerhalb des gesamtgesellschaftlichen didaktischen Diskurses. Nicht nur in der Neurophysiologie und der disziplinarischen Pädagogik, jedoch weit entfernt von unverbindlicher Verwahrlosung.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… I’m into the last few days. After travelling up to Cannock with a wooden ape, I got on a train to Oxenholme the Lake District, where, from all parts of the UK, by plane, train and car, nine other girls would convene for a weekend to mark our collective 30ths.

Some of us were students together, some of us have become friends since, but we’re aware that our friendships with each other are remarkable for their depth and longevity and number.

We’re staying at Summerhill and everything here is set to make us feel special, from the chocolates by our beds to the lovely breakfast, to the scorching sunshine that gave us sunburn across our noses as we walked round Loughrigg past the tarn to Grasmere.
Some of the girls are already 30. Some have been through 30 and survived to tell the tale. Some are only just 29. But the timing of this weekend was the perfect way to begin my final countdown.

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by David J. Stewart & Andrew Friedman

At Benny Hinn’s crusades—he dazzles the crowds, plays captivating music, and manipulates the emotions of the audience; BUT, he is not of God.  What is happening is not of God.  Benny Hinn is a master con artist, who fully understands the human psyche.  I was watching one of Benny Hinn’s crusades the other day on TV.  At first impression, Benny Hinn appears as a man of God.  He has that curious and distinguishing look that mesmerizes the crowds.  Benny Hinn comes across as an extremely interesting character, with the power to hypnotize the masses with his charm, music, and exploitation of the Bible.

As I watched Benny Hinn perform on stage, it reminded me more of a rock star in concert.  There were many thousands of people in the audience, and no doubt, millions more on TV..  Just as rock-n-roll fans, the audience was in the palm of the performer, Benny Hinn.  Hinn never mentioned the word “sin,” never mentioned the word “Saviour,” but just kept talking about how wonderful Jesus is.  This is one of Satan’s greatest deceptions.  We read in Acts16:16-18, “And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.  And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.“  Just as the demon possessed woman in Acts 16:17 who spoke the truth while also serving the Devil, so does Benny Hinn speak of Jesus Christ while serving the Devil.

Hinn’s money comes mostly from people in TV land, who are foolishly conned by what they see on TV.  It couldn’t be more obvious that Benny Hinn has hired a top-notch group of manipulators to work with him.  One of the camera tricks which Hinn employs is to zoom in on certain audience members who look like they’re having a religious experience.  Seeing someone having such an uplifting experience, while hearing the emotion-producing music, and listening to Hinn ramble on with religious lingo, easily mesmerizes the viewer.  As I watched Benny Hinn, he told the audience to get ready to receive the power of the Holy Spirit.  Next, hundreds of people towards the front, dressed differently than the people in the back, all fell backwards to the floor.  It was apparent to me that the event was staged.  Then came the alleged healings.  During the healing period of the crusade, several dynamic, sharp-looking, and trained people bring forth the alleged recipients of Hinn’s healing power.  To no surprise, as is COMMON to self-proclaimed faith-healers like Oral Roberts, ALL of the healings are unable to be substantiated.  A small boy was brought up on stage, allegedly deaf in one ear since birth, but now able to hear.  Another woman in a wheel-chair was wheeled up to the platform, allegedly crippled from diabetes, then she walked on stage.  Another man was claimed to have been deaf in both ears from birth, but now was healed.  Then Hinn prompted the man to speak in an attempt to confirm the healing, and he did speak.  So when did the man learn to speak if he was deaf his whole life?

I’d like to see someone with no legs receive their legs back.  Why doesn’t Benny Hinn ever go into a hospital and empty it out of all it’s sick patients?  Why only on stage, behind the camera, while asking for money?

Benny Hinn ministries took in over $100,000,000 last year alone.  Again, I ask, why doesn’t Hinn ever use his alleged power to heal the sick people in hospitals?  The reason is abundantly clear … Hinn is a fraud.  Hinn, like John Edward, Sylvia Browne, Oprah Winfrey, Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, and so many other false prophets, EXPLOITS Christianity and God’s Word to gain wealth, prosperity, control, influence, and popularity.  God’s power is not for sale.  Do you really think God would allow anyone to exploit his power on stage, for money, and to a false prophet who praises the cult of Catholicism?  Satan is working relentlessly through today’s false prophets to UNITE Christianity with false religion, which is APOSTASY!  When Constantine declared Christianity as the official religion of Roman in 380 A.D., it led to total apostasy, and the beginning of the formal Roman Catholic cult.  Don’t be deceived, Benny Hinn and Billy Graham are false prophets who are leading ecumenical churches into the New World Order (the beast system of antichrist).  Satan knows that the easiest way to deceive people is to obscure and blur the truth of God’s Word.  This is why we see so many watered-down Bibles nowadays.  This is why we see Protestants praising Catholics, and Catholics protecting homosexual priests, and homosexuals twisting the Bible around to claim that Sodom and Gomorrah’s sin was only a lack of hospitality.  The Word of God is under attack!

The Bible teaches that the gift of healing ended with the Apostles.  The sign gifts were only to validate the message of the Apostles.  This is evidenced by the Biblical fact that the Apostle Paul, who had once been healed of a deadly snake bite, couldn’t find relief for his thorn in the flesh later in 2nd Corinthians 12:7.  2nd Timothy 4:20 also states that Paul couldn’t heal his friend Trophimus,

“…but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.”

Paul spoke of Timothy’s “often infirmities” in 1st Timothy 5:23, but he couldn’t heal his friend Timothy either.  Clearly, the “gift” of healing had ceased.  If you want to read an excellent in-depth Biblical examination of tongues, healing, and gifts, then please read FACE TO FACE WITH TONGUES by Pastor Max D. Younce.

