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3) Free will is the only means by which the physical you, and Of the more than 250 volunteers who give their time to the subsequently your soul, can improve its position after your operation of the centre, most are grateful recipients of a new life demise. after treatment by Jofio and his spirit entities. Written off by med- 4) Karma is the means by which you will pay your debt for ical doctors as incurable, they found their way to Abadiania as a wrongdoings or be rewarded for your free-will choice of good in last resort. Amongst them are engineers, doctors, dentists, teach- each life. If you have killed, stolen, lied or cheated in a past life, ers, labourers, businessmen and simple folk who display no class chances are that you will be suffering some malady or conflict in division, but rather work in harmony to provide a loving and car- your current life. Conversely, if you have been caring, consider- ing environment for those who, as they did, seek the help of Joao ate, honest and moral, then your soul will have elevated and you Teixeira da Faria. will probably be a healthy, well-balanced person. These fortunate people put aside the restrictions of our modern 5) There is a spirit world! It is much more complex than our __ thinking and dared to seek the impossible: to be rewarded not physical world. It is much more powerful and decidedly more only with a second chance at life but a new understanding of their beautiful for those who have earned a place in it. It is multi-lev- purpose in this physical world. elled and multidimensional, to cater for the infinite number of development stages through which souls pass. Of over 150 out- |= THE MAN IN A WHEELCHAIR of-body, near-death experiences surveyed by Kenneth Ring Today was special for Raul Natal. Sitting in the wheelchair, (author of Heading Towards Omega: In Search of the Meanings __ which served as both his prison and his mobility for the past fifty of Near-Death Experience), all reported similar observations, years, he waited with apprehension and hope. He dare not raise feelings and experiences to support this belief. his expectations too high: he had been to so many doctors and 6) Spirits, both good and bad, are with us all the time. So many specialists over those long years. He had been X-rayed, tested, of those strange coincidences we experience (usually when we probed, manipulated and medicated without success until the doc- most earnestly wish for them) are the result of thought generation _ tors and he had finally resigned themselves to the fact that he picked up by and acted upon by would never walk again. Why would your guides, your spirit guides. It today be any different? adds new meaning to the biblical Of the more than 250 volunteers Raul heard about the healer, Joao quotation, "Ask and ye shall | who give their time to the operation Teixeira da Faria, from friends. "He receive". has cured hundreds of thousands of 7) Our human bodies are generat- of the centre, most are grateful sick and crippled," they said. "Perhaps ed from and protected by energy recipients of a new life after he could help you, too," they encour- fields. There are seven correspond- treatment by Jodo and his spirit aged. What did he have to lose? And ing layers, each with its own densi- wae ‘ . so, in a final desperate pilgrimage, he ty or frequency, and seven major entities. Written off by medical endured the thirty-six-hour bus trip chakras (spinning vortexes). Some doctors as incurable, they found from Sao Paulo to the small village of people can actually see these layers as auras. If we live healthy, clean their way to Abadiania lives, our energy fields protect us as a last resort. ‘ very well. Conversely, if we abuse with the cool crispness of high moun- ourselves with excesses of alcohol, tain air. People seeking treatment— drugs or unclean living, the fields become weakened, will be already 500 or 600—were packed into the main hall of the centre, attacked and will attract undesirable attachments. Disease begins waiting quietly, each with his own thoughts and hopes, watching in these outer layers and the fields lose their vibrancy (we often _ for the healer Jodo to appear. Abadiania, high on the green plateaus tate in central Brazil. .15 am on a clear day blessed feel out of sorts a few days before we actually become ill). From his waiting position at the front of the crowd, Raul saw The mark of Joao's success is observable in the thousands who the medium enter from a side door, hands clasped in front of his flock to his hospital-style healing centre every Wednesday, body, eyes intense. Joao took a middle-aged woman by the hand Thursday and Friday. When he travels, he heals as many as and stood her against the wall. Rummaging through one of the 25,000 in three days. The sick queue for hours, and sometimes instrument trays carried by a volunteer, he selected a common overnight, to see him. He never refuses anyone who is clean of __ kitchen knife and skilfully began to scrape a tumour from her eye. heart and pure of intent. Although a devoutly God-loving man, he Without anaesthetic or sterilisation, and using only the crude accepts all without prejudice or religious bias. He heals the poor knife, he scraped away at the eyeball—a procedure which would precisely the same as he heals the rich or famous. normally cause excruciating pain and irreparable damage—but The world's elite seek his help when western medicine fails. the woman showed no external discomfort. She remained calm, Actresses Shirley MacLaine and Janet Leigh, congressmen, standing against the wall without any observable reaction. Joao statesmen, priests, nuns, rabbis, the poor and the wealthy find did not really seem to be concentrating. His hand swept the blade their way to the tiny village of Abadiania in central Brazil to seek skilfully back and forth across the cornea, but his eyes were the help of Joao Teixeira da Faria, known throughout Brazil as focused out into the crowd, searching and scanning. It was as if Joao de Deus (John of God). someone or something other than he was removing the growth. In To call him "the Miracle Man" is in a way a misnomer, because less than a minute, he wiped the blade across her blouse and a miracle implies the absence of a natural law, when in fact his called to an assistant, "You can take her away; she is finished." achievements are only the results of the law of reincarnation and Raul's mind raced in disbelief. His heart beat faster and his the subsequent use of spirit doctors from the spirit plane. He is hands began to sweat. Could it be possible after all these years ed as miraculous only because we in the western world are that he might walk again? reluctant to accept that a spirit world exists and therefore that his A man was led forward from the crowd and instructed to face work is the result of this natural law. the wall. He told the healer that he had not been able to sit or Of the more than 250 volunteers who give their time to the operation of the centre, most are grateful recipients of a new life after treatment by Jofio and his spirit entities. Written off by med- ical doctors as incurable, they found their way to Abadiania as a last resort. Amongst them are engineers, doctors, dentists, teach- ers, labourers, businessmen and simple folk who display no class division, but rather work in harmony to provide a loving and car- ing environment for those who, as they did, seek the help of Joao Teixeira da Faria. These fortunate people put aside the restrictions of our modern thinking and dared to seek the impossible: to be rewarded not only with a second chance at life but a new understanding of their purpose in this physical world. NEXUS 15 Of the more than 250 volunteers FEBRUARY - MARCH 1998