The story of a groups spiritual healing experience in remote Brazil
Once Upon A Time In The Year 2004
……….. Bill Ellis
In October 2003 two friends of mine (Joyce Sprake and Ann Randal) went
to Brazil to stay in a healing sanctuary for two weeks. On their return they told of
fantastic feats of healing carried out by one man whilst in a trance state. The mans
name is Joao de Deus and he works in The Casa de Dom Inacio situated in a small
village called Abaiania in the Brazilian interior. My two friends said they would like
to go back again and if they could get enough people interested, would like to take a
small group with them. The group was duly formed which included my wife, Sue,
and myself . The date of the trip was set for the 19th. April 2004 and was to last for
three weeks.
Sue and I had about four months to prepare for the trip, so we were going
to be well prepared -- weren’t we? After all we knew all about this healing stuff,
being Master/Teachers in several energy healing modalities such as Chios, Reiki,
Pranic Healing, Focal Touch Healing etc. How wrong can you be?. Nothing could
prepare us for what was to follow.
After 27 hours of travel we reached our Pousada (Hotel) in Abadiania
which turned out to be only 150 yards from the Casa. The weather was, for me, very
hot but with a pleasant breeze. I could feel a tingling sensation in my body which I
had felt several times before, ever since I had decided to come to the Casa. Our
watches had been turned back 4 hours and it was 1pm. Our lunch, which was a buffet
type, was awaiting us. The food could not be faulted in any way.
RUSH HOUR. Main Street, Abadiania
. Well fed and ready for anything we were led by our intrepid leaders down
the road to the Casa.. There was hardly any activity as it was Tuesday and the Casa
only has healing activity on three days a week, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. On
the other days the Casa grounds are open until 7pm or 4pm on Sunday.
On passing through the gates you can see the main Casa buildings on your
right and in front of you, at the far end of the car park, is a small annex building. This
building serves several purposes – shop selling books, crystals, jewelry bottles of
blessed water which you are strongly advised to drink during your stay in Brazil.
Tickets for the “crystal beds” can be obtained here. Most importantly, tickets for the
various lines to see the Entity are obtained here.
The best place to start a tour of the Casa grounds is by the
flower gardens which contain the bust of Dom Inacio, which rests on a
pedestal in a beautiful garden that has flowers planted from all over the
country: the “Garden of All Places.” Dom Inacio’s bust was surrounded by little
offerings, and I noticed that occasionally someone would stop before it, offer a
prayer, and occasionally weep a bit.
Next to the flower garden was the soup area — a long covered
verandah with rows of tables and benches. We were told that after each
morning session, everyone was served a hardy vegetable soup — free of
charge — that was part of the treatment of the Casa. The soup was made
with great love and prayers by several people, and blessed and energized by
the entities to fortify everyone and add to their healing process.
Dining Area.
Across the garden from the soup area was another small building
painted white with a blue border at the bottom like all the other Casa buildings. This
building turned out to be where people received their “crystal baths (beds).” These are
not baths in the ordinary sense, but rather, energy and chakra-balancing treatments
using crystals, light and sound.
During our tour of the Casa grounds we came across a small room next
to the main hall of the Casa. The room was piled high with crutches, canes and
wheelchairs that had been left behind by those who had been healed through the work
of the entities! In a second section of that room, the walls were covered with photos
and other items of interest One of the photos was of Joao with Chico Xavier,
probably Brazil’s most famous Spiritualist medium of written knowledge, whose
many books on metaphysics are well known throughout the world. It was Chico
Xavier who had told Joao over twenty years ago that it was finally time for the latter
to establish his own healing center, and that he should do so in the town of Abadiania
because of the powerful energy running through the earth in that location. The village
sits on thousands of tons of crystal of various types, but mainly quartz. Joao followed
his direction, and I was now standing in that very place that had been suggested by
Chico Xavier. On the walls of the same room were also a number of certificates
honoring Joao and his work: certificates from various spiritual centers, churches and
Umbanda temples. Umbanda is an Afro-Brazilian spiritual healing path that is also
mediumistic in nature.
By the time we had finished looking into this small “room of miracles”
with its pile of discarded crutches and wheelchairs and photos of miraculous
healings, my mind was even more open to what I might be about to witness
and experience over the next three weeks. We were next shown an assembly
area adjacent to the main hall where, at 7:15 next morning, we would meet an
English speaking interpreter. He would translate our ailments into Portuguese
and write them on a slip of paper. We would then hand this paper to another
interpreter who would be with the Entity when we met.
