The liberation of the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen was the turning point in the life of Canadian psychiatrist John W. Thompson. The experience affected him deeply and sent him on his life-long mission to arrest suffering wherever he found it, be it in Mississippi or in the Bowery. In December 1945, he alerted the British Foreign Office and the U.S. State Department about a special category of war crimes, Medical War Crimes. The suffering he encountered in Belsen left a deep impression that obsessed him for the rest of his life. It inspired in him the wish for founding a spiritual community where physicians and patients would share all there is to life, and heal by bringing mind and body into