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John of God Trip, July, 2004

July, 2004

I arrived in Brasilia on Monday, July 26, with my wife Anita and my 13 year old son Jaime. We took a taxi to the Naoum Plaza hotel. After a long journey that included an overnight flight, we were glad to be welcomed by a wonderful dinner buffet with an array of tantalizing desserts.  The next morning after a nourishing and delightful breakfast, we boarded a taxi to Abadiania.

One hour and 40 minutes later we pulled out in front of the hotel Villa Verde. After settling in and unpacking, we relaxed and unwound before enjoying a simple but delicious dinner. That evening, it being a Tuesday, we walked over to the Casa and attended our orientation given by Arturo. We were given information about what to expect and where to go if we needed any assistance.  After an engaging and informative two hours, we returned to our hotel where we were greeted by my older son Noah (then 30 years old), who had just arrived. The next day would be the start of three days of intense activity and profound healing, as Medium Joao is at the Casa every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Though the day had been relaxing, we were still recovering from our long flight and after sharing some of the orientation information with Noah, decided to go to bed early.

The first time I went to Abadiania in April 2003, I brought my wife’s photograph along and presented it to the entity. He marked an X on the photograph and gave me a prescription to get some herbs for her. Arturo had explained to us that anyone who has had their photograph presented to the entity and marked with an X needs to come to the Casa in person and have surgery.  On Wednesday morning, as we arrived at the Casa gathering area at 8:00 a.m., Anita was directed into the surgery room.  As Jaime, Noah and I came before the entity, Jaime was told to come back that afternoon for surgery. I was told to return Thursday morning for my surgery as was Noah.

About 2 p.m. that afternoon, I accompanied Jaime into the surgery room where we sat down in our respective chairs with about 100 other people, all of whom were there for invisible surgery.  Though I was not receiving any surgery myself, I sat quietly with my eyes closed for the next hour. Suddenly, I heard a voice speaking to us in English saying that the surgeries had been completed and that after some prayers in English and Portuguese, we were free to leave.

Jaime was eager to have this surgery because of an injury he had incurred when he was in the first grade. During a recess he was playing on a jungle gym. As he leapt from one side to the other, he landed awkwardly and twisted his neck.  As his mother was in Portland for the day, I was the one who received the call from school informing me that Jaime was crying inconsolably, saying that his neck hurt. When I arrived at school to pick him up, the situation had not changed.  I decided to take him to my chiropractor for an assessment before taking him to the emergency room at the Salem Hospital.  After an examination and a range of motion test, the doctor determined that Jaime’s injury was the result of two cervical vertebrae that had significant rotations.  She massaged some of the associated muscles and then proceeded to realign his vertebrae in his cervical and upper thoracic areas.  Jaime stopped crying immediately and calm once again returned.  He recovered completely except that every couple of months subsequent to that injury, Jaime would complain about his neck hurting and would need to get into a chiropractor to alleviate his pain. Eventually, the chiropractor told us that Jaime had acquired an injury pattern from the whiplash he had received from the accident.  It was always the same vertebrae that twisted out of alignment in his upper back and neck.

As we walked out of the invisible surgery room, I asked Jaime what he had noticed or experienced.  He was rubbing his neck on one side as he commented that the place under his fingers felt just like his gum had felt after having had a Novocain shot from his dentist a year earlier. He described it as feeling numb and found it to be very curious.  The upshot of his surgery has been a complete cure. Since our return in early August 2004, Jaime has not asked to see a chiropractor once (I am writing this article in March of 2005).

Anita’s story is more complex. After her invisible surgery on Wednesday morning (during which she did not notice anything unusual occurring), she took the short taxi ride back to the pousada. She remarked feeling very tired, and described sensations of tenderness deep in her lower abdominal area. She laid down to rest the duration of the afternoon. That evening after dinner, she felt that she was getting sick.  She developed cold symptoms as well as a slight fever.  Her body ached and she began to worry about becoming progressively more ill in a foreign country. She drifted off into a fitful sleep that night but when she awoke in the morning, her fever and cold symptoms were gone.  She still felt tenderness in her gut and remained tired, but she was relieved to know that what she had experienced the previous night was a cleansing process and nothing more.

