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Overview

"I am the happiest man in the world because God entrusted me with this mission."

In John of God: The Brazilian Healer Who's Touched the Lives of Millions, a seemingly average rancher from Abadiânia, Brazil, offers a powerful message of love, compassion, and hope for humanity. João Teixeira de Faria, the healer and medium known as John of God, allows "spirit doctors" to take over his body three times a week to miraculously treat the thousands of people from all over the world who come in need of remedy. John of God has fulfilled his mission as a medium for more than forty-eight years, making numerous pilgrimages around the world. Drawn by the hope of instantaneous healing, over eight million believers have proceeded in front of him throughout his life, as tens of thousands journey to Brazil each year to see John of God and his home, the Casa de Dom Inácio de Loyola, which is designed to accommodate hundreds of visitors each day. Despite all the media attention paid to this inter-nationally praised healer, little has been revealed about his personal life. Translator Heather Cumming and photographer Karen Leffler have traveled with John of God and chronicled his life and work. What began as an endeavor to document the testimonials of his remarkable healings has now become the first complete, authorized portrait of his world. Stirring words and vivid photographs — many of which capture the haunting spiritual energy that surrounds John of God and the Casa — take us on an affecting and deeply personal journey with the humble medium who offers hope for people with none. The result is an intimate portrait of an ordinary individual in extraordinary circumstances and a reading experience that will bring readers of every persuasion closer to their faith. To learn more about John of God and his mission, go to www.beyondword.com and www.friendsofthecasa.org.

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Sometime in 1951 João Teixeira de Faria, age nine, rightly predicted which houses in his aunt's neighborhood would be damaged or destroyed by an impending windstorm. Since then, his abilities have expanded to include the channeling of a number of Entities, or spirits. Two of his followers (from the Casa de Dom Inácio de Loyola, where he makes his home and performs his healings), Cumming and Leffler, began gathering testimonials and "spirit photographs," pictures that they believe capture the essence of the spirits. The result is a combination history–prayer guide–visitors' primer on medium João and his work in South America and throughout the world. The team-writing approach makes for repetition (though this may also be due to the epithetic nature of the story) and, at times, contradiction. Testimonies come from a wide variety of sources—farmers, doctors, lawyers and even Peruvian officials—and include an equally broad spectrum of experience, from herbal prescriptions to invisible surgeries, crystal bed treatments to physical surgeries. All this purportedly comes from a man who, in his earthly corporeal incarnation, can neither read nor write. Skeptics will not likely be persuaded by this testimony to the Brazilian healer. (May)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781582701646
  • Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words
  • Publication date: 5/1/2007
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 151,786
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Heather Cumming is one of the official translators for John of God, a "daughter of the Casa," and shamanic practitioner. She grew up in Brazil riding with the wranglers, whose foreman was the local shaman. As a translator, she assists John of God and the Spirit Guides to see up to two thousand people a day. As a Reiki master in the United States, she offers healing practices and leads tours to visit John of God in Brazil. She lives in Westport, Connecticut, as well as Abadiânia, Brazil. Visit her website at

www.healingquests.com.

Karen Leffler is a published freelance photographer and a "daughter of the Casa." Her many trips to the Casa de Dom Inácio have resulted in wonderful light-filled images of the healing energy and sacred space. She is a Buddhist, Qigong practitioner, and "spirit photographer" and lives in Weston, Connecticut. Visit her website at www.spiritfotos.com and

www.worthathousandwords.info.

Table of Contents


Preface     xi
Introduction     xiii
Foreword     xvii
The Boy, the Man, the Medium     1
A Day in the Life of Joao, the Man     7
Ana, the Wife of Medium Joao     21
The Road to the Casa     37
The Casa de Dom Inacio de Loyola     67
The Great Hall and the Current Rooms     75
Tools, Modalities, and Prayers     91
Trips Abroad     111
Spiritism and the Entities     125
Miraculous Healings     145
Afterword     193
Acknowledgments     197
Bibliography and Suggested Reading     199

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  • Posted January 4, 2011

    Challenge your beliefs... Find the love of Heaven in the compassionate beings who are here to assist the well being of humanity... Good Spirits are here to help you... See the life of one illiterate peasant who proves it to 8-20,000 people a month.

    I HAVE ACTUALLY visited the healing sactuary of the house of Saint Ignatius of Loyola in the village of Abadiania near the capital city of Brasilia in Brazil, once a year for three years. This place truly challenges human belief, especiallythe modernized western models and conceptions of health. It shows how an illiterate peasant, minor, tailor and business man freely receives an estimated 8-20,000 individuals a month and heals, or assists in the healing of many undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, and the so called incurable. 'There is no incurable. God is the only physician,' said the great Miracle Man of western Europe. Now here is as much proof as anyone can see, hear, taste or touch, for those that requore proof. For those that do not, this is a place of spiritual growth and one o the highest and only of its kind in the world. Medium Joao was recently featured on the Oprah Winfrey show, and has now successfully expanded his presence to the US by visiting the Omega Institute once a year in New York, and currently opening a new center in Sedona, Arizona.

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