Finally. . . the big day arrived. . . . I arrived early at the assembly area and noticed a boy of about twelve – a bandage still on his head from "Bloody Sunday" – walking across the lot and headed directly for me. He had a moth-eaten blanket with a belt around it and a paper bag with his lunch. He approached and said: "Father, is anyone walking with you? My daddy’s dead, my brother is a cripple and momma has to stay home with him. I am the ‘onliest’ one who can go, and I’m scared." I took his hand, put him on the inside, and together we marched across Pettus Bridge.
— from a speech by Kim Dreisbach about the March after Bloody Sunday in 1965
John Klotz writes:
In the process of writing my manuscript, I am up to 2006 and I came upon this beautiful piece by Kim Dreisbach [pictured here]. Kim was to deliver it at a conference at Perugia, It but suffered a fatal heartache at the Atlanta Airport (as I am sure you knew). Barrie Schwortz was scheduled to meet Kim at the Rome Airport and learned of his death a half an hour before his scheduled arrival in Rome.
There is a lengthy report and tribute to Kim on the 2006 News update at https://www.shroud.com/late06.htm
There is a link on the update to the papers that Kim was scheduled to deliver. I have just read it for the first time. I found it to be moving. eloquent and profound. If you have never linked this paper on the blog, perhaps now would be an a good time.
https://www.shroud.com/pdfs/dreisbach4.pdf
I would point out that it was Kim who brought to Ian Wilson’s attention the fact that Oxford had been advised of the cotton content of its sample and the cotton was not transient, promiscuous contamination but interwoven with the linen.
https://www.shroud.com/pdfs/n26part6.pdf
We walk in the footsteps of giants. I truly regret that I came too late to this endeavor to have known this man personally. But after reading his paper, I think I know him very well.
Thanks, John. We need to be reminded to remember.
Father “Kim” was one of those rare Christians in the realm of Shroud studies, and probably in the world in general, he was even spat upon when marching for civil rights. The article on C.G. Jung and the Turin Shroud published by me was in a way largely the result of his encouragement. Heaven must have had its doors ready and open for his arrival.
Louis,
I would really like a copy of your article. It appears to be relevant to the direction I am heading.
Teilhard (and the Noosephere) Jung the collective [sub]consciousness) and MacLuhan (the global village) all relate to each other and I believe implicate the theoretical “universal quantum.” information.” I think they also relate to the Shroud because of the unique position of JC as the bridge between creation and the creator.
my E-mail is klotzlaw@gmail.com
Me too. Sorry, John. Just heard your voicemail. It has been one of those days. Louis, is there link?
John, this is very good work you are doing, so keep it up, but there is something else I will tell you by e-mail. While I too believe that JC is the bridge between creator and creation there are gaps to be filled.
The article on C. G. Jung and the TS on the Collegamento pro Sindone website may not help you much, it says more about why he was strongly attracted to the Catholic Church and hung a copy of the Shroud face in his study, behind a small curtain.
You may find something you are looking for in the link below, particularly in the introduction. It is an interview with who was (retired, and now in radio silence) considered to be the “scholar’s scholar” at your end.
https://www.academia.edu/4700001/What_do_we_know_about_the_Bible_An_interview_with_Joseph_A._Fitzmyer_SJ
Good morning, John. You prodded me for information and seem to have forgotten about it. Let me have your comments.
Two other papers by Albert Dresibach may also be of interest:
“THE SHROUD AND HEALING” 1999 (Revised) (Atlanta);
http://www.shroud.com/pdfs/dreisbch.pdf
“LAZARUS” & JESUS: http://shroudstory.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/dallasdreisbach.pdf
Dan, it is on the Collegamento pro Sindone website in the list for English articles and is entitled “What did Jung see in the Shroud?”. It was written in a bit of a hurry at the time it was published and hopefully there should be more to say in the near future.