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The
Casa (Casa de Dom Inácio), located approximately 130 km’s
south of Brasília on Brazil's central plateau, is the spiritual
healing center of medium John of God
(João de Deus), the name Brazilians have given the medium
João Texiera de Faria.
The Casa is a spiritual healing center where John of God has been doing this work fr'ee of charge for the last 25 years is located in a small community of about 12,000 inhabitants just off the highway between Brasília and Anápolis.
There
is a Bookstore where blessed holy water,
crystals, books, rosaries, jewelry made from crystals,
the native Brazilian stones, prayer triangles, photo
vouchers for post-operation photos, crystal
healing bath vouchers and t-shirts can be purchased. Line
tickets can be picked up here and copies of videos ordered.
There is a small snack bar where you can get fruit drinks, coffee, sugarcane
juice, fresh coconut milk and home-baked treats.
There is a dining area just off the back garden near the restrooms where
the Sacred Spiritual
Soup is served to those who attend the sessions each
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The soup is blessed by the Entities
and all are encouraged to partake and benefit from its healing
qualities.
The
crystal healing bath chambers are in a separate building
across the garden from the soup kitchen and dining area.
The Casa Office (Secretaria) is in the long building
adjacent to the Sacred Spiritual Soup
dining room. This is where photos are taken after surgery and any administrative
problems are handled in Portuguese. There is a window to the outside from
this office with a basket where one may deposit written prayers, written
questions, and photos of those needing prayer. These photos and requests
are collected twice a day and given to the Entities.
The Entities review the photos and requests and use them
in the healing process.
Notes or photos should include the person’s name, address, birth
date, date of the surgery (if applicable), and the pousada where the person
is staying while in Abadiânia (if applicable).
The back side of the Main Assembly Hall (out by the taxis)
houses the dispensary/pharmacy where prescribed herbs
are purchased. The herbs and blessed holy water enhance
the healing process and are essential elements of treatment.
The Main Assembly Hall is where visitors gather each day at 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Here the "sons and daughters" of the Casa provide information about Casa procedures, pray and give short spiritual talks. Sometimes people give testimony about their healings. It is from the Main Assembly Hall that people are called into surgery or line up to go before the Entity.
There
are two doors on each side of the Main Assembly Hall
stage. The one of the left is used by the staff and for exiting the current
rooms. The other (on the right) is used to enter into the
current rooms on the way to go before the Entity.
When
you enter, the first room is the Medium’s Room
or the First Current Room. This is where the heavy
energies of the ill and confused coming to see John of
God are "burned" and harmonized by the Energy
of Light being produced by those meditating. Without proper "cleansing"
and harmonizing in the First Current Room, the work of
the Entities can be hindered. The Casa is opened to everyone. This is
an incredibly courageous undertaking in today's world and one which invites
an infinite number of possibilities. Attention to cleansing and
harmonizing is imperative.
Those who arrive early to the sessions and want to contribute their meditative powers to the task of cleansing and harmonizing are welcome. However, the door is closed earlier and earlier as there is limited capacity.
The Second Current Room is a continuation of First Current Room and is also referred to as the Entity’s Room. This is where John of God in Entity receives and helps those who have come to consult the Entities. The Mediums and other people meditating who sit here have been invited by one of the Entities and are there either to "burn" (generate) energy for the Entities to use for healing or are there to be healed themselves in silence among the others. Often the Entity invites people to sit in his room as they have pass before him as part of their treatment; where they both "burn" and receive treatment. Many people have reported being operated on while sitting in this room. While normally one Entity is working through John of God's body, there are many other Entities in the room (and all over the Casa complex, for that matter) working and helping.
John of God must surrender his body to the incorporating Entity before the sessions begin. He may do this in seclusion, in the Second Current Room or out on the Main Assembly Hall stage. After talking for awhile and thanking those who have come that da, he has been known to incorporate and even operate right on stage. This happens less and less as the pressure of publicity has spurred the curiosity of lawmakers, politicians and religious antagonists endangering the continuation of the Casa activities. It is most usual that John of God incorporates in seclusion before operating and then sits in the Second Current Room to receive those who wish to see him.
From the Second Current Room, one enters the Surgery Room or the Third Current Room. The people who have invisible surgeries have them in this room. Some may still be there recovering quietly when you enter. Everyone who passes before the Entity must sit in this room for prayer before leaving for Sacred Spiritual Soup in the mornings or leaving the premises in the afternoons (unless they were asked by the Entity to sit and meditate with him in the Second Current Room).
