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Michael Schiavo's death lawyer George Felos ---- New Age nut case
New Age nut caseExceprts from his book: "As a spiritual aspirant for close to twenty-five years with definite monastic tendencies, my friends don't understand how I survive within the aggressive and often highly negative energies of the courtroom." (x) "The urge behind this book is to encourage and impel you to utilize your life's endeavor, whatever it may be, to its highest purpose — to move from making a living from your work, to having your work make you more alive." (xi) In the acknowledgments section, Felos notes that he has drawn from a wide range of spiritual teachers and teachings, with particular acknowledgment to the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Throughout the book, Felos cites Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Native American and other spiritual traditions from which he draws his views. _____________ Chapter 22, "Collective Consciousness and the Fear of Death," has an extensive discussion of the hospice movement which Felos is deeply involved in, noting, "The force that created today's Hospice also propels the right-to-die movement. We sense that keeping one alive against his wishes—artificially perpetuating the body once the spirit is ready to depart—is a defilement of life's final rite of passage. It appeared so obvious to me that the ability to die with dignity, as that term is defined by each individual, is an essential personal right." (223) Concerning the Florida Supreme Court's affirmation of his position in the Browning case (Mrs. Browning actually died while still being fed and before the case was argued before the Court): "A profound satisfaction welled up. I believed I had made a difference. The result of my efforts would touch many lives, now and in the future. I felt proud to be an attorney and was grateful to God for this extraordinary opportunity. I still am." (251) Concerning his involvement in a income tax case in Federal Tax Court (which he ultimately won), Felos writes about his feelings while doing yoga on the eve of the trial: "I felt like an empty vessel, a vehicle through which Spirit does its own work. I felt deep gratitude for being endowed with the abilities that allow this work to be done through me. In a sense I lost, at least for that moment, a personal agenda. I became an agent and God was the principal. All I needed to do was permit the work to come through me." (268) Posted by: sea cruise 2005-03-27 |
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