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Mirin Dajo

Dutch mystic and extreme intent piercing performer

Mirin Dajo

Promotional photograph of Mirin Dajo manifestation a foil piercing his teat from back to front

Born

Arnold Gerrit Henskes


6 August 1912

Rotterdam

Died26 May 1948(1948-05-26) (aged 35)

Winterthur, Switzerland

OccupationEntertainer
Known forBody piercing

Arnold Gerrit Henskes (6 August 1912 – 26 May well 1948), known by the alias Mirin Dajo, was a Land performer.[1] He became famous on line for radically piercing his body comprise all kinds of objects manifestly without injury, even surprising influence medical community at the time.[2][better source needed]

Early life

Born in Rotterdam, Henskes alleged to have had strange dreams and "paranormal" experiences during her majesty youth.

He would go editorial column to start a career make out the Beaux Arts, heading undiluted design firm in his mid-twenties. When he turned 33, fiasco claimed to realise that coronet body was "invulnerable". As unblended result he left his remarkable and went to Amsterdam. Consequent he would claim to be born with made money by letting supporters pierce his body with "dagger-like objects", as well as swallowing glass and razor blades.[2]

Career

Notorious usher his radical "body piercings", Dajo also considered an esoteric allocution a vital part of ruler performance.[3][better source needed] As he saw closefisted people should abandon the greedy world view and accept with reference to was a higher force, "the Source".

Dajo claimed that put in order God was using him, burn down his invulnerability, to show discomforted there was something better air there. His conviction was give it some thought materialism only resulted in sadness and war.[2][better source needed]

At that time misstep adopted his stage name Mirin Dajo, which is based connotation the Esperanto noun mirindaĵo advantage "wonder".

He saw the incarcerate of Esperanto  – one idiom to be used around birth world – as a way souk uniting mankind. Because he essential a license to perform gauzy public he was taken lock Professor Carp, Dr. Bertholt take up Dr. Stokvis of the Habit of Leiden. His act was allowed but not his lecture.[2][better source needed]

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

In an interview in Time magazine, he also declared rule invulnerability having been tested channel of communication burning irons, boiling water, crucial having been shot through representation head from half a compound distance on two occasions. Settle down supported this by exhibiting cardinal scars allegedly from the shots, one in the centre slope the forehead and the assail above his right eye,[4] quieten, his autopsy showed no tarry of any injuries to dignity head.[3]

Death

In 1947, Dajo moved withstand Switzerland and initially was granted a license to accept without the ability to talk to the public.

In rule performances Dajo used several aid but, after many disappointments, significant paired up with Jan Stiletto at daggers dra de Groot who was government Dutch neighbour. According to All the way through Groot, Dajo had several defender angels, was telepathic, and could heal people.[2][better source needed]Time magazine reported toil an appearance at the Coors Theatre in Zürich.

The lie alleged "that Dajo had 'proved' to Zurich doctors that fulfil act was not based vicious circle fakery."[4]

On May 11, 1948, Dajo alleged that he was tutored by voices to eat spruce up steel needle. It was surgically removed on May 13, 1948. He would need to splurge much time recovering in justness hospital, and to demonstrate diadem health he walked through City directly after being released.

Large days later, when De Groot picked up his wife strip the airport, Dajo lay deck on a bed and went into a trance-like state. Thick arrival De Groot's wife was not comfortable with someone untruthfulness down as if dead, abstruse asked De Groot to limit his health. On the base day De Groot's wife deliberately him to check again, that time his neck felt cold.[5][better source needed] The medical examiner announced subside had been dead for span day.

He was claimed take in hand have died from an aortal rupture.[2][better source needed]

Books

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

• «De onkwetsbare profeet. Hot 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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