In Benny Hinn’s crusades, he sings, he praises the name of Jesus, he places his hands on people and they fall to the ground; BUT, it is not of the Holy Spirit.  I’d like to see Benny Hinn cry one time.  I’d like to hear Benny Hinn expose the demonic Catholic religion.  Benny Hinn is a fraud!  According to a Dateline investigation in December of 2002…

Where does world-famous televangelist’s money go?

Benny Hinn has millions of believers and millions in donations

NBC News

Dec. 27, 2002 - Maybe you spotted him while you were channel surfing one night
or maybe you were already tuned in. Either way, he's hard to ignore. Benny
Hinn - televangelist, faith healer, and appointment viewing for millions of
believers. His popularity and his wealth are matched only by the devotion he
's shown by his followers, many of them desperate for help. Their stories
and his ministry play out almost every night in made-for-TV mini-dramas. But
there are other stories, other scenes that reveal much more about Pastor
Benny, caught on Dateline's hidden cameras. Correspondent Bob McKeown
reports.

   HE ALWAYS ARRIVES onstage when they begin to sing the hymn, "How Great
Thou Art."

    And whether you measure success in his TV ratings, attendance at his
live services or crusades around the world, or the money he raises, he is
unquestionably one of the most popular and successful televangelists in the
world today. His television show is available around the globe. He attracts
capacity crowds at arenas and stadiums at home and abroad. And scenes like
this one in his TV studio are a big reason why:

    Benny Hinn: "Yes Lord. A lower back is being healed. Thank you Lord.
Emphysema is being healed. We rebuke it in Jesus' name. Somebody's legs have
just been healed."

      On television or at his crusades, Benny Hinn promises that wherever
he goes, miraculous healing will follow.

    Benny Hinn: "In the name of Jesus, I rebuke the allergies out of you.
Touch! - The glory of God is in the studio. We are having a visitation in
the studio today as we have been taping these TV programs."

    Those miracles, Hinn says, can cure injury and illness - even
terminal disease.

    Benny Hinn: "The healing may happen instantly, and may happen
gradually but
 surely as God is God, your legs will work again, and your body
will be healed again."

    And according to Benny Hinn, it gets even more miraculous than that.

    Benny Hinn: "On the program today, you are going to see a clip of
this man who was raised from the dead."

    Those dramatic claims - and his dynamic preaching style - have
attracted millions of devoted followers, like Carlotta Moore.

    "When I go to a crusade, I'm going because I need to be refreshed. I
need to be renewed. I need to be revived in my spirit," says Carlotta Moore.

    Moore says she also watches Benny Hinn's TV show everyday.

    "The Bible speaks of spiritual fathers," says Moore. "That is my
spiritual father. He's a
 leader. And he is a mentor."

EVANGELIST AND FUNDRAISER

    And he is a master fund raiser as well, so along with that devotion
comes money - a lot of it. Though pastor Benny denies it, estimates of total
ministry revenue exceed $100 million a year.

    Benny Hinn insists his only mission is to preach the gospel, save
souls, and heal the sick. But is there
 more than that to the man they call
pastor Benny?

    "Dateline" looked at the ministry of pastor Benny Hinn, who claims
miraculous power flows from God through him. We'll take a closer look at all
his healings and at all the money that goes into his collection buckets.

     Hinn was born in the Middle East, raised in Canada, and modeled
himself after a faith healer, the legendary Katherine Kuhlman. Hinn started
a church in Orlando, almost two decades ago. By 1999, he'd left Florida,
building his ministry's administrative headquarters in Dallas and his TV
studio in southern California where he now lives.

    Hinn's claims of miracles have made him immensely popular, but those
healings, combined with his ministry's enormous wealth, have also triggered
scrutiny of a different kind.

      "I say he's in the business of raising money and spreading his own
celebrity," says Ole Anthony, who heads the
 Trinity Foundation - a Christian
watch-dog group that examines the workings of television ministries. The
organization operates on donations, grants, and sales of its magazine and
tapes.

    Ole Anthony himself has been highly critical of television preachers
who don't divulge the details of how they raise and spend their money -
especially Benny Hinn.

    "We've gotten most of the complaints lately from Benny's organization
and Benny's followers," says Anthony. "That became our focus, we've been
following him intently since 1993."

    "Dateline" asked the Trinity Foundation to provide access to, among
other things, documents and videotape it's collected about the Hinn
Ministry. We reimbursed the foundation for its costs.

    And we also went looking for some answers ourselves. For almost two
years, "Dateline" sought permission to videotape Benny Hinn's crusades, to
see how this affluent
 television ministry really works.

    Eventually we were allowed to bring our cameras to a crusade in
Atlanta. But the ministry made it clear we were only permitted to tape the
first hour or so. Then after Hinn's entrance, a few hymns and some saving of
souls, we were told to stop.

VIEW FROM A HIDDEN CAMERA

    So, in order to try to find out what really goes on behind the scenes
of the Benny Hinn Ministry, we attended a number of other crusades and
walked in right though the front door with everybody else. Only this time,
the cameras were hidden.

    At least once a month, somewhere in the U.S., 50,000 or 60,000 people
attend one of Benny Hinn's two-day crusades. Over the past two years, we
followed pastor Benny around the country to Hampton, Virginia; Las Vegas;
Buffalo, and a few cities in between.

    At each of the crusades we attended, the faithful began to arrive
hours before
 the service. And so did we with our hidden cameras.

    But even when you get there early, the best sections are already
taken - reserved for major donors, church VIPs and, at the back, for the
disabled and those in wheelchairs.

    In Buffalo, we found our seats high up in the bleachers and we began
recording the service in the middle of that noisy crowd with a hidden
microphone and camera.

    What brings the faithful out to see Benny Hinn is the healing. The
expectation that sometime tonight they're going to see, or perhaps even be -
one of those people who arrive desperately ill and leave miraculously cured.
 What brings the faithful out to see Benny Hinn is the healing. The
expectation that sometime tonight they're going to see, or perhaps even be -
one of those people who arrive desperately ill and leave miraculously cured.

