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The Weekly: People__Psychic: God’s tool to help peopleBy Tom FruehlingGazette Marion bureauMy life is going to change.Within the next six or seven years, I’m going to be a big shot — perhaps a famous teacher or writer. My present humdrum life will be only a memory. Cedar Rapids? Forget it, I’m going to be living somewhere on the West Coast.So, anyway, says Henry Rucker.Hank, as he prefers to be called, is a Chicago-based psychic who was in Cedar Rapids for the weekend to conduct lectures and workshops under the auspices of Marion’s Institute of Man.He analyzed this reporter as a demonstration on the psychic powers he claims to possess. And despite his obvious error in thinking I’m going to make something of my life, I believe him.He claims to have no supernatural gift. Everyone, he says, has sensitivities.1 Some just develop their sensitivity more than others.People ask ff it’s a myth, a fraud, some sort of phony thing,” Rucker says. ''I’m honest about it. I think that 1 have insight into people; I can tune into them. A lot of people are leery about it, but psychics get impressions of people. It’s like a picture in the mind’s eye. Call it a hunch, common sense, a premonition or psychic powers — it’s the same thing.”People, according to Rucker, can be divided into senders and receivers. He happens to be a receiver, one who has an unusual sense of picking up vibrations.I'm a strong believer in God,” he says. I feel God uses me as a channel. Although I’ve been credited with healing people — one with cancer — 1 don’t want that label put on me. That’s a heavy trip.I’m a pretty good counselor. I have the ability to look into people and help them to heal themselves. But I don’t have all the answers. I’m notright all the time. I don’t guarantee anything. If I’m right, great. If not, don’t shoot me.”Although Rucker has a bachelor’s degree in psychology, he says he’s learned more from his life’s experience. Born in what he terms humble beginnings” 58 years ago, he has been a military policeman, cop, teacher, salesman and assorted other things. He says he’s been into psychic matters pretty heavy” for the last 20 years.Rucker is a staff member at the Pain and Health Rehabilitation Center in LaCrosse, Wis., a facility under the direction of medical doctor C. Norman Shealy. At the clinic, people are treated under a host of techniques — including traditional medical practices and psychic counseling.The medical profession in the last few years has started to open the door to different types of treatment,” Rucker said, Doctors have come to realize that there may be ways other than their own to cure people. I counsel people, study them, and can say, 'I think this may be wrong.’The doctors still have the final decision, but 1 can function as an important adjunct. There are some problems that cannot be diagnosed despite all the physician’s expertise. There are alternative ways of healing, and we’re realizing we should try any method that might help.”Rucker has made a good life for himself. His salary at the clinic, he says, allows him to live without financial troubles. His wife, a dentist, no longer needs to practice. And Rucker’s lectures and workshops have resulted in his traveling around the world twice and given him lucrative stipends.I’ve done well,” he says, but I take no credit for it. God has done it for me. He has allowed me to help people.”And God has also allowed Rucker to help himself, which is exactly the message he delivers to others.
Newspaper Details
The Gazette Weekly News Magazine
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Wed, Mar 28, 1979
Page 3
Full Page
Clipped by
Caroline A.
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