Next morning at 7:15 all of our group, properly attired in white garments,
assembled to meet our interpreter whose name turned out to be Arturo. During our
wait some of our group reported the tingling and slight swimming sensation. Others
told us that this was common as the Entities were scanning us. It was soon my turn to
tell Arturo my ailments – macular degeneration , an eye complaint that impairs the
sight , arthritis and diabetes. The paper was given to me which I put together with my
“First Time” ticket obtained from the Casa shop. I was told to sit in the main hall and
wait for the “First Time” line to be called.
When I first entered the hall, I looked around at the other people
already gathering there. The majority of them were Brazilian, and looked to
be from all walks of life and social status, with the varied hues of white, black
and Indian racial blending typical of Brazil, the rest were Europeans,
Americans and Canadians.. Many were in wheelchairs or on crutches. Some,
with their white canes, were blind. There were elderly people, young people,
babies in their mothers’ arms, children of all ages, most very quiet and
respectful. Some people had obvious physical deformities, like large lumps on
their skin or swelling of the head; some were obviously limping. Others
seemed to have neurological illnesses that resulted in them shouting out
every now and then. I sat down on one of the comfortable leather clad seats,
closed my eyes, and was immediately drawn into that same deep state of
meditation with its unusual pulsing that I had experienced repeatedly since
deciding to make the journey to Brazil and the Casa de Don Inacio. I realized
that this place and the Entities that worked here were undoubtedly the source
of this particular energy. I also felt that the Entities must have somehow tuned
in to me the moment I made the decision to come here, and perhaps had
even begun working on me from that day on. Over the days that followed,
after talking to many others at the Casa, I have concluded that this was
probably true, as others too have had experiences of the Entities beginning to
work on them.
Occasionally, as I sat in the hall, I would interrupt my meditation, open
my eyes and look around to see if the session was beginning. It wasn’t, but
one thing I noticed was a line of people waiting to go up on the stage. One
person at a time would walk to the wall at the back of the stage, upon which
hung a large wooden triangle. Often they would slip a piece of paper into the
bottom edge of the triangle, then, close their eyes, rest their forehead on the
part of the wall surrounded by the triangle, and begin to pray. I learned later
that the slips of paper were requests for healing for loved ones that were
unable to be present physically at the Casa. The line moved slowly, with no
one trying to speed up the prayers of their fellow human beings. Some were
obviously weeping as they prayed. The energy of faith and hope permeating
the room was a tangible force and growing moment by moment as the
opening of the morning session approached.
After about fifteen minutes of alternating between watching
people and experiencing the, trance-like state each time I closed my eyes,
Sebastion — or Tiao, as he is called with affection — stepped onto the small,
raised stage at the front of the hall and began the orientation speech. Tiao is a
small, roly-poly man who looks like an earthbound angel and who is an exseminary
student and the official secretary of the Casa. He has worked with
Joao for many years, helping in numerous ways to sustain the daily
functioning of the Casa.
Once he had told everyone a bit about the herbs that might be prescribed by
Joao “in entity” and of the accompanying diet, Tiao asked for a show of hands of all
those present who had been told by the entity at an earlier time to have a spiritual
operation during this afternoon’s session. Those people were then asked to get in a
line, after which Tiao led them through the door to the right of the stage. I learned
later that they were being taken to the “operating room,” a simple room with rows of
seats, where they would sit and receive their invisible operations at the skilled and
guiding hands of the Entities.
When they had left the main hall, several other people stepped on stage
and made speeches. I couldn’t understand any of what they said, given my
lack of knowledge of Portuguese, and so I simply closed my eyes and drifted
back into the trance-like meditation state that kept pulling me inward. Finally,
the woman who was speaking asked us all to close our eyes, join hands with
the people on each side of us, stand and recite The Lords Prayer in English
and Portuguese. We were then asked to form lines according to the type of
ticket we were holding – First Time, Second Time, Revue or 8 o’ clock line.
