My Personal Story: What Came After John of God
In 2001 I was introduced to the phenomenal healer, John of God, at his healing center in Abadiania, Brazil. I was there on a mission: a paraplegic friend of mine wanted to know if John
Energy Work: Why?
Energy Work Promotes Health “There is now substantial medical evidence that vibrations can have profound effects on the human body. Given that matter is really a wave structure of space this is hardly surprising.”–Geoff Haselhurst Practitioners in
How Sex Abuse and Spiritual Emergence Are Related in Spiritual Teachers
“The Cardinal” by E. Grutzner, 1846-1925? Spiritual Teachers and Spiritual Emergence Those on a path of spiritual emergence, seeking spiritual growth, often assume that their spiritual teachers are leading lives committed to helping others. Why?
Alien Life, Spiritualism and Channeling
[The following reflection on spiritualism may be of interest in the wake of the scandal around João Teixera de Faria, known as John of God, a world-renowned, sensational, spiritualist healer in Brazil who was recently
John of God: Sex Abuser? Spiritist?
Could John of God be a sex abuser and a sex addict? Dec 8, 2018: Twelve women stepped forward to report that an internationally known healer, referred to as “John of God”, is a sex
The Real Cause of the Depression Epidemic
The Root Cause of Depression When I [Johann Hari] interviewed social scientists all over the world – from São Paulo to Sydney, from Los Angeles to London – I started to see an unexpected picture
Transgenerational Healing & Epigenetics
Epigenetic Memories are Passed Down 14 Successive Generations, Game-Changing Research Reveals Author: GreenMedInfo Research Group The past of our ancestors lives on through us: Groundbreaking research illustrates how parental experience is not only epigenetically imprinted onto
Psychiatry and Spirituality
Contentment with Your Religious Belief Impacts Mental Health Psychiatric disorders involve pathological changes in consciousness, thinking, emotions and behavior, which compromise social performance, with impairments in quality of life. Understanding the phenomenology of mental disorders
Spiritual but not religious? Jesus was too.
When someone asks you if you’re religious, do you find yourself answering that you’re “spiritual but not religious”? As humans, we have an innate desire to connect with the Divine, but too many of us
Understanding Psychosis: Sign of Mental Illness or Spiritual Emergency?
There is a heated argument around understanding psychosis and psychotic episodes. The dictionary of psychiatry considers it an illness, likely a symptom of a broken brain. Increasing numbers believe it does not exist as a