There
is a Recovery Room accessed through the First
Current Room or by-way-of a door in the Main Assembly
Hall. Here people are taken to rest and recover after more intrusive
surgery or if they have health-related problems in the lines.
Tickets
You may need a ticket to pass before the Entity. There are three
kinds of tickets:
First Time Visitors (1o vez)
Second Time Visitors (2o vez)
Surgery Review (Revisão)
You get them at the Bookstore or, if you are traveling with a Casa Guide or Medium, ask them to get the tickets for you.
If you don't speak Portuguese and your guide is not allowed to translate for the Entity (which is usually the case), you will need to talk to an Official Casa Translator in a blue coat at a window adjacent to the Main Assembly Hall before sessions begin. There's usually a line to talk to them so you should arrive early. Give them your questions in writing (three at most) and explain to them what you want to know in your own words.
These
translators will meet you when you are in front of John of God
in Entity and will tell you immediately what he said
and what you are to do. Try to separate yourself from others who do not
speak Portuguese so the translators will not be rushed and will be able
to tell you everything before having to help someone else. What
does that mean? Don't go through the line with your non-Portuguese-speaking
friends! It just makes things impossible for the translators and may cause
you and others unnecessary anxiety.
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About
the Lines
After John
of God has incorporated at each session, people who have been
told to come back for surgery are called to line up for surgery. Everyone
else should remain seated in silence.
First Time Visitors (1o vez), Second Time Visitors
(2o vez) and Surgery Review (revision)
people (Revisão) will be called to line up separately and the
order may vary. If you don't speak Portuguese, you must listen carefully
as the English repetition of each call may sometimes be made with a strong
accent. If you are traveling with your own Casa Guide
or Medium, then this will not be a problem as they are
trained to listen for the calls.
If you miss your call, this is not a problem. If you are asked to come back to the next session because of a missed call, surrender. Breathe deep, allow your disappointment and fears to flow through you and evolve into a knowing that everything happens at the perfect time. This is lesson one of healing. If you can't get this one, then the Entities will work on you until you do.
If your picture was previously presented to the Entity by a friend or guide before you decided to make the Journey, you need a Second Time Visitor (2o vez) ticket.
Sometimes the Entity will tell you to come back through the line during
another session. No ticket is needed. In the morning the line is called
the Eight O’clock Line and in the afternoon it
is called the Two O’clock Line. They will show
you where to line up.
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Sitting in Current
Sitting in current is both an act of giving
and receiving spiritual energy. The term current
refers to the spiritual energy generated by those meditating
in the room and is used by the Entities for the healing process. While
those who are meditating are essentially positioning themselves in a giving
mode, the Entities work on them or through them (if they are there on
behalf of someone else).
To sit in the First Current Room you should arrive early,
take a seat, close your eyes and keep your arms, legs and fingers uncrossed.
Opening your eyes, crossing arms, legs and fingers and tying up hair all
disrupt the flow of energy. If you have trouble emptying your mind, do
visualizations. Visualize yourself in a completely
healthy state and let pain, suffering and thoughts of disease
gently melt away. Lovingly lead your thoughts always back to love,
light, gratitude, surrender, Spirit, harmony, etc. Bringing these
concepts into our consciousness stimulate higher frequencies which contribute
to a more powerful current.
The word "corrente" in Portuguese which is the translation for "current" used at the Casa means "chain" as well as current. In this translation there is a connotation of joining and linking together to create something strong. Current is a group effort and only as strong as its weakest link. That is why it is so important to go into current with high ideals and a loving heart.
One
must have permission from the Entity to sit in the Second Current
Room. If you are told to sit in his current
it means only for that day. When your interpreter tells you to sit in
the Second Current Room, it is because the Entity requested
that. The Entities will sometimes move people into different current rooms
to balance the energy.
You can leave current for any reason (just raise your hand for assistance).
You may or may not be permitted to return. But, try to return, if possible,
because there is a important cleansing prayer time that takes place at
the end of the session and blessed holy water provided
to enhance this cleansing.
Sit
in current as much as possible!
Current
is a Medium's Classroom
from
SpiritualSoup.com
"While sitting in current much learning and subtle ‘work’
is occurring. Mediums are trained here. How? An example.. you are in the
first current room meditating on helping yourself and the others around
you, seeing light, centered and adding to the ‘current’. Then
the ‘first-time’ line marches past. These
people are fresh from the world, they may be ill; they are curious and
(many times) scared. They are like raw stones before cleaning
and polishing. You are all charged up and then, whoosh; fatigue,
side-thoughts and sore body; you have to start all over from scratch.
