This article is available to be printed free of charge in exchange for crediting Emma Bragdon, Ph.D., author of Spiritual Alliances, Discovering the Roots of Health at the Casa de Dom Inácio.

A Healing Community in Brazil Helps
Uproot Cancer, AIDS, and Other Diseases

One hundred forty thousand people die here each year from the side effects of FDA approved pharmaceuticals. It’s the fourth leading cause of death. We have failed in winning the “war on cancer”: five hundred thousand die each year from cancer in the USA. No wonder over forty five percent of Americans are looking for effective alternatives.

Vermont-based author Emma Bragdon, PhD. found an extraordinary resource in 2001. Wanting to help a paraplegic friend, she went to a small town, called Abadiania, located in the high plateau of central Brazil, to meet healer, John of God. Bragdon discovered what she calls “the roots of health” and believes the sanctuary where John works may offer some keys to our failing health system. Bragdon saw evidence of healing of cancer, AIDS, and all manner of physical and psychological illnesses. You can read about it in her book, “Spiritual Alliances: Discovering the Roots of Health at the Casa de Dom Inacio”. Soon, you will be seeing the project she is doing for PBS, and reading two other books she is writing on Brazilian healing centers.

A diverse mix of alternative health protocols, rarely used in the USA, are essential at “the Casa”. These include meditation, prayer, purification through showering in a natural waterfall, bathing in light pulsing through faceted crystals, ingesting benign herbs carrying healing vibrations, psychic surgery mediated by spirits, undisturbed rest, and physical surgery done by Joahn of God—who has a second grade education, and channels a disincarnate surgeon, long dead. Anesthesia, when needed, is administered by spirits. Patients are awake and pain-free during procedures. Even though there is rarely any infection, antibiotics are not used by the attendants or John of God. Water blessed by the spirits replaces antibiotics. Patients are to drink two quarts of this water each day.

If you think John’s work must be hogwash—look at the pathology lab reports of tumors that have been removed. Listen to the physicians and psychiatrists who attend the surgeries. They describe what they observe to the audience of 500-1,000 patients, waiting their turn for a consultation with John. Watch Betty, a Brazilian who had been bedridden with a grapefruit sized brain tumor, now walking briskly down the halls, managing a hotel filled with fifty guests. She followed John’s prescription to meditate at the Casa, and never even had surgery, and her tumor disappeared!

What makes the treatments successful? Bragdon names four essentials: Faith in the guidance of beneficent spiritual beings and God. The loving support of the community. Working with the roots of illness that lie in the spirit. And, charity. No one is turned away for lack of funds, or differences in sexual, racial or religious orientation. The work is supported by donations only.

Being the daughter of an MD, (her father taught at Harvard Medical School), Bragdon couldn’t believe what she first saw: people were not being harmed and not feeling pain. It wasn’t logical that a woman could stand up, with a peaceful look on her face, while John did abdominal surgery to remove a cancer in her ovary. As Bragdon adjusted to the extraordinary nature of John‘s work at the Casa, she interviewed board-certified physicians and patients who experienced healing there.

This book inspires readers to explore the power we have in our direct connection to God and beings of higher intelligence. We see that inner transformation, i.e. becoming more wise and compassionate, is a must in healing, no matter what our faith is.

In the Washington Post, August, 2003, Sharon Brownlee wrote: “Fifteen years ago, the nation's total health care bill was $500 billion. This year we will spend more than a trillion, yet we are only moderately healthier than we were back in 1988”. Let’s discuss with each other, and our physicians, about what we find that helps us maintain health. This book is an important voice in that conversation and a step toward improvements in our health care system.

   See: www.spiritualalliances.com
   Author contact: Ebragdon@aol.com

 

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