On this occasion, the “second time” line was first, followed by the “first
time” line of which I was a member. We filed through the door to the right of
the stage. When I reached the door I handed in my “first time” ticket and
stepped into the room beyond. What met me was a complete shock. There
were lots of people ( I estimated 60) sitting in meditation or silent prayer on
neat rows of leather clad seats. This room turned out to be “The First Current”
room. We filed through into a second room and turned at right angles left up a
central isle. This room, the “Second Current” room was much bigger than the
first room and contained about 100 people in meditation. The energy in these
rooms was overpowering. At the head of the isle sat Joao “with Entity” in a
comfortable armchair. My wife was in front of me in the line and she was
called forward by the interpreter to meet the Entity. She handed her paper to
the interpreter who spoke with the Entity. He wrote something on a further slip
of paper, handed both slips back to her and directed her to yet a further room
to meditate on our left. This room turned out to be the personal “Current
Room” of the Entities and I was to spend many hours here in the coming
weeks. Now it was my turn. I handed my slip to the interpreter who consulted
with the Entity. He wrote some symbols on a slip of paper and gave both
pieces back to me, muttered the words herbs and medicine and then I was
guided out of the building, through the “Third Current” room, where my wife
was, through a further room which was the operations room and out into the
fresh air.
One member of our group, Jean, was told she would receive an
invisible operation during the Friday morning session and to spend as much
time as she could in the Current rooms. The other eight members of the group
were told to start taking their herbs right away, spend as much time as
possible in “Current” and go back in line as “Second Timers” on Friday
morning.
Current rooms, what are they and what is their purpose? The
Portuguese word for current is corrente (co hen chee) which also means
chain. As all life is connected in the Unified Field, one can see how the word
chain comes in. We are all connected and what one does affects all of the
others. The other meaning, current, can be explained in electrical terms, as
we are all connected, current will flow through us all. When you are directed to
sit in “current, you enter the rooms forty five minutes before the start of the
morning or afternoon sessions and you will be told which room to sit in. You
are also told to sit with feet on floor – not touching each other, hands on lap
with palms up – not touching each other and to keep the eyes closed at all
times during the session. If you break any of these rules, the energy being
used by the Entities will be disturbed and weakened. Strategically placed in all
of the “current” rooms are powerful mediums dispersed amongst the dozens
and dozens of meditating patients. In this way the energy for use by the
Entities is raised to an overpowering level. It is common for the ones
meditating to receive general healing and sometimes operations during the
session. Now for the meditation. Just remember the words of a great Sage
spoken a few thousand years ago, “By doing nothing, everything is achieved”.
I just sat still as directed. My mind was very active, how long was the grass
back home? What’s going to happen next? And so on, but it didn’t seem to
matter for suddenly I felt a pulsing in my back and up to my neck. I thought,
that’s a pleasant sensation. Then I found that by raising my hands up from my
lap so that they were not supported in any way, my hands started to pulsate
up and down in unison very rapidly and then alternately. Then they started to
make patterns in the air in front of me. It was possible to stop this pulsating at
will but if I did stop the pulsating, my arms and hands felt very heavy and then
went light again if I allowed the pulsation to continue. As I couldn’t resist the
temptation to have a little peek, I noticed that the majority of people sitting in
“current” were pulsating. I spent Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning
in “current”, had a rest on Thursday afternoon waiting in eager anticipation for
my next meeting with the Entity on Friday morning. No Photography is
allowed in the current rooms whilst a session is in progress.
The current of the Casa de Dom Inacio is a powerful resource for
personal healing, for spiritual growth and for enhancing one’s own healing
abilities. Over the past twenty-plus years, probably hundreds of thousands —
if not more — people have sat there just as I have. Everyone’s experience is
unique, and we cannot compare ours with anyone else’s. For those who are
blessed to be able to make the journey to the Casa, I encourage you to spend
as much time as you can in the current. No matter how uncomfortable or
restless or distracted you may be in any given session, have faith that you are
being given an incredible opportunity by being able to simply be there. Pray
for yourself and others, do what you can to quiet your mind, ask for healing
and guidance, and then do your best to surrender to this Divine current and
the loving And when you return home from your journey and wish to continue
your contact with the entities and their work, simply sit on a chair with your
hands and legs uncrossed. You might want to place your hands resting palms
up on your thighs if this is the position in which you usually sit in the current.