Before we had gone to Brazil, Anita had been dealing with digestive and eliminative problems for 3-4 months.  She was really worried that because of persistent constipation and bloating that she had some terrible disease such as cancer.  She had scheduled a colonoscopy but because of the doctor’s schedule, she couldn’t get in any sooner than the first week after our return back from Brazil.  After her invisible surgery, she continued to have persistent constipation which became very alarming to her.  She had harbored the impression that if you receive an invisible surgery and the healing that’s associated with it, alleviation of symptoms would be immediate.  While this is often the case for many people, it is just as true that for many others the integration of the healing energies of the spirits take time.

After we returned home and Anita had the colonoscopy, her doctor diagnosed her condition as ulcerative colitis.  There were two or three areas of her colon that had significant inflammation. He referred her to a gastroenterologist whom she saw within the next two weeks.  This specialist told her that she would have this disease for the rest of her life.  When asked what she could do to improve the condition, he told her diet and lifestyle would have no positive impact on modifying the disease.  He told her that the only options he could provide would be powerful anti-inflammatory drugs and if it really got bad, surgery. He was matter-of-fact about it as he presented up his offerings as the representative of the allopathic medical model.

To both Anita and me, this struck us as shocking. We certainly were not going to embrace this medical doctor’s verdict as final.  We agreed that we would implement our own plan.  First, Anita affirmed her commitment to continue to take the Casa herbs prescribed to her by John of God. Secondly, Anita decided that she would only eat foods that muscle tested strong for her.  This meant going to the store and muscle testing all the foods that Anita had been used to eating as well as those that would end up being new to her. Anita has always believed that if one were committed enough, one could heal almost any ailment through proper nutrition.  And lastly, Anita made the commitment to visit our Chinese doctor on a weekly basis for acupuncture treatments as well as for making teas from the traditional Chinese herbs prescribed by her doctor each week. When she started, her doctor noted that her pulses were very weak.  Over time they gradually strengthened. Last month (February 2005), her doctor said her pulses were once again strong and she was almost 100% cured of the ulcerative colitis. Prior to our trip to Brazil, Anita had been chronically tired and fatigued.  Her energy has since become very robust.  As to her other symptoms, her constipation and bloating are completely gone, and her elimination is perfectly normal.  When she reported this to her primary care physician when going in for her regular semi-annual check up, her doctor wanted to know exactly what she had done to clear up her ulcerative colitis. She too has the limiting belief that this is an incurable disease.  While Anita’s cure was not instantaneous and while it did require a modification of her lifestyle, with the help of the healing spirits of John of God in Brazil, what could have been a very serious bowel disorder is now not just a manageable disease—Anita is symptom-free and back to normal.

My invisible surgery on Thursday morning was much different from the first time I had experienced healing from John of God.  I had no visions this time but I did experience lots of spontaneous kinesthetic movements throughout the duration of the surgery.  Afterwards, I felt very vulnerable and open although not to the same degree as I had the first time in April of 2003.  I went back to the pousada and spent the day in bed resting.

By the following Friday afternoon healing session, enough time had elapsed from my invisible surgery so that I could enter into the current room.  I found I seat, closed my eyes and went deep into meditation for the next two hours.  At first, I had similar experiences to what occurred during my invisible surgery: I began having spontaneous kinesthetic movements. After a while, healing visions began to emerge.  At first, I had visions of merging with Dom Ignacio as well as with Jesus’ light.  I felt very blissful. Eventually, the visions of these two spiritual teachers gave way to divine light coming down into my crown chakra.  This was followed by each of my chakras opening up from my crown chakra down to my root chakra.  I saw what looked like a black concrete barrier being removed from the area opposite my throat chakra.  Soon, what had been the black block began to fill with light. This light continued to infuse me from my throat chakra all the way down through each and every chakra. Finally, I perceived my aura expand outward in golden light. I felt very peaceful and though there were people still coming through the line, I felt complete and let myself out. I made my way back to the pousada where I retreated for a couple of hours until dinnertime.

