The elders threw him into the water and chanted: “David, call your spirit back. His soul left his body. If your soul does not awaken, we will let you go. No one can live without a soul. The soul is the power for the existence of life.”
In 1985, David Chethlahe Paladin told American author Caroline Myss about his childhood as an alcoholic, wandering in the Navajo, a semi-autonomous Native American territory. The greatest agony of his life was being drafted into the army during World War II. And then, a strange incident turned his entire life upside down. Paladin recalled that when he was on the front lines, he felt as if a spirit had entered his body. That soul is the famous deceased Russian painter – Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944).
After hearing Paladin’s story, Caroline Myss published the book “Anatomy of the Spirit” (roughly translated: “Spiritual Anatomy”) about the difficult time Paladin had to endure when possessed by the spirit. the artist possesses the body.
The Life of a Young Soldier, David Paladin
By the time he was 11 years old, Paladin was already an alcoholic, living on the streets of the Navajo Indigenous region. When he was a teenager, he left his hometown and took a job on a merchant ship, and in his spare time, he used to sketch because it was his passion.
Some time later, he was drafted into the army during World War II and was assigned to spy behind enemy lines. The secret spying messages were transmitted using the native language of the Americans, in case they were discovered by the Russian military, they would not be able to read them.
Once while on a mission, Paladin was captured and brutally tortured.
Thanks to a stroke, he fortunately escaped death. After that, he was sent to a prisoner of war camp where living conditions were very poor. When the Allies finally liberated the camp, he was found emaciated, comatose, and near death.
He regained consciousness for a moment, and whispered in Russian, so they took him to the Russians. But when he gave his name, rank, and position number in English, he was returned to the Americans.
Thrown in the river to cure spiritual illness
After the war, Paladin fell into a coma and spent two years in the Michigan State Hospital. When he woke up, he said to a nurse, “I am a painter.”
Because of Paladin’s spirit in dreams and awakenings, when he returned to the local area where he lived, the elders there used various methods to treat the underlying spiritual illness that existed in his life. his body. They removed the brace on his leg and threw him into the river, then recited:
“David, call your soul back. His soul left his body. If your soul does not awaken, we will let you go. No one can live without a soul. The soul is the power for the existence of life.”
Paladin shared with Myss that what he had to go through at that time was more painful than what he had to endure at the hands of his enemies. “It was harder than having my feet nailed to the floor,” he recalls . I have seen the faces of Nazi soldiers, I have lived through all these months in the prison camp. I knew that I had to release my anger and hatred. I could barely control my body slowly sinking into the river, but at that moment I prayed the anger would leave my body. That was all I prayed for, and my prayers were finally answered.”
After that life and death scene, he miraculously recovered his spirit. Paladin has become more alert and has further developed his skills in painting, but the style of drawing is very similar to the works of the famous painter, Kandinsky. It seems that the artist’s soul has not completely left his body.
Reincarnation Research
Dr. Banerjee of the University of Rajasthan in India, who has studied reincarnation cases in India and the United States, studied Paladin’s case and found it particularly strange. He also later wrote about Paladin’s case in the book “The Once and Future Life”, roughly translated: “Once and for all eternity’,
He said this case is not like the soul of a deceased person reincarnated into a new life, it seems that a soul entered the Paladin’s body at a time when he was weak, at which time he did not want to govern. my own body. When hypnotized, he spoke Russian and seemed quite familiar with the life of the painter Kandinsky.
Although he painted in Kandinsky’s style, he progressed as a professional painter and developed his own style. Dr. Banerjee thought that Paladin had regained his own soul but Kandinsky entered anyway and affected him somewhat.
Dr. Banerjee noticed that Paladin seemed to be in complete control of himself when painting – no longer completely possessed by Kandinsky – although when painting, Paladin still felt as though a source of inspiration had inspired him. Older brother.
Paladin passed away in 1986, he published the book ” Painting the Dream” (” Drawing on dreams”), sharing about the process when he painted with his mind “relaxed, gently focused, while the master consciousness relaxes a bit” and he is “aware of this change, the shifting of the image” in his mind.
He added: “I don’t know why these forms of calligraphy appeared. Kandinsky’s geometric forms give a sense of order, resonating in certain areas; They are like a language. Calligraphic idea forms are also a language.”
“I think Kandinsky and I are painting the structure of things, and when we adjust to common sense, each of us will draw stories and view reality in our own style.”