What happened? You are learning about ‘current’.
Then, the ‘second-time’ line marches past
and you find it is easier to stay centered, expressing love, healing and
protection to yourself and others. Why is this? The second-time line is
more harmonized, the energy levels of
individuals are less abrupt, more constant. Your base-line is not lowered
and you can (in cooperation with the others present) step up the frequency
of polishing, light, sound, healing and love.
Healing is going on in both first and second current rooms but much learning and experience with energy recognition is possible in first current room and it is valuable to spend time there.
Second
current room continues the polishing of individuals and the harmonics
of attention are more accessible for healing. Both rooms may be thought
of as equal in energy and complimenting each other in
function. Here much ‘work’ is performed in helping the medium
and the entities.
All illness has roots at the spirit level and works its
way outward manifesting in a physical symptoms like cancer. Without changing
the root cause at the spirit level, cure will be temporary.
Casa healing starts at the spirit level and often takes
time to reflect on the physical level. The physical problem may be inconvenient
and even life threatening but it is not ‘the’ problem. I don’t
know about you but it takes me some effort before I'll change myself on
the inside."
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Going
through Surgery
Sometimes the Entity may require you to have surgery and will ask you
to come back at a later session. During this session, you should wait
in the Main Assembly Hall. Surgery people will be called
first and be taken to the Surgery Room. They are led through the First
Current Room, the Second Current Room and into the Surgery Room. Most
are directed to sit on the benches with their eyes closed and legs, arms
and fingers uncrossed. When you would like to have one specific area treated,
put your right hand on that area. If you cannot for some reason or you
have multiple issues, place your right hand over your
heart. Visualize yourself completely healed with your
eyes closed and no crossed limbs.
It is normal to have physical sensations during an operation but not required. The Entities use a kind of spiritual anesthesia during surgery but, as it wears off, you may feel discomfort or pain just like in normal surgery. The entities can perform up to nine surgeries at a time on any one person.
The Entity working in John of God's body that session will usually enter the room and operate with the other Entities. When everything is finished, he will announce that the operations have been completed and leave. After prayer the people (who are able) go to a post-operative orientation meeting usually at the soup tables or at the tables behind the Surgery Room. A Casa Translator (blue coat) will then explain the post-operative procedures and all questions will be addressed.
After orientation, you need to have your photos taken and write your name, address, the name of the pousada where you are staying, your birthday and the date of your operation on a piece of paper and leave it in the basket. If, for some reason, your are unable to do these things at this time, make sure you do them before the end of your stay.
Multiple
surgeries during your visit do not require multiple photos.
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Post-Operative Procedures
First day: Stay in bed! No traveling. Start taking surgery
herbs (if applicable) or continue taking other herb prescriptions
(if appropriate). Cleanse the area where you requested to have surgery
or felt any sensation with cotton and blessed holy water
regularly. The healing process takes time.
Ideally,
one should stay in bed for the first twenty-four hours
after surgery. If that is impossible, for some reason, do not
go to the Casa during that period. Ask someone to bring you soup,
if possible, but stay away from the Casa. Avoid contact with others
and idle conversation. Don't journal or read. Treat yourself
as if you have just had medical surgery in a medical hospital. Don't
lift heavy objects or over exert yourself. Try to sleep
as much as possible and (if that if impossible) stay in your room and
try to meditate.
For 40 days: No sex nor sexual stimulation
of any kind. Add on 8 days for each additional operation.
For eight days: The Sacred Waterfall
is off limits for 7 days after surgery. It is always good to ask to go
to the Sacred Waterfall when you first pass in front
of the Entity if going there is of importance to you. Often people do
not get to go because there is so little time to fulfill all the post-operative
requirements and restrictions during a two-week period. Avoid
sun. Remember the surgery, the herbs, the holy water work together
to enhance your healing.
You may ask the Entity before you go home how long your healing will take and if you should come back.
Surgery Review on Eighth-Day
One must prepare for the eighth-day review the night before.
Place a glass of water bedside before going to sleep,
dress in white and, with an grateful heart,
pray to the Entities and ask them to come and remove stitches.
In the morning, drink the water and thank the Entities, again. Keep your
eyes closed if awakened during the night by pain or noise,
as it is the entities working on you and open eyes will reduce the amount
of available energy they are using. After breakfast,
during the morning session, go before the Entity for review. You may be
told you are healed, asked to take more herbs, asked to sit in the Entity's
Current or any combination of the above.