That weekend we took a taxi to Brasilia and did some sightseeing. We visited with some friends we had met and enjoyed seeing a side of Brasilia we had not been aware of.  It was a positive experience, but by Monday we were ready to return to Abadiania. For the rest of that day and Tuesday, we had good conversations with friends we met at the pousada, played Scrabble, explored the town and did some reading. By Wednesday morning, we were ready for new healing experiences.

I stood in the line for those who had already seen Medium Joao and was directed by him to sit in his current room.  My afternoon experience in the current room was very healing.  After a few minutes of sitting with my eyes closed, I became aware of an iridescent green light that was hovering above my crown chakra.  The light moved in and around me and I perceived that it was moving through my brain like electricity.  I sat for almost 3 hours having a multiplicity of fascinating interior experiences.

The next morning before the crowds gathered at the Casa, I took my entire family to the sacred waterfall. Though it was cold and a bit windy, each of us immersed ourselves in the healing waters. The crystals that I had received from Medium Joao during my first trip were purified, cleansed and rechristened as it were, under the cold pure water. For each of us, submitting to the magical healing properties of this sacred waterfall early in the morning was a ritual unlike anything we had experienced before. Though it was my second time there, the quality of the experience was completely unique. For each one of us, it felt like a complete blessing

As we winded our way through the line to Medium Joao that morning, our intention was to say goodbye and to thank him for everything that he had facilitated. Though I had a small list of questions I had hoped he would answer, he just motioned me and the rest of us all to sit in his current room before we even had a chance to say anything.  We opened ourselves up to meditate and connect to Source. It was an unusual and beautiful family experience. I was very happy to be sharing this with each and every family member.

After lunch we walked over to the Casa for what would be our last healing session.  We went into the current room, closed our eyes and opened ourselves up to Source. After just a few minutes, that same green iridescent light that I perceived to be the spirit of the Dom Ignacio returned.  For nearly an hour, I stayed in conscious relationship with this iridescent light as a move through all aspects of my being, healing and blessing me.  It started above my head once again, then went into pelvis and through most of my chakras.  I perceived it readjusting my sixth chakra (my third eye point), clear a block from my throat chakra, then moving down to my third chakra and into my solar plexus.  It then prompted me to open up my hands.  I saw my left hand become transformed as green light as it took on the shape of a large etheric crystal that was directed to be placed on my left knee (which was still hurting a great deal from the sprain that I had experienced two weeks prior). I next saw what appeared to me to be nylon strands, similar to fishing line, moving in, through and around my knee. I realized I was having a spontaneous invisible surgery! This was one of the things I had wanted to ask for healing from Medium Joao. Clearly, verbalizing my concerns had not been necessary.  The next thing I saw was that green light moving up through me and into my brain, lighting up my to frontal lobes and my back left lobe.  The light then moved down through my shoulders and through each of my forearms, addressing the low-grade chronic tendonitis that I have from all the keyboarding that I do. The green iridescent light then dissipated. As I was sitting transfixed by all that I had experienced, the spirit of the sacred waterfall came into my awareness to tell me it cleansed my third eye point of energetic client residue, and told me to clean my crystals more often so they will be more powerful healing agents for me.

As I sat in the Casa gardens afterwards, I pondered what I had just been through.  Perhaps the most poignant aspect of the experience was that all the questions that Medium Joao did not answer verbally, as he directed me to the current room instead, were addressed spiritually as I sat in the current. It completely reaffirmed my faith and reassured me of any doubts that I may have had about the miraculous and extraordinary healing that happens in this most special and unusual place.

Regarding my son Noah, the persistent fatigue that he had been struggling with resolved after about three weeks.  He was completely free of symptoms for about four months before it began to creep into his life once again.  Through some healing work that he has done since, he has gained a great deal of awareness about the cause of this pattern in his life. He now knows that with a more judicious lifestyle, he will keep this pattern from returning.

As to my own personal healing, I continue to have excellent physical energy, enabling me to exercise and work out at the gym on a regular basis.  The issues and concerns that were addressed the first time I experienced healing from John of God continue to deepen in a positive way.  My heart remains more open than ever as I feel the presence of the compassionate spirits more intimately in my life in all its aspects.  I feel blessed to have experienced the grace and the love of Medium Joao and the compassionate spirits that work through him. I look forward to my next visit.

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