European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 20 the stars and stripes monday june 16, 1980 Gerald Jampolsky helping kids face catastrophic illness. Attitudinal Healing modern living for stricken children by David Einstein associated Presb Ald from chemotherapy an la year old girl is humiliated when her wig Falls off at school. A Young boy must have his cancerous leg amputated. A teen Ager run Over by a tractor is Blind and unable to Rak or move More than one hand. All three share More than sickness and pain. Each has been Given Hope by or. Gerald Jampolsky and his Center Lor Altitudinal Healing in Tiburon Calif. The message the 55-year-old psychiatrist leaches is not complicated. Ii says people can replace fear with Lote and forgiveness and when they do even the most hopeless situations become tolerable. When the Center was founded five years ago it was says Jampolsky. A Back garage operation a Way to learn something for ourselves. I had no idea we d get this kind of  but something in the Way Jampolsky taught kids to face catastrophic illness pain and even death filled a void wherever he talked and today about 15 centers have sprouted up across the country. From a Small clinic composed of children helping each other through life threatening diseases the Center hat grown to include groups for siblings and parents and a National Telephone network linking about 800 kids with similar diseases from coast to coast. Despite its popularity. Jampolsky has managed to keep his Center intimate while insisting that services remain free. Supported at first with his own Money the Center now thrives on rants and contributions. Jampolsky sees the Center at a Model Tor hospitals and doctors in other c immunities and As a Hub for the phone pal system. The Center serves As supplement to regular medical treatment. In the final analysis sometimes it is More important giving kids something they can t get in a Hospital. Death is like being in the Light  the words come from a Book titled there is a Rainbow to Hind every dark Cloud written and illustrated by 11 of Jampolsky s kids. Wherever he lectures Jampolsky takes some or his Young patients. They Are Beautiful teachers he says. It s the Prem ise that a child shall Lead them. They be chosen peace instead of conflict and it comes out in a Way that has an innocence and a freshness. They be faced a life threatening illness. They be  in a Way the Center has been therapy Tor Jampolsky himself. Raised in Long Beach Calif., he was the youngest of three Brothers All of whom became doctors. Childhood was a struggle i had a Reading problem and 1 got bad grades but he made it through premed and eventually excelled at Stanford. Medical practice brought Jampolsky wealth he had never dreamed of As the son of an immigrant fruit store owner from Russia. But wealth did t bring happiness and five years ago his personal life temporarily fell apart. He was drinking heavily and his 20-year marriage ended though his practice flourished and his Fame grew. Coincidentally at that time Jampolsky encountered a program in Tiburon called a course of miracles which embraced the ideas he would later teach. That sparked a rebirth which if it was t exactly religious was certainly spiritual. My whole life began to shift he says and i began to experience a sense of inner peace i had t Felt  later returning from the East coast Jampolsky conceived the idea for his Center a free clinic where inner peace forgiveness and love would be the keywords. Jampolsky does not claim that Bis Center can actually reverse cancer or save a life. But one gets the feeling seeing and listening to these children that it just might. He relates the Story of a 13-year-old boy who had been run Over by a tractor Blind and virtually immobile he was extremely depressed. But Jampolsky suggested that if he could find a Way to help someone else he would no longer see himself As disabled. A few Days later he was lying in bed in the children s Ward of the Hospital and if anything his depression was heavier. A 2-year-old with a brain irritation was crying pitifully nearby the boy s Mother sitting beside him remembered what i d said. Walking Over to the baby s crib she lifted him out and placed him on lop of her own child. The boy stiffened with Surprise but then he relaxed and began to stroke the wailing baby with his Good hand. The crying stopped and soon it seemed that the two were off in z world of their own a world beyond pain or  at wits end by Erma Bombick my son graduated from College  he swayed Down the aisle looking forthe world like a supreme court judge who needed a haircut i could t help but reflect on the Wisdom he had amassed in four years. 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