| Late at night, one night after the time | | | | another clinic in Atlantic City, New Jersey, |
| change, working an extra hour at warp speed, | | | | where patients came for treatments and |
| I taught one of my nurse colleagues how to do | | | | extended stays, with the additional healing |
| Mechano-Magic! | | | | of ocean power and lunar tidal rhythms. |
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| I taught her first by asking her to watch | | | | This was Dr. Ella's favorite location, but |
| another nurse friend do the treatment on me, | | | | she eventually settled in Philadelphia and |
| then she received the treatment. | | | | had a thriving Mechano-Magic practice there |
| | | | until her death, well into her nineties. |
| Now she needs to give me the treatment so I | | | | |
| can evaluate her touch. | | | | I'd go there with Dr Ella's friend, Dorothea |
| | | | Williams, whose husband, Hal, a homeopath and |
| She asked me: do patients think it's weird | | | | my family doctor, learned the treatment and |
| when you offer to give them a treatment? Do | | | | treated many of his patients, including my |
| they ever say No? | | | | family. |
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| I had to think about this. No, no one has | | | | I learned how to do the treatment from Hal |
| ever refused the treatment, unless she is in | | | | Williams. |
| active labor, at which time, she doesn't want | | | | |
| anyone to come near her. This is not always | | | | Receiving the treatment from Dr Ella was an |
| true, but is true most of the time. | | | | experience I'll always remember. |
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| One of my patients is in the hospital for | | | | She was old. |
| pre-term labor prevention. She used her call | | | | |
| bell to call out, and said she was in | | | | She was literally carried to the treatment |
| excruciating pain. | | | | table by two of her attendants, one on each |
| | | | side of her. |
| She said she felt like her vagina was in | | | | |
| flames. | | | | But when she arrived at the table,she |
| | | | straightened up, stood by herself, placed her |
| Here, I said, come towards me on your right | | | | powerful hands on my back, and began her |
| side facing those windows. | | | | magic. |
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| Then I did the Mechano-Magic with a little | | | | Mechano-Magic. |
| Matrix Energetics thrown in (as taught by | | | | |
| Richard Bartlett). | | | | From a child's perspective, this was amazing, |
| | | | potentially terrifying, maybe a bit odd. |
| After ten minutes, she was back to hooking a | | | | |
| rug. Within an hour, she had the rug hanging | | | | But I was mesmerized by this experience. |
| on the bulletin board in her room, and was | | | | |
| starting on another project. | | | | Dr Ella was a healer of the highest order. |
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| She didn't seem to put the pain relief and | | | | Now only a few of us know how to do the |
| the Mechano-Magic treatment together. But | | | | treatment. |
| that's OK!! She didn't know what hit her, but | | | | |
| pain relief was the result. | | | | I teach my nurse healer friends, I practice |
| | | | on my patients, my husband and two dogs. |
| And the baby lived another day inside her | | | | |
| womb. | | | | I go to the home of Dorthea Williams, who has |
| | | | since passed, and exchange Mechano-Magic with |
| Mechano-Magic was popular in the early 1900's | | | | her daughter almost every week. |
| in America. Ella Kilgus originated the | | | | |
| treatment and she opened her first clinic in | | | | This has improved my technique. |
| Newark, New Jersey. | | | | |
| | | | Mechano-Magic must not die with the few of us |
| I've seen pictures of this clinic, with long, | | | | who know how to do it. |
| sprawling porches, balconies, long green | | | | |
| lawns. | | | | I can only hope that this treatment will |
| | | | realize an exciting renaissance now, in the |
| The patients came for Mechano-Magic, ate | | | | twenty-first century! |
| healthy food, and relaxed under old growth | | | | |
| oaks, sometimes for weeks at a time. | | | | The Internet is the vehicle. |
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| Dr Ella, as we all called her, then opened | | | | Time is of the essence. |