      The script - Benny Hinn's tried-and-true formula - was always
 the
same. And it always started with the music. There's an orchestra, a heavenly
host of local church choirs, and an all-star cast of Christian headliners.
The crowd's emotional temperature seems to rise, as they anxiously wait for
pastor Benny.

    "It's organized more closely than a political convention," says Ole
Anthony, of the Trinity Foundation.. "There's the repetitive music, there's
the mood lighting, there's this whole arrangement of waiting and waiting and
waiting until he comes on stage. The band is playing, "How Great Thou Art"
and then the process starts."

    Once he arrives onstage, pastor Benny preaches, prays and spiritually
tends his flock.

    Benny Hinn: "If you mean business with God, he means business with
you."

    At a Benny Hinn crusade, you can't
 help but notice the faith of his
followers and how much they appear to believe in him and his healing
message.

    The impression one gets being among that crowd is that whatever's
happening down there on the stage, however it may or may not be
choreographed, these people have come because they truly believe.

    "There's no question that the people that are there have strong
belief or a strong want-to-belief," says Anthony, "and so they respond."

THE TENSION BUILDS

    In fact, all evening, throughout the arena, the tension keeps
building because everyone here knows what's going to happen next.

    Benny Hinn:
 "There's power here, people. Lift your hands and receive
it."

    According to pastor Benny, that "power" will soon lead to miracles:

    Benny Hinn: "By moving those legs that have been crippled for all
those years."

    This is from a highlights tape we bought from the ministry's Web
site.

    Benny Hinn: "You're tired of all the pills you've taken, and all the
needles they put in your body and all the pain you felt. Well, I'm here to
tell you, you will be healed tonight!"

      After the preaching, there's the passing of the collection buckets.
And then comes the moment when Benny Hinn makes his
 much-anticipated
announcement - God is speaking to him, he says, revealing a multitude of
miracles, actual healings now taking place throughout the arena, some of
them very specific.

    Benny Hinn: "There is a young man named George. George has HIV. But
my brother George, the holy ghost is burning it out of your body!"

    At all of the evening crusades we attended, it was about 10 p.m. when
Hinn announced God was speaking to him.

    Benny Hinn: "Another arthritis has been healed."

    Benny Hinn's ministry says that in order to verify the miraculous
healings that have taken place, it screens those who claim they've been
healed before they get up on stage.

    First, Hinn staff members talk to the people who get in line. This
screener is even a
 doctor and he evidently thinks this woman is a good
candidate to announce her healing up on the platform with pastor Benny.

    Doctor: "No pain? Great job. You couldn't do that before? (As she
moves her head around.) That is neat. Yeah, take her up there."

    The people selected by the screeners are then introduced to Benny
Hinn and the capacity crowd. Those who've been healed, and others who attend
each service, are given a blessing by pastor Benny with his own personal
touch. And whether he blows or flicks or waves his hand, the faithful are
strewn across the floor like bowling pins. So what exactly is at work here?

RELIGION OR HYPNOSIS?

    "They'd fall down," says Michael Cohen. "They'd fall backwards. He'd
blow on them. They'd fall over. And I thought these were actors that came in
and they paid them so much. And they had a string and they pulled them
 down."

    Even some who were skeptics at first soon became believers, like
Michael Cohen.

    "And when I finally went up there, I ended up falling down," says
Cohen. "I closed my eyes but I knew that Benny didn't push me. I knew I wasn't
 pulled or tugged. I knew that was God touching me."

    But Ole Anthony says he thinks it's a phenomenon that has much more
to do with mass hypnosis than religion.

    "And they watch him on television over and over and over for years,"
says Anthony. "And they see it, they expect it, they see other people
upstage are falling over right and left. Sometimes Benny falls over the
place. It's a circus. It's like professional
 wrestling."

    Bob McKeown: "But in fact he's been on the record time and time again
saying he is not a healer."

    Ole Anthony: "Of course."

    Bob McKeown: "It's God who heals."

    Ole Anthony: "Of course."

    Bob McKeown: "He's just the vessel that's been chosen."

    Ole Anthony: "What's the reason that people come to the crusades?
What's the main thing that happens onstage? That's his attraction. He
promotes himself as a healer, as a healing ministry."

    But according to former Hinn insiders, there's a great deal more to
Benny Hinn's crusades than what you see on television - and what we've found
supports that. A woman who worked at crusades said she was instructed to
look particularly for those standing in front of their wheelchairs.

    Benny Hinn: "Look at all the empty wheelchairs here in Las
 Vegas,
people!"

    Empty wheelchairs apparently imply there's been a lot of healing
going on. But for every one of the people declared healed by pastor Benny on
stage and on TV, many more leave the arena still sick or disabled.

    "Desperate people, the really desperate ones, the ones that break
your heart are at the back on the crusade, they won't let them up in the
lines," says Anthony.

    The broadcasts of Benny Hinn's crusade in Buffalo did not include
what our hidden camera captured. This man was escorted from his seat by
security guards after crying out for pastor Benny to touch his apparently
ill son. "I wanted to take my son up there and get prayed. That's all I
wanted," he said.

    So not everyone who wants to get up on stage is allowed to.. But what
happens to those who are called up on the platform to be touched by pastor
Benny? To try to find out, we attended a crusade in
 Las Vegas, and we did
our best to keep track of each and every one of the miracles Benny Hinn
proclaimed. By our count, there were 56 of them in all - many of which ended
up on this videotape we purchased through the ministry.

    This little boy said his damaged vision was cured: "And as soon as
God healed me, I could see better."

    According to one woman, her cancer was gone. Hinn said God told him a
demon had caused the cancer, and he cast it out.

    Benny Hinn: "Go out of her! It's gone!"

    One woman said she had a diseased lung.

