Schiavo lawyer: New Age mystic

World Net Daily ^ | Nov 1, 2003 | David N. Bass

[amdgmary]

Schiavo lawyer: New Age mystic

November 1, 2003

By David N. Bass

All the controversy surrounding Terri Schiavo in Florida boils down to one major issue: differing worldviews. Battles over right-to-die cases inevitably come down to the moral and spiritual content of a man's heart, and this case is no different.

For those who've kept their heads in the sand for the past month (obviously not readers on this site), Terri Schiavo is a 39-year-old brain damaged woman who requires a feeding tube for sustenance. She receives no life support or respiration; she responds to communication, recognizes her family and is considered physically stable. Yet her husband, Michael Shiavo, has demanded that her feeding tube be removed, which would force her to slowly starve to death.

It's obvious from his actions that Mr. Schiavo has little regard for his wife's welfare. Even his appearance on a recent edition of "Larry King Live" was more about damage control for his own image than about Terri. If Mr. Schiavo were truly concerned about her safety and health, his past actions would show it. But they don't.

Schiavo's attorney George Felos is in the same boat as his client, but the two part company when it comes to motivation. Michael Schiavo may be induced by greed or selfishness, but George Felos is coming from a different, and even more sinister, position altogether.

Felos has been regarded as a champion of the right-to-die movement for more than a decade. During that time, he's made no attempt to hide his inclination towards wacky New Age mysticism. Instead of a lawyerly estate, his home looks like hippie villa USA, complete with crimson couch, bright green carpeting and a living room wall painted neon blue, reported the St. Petersburg Times. When he's not stirring up theta waves or practicing yoga, he invites friends over to chant "I am that I am … I am that I am …" while he bangs out a tune on his harmonium.

According to the May 2001 article by the Times, Felos indicated that his practice of law – specifically cases pioneering the right-to-die movement – open new opportunities for spiritual growth. The Times story reports Felos first became interested in right-to-die cases 14 years ago, in the case of Estelle Browning. Browning had written in a living will that she did not want to be kept alive by artificial means if she ever became ill. She suffered a stroke a year later, but hospitals refused to stop her feeding tube since she wasn't technically brain dead.

Felos stepped in to champion the case for the right-to-die crowd. He visited Browning in the hospital, and even though she couldn't speak, he claimed his "spiritual side" detected her soul crying out to his soul, asking "Why am I still here?"

Additionally, Felos published a book in May of 2002 entitled "Litigation as Spiritual Practice" in which he contends that his religious beliefs are what drive him in the courtroom. This is a point you shouldn't miss. Felos is admittedly incorporating his New Age philosophy into the practice of law, yet liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union are conveniently silent. If the situation were reversed and George Felos' convictions stemmed from Christianity, the liberal uproar would break your eardrums. But since Felos is an enlightened New Ager sharing the same anti-God worldview as the ACLU, he seemingly has every right to allow his beliefs to influence his interpretation of law.

I guess religious bias is fine as long as mainstream liberalism considers it "hip." The ACLU will support George's belief that the souls of disabled people are calling him to end their lives, but if a lawyer comes along advocating the Christian admonition to uphold sanctity of life, well, everyone knows that's mucking up the law with religion. Can someone say double standard?

Conveniently, the mainstream media has also neglected to mention Felos' New Age inclinations. He's openly admitted that he incorporates New Age mysticism into his practice of law, and yet his beliefs are rarely exposed or questioned.

Evidently, the media think support of life for religious reasons is extreme, but support of death for the same reasons is perfectly acceptable.

We need to realize that the battle in Florida is not only a legal and moral issue, but a spiritual issue as well. If you think God is in everything, or that humans are simply collections of molecules coming from nowhere and going to nowhere, then why not euthanize the burdensome?

In the end, it all boils down to worldview. Men like George Felos stand for a worldview that's the complete antithesis of godly morality. It's a worldview our society is quickly accepting. Don't let that lesson pass you by.

David N. Bass is an 18-year-old homeschool graduate who writes for World Newspaper Publishing and is a regular columnist at AmericanDaily.com, ARationalAdvocate.com and RenewAmerica.us. He is also a contributing writer to Tolkien-Movies.com. Bass is currently working on his first novel.

[editor-surveyor]

"Just wait 'til the next four years of homeschoolers hit the job market, politics, the pulpit and the press. The libs aren't gonna know what hit them."

It is my considered belief that the conservative surge that is reviving the country right now is based in the past ten years of homeschooling. - Here in California, 62% of voters voted for a republican candidate for governor in the recall election. (If you don't think that's remarkable, perhaps you just don't know much about California's politics)

[FR_addict]

"she responds to communication, recognizes her family
I do not claim expert knowledge of this controversy, however, it appears to me that this statement is exactly what is at the heart of this issue. The woman's parents contend the above is true, her husband contends that it is false."
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Actually, the husband's first attorney said she knew her husband. It wasn't until Felos took over that they changed the story and said she didn't recognize anyone.