Remember, after surgery or before your departure a set of three photos (full frontal, full side and full back) should taken at the Casa Office (Secretaria) near the Main Assembly Hall for Casa records and so the Entities may continue your treatment after you leave. Photo vouchers are purchased at the Bookstore (currently R$10). <back>
Surrogate Surgery
When someone is so ill they cannot travel or have been requested not to
come to Abadiania they may give permission to a surrogate
who must in return receive permission from the Entity. The Surrogate actually
goes through the invisible surgery process for the distant
patient. At the time of surgery, the surrogate must focus intensely
on the individual who is to have surgery. It is the actual patient, however,
who follows all post-operative procedures including pre-review
procedures on the night before the eighth day Surgery Review.
Surrogate patients should send pictures (full frontal, full side and full
back) with the surrogate to be left at the Casa Office (Secretaria).
Herbs
Prescribed herbs come in capsule form. They are in a bottle of 35 capsules
and are sold for R$10 per bottle. The Entity usually requests five bottles
for each visitor requiring herbs. They can be prescribed prior to surgery,
again at time of surgery and again at revision.
If you are given herbs before surgery and again at the time of surgery,
discontinue use of the first batch until after
you have finished the surgery batch.
In
the case of multiple surgeries, complete the surgery
herbs in the order of the surgeries; finish each surgery batch before
starting the next surgery batch. Then, finish any other interrupted herbs
and any you received at revision or before leaving.
Take one capsule three times a day unless otherwise prescribe by the Entity.
While taking the herbs you should not:
1. Drink alcoholic beverages. Alcohol complicates the healing benefits
of the herbs.
2. Eat spicy hot foodstuffs like: peppers, chilies, black or white pepper,
cayenne, hot sauces, etc. Chilies often irritate our digestive tract and
inhibit absorption of the herbs and valuable nutrients.
3. Eat pork, ham, bacon, lard or any other pork by-products.
While taking the herbs you should:
1. Avoid meat, sugar, junk food, black coffee, soft drinks, and smoking, especially during the first week after surgery.
2.
Drink lots of water.
Children seven years of age and under, people over
54, women who are breast feeding and people already on diets for medical
reasons don't need to follow these dietary indications.
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Blessed
Holy Water has been energized by the Entities and given therapeutic
qualities. The blessed water contributes to your personal healing
process, helps you avoid possible complications from drinking
the local water (a normal consideration for foreigners when traveling)
and helps you avoid dehydration in this very arid region.
It is purchased in the bookstore or at your pousada (if applicable) and
can be diluted in order to stretch it out if you should
take some home with you when you leave. Dilution recommendations
vary and I (who have been going to homeopathic doctors
for the last twenty years) think you use the dilution which makes you
feel confident that you are getting the dosage you need for complete
healing. Use your intuition!
Sacred Spiritual Soup blessed by the Entities follows all morning sessions, is fr'ee and is recommended, as it contributes significantly to the healing process on more levels than one. On Tuesday mornings at 7:00 AM local time, you can join the fun of chopping veggies for the soup. This is a great time to meet and have valuable interaction with Casa staff members and people from other groups or traveling alone. This is an opportunity to participate intimately in Casa activities, help give back some of what you have received and know your brothers and sisters on this spiritual journey better.
Crystal Healing Baths are chromo therapy treatments concentrated and optimized because each of the seven different colored lights passes through the purest of white quartz crystals before hitting your body. Each color corresponds to one of the seven chakras (energy centers) of the human body. The enhanced colored light aligns and balances your energy fields and deep relaxing healing calm takes over. Each session is about 20 minutes. Sign up for at least two sessions back-to-back if you have trouble relaxing.
Crystal Healing Baths may be prescribed by the Entity in preparation for surgery or as part of therapy. But, you may have sessions on your own. The recommended total number of sessions should be an odd number. Crystal Healing Baths are R$20 per session at the Bookstore.
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Sons
and Daughters of the Casa
The organizational aspects of running the Casa are very
involved and require the help of the many dedicated people, some from
Abadiania who work everyday and others from other parts of Brazil and
the world. Many of these people were led to the Casa de Dom Inácio
and John of God because of their own health issues.
