A number of bloggers have speculated whether the whole Terri Schiavo situation is really massive spiritual warfare. Here's an interesting article on George Fellos, attorney for Mike Schiavo, from a past issue of the St. Pete's Times. I've reproduced some of the more salient quotes, but it is definitely worth reading in its entirety:
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Bibliographical info:
The spirit and the law:[SOUTH PINELLAS Edition]
SHARON TUBBS. St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, Fla.: May 25, 2001. pg. 1.D
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Felos, 49, has taken on about 10 right-to-die cases in the last decade. He balances his quest for spiritual growth with his lawyerly duty to fight.
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Felos' spiritual and professional lives intersected in a public way 12 years ago, in the case of Estelle Browning. The case gained him a reputation as the person to see when you want to let someone die.
Browning, of Dunedin, had written a living will in 1985, saying she did not want to be kept alive by artificial means if she ever became ill. A year later, she had a stroke. But the nursing home refused to stop feeding her because she was not technically brain dead. Her cousin and former roommate, Doris Herbert, asked Felos to take the case.
He wanted to see Browning for himself. She could not speak, but Felos says his spiritual side picked up on something. He says her soul cried out to his soul and asked, "Why am I still here?"
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After the Browning case, Felos became a volunteer for the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, sitting and talking with terminally ill patients. On his living room shelf sits a book for hospice training, Dying Well, by Ira Byock.
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"I believe that Christ was God incarnate and was resurrected. But, by the same token, I believe that there were other incarnations of God as well," he says. "All the great religions in their essence express the same fundamental truths."
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That is what is necessary, he says, "to accomplish what I believe are Terri's wishes."
Does Felos believe Terri Schiavo's soul has spoken to his?
Felos declines to answer, showing his lawyerly side. "It's a pending case," he says.
Is there any objective way to know whether spiritual warfare is involved? If Felos' messages can be explained as imaginary rather than diabolical, I'm inclined to go for the 'natural' explanation.
what if someone sprinkled some Holy Water on him?
a "friend of a friend" story -- the FOF worked at a pro-life, pro-family lobbying and advocacy organization. One time she found the the "opposition" was led by a very influention person who happened to be in the new age Womyn's Goddess-worship line, and who would start leaning her head back and murmuring prayers during the proceedings.
So during the coffee break, FOF taped a blessed Miraculous Medal under the woman's chair. The woman came back, took her seat, and was very agitated, distracted, and ineffective for the rest of the meeting.