I remember catching sight of The Two Dead Girls book in the grocery store. I bought the book, took it home and began to enjoy what would be my first experience reading serial novels. Paul Edgecomb runs the death row section of the Cold Mountain Penitentiary in the middle of the Depression. We are first drawn into Edgecomb’s life before the giant John Coffey walks onto The Mile.

Edgecomb is dealing with a particularly nasty bladder infection. His colleague’s friend is dying of a brain tumor. And if that wasn’t enough, he has to deal with a power-hungry prison guard who likes to blackmail him with his “connections” with the governor. This guard escorts John Coffey into the Death Row cell block, yelling, “Dead man walking! This is a dead man walking!”

Coffey shuffles into his cell, looking scared and bewildered. He cries a lot. The guards, with the exception of Percy the power-hungry, feel sorry for him. Then, one day, Coffey calls Edgecomb up to his cell. With great reluctance, Edgecomb complies. Coffey grabs the guard by the groin and proceeds to rid him of his bladder infection.

Mystified, Edgecomb sets out to find out exactly how Coffey wound up on Death Row. He learns that the case isn’t as cut and dried as everyone thinks. He also learns that Coffey’s gift can do great things (like bringing a dead mouse back to life), but with a price.

Frank Darabont did an excellent job of recreating the story almost precisely as it is written, and the cast couldn’t have been any better than it was. This isn’t a normal Hollywood movie, but a leisurely 3-hour story and a very good one. I didn’t know about the alternate ending when The Green Mile was reproduced as a full-length novel. After watching this movie, I found that I wanted more. So, I may just go out and buy that novel. I highly recommend the movie. Just make sure you can set aside a full three hours to watch it.

Adam Dreamhealer, a Canadian college student, claims that he can heal people’s maladies with the touch of his hands. According to ABC News, he makes more than most doctors do––$1.2 million. This doesn’t include the income he makes from his books, DVD, and healing sessions over the Internet.

He began experiencing telekenetic phenomena at the age of 15, when pencils and erasers began flying out of his hands. Since then, he’s channeled his energies into healing cancers and infections.

Adam says when he is trying to heal a person he sees a “quantum hologram” — a representation of the combined energy of everyone in the room.

“I’m not actually sure what it is I do. I go into this trance,” says Adam. “I don’t see anything else around me except for this person in front of me. And then I’m just changing these things, this image in front of me.”

He says he uses his hands to fix breaks in the energy flow, which allows the healing to begin.

But Adam can’t guarantee the success of his work.

Whatever this guy has isn’t perfect. He’s not able to cure people of cancer forever, and sometimes he misdiagnoses his client’s systems (much like doctors do). I also appreciated his respect for medicine in that he advised his clients to continue with their medication in conjunction with his healing treatment.

The scientific community hasn’t decided one way or the other if Adam Dreamhealer is a fraud. Edgar Mitchell of the Apollo 14 mission said, “It’s all about channeling energy and resonating with the person.”

According to Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School and the Mind/Body Center, we have self-healing capacities within ourselves that can be turned on by belief and expectancy. However, this ability can be difficult to turn on when we’re in pain or are afraid. That’s where people like Adam can be helpful.

Source: ABC News