Charles
Emerson Hall (August 5, 1927 - April 4, 2011) was born on August 5, 1927, at 6:02 AM in Akron,
Ohio, USA.
Queer Places:
The School for Gentle Hands, 2427 Gresham Rd S E, Atlanta, GA 30316
Heady Ridge Farm cemetery, 2500 Heady Ridge Rd, Red Boiling Springs, TN 37150
Charles
Emerson Hall (August 5, 1927 - April 4, 2011) was born on August 5, 1927, at 6:02 AM in Akron,
Ohio, USA.
In 1960 he obtained a PhD in Philosophy at The University of Wisconsin. He pursued a career in mathematical statistics and research methodology until 1975 when he predicted that a cancer epidemic would engulf one-third of the population by 1985. Thereupon he “dropped out” and went into the community lifestyle and ate organic food. In summer of 1987 he took the name Crazy Owl and accepted the Barred Owl (the original “Crazy Owl”) as his totem.
Sometime during these years he became interested in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In 1980 he started studying acupressure at the Acupressure Institute in Berkley California. Since that time he has been a Healer with TCM as the core of his practice. From 1985 to 1997 Crazy Owl taught TCM in The School For Gentle Hands in Atlanta Georgia. He had a clientele in Healing and a business in herbalism as well as students.
The School for Gentle Hands was in an old horse farm on Flat Shoals Road, just off I20 and Gresham Road. There is a subdivision there now, and the K mart is a Walmart. This space is a mile away from East Atlanta Village, and is an up and coming neighborhood now. When Owl moved there in 1985, it was run down. He had a beat up barn, a dirt driveway, and a pipe bringing county water in. Some government agency made him get a porta potty, a bright green facility with a lot of nicknames.
In those days, AIDS was on a rampage, and there was little that industrial medicine could do. Crazy Owl helped quite a few people. He taught that AIDS was not a disease, but a condition, and that it could be reversed.
Crazy Owl was buried at Jeff Poppen's Heady Ridge Farm cemetery, located on Heady Ridge Road, Red Boiling Springs, TN 37150. He was wrapped in the red blanket he had requested and a stunning lavender and black chinese dragon fabric also covered him. He was a pipe carrier and so his friends broke his stone bowl and scattered the shards over him and his medicine bag before closing the handmade pine coffin.
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