"During the trial, attorneys for the Schiavos showed a film of a day in Mrs. Schiavo's life at Sabal Palms Nursing Home in Largo. Although she's in a vegetative state, said St. Petersburg lawyer Glenn Woodworth, 'you can tell she has some sense of her predicament".... (On the film) she knows her husband and looks into his eyes.'"

[Coleus]

The Bizarre Motivation behind Michael Schiavo's Right-to-Die Lawyer George "Killer" Felos

DIVINI REDEMPTORIS, On Atheistic Communism ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI ON ATHEISTIC COMMUNISM MARCH 19, 1937

[cyn]

Terri & Michael in 1990 St. Pete Times photo before he won the lawsuit and she lost it.
H'mm, Michael, did it take 4 hrs for the photographer to get this one good picture?
May Terri achieve her freedom soon after all these years of justice denied.

Below are EXCERPTS -- please see PDF for original from friends of Terri website. Thanks to FL engineer, who found this!

Reports ‘transcribed’ to FreeRepublic

Physical Examination -- 6 - 27 - 90

*patient is awake, eyes are open
*easily startled to her name or when bedrail fell down
*significant amount of tone in the head and neck.
*severe hypertonicity of all four extremities; plantar flexor contractures, some shoulder limitation
*"again, tone is quite significant in all four extremities and difficult to achieve range of motion of the left hip and knee while she is in a supine position."
*she does give eye contact to family members
*she will close her eyes to any threatening response around her face and blink appropriately
*no verbal output during this exam but it has been reported by husband and other family members and therapists over at College Harbor.

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Treatment Plan Review from Mediplex rehab, Bradenton, 1/29/91

*Vocalizing when prone in P.T. [physical therapy]
*Occasionally will say "STOP" to nursing during procedures.
*to TR [recreation?] groups. More relaxed to therapists voice, touch (habituation)

[cyn]

Terri all spiffed up in a trip to the mall salon, before 1992 trial.
Terri is not in coma or PVS (see exam & evaluations above)
It is Michael who needs to let go and get on with his life.
Let Terri go home to her family.

[Tax-chick]

Thanks for the ping! One of the most frightening things about this case is that, whatever happens to Terri Schiavo, Mephisto-Felos will still be walking around loose to strike again!

[aardvark1]

Great article! I read another article this week that characterized this case not as a quality-of-life issue but a value-of-life issue. How true!

[amdgmary]

I'm currently reading George Felos book, "Litigation for Spiritual Practice." In a chapter entitled "The Weekend from Hell" (page 23), Felos wrote about his desire to kill his ex-wife, "I was on fire, fueled by thoughts of bludgeoning and tearing her apart. If she was there at that moment, I thought I would kill her - happily destroy her." Felos and his wife were going through a divorce.

I considered myself reasonably attactive and carried few major bad habits. I loved her. And I was dumped. Not even for another man. Had I been a lout or had she enamored herself with someone else, perhaps the rejection would have been easier.

Felos further wrote about his ex-wife on page 7, "To her, I seemed unattractive, sexually unexciting, balding, boring and just not fun enough to be with."

Felos describes his experience with Estelle Browning in the chapter "Soul-Speak", page 73: "As I continued to stay beside Mrs. Browning at her nursing home bed, I felt my mind relax...As Mrs. Browning lay motionless before my gaze, I suddenly heard a loud, deep moan and scream and wondered if the nursing home personnel heard it and would respond to the unfortunate resident. In the next moment, as this cry of pain and torment continued, I realized it was Mrs. Browning. I felt the mid-section of my body open and noticed a strange quality to the light in the room. I senses her soul in agony. As she screamed I heard her say in confusion, "Why am I still here...why am I here?" My soul touched hers and in some way I communicated that she was still locked to her body. I promised I would do everything in my power to gain the release her soul cried for. With that, the screaming immediately stopped. I felt like I was back in my head again, the room resumed its normal appearance, and Mrs. Browning...lay silent."

The book consists of 318 pages of Felos's rambling about his spiritual powers (he claims he has the psychic power to influence people's thinking process) and to change the outcome of events.

[pickyourpoison]

Sounds like he's in a dream world.

[countrydummy]

PING!

[wisconsinconservative]

ping!

[sweetliberty]

"I seemed unattractive, sexually unexciting, balding, boring and just not fun enough to be with."

Golly gee....what's not to find attractive about this specimen?

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[Lion in Winter]

He forgot to add that she probably was tired of his teeny, tiny willie! HAHAHAHAHHA

[Lion in Winter]

According to a Greek Orthodox priest who writes on the Orthodox Today website, he is a "fallen son" of the Greek Orthodox Church.

That is very telling as to the kind of person, felos is. He is a new age wacko!