    Benny Hinn: "The lord is asking me now to ask him to give you a new
lung."

    According to pastor Benny, she got that new lung, right there on
stage.

    Benny Hinn: "That's why she's coughing... that's why she's coughing."

    And there was this woman, who said she was cured of lung cancer. She
says: "She had cancer in the lungs. She don't have it now!"

HEAVYWEIGHT HEALING

    In his 25 years of healing, there have been thousands of similar
stories from Hinn's followers - none of them more famous than this one. At a
crusade in 1994, Benny Hinn came to the aid of the former heavyweight
champion of the world. Evander Holyfield had lost his boxing license because
a medical test had revealed a serious heart
 ailment.

    Benny Hinn (at a crusade): "The Lord is telling me right now he is
repairing Holyfield's heart completely."

    Reportedly, Holyfield promised Hinn a check for $265,000, and before
long, he got a clean bill of health, and won the world title back.

    But Benny Hinn doesn't only minister to the rich and famous.

    Bob McKeown: "And you needed a miracle."

    Belva Ventura: "Oh, did I."

    Bob McKeown: "You and your son."

    Belva Ventura: "Yes."

      We met Belva Ventura at a crusade in Worcester, Massachusetts. She
and her son had both been diagnosed with cancer. Both had been told it was
terminal. Before long, she and her son were on stage in front of 14,000
people, right next to pastor
 Benny.

    Bob McKeown: "And what did Pastor Hinn say to you?"

    Belva Ventura: "Oh, he hugged us. And he put his arm around me. And
he couldn't believe all the cancer in one family. And he said we're gonna
get this cancer out of this house right now. It's not gonna bother you no
more. And we came home, we were happy. I was healed. I know I was."

    The question is, despite all the claims, how does anyone really know
if Belva Ventura or any of the others was indeed miraculously healed at one
of Benny Hinn's crusades?

    So we asked pastor Benny to help us follow up on some of the people
we saw on his stage. Then we did some following up of our own.

    Bob McKeown: "As far as you know, the ministry has no idea whether
your cancer is still there or not."

    Belva Ventura: "No."

    Bob McKeown: "Whether you're alive or not."

    Belva Ventura: "No. No. they don't."

   Benny Hinn: "But as surely as God is God - your legs will work again,
and your body will be healed again, and your lungs will breathe again, and
your eyes will see again!"

PROOF OF HEALING?

    At all of his live crusades, Benny Hinn proclaims a breath-taking
litany of miraculous healing. Pastor Benny has said that everyone who gets
up on his platform has been checked by a doctor. His ministry also claims
 it
has a follow up process with people afterwards that it describes as
"exhaustive" and "thorough," and that medical information it collects is
reviewed first by a nurse, then by a doctor.

    So we wanted to find out how that process works and which of those
claims of miracles actually can be verified. We thought a good place to
start would be with the ministry itself. Last year, we asked Benny Hinn to
help us confirm the 56 healings we counted at just one of his crusades - the
one in Las Vegas.

      By the time we asked, dozens of those "miracles" had already been
broadcast around the world on his TV show, including the woman who Benny
Hinn said had grown a new lung right there on stage.

    Woman: "Feels like something in there, like someone was reaching in
my heart, in my lung."

    Benny Hinn: "I want you to
 go back to your earthly doctor, have him
give you an X-ray. I want to hear about it. I want a full story."

    But if Hinn knows the full story about who was healed in Las Vegas,
he's not sharing it with us. In a letter from its lawyer, the ministry
refused to provide proof of any of those healings to "Dateline."

    So since the ministry wouldn't give us any information, we did some
checking of our own about Las Vegas, and other reported healings.

    Remember the woman we met in Las Vegas who said she'd been cured of
lung cancer? With our hidden camera, we were able to go back stage to her
follow-up interview.

    Hinn staffer: "Now, what happened tonight that makes you feel God
touched you?"

    She did speak to a Hinn staff member, but it's hard to know how from
this conversation alone he could have known
 whether she was cured of cancer,
or even if she had it in the first place.

    Staffer: "That primary tumor can be one cell."

    She was asked a few questions, but it didn't appear to us that there
was any medical examination.

    Staffer: "Keep trusting God. Follow it up with your physicians. Thank
you so much. The Lord bless you all."

    Unfortunately, there's one thing we were able to determine about this
woman without the ministry's help. She died two and a half months after the
crusade. The cause was lung cancer.

    And then there was Evander Holyfield's heart ailment - which seemed
to disappear after that crusade in 1994 - touted as one of pastor Benny's
greatest healing successes.

    When Holyfield then won his world title back, it seemed a storybook
ending - except for one problem. According to the Nevada Athletic
Commission, two different clinics determined that Holyfield
 had been
misdiagnosed. His doctor had been given incomplete information about his
condition. In other words, there was nothing seriously wrong with Holyfield'
s heart in the first place. But three years later, pastor Benny was still
claiming credit for the champ's miraculous healing.

    On the "Larry King" show with Pastor Benny, he was aksed: "Evander
Holyfield credits you with curing his heart problem, although doctors said
that maybe it was misread in the first place."

    Hinn: "God healed him in one of our crusades, yeah."

    Evander Holyfield had no comment through his lawyer.

STILL DYING OF CANCER

    And remember Belva Ventura, who said Benny Hinn cast out cancer from
her and her son?

      A few weeks after that crusade in Worcester, Massachusetts, Belva's
son died of cancer. When we visited several months later, she said she hadn'
t had a follow-up call from anyone in the Hinn organization.

    Bob McKeown: "As far as you know, the ministry has no idea whether
your cancer is still there or not."

    Belva Ventura: "No."

    Bob McKeown: "Whether you're alive or not."

    Belva Ventura: "No. No. they don't. Otherwise, they would have got
hold of me. Nobody did."

    Her physicians evidently were not convinced of her claims of healing.

    Bob McKeown: "What do your doctors say?"