The sons and daughters of the Casa perform many duties. There are current
mediums, administrators, herb pharmacy personnel, groundskeepers,
bookstore clerks, snack bar cooks and servers, guides, translators, crystal
healing bath assistants, cooks and servers of the blessed
sacred soup, drivers, security, etc. The guides at the Casa that
are there to assist you can be found before, during and after each session
around the Main Assembly Hall area. They all wear jackets
with ‘Casa de Dom Inácio’ printed on the back. Those
that speak Portuguese, as well as another language, wear blue
jackets and those that speak only Portuguese wear white
jackets.
The Casa is a community of extremely dedicated volunteers and employees. They are all dedicated to the medium John of God as a man and as a medium. The motivation of their everyday presence at the house is love. The relatively recent onslaught of foreign visitors has seriously strained the Casa structure in the past few years. Many new tasks have been created and new people aggregated to the Casa in order to fulfill the added demands of dealing with many languages and cultural differences.
When approached with kindness, the Casa staff members blossom with reciprocal kindness. If they seem tense or in a hurry, it is because they are conscious of the preciousness of what is happening around them and concerned about their abilities to serve those in need better.
Visitors, unless totally involved in giving, are a matter of concern. Empathy is not foreign to the members at the Casa. Much of what they know is from intuition and observation as Portuguese will probably be the only language most of them will ever speak or understand.
There are others at the Casa who speak English fluently but wait to be addressed. The general belief is that the Entities will take care of everything, so they wait out of respect for the process.
The Casa is filled with incredible people who have humbled their desires to the labor of love. This is a sacred place not because of energy vortexes that cross the earth's surface, nor religious proclamation, but because, for whatever reason, a community of love has evolved around the work of John of God with a conscious mission to stimulate, accumulate and preserve Spirit energy for the good of all.
Yes,
this includes you.
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Silence
Silence is a keyword at the Casa. It is printed on all the walls of the
center reminding people to honor the presence of these
Entities and help maintain and strengthen the powerful
energy which they bring to this healing place. Talking
disperses energy, makes the mind unquiet and leads ones attention
away from within.
Recommended
Stay for Foreigners
Foreigners are recommended to stay in Abadiania for two
weeks in order to take advantage of two sets of the three-day periods
with John of God and to remain in the vicinity of the
Casa for the 4 days in between.
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Healing
Sessions with John of God
All sessions and conversations with the Entity or medium
John of God (João de Deus) are fr'ee of charge.
These healing sessions happen on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays during the morning from approximately 8:30am till 11:30am and in the afternoon between 2:00pm until everyone in all the lines has been seen. There are occasional weeks when medium John of God travels out of the country. Usually these dates are publicized by the Casa and on the Friends of the Casa Website well in advance. I make every effort to know these dates and arrange my Journey dates around them.
All English-speaking people should attend the orientation at the Casa on Tuesday evenings from 7:00pm-8:00pm.
Pronouncing
the name João
The "Jo" in the name João is pronounced like the "j"
in Dijon Mustard (that is if you say it like a Frenchman).
The "ão" in the name João is pronounced like the English "ong" in the word "song" with a silent "g".
So,
when you say João, you say djoh-on(g).
That's the best I can do folks. If anyone has an easier, more understandable
suggestion, please
write me.
Often
people don't receive direct answers or instant results
from the Entities because there are factors outside of their control.
Like other doctors and healers we have consulted, the
Entities can only help us, we are ultimately responsible for our
own healing.
Remember, illness is the result of internal processes.
Sometimes. the Entities can intervene in serious processes, but, without
major changes in thinking patterns and behavior, the
results can only be temporary.
Spiritual healing is sometimes more effective than normal medical treatment for that reason. When we deal in a new realities and surrender to things we don't understand, it takes a huge leap of faith. And, this faith comes from an often desperate will to live. It's an enormous change. Changes which happen because of faith or on a spiritual level are reflected on the emotional and physical levels. This entire process opens our energy centers and they become more flexible and easier to harmonize. Then, we start being human "beings" again; little powerhouses of pure white light burning the heaviness of ignorance and lighting the way to wholeness.
Healthy spirits make healthy bodies and what makes our spirits healthy is freedom of fear and increased flexibility in everything we are.
Being treated at the Casa doesn't mean stopping your medications from your medical doctors. Quite the contrary. Herbs prescribed by the Entities should only be added to what you are already taking. Never stop you regular medication and try to substitute it with Casa directives. Your directives are given with the knowledge of your other meds and will work only in combination with those.
English prayer meeting is on Wednesday, 7:15pm-8:00pm at the Casa.
