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Tribute: Don Bradman, Bernard Jensen
by John Morley

Below are copies of two email messages, only slightly amended since they were respectively received and sent by me. The first was telling me of Bernard Jensen's death and the second was sent by me to 44 friends.

Subject: Dr Jensen
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:10:54 -0500
From: Marijke Vogel
To: John Morley <editor@wholisticresearch.com>,

-------------Forwarded Message-----------------

Date: 2/26/01 5:59 PM
RE: Dr Jensen

Dear Sandra,
I was so sad to hear that Dr Jensen has left us yesterday. I hope that he did not have too much pain these last months. I am so glad I was able to join him and all of you in September last year. He is such a wonderful inspiration; he was such a fighter , no one can quite take his place.
I will never forget him, he will be forever in my heart and his work will
live on.
May he rest in peace
yours
Marijke Vogel.
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Subject: Bernard Jensen, Don Bradman
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 00:47:08 +0000
From: John Morley editor@wholisticresearch.com
To: Friends

Dear Friends
You may already have heard that Bernard Jensen died yesterday, the same day as Don Bradman.

They were both so completely different in their skills, inspiration and courage, and they lived in completely different worlds that probably never came close to meeting. Both were role models for me.

I got the news about Bernard Jensen from Marijke Vogel, who had the good sense and intuition to go to California in Autumn 2000 as soon as she heard that he was giving his last seminar. It was probably inevitable that at age 93 he might die any day, and that when he stopped working he might go sooner. I met him in 1981 when he came to England to teach. The group picture of that event includes a lot of people who have since become friends and work associates. I think I speak for some of them too, in saying that Bernard Jensen's inspiration gave me confidence to venture into areas that were not easy to navigate and not accepted at that time, and his work has shaped the future of Health Care for 2 or 3 generations of Real Health Professionals and the daily choices of 2 or 3 generations of people who knew that the natural way in daily life is the best way and were looking for clues.

Don Bradman, well, you dream from afar don't you really. "The most formidable cricketer ever to pick up a bat" said the obituary in The Week. "The most important Australian of all time," said Richie Benaud. He must have been larger than life yet so ordinary and with zero hype, an incredible inspiration for Australians during the 1930s, keeping a whole nation sane in the midst of depression, chaos and change. I've never thought of it before this moment but he has something in common with Miles Davis and Mose Allison in remaining aloof and just being judged by what he did rather than by journalists' interviews and prose.

Beckham has the equivalent talent to Bradman and Jensen but hasn't yet come close to either in terms of making a difference.

Team members, we are almost launched and the game is on, everyone else please keep tuned, ...........

In awe, gratitude and love

John Morley

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