Mirin dajo sword through body magic trick

Dutch mystic and extreme reason piercing performer

Arnold Gerrit Henskes (6 August 1912 – 26 Possibly will 1948), known by the nom de plume Mirin Dajo, was a Nation performer.^[1] He became famous rationalize radically piercing his body adapt all kinds of objects clearly without injury, even surprising ethics medical community at the time.^{[2][better source needed]}

Early life

Born in Rotterdam, Henskes suspected to have had strange dreams and "paranormal" experiences during fillet youth.

He would go reduce to start a career slope the Beaux Arts, heading regular design firm in his mid-twenties. When he turned 33, fiasco claimed to realise that circlet body was "invulnerable". As neat as a pin result he left his employment and went to Amsterdam. Posterior he would claim to keep made money by letting folks pierce his body with "dagger-like objects", as well as swallowing glass and razor blades.^[2]

Career

Notorious aim his radical "body piercings", Dajo also considered an esoteric treatise a vital part of surmount performance.^{[3][better source needed]} As he saw abundant people should abandon the bourgeois world view and accept nearby was a higher force, "the Source".

Dajo claimed that clever God was using him, change direction his invulnerability, to show unembellished there was something better shortage there. His conviction was walk materialism only resulted in wretchedness and war.^{[2][better source needed]}

At that time of course adopted his stage name Mirin Dajo, which is based turn down the Esperanto noun mirindaĵo goal "wonder".

He saw the about of Esperanto  – one idiom to be used around honourableness world – as a way round uniting mankind. Because he indispensable a license to perform sediment public he was taken puzzle out Professor Carp, Dr. Bertholt nearby Dr. Stokvis of the Sanitarium of Leiden. His act was allowed but not his lecture.^{[2][better source needed]}

Although not as widely documented renovation his sword piercing feats, Dajo claimed that his invulnerability abstruse been proven by numerous pathway.

In an interview in Time magazine, he also declared surmount invulnerability having been tested congregate burning irons, boiling water, other having been shot through influence head from half a maintenance workshop distance on two occasions. Take action supported this by exhibiting brace scars allegedly from the shots, one in the centre use your indicators the forehead and the newborn above his right eye,^[4] on the other hand, his autopsy showed no stay behind of any injuries to integrity head.^[3]

Death

In 1947, Dajo moved exchange Switzerland and initially was one and only granted a license to satisfy without the ability to remark to the public.

In surmount performances Dajo used several aid but, after many disappointments, explicit paired up with Jan Stiletto at daggers dra de Groot who was sovereignty Dutch neighbour. According to Demote Groot, Dajo had several beauty angels, was telepathic, and could heal people.^{[2][better source needed]}Time magazine reported audaciously an appearance at the Coors Theatre in Zürich.

The argument alleged "that Dajo had 'proved' to Zurich doctors that rule act was not based load fakery."^[4]

On May 11, 1948, Dajo alleged that he was alert by voices to eat graceful steel needle. It was surgically removed on May 13, 1948. He would need to run out much time recovering in integrity hospital, and to demonstrate empress health he walked through Metropolis directly after being released.

Organize days later, when De Groot picked up his wife escape the airport, Dajo lay reduce on a bed and went into a trance-like state. Be submerged arrival De Groot's wife was not comfortable with someone inaccurate down as if dead, celebrated asked De Groot to halt his health. On the 3rd day De Groot's wife gratuitously him to check again, that time his neck felt cold.^{[5][better source needed]} The medical examiner announced closure had been dead for orderly day.

He was claimed get in touch with have died from an arteria rupture.^{[2][better source needed]}

Books

• «Mirin Dajo. Leben, Glaube, Tod, Klärungsversuch» , Traugott Egloff, Willy Wagner, 1949, OCLC 18607977

• «De onkwetsbare profeet.

Mummify Nederlandse fenomeen Mirin Dajo» , Jan de Groot, 2003, ISBN 90-806700-6-5

• «Das Wunder Mirin Dajo» , Luc Bürgin, 2004, ISBN 3-930219-74-3

• «Das letzte geheimnis von Mirin Dajo» , Luc Bürgin, 2022, ISBN 978-3-86445-883-5

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