    Belva Ventura: "They laugh. They look at me and they laugh. They don'
t believe me."

    Belva
 still believed apparently until the end. A month after our
visit, she died. The cause, her doctor told us, was cancer.

    Bob McKeown: "If Benny Hinn, by whatever means, can give people like
that hope, is that not a good thing?"

    Ole Anthony: "Then why don't we just - why doesn't the FDA approve
snake oil? And we could have snake oil salesmen run around offering and
saying, "This little tube of water here, cost you $1,000. And if you take
it, you'll be cured of cancer." It's the same thing except he's doing it in
God's name, which makes it terrible, terrible. He's lying. False hope has to
always be exposed. It must be exposed."

    Benny Hinn says it's possible for someone to be healed at one of his
crusades only to have the illness or injury return later. Here's how he
explains it:

    Benny Hinn: "This is your Day Vegas... My
 Friend, hear this well. The
reason people lose their healing, is because they begin questioning if God
really did it."

    That, says Ole Anthony, only makes matters even worse for those who
are desperately ill.

    "Now they're twice as bad off as they were before because now,
according to Benny, they've done something wrong," says Anthony.

    After repeated requests to verify healings - specifically the 56 we
saw at the crusade in Las Vegas - Benny Hinn's ministry sent us details of
what it said were five irrefutable and medically proven miracles, but none
was from the Las Vegas crusade we were asking about.

    The cases they gave us ranged from a herniated disc, to heart
problems, cancer and Lou Gehrig's disease. When we called them, all five
people insisted they had been healed, but four of them wouldn't or couldn't
provide their medical records, and we could not speak to their
 doctors.

    As for the woman who said she'd been healed of Lou Gehrig's disease,
for which there is no known cure, we did speak to her neurologist, who said
he suspected she didn't have Lou Gehrig's disease in the first place.

    Though the ministry says publicly that the medical information it
collects is reviewed by a nurse and a doctor, in a letter to us from its
lawyer, the ministry acknowledged to us that it is ".... Impossible to
investigate and substantiate each and every one" of the healings proclaimed
at pastor Benny's crusades.

    But with our without absolute proof of the miracles, millions of
followers keep coming to the crusades, and continue to donate millions to
his ministry.

    But now, people who've worked inside the Hinn organization are
raising questions about where some of that money has gone.

Part two: Former insiders question what happened to some of the church
 money

Benny Hinn (at his crusade): "Only those who have been giving to God's work
will be spared."

    The money starts pouring in at Benny Hinn's crusades, thousands of
people filling hundreds of pastor Benny's collection buckets at every
service we attended.

    Chris Hinn: "One side cash, one side checks."

    A 1994 security tape shows Hinn staffers and volunteers counting the
collection money at a crusade.

    For three years in the mid-1990s, Mike Estrella says he was one of
those responsible for counting crusade collections in his capacity as Benny
Hinn's head usher.

    At the time, Estrella says, he was a devoted follower, and
 still
credits pastor Benny with curing his heart condition.

    Bob McKeown: "In cash, what was the biggest night you counted?"

    Mike Estrella: "In cash? Well, one night I counted $420,000."

    Steve Brock: "A dollar a day. Everybody say it with me - a dollar a
day."

    It may sound like they start out small, but the numbers soon get very
big. According to documents provided by the Trinity Foundation, and
published reports - Benny Hinn has more than 100,000 people who promise to
give him a dollar-a-day. If they keep that pledge, that would add up to at
least $3 million a month - $36 million a year.

    The people on this list seemed to be even more generous than that -
it appears some of them pledged or gave more than $100,000 apiece last year.

    Benny Hinn: "The greatest thing you can do for your finances is to
give to the work of God."

    On TV, and at his
 crusades, Hinn promises that not only will God
improve your health, but your financial life as well - perhaps by getting
you out of debt with an unexpected financial windfall. But first, you have
to give money to his ministry. Hinn calls it "sowing the seed."

    Benny Hinn: "Amen. So expect a financial harvest but you have to sow
a seed to see it happen... you may want to call your seed in today. Our 800
number is on the screen."

    Hinn follower Carlotta Moore told us she sows a seed of $12,000 a
year with pastor Benny, and that she expects to be financially rewarded.

    Carlotta Moore: "Because the Bible say [sic] what you sow, you gonna
reap. Now if you sow good things, you
 gonna reap good."

    Bob McKeown: "But might that mean that if you give money, you get
money back?"

    Carlotta Moore: "Oh yes, you will get money back. You will get money
back. Out of the clear blue sky, checks will come from somewhere. You go to
put on a dress or something, or take out a pocketbook up there in the
closet. There is $50 or $60 laying up in there. You'll be like, 'Woah, woah,
woah. Thank you, Lord.' You understand?"

    And the money Benny Hinn's ministry gets is not only in the form of
donations.

    "He sells his books, he sells his tapes, he sells everything, and is
just a money machine, and money pours in," says Ole Anothony. "He's one of
the most successful money raisers in history."

    In recent years, the Hinn ministry's total annual income has
increased dramatically from $50 million in 1997 to the latest estimates -
that the ministry says are inaccurate - of more
 than $100 million a year.
And because the ministry is registered as a church, all that money is
tax-free and Benny Hinn is under no legal obligation to make his finances
public.

    Bob McKeown: "Is there any way to know how much Benny Hinn makes?
Whether he's personally benefiting or not, and where the money goes?"

    Paul Nelson: "There really isn't, and that's why an organization like
ECFA has been formed."

    Paul Nelson is president of ECFA, the Evangelical Council for
Financial Accountability. Billy Graham, Pat Robertson, and the Salvation
Army are among its 1,000-plus members who voluntarily disclose to potential
donors more financial information than the law requires.

    "We believe that most people would like to know that the charities
that they give to are governed responsibly, that they practice disclosure of
their finances and other activities, they willingly answer questions,
 and
that they raise funds with integrity," says Nelson.

