Douglas Astounds Crowd at Holistic World Expo (Toronto, Canada)
News traveled quickly throughout the expo that an energy healer was knocking people over at his booth. Douglas was soon receiving requests for healing energy from other exhibitors at the trade show. They had never seen - or felt - anything like it. Over the three days - Mar 17 to 19, Douglas gave free demonstrations of spiritual healing around his booth and crowds gathered quickly. Among the other exhibits of health products and therapy demonstrations, Douglas must have been a very strange sight indeed. He moved quickly from one person to the next, laying hands on them and offering healing energy. Those who were overwhelmed with the energy lay prone at his feet, immobile, save for the rapid movement of their eyes behind closed lids. It was a very busy weekend!
The cameras caught Douglas in action. DJ Sonic Dave DuMoulin from www.natradio.com did a video interview with Douglas for an upcoming show. Stay tuned for details. Next upcoming event in Toronto on March 26.
Faith is built upon belief and belief is built upon evidence
On Sunday March 19, a woman who had received a healing on Friday evening returned to the booth to share her experience with us. She gave us this written testimonial:
"I see Douglas James Cottrell at his booth at the end of a long aisle and get out of my wheelchair to say hi. I get a feeling of deep compassion emanating from him and a kind of matter-of-fact intention – a can do sort of ability. I also feel a kind of quivering in my body, an unsteadiness as I stand in front of him. I seem to be reaching for him, wanting him to touch me. I'm not completely sure what happened next but something profoundly moving gripped me and my friends Peter and Annette.
"I felt a gentle, steady force moving me backward, pushing me. I lean back and almost crumple. This is so strange, I could never let myself fall back, not with such a vulnerable head so soon out of radiation therapy. And yet... it's almost Television Evangelical. I regain my footing and stand a little unsteadily as Cottrell continues to do something to me. There is an energy emanating from him and then suddenly I am pushed, shoved even by some great force and I fall, stagger backwards. Then I am on the floor and I am shaking and crying and saying "Oh my what's happening, oh my, what's happening?" My eyes are closed and something pops out of the back of my neck. "Something's coming out of me," I remember saying. "Something's coming out of my head."
"I am weeping and staggering away and pushing the wheelchair. The dimensions of this are just too weird and surprising. I am not sure what I have experienced. It takes my friends and I hours to piece together the event so that it plays fluidly, but I suspect much of what we decide on is simply filling in the gaps with our imaginations. None of us really knows what happened, but the cancer in my brain, I suspect, just popped out. I am so glad Peter and Annette are here. How else could they come to any belief in this? Thank you, thank you, thank you."
Lindalee T., Toronto, Ontario
And the Winner is....
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At Holistic World Expo we held a draw for $200 in product, including a copy of Secrets of Life, some Deep Trance Meditation research booklets and copies of Douglas's CDs. Congratulations to Bev Gaal of Stoney Creek who won the draw. Pictured here is Douglas Matthew Cottrell who is holding the winning ticket. |
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