Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
A. RAMANA: Well the very first time that I had it I was
approximately five years old, and I had undergone a very serious
accident. A scalding pot of boiling water inadvertently dropped or
fell, was knocked into my lap. I had very serious burns. And I
lived in a very small city, a very small town actually, in east Texas
called Grand Saline. And that's where my parents were living; this
is during the depression years. And there was no hospital, and
there was only an itinerate doctor, and he was away from his
office. Boys had gone on their bicycles rapidly into town and
found a note on his door that he was out making house calls. So
the doctor was not available.
They returned home to where we lived, and it was kind of out in a
rural area, not too far from town, about five miles. This is a very
small town. And I was screaming, and my mother was beside
herself, as was my father who happened to be there too because
my father was working nights at that time in the salt mines in
Grant Saline. And someone, one of the neighbors, suggested that
there was a hermit living back in the woods, further back into the
woods, and we lived right on the edge of the woods. And he was
kind of held in suspicion in the town; many people did not know
how to take him so to speak. And he was a loner, a hermit, and
they said that the rumor was that he had powers and ability to take
the heat out of fire, my mother used to tell the story after this
happened. And they said, "Would you like us to go and get him,
maybe he could do something?" And my mother said, "Yes,
anything, anything".
So they went back into the woods, they called him Uncle Billy.
And they went back and brought Uncle Billy to my bedside. And
without ever speaking a word, he just motioned everyone out. We
lived in a tent back in those days; we were squatters, with the
permission to place our tent on this property by the owner. We
were very poor. And he just motioned everyone out of the tent, sat
down on a box beside the cot on which I was lying. I was not very
still, but he placed one hand, his right hand, on my chest, and his
left hand about an inch above the burn on my left leg, and began to
move his hand up and down, back and forth, not touching me but
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