Once
you have started the treatment process all traveling and massage
work should be okayed by the Casa.
Long hair should be allowed to flow freely as the energy passes
through the hair and is beneficial to the healing process.
Don't expect your specific treatment to be like the treatment of others because treatments differ from one person to another. All people heal differently and on different timetables.
When at the Casa, get in touch with the Higher Power you are most comfortable with and open up to the possibility of spiritual, mental, emotional and physical healing.
Perceive that, while you are at the Casa, there are underlying currents of activity and lessons happening. In the Main Assembly Hall, when we are all together listening to someone talking in another language listen to the rhythm rather than trying to understand or being frustrated because you can't understand. Just the fact that all are together listening has a unifying effect on all present. When unity is increased, spiritual energy is generated at a faster more powerful rate and real healing begins.
Silence
enhances unity.
The music in current is another unifying factor
which, besides drawing everyone's attention in a common direction, it
communicates via vibration with our chakras (energy centers),
opening and harmonizing them.
If you can't put together a question for the Entity remember the Entities can see you and know what is going on in your mind. They know the answers you need and answers are different for every person. Sometimes the answers are not very direct like: "come back tomorrow", "sit in current", or "take these herbs". But, the entities are interested in your spiritual process and evaluate what is the best path for you in that moment. Sometimes the benefits of current are what you need to harmonize you, open you up and allow your intuition to flow. Sometimes you need just to be in Abadiania and watching for signals from what is going on around you.
Believing and using your intuition and understanding there are no coincidences are important steps to healing. This knowledge forces one to take responsibility for one's own cure and provides the energy of hope. This, in itself, is already a kind of wellness.
Silence is a keyword at the Casa. It is printed on all the walls of the center reminding people to honor the presence of the Entities and help maintain and strengthen the powerful energy in this healing place. Talking disperses energy, makes the mind unquiet. It leads ones attention away from within. Please stay with yourself silently as along as possible when at the Casa, Main Assembly Hall (particularly) and at your hotel (pousada).
Of course, Spirit works in many ways and avoiding contact with others on the journey is not appropriate. Encounters with others and events will be hurled before you and will provide the fodder for your own personal contemplation. They are real messages and require serious reflection. Make time for both.
Take time to reflect. Stay in the moment. Don't try to record what is happening. Be a part of it. It is you happening all around you.
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Why
Brazil? First, because John of God lives
and works in Brazil's central plateau region and visiting his healing
sessions is a phenomenon unlike any on the face of the Earth
at this day and time. The privilege of being able to have such intimate
contact with one of the planet's most proficient and giving healers is
an incomparable honor.
Brazil itself was a surprise. Through the loving healing experiences at John of God's Spiritual center in Abadiania and the growing feeling that somehow this place is home (casa), people are stimulated to further explore this lush verdant sleeping giant called Brazil; one of our closest neighbors in so many ways.
In Brazil they say that when God created the Earth, he came to Brazil to rest on the seventh day. Truly Brazil is its people and its people are strongly connected spiritually to something larger, magnificently generous and incredibly nurturing. As creatures perfectly reflecting this presence, Brazilians have much to 'unlearn' us about love, feeling kinship with one another and taking time to honor the presence of each person that walks (casually or purposefully) into our lives (or merely bumps into us on the sidewalk).
Brazil is an enigma. Full of 'Third World' problems related to the greed and avarice of a few. The country wallows in self pity and survives precariously on the edge of destruction. But, it is just this fragile reality which keep Brazilians alive and in touch with the Spirit within.
Without mush hope of material wealth, adequate healthcare and minimum security, Brazilians have to look inside to find peace and happiness. Everyday is a constant battle for survival in a world whose rules change every time the poor begin to raise their hopeful eyes. Flexibility in every aspect of daily life is the result.
The
Brazilians call their very special kind of flexibility 'jogo de into'
or 'flexible movement in the waist area' (it sounds much
better in Portuguese). You can see this action visually at the football
(soccer) matches at the end of the day in every neighborhood vacant lot,
public stadium and world championship. It is a concept that reminds me
of the importance of Bamboo (strength through flexibility)
to the Taoist. Flexibility and strength is part of being
Brazilian and makes them valuable teachers for their Western brothers
and sisters.
Brazil is a land of heroes, a land of
limited opportunity for material distraction and an immense reserve of
all that is very remarkable about the human condition.
I have seen just a glimpse of this precious jewel called, Brazil.
I want to see more and I want to share Brazil with the
rest of the world in a humble, respectful manner.
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