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Rod Dreher's avatar

An Irish reader just emailed me to say that Sophia gets aspects of Irish history wrong. Me, I dunno -- I just reported what she said. I also don't know anything scientific that could confirm or refute her claims about hertzes and healing. My point was not to do a "gotcha" interview, but just to talk with an accomplished musician about her work, and why she considers it to be healing, in a direct way.

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Frederica Mathewes-Green's avatar

My spiritual father, Fr George Calciu (died 2006), told me of a visit he paid to Eliade in old age. He said his fingers were crippled such that he couldn't work at a typewriter, but he had put a pencil in his fingers and had wrapped and tied them together. "And he was *pushing* with the pencil," Fr George said. His urgent need to write, to communicate, was that strong.

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