    Members release audited financial statements, including the salaries
of their ministers.

    Benny Hinn is not an ECFA member. He wouldn't tell us his annual
salary, but five years ago he acknowledged it was then between $500,000 and
$1 million a year.

    And Hinn won't specify how his ministry's money is spent, except to
say he doesn't personally benefit from any of it.

    Benny Hinn: "Every dollar you give this morning is going to the work
of the Lord."

    What Benny Hinn does tell his followers is that all their donations
are spent on God's work - for example, the expenses of his TV show and
crusades, the salaries of his staff, supporting churches and orphanages
around the world and more importantly.

    Benny Hinn: "So everything you give this morning is going for souls.
Is going for what?"

    The crowd repeats: "Souls."

    And many of his faithful, like Carlotta Moore, say they have no doubt
that's true.

    "We're not giving it to Pastor Benny, we're giving it to the ministry
to do the work the Pastor Benny has been entrusted to do," says Moore.

    But this former Hinn ministry staff member says he has reason to
question pastor Benny's sincerity.

    "And Benny was laughing and joking and saying, 'Hey guys watch how
much money I make tonight,'" says Michael Cohen.

    For years, Michael Cohen and his wife were church members. He also
belonged to Hinn's security detail, traveling the world with
 him. Cohen
recalls an incident after a service at the church where he says pastor Benny
bragged about his financial conquests.

    "Like one little grandmother one time came up and cried, I think she
said, this is my last $5. And we got back in the Green Room and he said,
'Ha, I got her last $5, guys,'" says Cohen.

    The ministry says the incident never happened.

    As for his lifestyle, pastor Hinn has explained that some of the
perks he has enjoyed like custom-made suits and expensive cars have been
paid for by his personal income, including the royalties from his many
books.

    While that may be true and legal, it's only part of the story.
According to the Trinity Foundation, the biggest customer for pastor Benny's
books is pastor Benny's own ministry. Trinity says the Hinn ministry buys
thousands of the books for which Hinn apparently collects the royalties.

    The ministry then
 offers them for sale at crusades and on its Web
site, and gives them away to donors.

    According to Paul Nelson of ECFA, that kind of business deal is too
close for comfort, and wouldn't be allowed if Hinn belonged to his
organization.

    "Our standards prohibit the royalty in that case going to the
individual," says Nelson. "The royalty must go for the benefit of the
ministry."

    The Hinn ministry also spends a great deal on pastor Benny's
lifestyle when he's on the road. These records show hotel suites for well
over a thousand dollars a night and transatlantic flights on the Concorde -
at more than $8,000 round trip. That is, before pastor Benny began flying in
a multi-million-dollar private jet.

    But Hinn contributor Carlotta Moore says that use of money given to
Hinn's church for God's work is just fine with her.

    "I'm pretty sure NBC's man that owns NBC probably got his own
 jet and
multimillion dollars," says Carlotta Moore. "Probably got houses here,
houses there, and this that and the other. And I believe that the preachers
of the gospel, I believe they should live better than even NBC's president."

    But Benny Hinn's followers may not know about how all of their
donations are spent. For example there's Hinn's palatial new home, now being
built for $3.5 million in an exclusive gated community overlooking the
Pacific Ocean.

    The plans call for more than 6,000 square feet - 7 bedrooms, 8
bathrooms and a basement garage with enough space for ten cars. Who's paying
for that? Not pastor Benny. That mansion on the Pacific is considered the
Hinn ministry's church residence or "parsonage," and the ministry is picking
up all the expenses for land, construction, even property taxes.

    The ministry says the house is a good investment, but Paul Nelson of
ECFA says Benny
 Hinn should be concerned about the perception of that house
deal. He says the expenditure of millions of dollars of church money on a
house for it's leader, is almost unprecedented.

    Bob McKeown: "Are you aware among your membership of any church
residence, parsonage, that is worth $3 million?"

    Paul Nelson: "I am not aware of that."

    Bob McKeown: "Not Billy Graham's..."

    Paul Nelson: "I don't believe so. No."

    Bob McKeown: "...residence? Pat Robertson's?"

    Paul Nelson: "I don't believe so."

    However it managed to pay for his house. Benny Hinn's ministry has
apparently had problems finishing other special projects.

    Since February of 2001, the Hinn Web site has been soliciting
donations for a new orphanage to be built in this little town outside Mexico
City saying it would be finished "soon.."

    But when we checked in Mexico, more than a
 year-and-a-half later, we
could find no sign of any construction. But the Hinn web site kept promising
that construction would be finished in, "a few short months."

    That was news to the local official in charge of construction in the
town, who told us the Hinn ministry hadn't even been issued a building
permit yet.

    What we did find, however, was this sign - curiously not in Spanish,
but English - attached to a house the ministry called it's 'temporary
orphanage,' which appeared to be empty. The Hinn Web site continued to
solicit donations.

    And then there was pastor Benny's most ambitious project - his $25
million healing center to be built in Texas.

    Benny Hinn: "And the Lord said to me to build a healing center that
people can come to 24-hours a day, any day of the week to be prayed for and
get
 healed."

    That was Benny Hinn raising funds for the project in 1999, but this
was Benny Hinn on a Christian telethon a year later: "Many of our wonderful
friends have called and said, 'What's with the healing center?' and
basically what the Lord has said to me is to wait for his voice."

    Hinn announced that God had told him to postpone construction, so he
said he was going to spend that money on other things.

    Benny Hinn: "I am putting all the money we have in the ministry to
get out there and preach."

    According to ECFA's Paul Nelson, that kind of unilateral diversion of
funds would simply be unacceptable.

    "They're creating a backlog of funds and they're not really released
to spend those funds on anything else,"
 says Nelson.

    But now apparently, pastor Benny has changed his mind again and says
the money raised for the healing center is being held in special ministry
accounts until the time is right.

