Chapter 23. Wilbur

Desert Light Linking’s cofounders Lucia, Dalton, Greg, and Jerry sat in an undarkened room with Gentility, who was in trance and channeling Wilbur.

"We have a friend named Arthur who was promised more than two months ago that he would be able to walk in only three months," Lucia said. "Can you tell us if he will?"

"There are many people who have felt nothing, no form of improvement," Wilbur said, "who have suddenly walked when they arrived at a certain time and a certain place and were with the right people; many people who disbelieve are healed miraculously, while many people who believe almost perfectly are not."

(Arthur, when he read the transcript a few days later, would note with approval that Wilbur had not answered the question.)

"The first day of our first conference, Arthur's leg was swollen," said Lucia. "Was that related in any way to the conference? What was happening?"

Arthur had asked Lucia to ask this question because he thought it would elicit anything about his leg Wilbur wished to impart.

"It is a reaction," Wilbur said, "to a magnetic field which naturally affects the rest of his leg. He seeks too hard, he tries too hard to become, and through the intensification of his own field he pushes away those that are unseen who could work on him. His magnetic field is stronger than needed because he works too hard inside to accomplish it. He needs someone whose faith is strongest. There is a healer who will be with him who will contribute much to his leaving his wheelchair."

"Is it Charles Hawk?" asked Lucia.

"No," said Wilbur.

"Will it be someone from the Philippines?" asked Greg, who had recently, amazed, filmed an operation by a psychic surgeon from the Philippines.

"No," said Wilbur.

"Are you going to tell us?" asked Lucia.

"No, I will not give a name," said Wilbur.


"It would have been so much easier for you to be healed right after you were hurt," Lucia said to Arthur the next day.

"I know," said Arthur. "Before the scar had time to settle into my body"--he spread his eyes wide--"and my mind!"

They were in Lee and Arthur's living room, Lucia sitting on the steamer trunk. It was before noon and Arthur had only been out of bed half an hour. Bess looked in the front door, seeking Lucia.

"Oh, you are here. Your phone was ringing and I answered it; you have a collect call from someone named Mona."

"Mona!" said Lucia, and bolted from the room.

"That Mona!" said Bess. "I never even thought of her!"

Lucia’s teacher Mona was soon to be in Tucson, at the second Desert Light holistic-healing conference. Bess followed Lucia back out the door to listen to Lucia's end of the call. Arthur moved closer to the gas grate in the wall. He particularly liked the flames on cloudy winter days like this one. He was often cold his first hour in his chair and his body temperature tended to lag the air temperature; if he was cold he took longer than most to warm up, if warm, to cool down.

He considered the scar in his mind. He had recently changed his undirected silent prayer from “Teach me, Heal me; Teach me, Heal me” to “Heal me, Teach me, I am healed; Heal me, teach me, I am healed.”

Lucia skipped back in the door.

"She agrees with Wilbur! You will be healed, she says."

"Thank God," said Arthur.

"Praise the Lord," said Lucia, not unwhimsically.

"Hallelujiah," they said together.

"You have to write her a letter now," she said. "I have to mail it right away. You have to sign it and you have to tell her when you were born and I have to send her a lock of your hair." She giggled. Such fun! "She's got two new partners; one's an acupuncturist, the other a medium and distance healer. She wants you to fly them all here."

"Good idea," said Arthur. "Wire 'em. Tell 'em to be at the airport at midnight to meet my plane--or should I send the carpet?"

"I know. She has the idea you're rich."

Arthur spun to the typewriter. Lucia searched for and found a pair of scissors with which she clipped a lock of his hair. Two hours later the letter, his hair with it, was in the mail, and three nights after that he began to receive distance healing from British Columbia. Lucia could not keep from wondering whether it was Mona's name Wilbur had not revealed.
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