2 PEOPLE DIE IN POISONING AT GERMAN THERAPY GROUP

IN BERLIN TWO PEOPLE DIED AND A THIRD IS IN
A COMA AFTER TAKING PART IN A GROUP THERAPY SESSION

BERLIN — A doctor leading a group therapy session gave participants drugs and other substances that killed two and left 10 hospitalized, Berlin police said Sunday. One person was left comatose and in critical condition. The doctor who led the session has acknowledged giving the participants various substances and drugs during the meeting. Autopsies have been carried out on the two dead people but it was not clear whether illegal drugs were given and whether the substances were injected or taken orally.

On the Internet, the doctor identifies himself as a psychotherapist for individuals and groups. He specializes in "depth psychology, bodywork and art therapy, and spiritual crises," according to the Web site. Police said the session took place in a house and medical practice in the leafy Hermsdorf neighborhood in the north of Berlin. The 50-year-old doctor, his 41-year-old wife, who runs a practice for alternative medicine in the same building, and 12 other people attended the session Saturday, which lasted several hours. The doctor supposedly gave the patients various kinds of substances and drugs that initially led to reactions like nausea and vomiting. When police and ambulance cars arrived at the practice, they found twelve people who appeared to have been severely poisoned, it said. A 59-year-old man died at the scene and a 28-year-old man died that night in the hospital, patient was still in critical condition.

The picture shows exterior view of the house
of the psychotherapist in Berlin, Germany

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

In the Śrīmād-Bhāgavatam (10.14.55), it is stated:

krsnam enam avehi tvam
ātmānam akhilātmanām

Śrī Krishna, who possesses sixty-four excellent attributes, is the soul of all souls. The love that all souls have for Krishna is free from mundane designations and is superlative. Those who have written about psychology and the intricacies of love without knowing love’s true nature have simply wasted their time, despite all their reasoning, as if mixing ghee into ashes. Out of pride, such persons have simply endeavoured for fame. Rather than benefit the world, they have brought it great misfortune. Brothers! Stop listening to those people’s grandiloquent talk and develop pure attachment for the soul, thus making your soul’s nature shine by experiencing that love which is free from designations.

Śrīla Saccidānanda Bhaktivinoda Thākura:
"Prītī (Love)" - Translated from Śrī Gaudīya Patrikā, Year 11, Issue 3
Rays of the Harmonist No 13 (Karttika 2003)