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>I could not take my eyes off him and realized that he looked incredibly weary—I have never seen anyone look so tired. I remember being slumped over the table, sipping at my coffee, when I began to feel a strange uprising of energy within myself—I stared at him, automatically straightened up, and it was as if a violent, electric blue light emanated from him and entered into me. As this happened, I could feel the tiredness drain out of me, but at the same moment his body slumped and his face turned grey as if it was being drained of life. I looked at him, amazed, and when he saw me sitting erect, smiling and full of energy, he said quickly: "You all right now—watch food on stove—I must go." There was something very urgent in his voice and I leaped to my feet to help him but he waved me away and limped slowly out of the room.
>He was gone for perhaps fifteen minutes while I watched the food, feeling blank and amazed because I had never felt any better in my life. I was convinced then—and am now— that he knew how to transmit energy from himself to others; I was also convinced that it could only be done at great cost to himself.
>It also became obvious within the next few minutes that he knew how to renew his own energy quickly, for I was equally amazed when he returned to the kitchen to see the change in him; he looked like a young man again, alert, smiling, sly and full of good spirits. He said that this was a very fortunate meeting, and that while I had forced him to make an almost impossible effort, it had been—as I had witnessed—a very good thing for both of us. He then announced that we would have lunch together—alone—and that I would have to drink a "real man's share" of fine old Armagnac.

Anthony Archer-Forbes, in his article, Dervish Ritual, within the volume, The Diffusion of Sufi Ideas in the West (1972) reports a healing ritual where advanced Sufi Dervishes transfer higher energy into suffering people to heal them:

>“In one dramatic instance, the Chief pointed his finger at four sufferers, and they began to tremble and shake almost uncontrollably; finally collapsing on the floor, and then rising at a signal. A change certainly seemed to have come over them: a load seemed shifted from their shoulders. ‘That’, said Anwar, ‘was the Larz (shaking), which comes through the utter concentration of force on the patient. It must be removed at once, otherwise they develop a taste for it and indulge in it in senseless orgies…This trembling can be accompanied by animal noises and pantomime. It can only be removed by a Sufi Master…Some (wrongly motivated) practitioners use such energization of people to maintain power over them. These produce the Larz and then do not take it off. As a result, the patients develop a dependency feeling for the operator.”