The Man Who Built Organs
The founder of our healing center, Darius Belhor, was born in 1810 in Wheeling, Missouri. The son of a farmer, he worked with his hands, first tending the soil and later becoming an apprentice to a man who built church organs, learning the craft and eventually becoming a master organ builder himself. He learned early to listen for the tone a room was holding.
But at the age of twenty-six he fell gravely ill with what was diagnosed as a serious heart condition. The local doctor told him he should avoid all strenuous activity and Mr. Belhor believed him. Then one afternoon he was thrown from a boat and had to swim back to shore to avoid drowning. The physical effort should have killed him. Instead, he walked home hungry and well, with no symptoms of the heart condition that had plagued him for years.
He quit his profession and began searching for answers to how he’d been cured, realizing it must have come down to the power of mind over matter. Filled with this revelation, he opened his rooms in Wheeling in 1856, hoping to lead others away from illness and towards wellness through the power of positive thinking and energy manipulation. His work continues to this day…
What He Taught
Every person is two people. There is the body you can weigh, and there is the etheric double that moves through it. They are not separate things. They are the same thing, seen from two sides. Heal the soul and the body follows. Heal the body and the soul follows. There is no third way, and there is no other way.
Most suffering does not start in the flesh. It starts in something you were told, often by a doctor, and the body agrees to it. Mr. Belhor called this the counterfeit. The cure is not a remedy. The cure is the purging of this false belief. As Mr. Belhor tells us, “You must rid yourself of darkness before you can be filled with light.”
There is no such thing as death, only transmutation. Nothing that exists is ever spent. It is only turned into something else. All matter turns into energy, and all energy turns into matter. And it is not just this one body that your spirit may inhabit. It is the eternal cycle of existence. The endless circle of life, death, and rebirth.
This was the last thing he wrote, and what we say to everyone who walks through our door. Our practitioners carry his practice forward with the same insistence on sitting with a person rather than treating a symptom. The tools have grown to include sound, breath, movement, and modern counseling, but the questions he asked in Wheeling are still the ones we ask here.
