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My Personal Story: What Came After John of God

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Emma Bragdon 18 Comments

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 could help relieve his pain. In the next few years my friend did attend John’s center several times and received

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Energy Work: Why?

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Emma Bragdon

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 various modalities choose to integrate energy healing into their work because of the ubiquitous nature of energy as root cause of

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Peer Support Gaining Ground

Posted on January 29, 2019 by admin

A Mental Health Peer Support Specialist assists a peer (someone with mental health issues) in all the domains that help that person to connect to a full and complete life. They inspire hope, encourage taking personal responsibility and courageous steps. They talk to them about getting their power back and exploring their hopes and dreams on

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How Sex Abuse and Spiritual Emergence Are Related in Spiritual Teachers

Posted on January 14, 2019 by Emma Bragdon

“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? Because they have been helped by their teacher. It can create a raw spiritual crisis, a spiritual emergency, when they

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Alien Life, Spiritualism and Channeling

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

[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 accused of sexually abusing more than 500+ women over 40+ years. João channeled more than 30 disembodied spirits to help

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John of God: Sex Abuser? Spiritist?

Posted on December 12, 2018 by Emma Bragdon 5 Comments

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 abuser. He had sexually abused them, they said. A major Brazilian newspaper, Folha, did a 17-minute TV expose. Within 3

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The Real Cause of the Depression Epidemic

Posted on December 3, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

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 emerge. We all know that every human being has basic physical needs: for food, for water, for shelter, for clean

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Transgenerational Healing & Epigenetics

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

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 offspring, but onto an unprecedented number of future generations. Rather than occurring over the elongated time scale of millions of

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Psychiatry and Spirituality

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

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 is still a major challenge for science. The biological model in which thought and all mental life is the result of

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Spiritual but not religious? Jesus was too.

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

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 have chafed under the rules, constrictions, and even distortions that can result when spirituality turns into dogma. When I [Phil

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