    Benny Hinn: "The day will come, I am in no hurry, neither is God. The
day will come I will fulfill that vision."

    Remember Mike Estrella, who was the head usher at Hinn crusades? He
says one night, the ministry's chief executive officer offered him a wad of
cash taken from the collection.

    How much money? Mike Estrella says thousands.

    According to Estrella, the man who took that money from the
collection buckets was pastor Benny's righthand man, CEO Gene Polino.

    "I just push it back," says Estrella. "One day he told me
 these
words, he says 'Mike, if you follow me and listen to me, I guarantee one
thing, you never have to work again.'"

    After that Mike Estrella says, he began to watch Gene Polino more
closely.

    Estrella: "One time, Polino says give me all the hundreds and all the
fifties. And I did that. And many of them went to his pockets."

    Now how does he know that? "Because I saw him doing it," says
Estrella.

    In a telephone interview, Gene Polino, now retired as Hinn's CEO,
denied those claims.

    Gene Polino told "Dateline" he has "no problem" with Mike Estrella,
but that the former head usher sometimes got "confused." But two years ago,
in a deposition given under oath, Benny Hinn's 's brother Christopher, who
worked in a crusade counting room, testified he too saw Gene Polino
regularly stuff $50 and $100 bills into a bag. Christopher Hinn also
testified that the ministry CEO told
 him "...don't worry about it." Hinn and
Estrella both say they don't know if Polino kept the money they described
seeing him take.

    But Gene Polino told us none of it happened, insisting he never took
any money from the collections.

    Bob McKeown: "You categorically deny that?"

    Gene Polino: "Surely."

    Polino was never charged with any crime and the ministry says he did
not engage in any wrongdoing while employed by the church.

    Christopher Hinn and Mike Estrella both say they told Benny Hinn what
they saw, and we wanted to ask him about it. Through his lawyers and
spokesmen, Hinn repeatedly turned down our request for an interview. We
finally approached him outside his hotel after a crusade in Buffalo last
year.

    Bob McKeown: "Pastor Hinn, I'm Bob McKeown from 'Dateline, NBC.'
Could we have a word with you? We would like to arrange an interview. As you
know,
 we've been trying to contact you."

    Benny Hinn: "I'm so tired right now. I'm worn out."

    Bob McKeown: "Well, we would be pleased to do it at any time you'd be
available."

    Benny Hinn: "Alright."

    Bob McKeown: "In the near future. But as you know, we've been trying
to do this for several months now."

    Benny Hinn: "I know, I've been so busy."

    Bob McKeown: "And we haven't had much luck with you."

    Benny Hinn: "No, no, no, no, hey, hey, hey, gentlemen, please."

    Bob
 McKeown: "We seem to be having a bit of a problem with your
security detail here."

    Benny Hinn: "I know, I'm sorry about that."

    We did eventually get a final answer from Benny Hinn to our interview
request - it was still "no."

    Benny Hinn's brother Christopher has left the ministry after a
dispute with his brother, and the church says it has had no further dealings
with him.

    As for those other former Hinn insiders, head usher Mike Estrella and
security man Michael Cohen, they say that when they tried to complain to
pastor Benny about abuses in his organization, they were fired.

    In another letter from its lawyer, the ministry says Mike Estrella's
allegations are "unfounded and
 unsubstantiated," and that he was "... Acting
irresponsibly, maliciously or suffered from some impairment when making the
charges."

    As for Michael Cohen, the ministry says, "he is motivated by a
misguided personal vendetta against pastor Hinn and the church..." and
called him an "...unstable and unreliable source."

    Bob McKeown: "What would he say about you now, and the things you're
saying about him?"

    Michael Cohen: "He may tell people that haven't been around for
years, that I'm a disgruntled employee. The fact is, when I first started
working for him, for two years, I wouldn't even take a paycheck."

    Bob McKeown: "Do you believe that he has healed people? "

    Michael Cohen: "No."

    Bob McKeown: "Or that people are healed because of him?"

    Michael Cohen: "No. I don't. I believe that people have been healed.
It's God's power, it's not Benny's. Benny, in the
 last couple of years,
wields this power around likes it's his power."

    Cohen and Estrella maintain they were true believers, who put their
faith in a man they thought could bring hope and healing to millions.

    "What I saw was a big business rolling millions of dollars every
year, many people getting rich," says Mike Estrella. "And the rich getting
richer, and the poor getting worse."

    But then, there's Carlotta Moore, a pastor herself, who like millions
of others says she still believes in Benny Hinn.

    She says, "Pastor Benny's job is the work that God has called him to
do, to be that mediator, that channel for that anointing that God has placed
on his life, the work that God has called him to do, to carry that work out
here on Earth."

    Benny Hinn (at a crusade): "Stand up, lift your hands, and
 receive
from heaven, in the name of Jesus!"

What more information do you need?
Benny Hinn is a manipulator who EXPLOITS the Gospel and Christianity.

You are a false prophet, a liar, & a misled snake in the grass who has no truth in him. It’s a shame, really. you ought to read my testimony of miracles that occurred in my life when Jesus Christ made Himself known to me, in 11/06/2006. Typically, many pagans lack the courage to view my testimony in it’s entirety, but hopefully, you’re not as cowardly as the rest of your type usually is.

According to you & your pride, Jesus Christ is “fake”. but you just keep telling yerself that, & when you begin to beg Him for yer eternal life at the end of time, yer gonna look back at every single time He tried to send one of us your way to try to get you to see the truth about who He is, & the miracles that He could have performed in your life, but out of all that worldly garbage pride you people so covet, you chose not to. So be it. It’ll be your loss, & you’ll have no one else to blame for your getting tossed into hell, but yourself.

