When Healing Georgian Hands were Flown to Donald Trump
Georgian journalist Tamaz Cheishvili resided in many different countries, finally returning home in the turbulent 1990s. In Brazil, he was awarded the honorary title of Extraordinary Citizen. Once, billionaire Trump, now the United States President, invited him to his New Year Ball on a special mission, mobilizing his personal chopper to pick him up.
The unusual story of the well-known Georgian journalist made top news at the time. Earlier, Tamaz Cheishvili, by virtue of certain vicissitudes of life, had embarked on a totally different trade to practice –extrasensory perception. The extrasensory capability was a part of his childhood, but in his salad years, he thought it commonplace and made no big deal of it. Cheishvili attended the Moscow Radio Technical Institute to major in paranormal phenomena. As a consequence of the soviet Perestroika, the Institute was closed, but he was lucky enough to have been introduced into the circles of the Russian scientific elite where he started out his extrasensory career.
He was the first person with ESP (extrasensory perception) to be publicly exposed on VZGLYAD, the popular Russian TV program. As a result, all Europe saw him, soon followed by booming popularity in Tbilisi. Notwithstanding the social hardships in the country, the pages of his work diary were packed with patients seeking to make use of his extrasensory talents. Interestingly enough, the force majeure even promoted his activity. At that time in Georgia, people were afraid to leave the house, not even for a doctor’s appointment, because the armed groups roaming the streets. It was then that he started healing sessions in various towns throughout Georgia.
Time passed and tens of thousands experienced his magically healing hands all over the world. Cheishvili has managed to cure many, but not all. Those who were healed still pray for him, and those unaffected by his efforts name him a charlatan.
After an appearance on Brazilian television, Tamaz Cheishvili became known to entire Latin America. In Brazil, he lived in a charitable millionaire’s apartment in one of the best residential areas of the capital. The famous healer traveled almost the whole world but for final residence he picked his native town. Everyone was surprised at his return from America. Explaining his comeback, he said that he was afflicted with a bad case of nostalgia, emphasizing that Georgians had something so special in their character that even the most urbane westerners could not boast to compare. Trying to corroborate his statement, Cheishvili alluded to the picture of Georgia’s national hero Kakutsa Cholokashvili. “Just look at his photo before and after emigration: before, he looks like an eagle with burning eyes, and after, he seems depressed and unfortunate with a pallid washed-out expression,” he said.
Cheishvili recollects his unbelievable Donald Trump story which took place in December, 1990.
“I was once invited to New York by a wealthy Jew of Georgian origin to take up the healing of his family. Right in the middle of the party, somebody called on behalf of Donald Trump.”
The Georgian healer was then ‘abducted’ aboard the billionaire’s helicopter after which he was ushered into a ballroom where everything, even the grand piano, was made of crystal and the people were in the throws of a New Year Ball.
“I was taken to the daughter of Trump’s friend, a 22-year-old Jewish girl who was bent double due to back problems.”
The doctor is said to have sat casually next to the patient and placed both palms on her waist, asking her: ‘Do you want to see a trick? Give me a second! Do you feel the heat of my hands? I will now count up to fifty, then you will take a deep breath and stand up’. At 50, the girl, propping herself on both hands, rose and made a couple of hesitant steps . . . the room exploded in applause. To cut a long story short, everyone wanted to have a glass of champagne with Tamaz that night. Eventually, amply imbibed, and he was seen to the exit by Donald Trump himself, who reached out hefty wad of banknotes from the pocket of his tuxedo and said, “You’re a real magician. How much?”
Cheishvili refused the money, instead vowing his brotherhood to Trump in typical Georgian style, kissed him goodbye and left.
Nugzar B. Ruhadze