I hope that you will come to your senses, my main man. the test for you at this time is this: Do you have courage? Are you that eager to avoid an eternity writhing in agony in hell? Let us see, if you are brave, or if you are a sorry sucker of Satan. Y would you wanna side with an eternally- condemned deity (Satan) who will do nothing but get inside your head to fuck with yer health, both physically & spiritually? Surely you cannot be that much of a sorry sucker, are you? Or is it that you’re just plain weak? Because anyone who has either heard of an extensive story of miracles that Jesus Christ the King of peace performs in one of our lives, or if one of you have read one of our extensive testimonies of the miracles that He’s done in our lives but refuses to give Him a chance anyway, is nothing more than a sucker, & a coward — PERIOD.

Don’t you know that Satan is nothing more than a permission boy? He’s just some bullshitter & a chicken shit, who every time he hears the name of Jesus Christ, he runs like one. Oh & just so you know my man … we as the born again Christian have power over witches & warlocks. So getting cute with us will only get the fire returned back to you, alrghty then? Hahahaha …

Keep in touch, my main man.

Sincerely,

Andrew Friedman

http://delta-flt1189.xanga.com/703169840/miracles-that-actually-happened-to-me-on-the-night-of-11062006/

DELTA_flt.1189@yahoo.com

wo weeks ago, I attended the NADEC (North American Democratic Education Conference) at the Crowne Plaza in Albany, NY. I signed up for this as a parent from Brooklyn Free School, which was also co-sponsor of this conference.

My wife and I were founding parents of this school, which began several years ago after the first IDEC (International Democratice Education Conference). We read an article in the Park Slope Food Coop Gazette by a former vice principle and now director of our school, Alan Berger. We attended meetings at peoples homes, while our son was still barely 3. The school formed 6 years ago and is going strong.

My intention for attending this conference? There is always an ulterior motive. I have been a graphic designer and art director for close to 30 years now. With the struggling economy, and my growing gray hairs, an urge buried deep in my belly has been emerging. I want what I do in life to mingle with my spiritual values and social understanding. The school represents many of these values. My attendance at the conference was motivated in finding a role to play for the school, for this type of education.

I hope that I am talking now to folks who are interested in the Free School philosophy so if you are not, and do not know what a Free School is, I direct you to look up A.S Neil or Summerhill School in Wikepedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School]. Though we are not 100 percent identical to Summerhill, we do use many of the same approaches.

One of the meetings we had in Albany was on How to Help Grow a National Movenment. The meeting got sidetracked into a long discussion on whether Facebook may be the answer to creating a network. For me, the point was not that, but why are we interested in this for our children to begin with. What is your story and how do we tell it so that people may listen?

Coming home from Albany, I kept thinking of a way to solve this. My brain was on full throttle and a thousand ideas were spinning through it. Something had to be done, and I was the man to do it. I spoke with Alan about creating a newsletter, something I have much experience in. I had produced a newsletter for NYU Downtown Hospital as well as our own art based newsletter which I also wrote (my wife edited). But to print a newsletter is costly, especially in this economic environment. Also, our school, BFS (Brooklyn Free School) is in the midst of creating a capital campaign in order to raise funds to buy its own building. A project that would help grow our school and allow for long term projects. Currently the school is in a church and must remain modular and collapsable as the church uses the same space we occupy. So now my priorities need to fall in line.

An online newsletter soon became an idea for a blog, and my wish to address the issues on a national level. I want this to be a forum where others in the Free School community can offer their voice, their stories. A place where the needs of the few can lead to the help of the many. Much of what makes up a blog is personal opinion, and excuse me if I use this place to do just that. But I also wish to be inclusive and will list appropriate submissions.

I will end my introduction here as I still have many things to learn about blogging, how to use this site to full advantage and to see if I can get a bunch of you talking, so that our 2nd NADEC will be a bigger splash than the first. the first was a blast for all of us; the kids, the teachers and parents. It is community building at its very core,and it is exciting to be part of such a process. It is something I wish for all us, even those who don’t agree.

More Later
Bruce Zeines

The Mystery of the Bride

“Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” – John 20:29

»In der zweiten Ausgabe 2009 thematisieren wir den Umgang mit Geld innerhalb der Familie. Die Amerikanerin Rue Kream, Mutter von zwei Töchtern, erzählt im Interview über den gleichberechtigten Umgang mit Geld in ihrer Familie. Niki Lambrianidou wirft einen Blick auf die Abschaffung der Kinderarbeit und fragt, ob das Fluch oder Segen sei. Neben weiteren Artikeln zum Titelthema unterziehen Jobst Quis und Dr. Katja Rose die Theorien des Michael Winterhoff einer Prüfung. Henrik Ebenbeck zeigt die Probleme auf, mit denen die berühmte Summerhill School zu kämpfen hat.«

Quelle: Unerzogen-Magazin

A.S. Neill ist aufgefallen, daß die Schüler in Summerhill, im krassen Gegensatz zu öffentlichen Schulen, nicht unter Akne leiden. Neill:

Wenn ich Glück für so wichtig halte, dann deshalb, weil ich Entfaltung für wichtig halte. Es ist besser, frei und zufrieden zu sein und nicht zu wissen, was ein Dezimalbruch ist, als Prüfungen zu bestehen und das Gesicht voller Pickel zu haben. Im Gesicht eines freien und glücklichen Jugendlichen habe ich noch nie Pickel gesehen. (Theorie und Praxis der antiautoritären Erziehung, S. 321)

Akne bei Jugendlichen ist direkter Ausdruck einer bioenergetischen Kontraktion:

Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben entdeckt, warum die Haut bei Streß eher zu Entzündungen und Pickeln neigt: Die Menge an körpereigenen antimikrobiellen Substanzen in der oberen Hautschicht nimmt rapide ab, konnten sie in einer Studie an Mäusen zeigen. Verantwortlich dafür sind wahrscheinlich die erhöhten Streßhormonlevel, die den Transport der im Körper produzierten Antibiotika in die Haut stören.