Ask the entities to be with you. Then close your eyes, see yourself there in the
current room of the Casa, and you will be there in spirit. I have done this
myself on numerous occasions in order to reconnect with the energy there. It
is simple, it is real, and it works
At 7:30 on Friday morning I took a seat in the main hall holding my
“second time” ticket and a new slip of paper from Arturo with my ailments written in
Portuguese. I watched Jean go through the door to the operating room with the others
having operations that morning. It was soon my turn to file past the Entity. I handed
my slip to the interpreter who passed it to Joao “with entity”. The Entity looked at me
and in perfect English said “Come for operation at 2:00 this afternoon go and sit in
my current”. When the session was over, I drank the given blessed water and went
to the dining area for my soup. Only Pat and I were to be given operations, the others,
including my wife, were to sit in “current” and return to the line next Wednesday.
After a perfect lunch, here I was back in the main hall with Pat
and about another dozen people waiting to be called in for our operations.
Those having operations were called forward together with our group leader,
Ann, who was allowed to accompany us. I had read that most of the entities
that work through Joao were spirits of departed doctors or other healing
practitioners or great spiritual masters that wished to continue using their skills
to serve humanity through the healing work they were doing at the Casa.
These entities somehow had the ability to administer a form of spiritual
anesthesia that allowed people to go through physical surgeries without pain,
if such surgeries were deemed in their best interest rather than the invisible
surgeries. We filed through “Current” room No.1, then “current” room No.2,
“Personal Current” room and into the operation room. The room was lined
with people in wheelchairs and some lying on therapy tables. All of them
were wrapped in blankets and seemed to be in trance. This room had two
banks of fifteen leather clad chairs with a central isle. When we were all
seated Joao “with Entity” came into the room, said a few words in Portuguese
and then left. Arturo then told us that if any of us requied a physical operation
and were qualified for same ie. We were between the ages of eighteen and
fifty two then come to the front. Five or six people stepped forward and were
led out , back into the room where Joao “with Entity” was. Arturo went on to
say that we were to sit with our eyes closed and to place our right hand over
the afflicted part. If we did not know where this was or we had more than one
afflicted area, then we were to sit with our right hand on our heart. He said
that the Entities knew where to go and that they could perform up to nine
operations on any one person at any one time. We closed our eyes and
placed our right hands appropriately. Immediately that tingling and pulsating
started. A man in a wheelchair with the most compelling voice started to talk
in Portuguese. That was it, I with several others just felt overwhelmed with
emotion and broke down, crying. I have not cried since I fell off my bike as a
lad.
In what seemed a very short time we were told to open our eyes
and leave the room. Arturo was waiting for us outside and led us all to a
veranda out of the sun. We were told to get our new prescription of herbs, fill
out an operation form and have our photographs taken for the records. Now
the post op rules were outlined to us:-
1). No reading for eight days.
2). No spicy foods for forty days.
3). No pork for forty days.
4). No alcohol for forty days.
5). No sex for forty days.
We were to go back to our pousadas – the locals name for inns -by taxi right
away, go to bed and not get up for twenty four hours. On the Thursday night
following we had to wear white night clothes and sleep in a bed with white
sheets. A glass of blessed water was to be placed by the bedside and drunk
next morning after 5:00 am. During this night our stitches would be removed
by the Entities. We were told that the Entities would visit at night during the
next week to continue their healing work. The Entities did visit on three
occasions. It is a weird experience to be gently shoved, pushed and turned
over.
For the rest of Friday and all day Saturday I stayed in bed. I
couldn’t have got up anyway, I was so tired and weak. My eyes hurt if I moved
them and bright light troubled me. Later, Jean who is a very good medium,
told me what she had seen of my operation. At this time she was not aware of
what I had asked for of the Entities. She told me that she watched as the
Entities slightly inflated my pancreas and re-arranged the cells. They then
moved to my liver and picked off several white blobs which looked like
limpets. Jean did not see what the Entities did with my eyes but observed
them doing very intricate stitching on the back of both eyes. The work on my
pancreas and liver was obviously to do with my diabetes and the stitching on
the back of my eyes was after work on my macular degeneration.
The following Wednesday soon arrived and whilst I was doing my duty
in “current” the other members of the group were filing past the entity as
“second timers”. Amazingly all six of them, including my wife, were told to
report back at 2:00 pm for an operation. Jean and I sat outside during the
operations. I asked her if she could “tune in” and tell me what the Entities
were doing to my wife. She told me that she had already done so for all six. In
my wife’s case, Jean told me that all the skin , tissue, muscle, tendons and
ligaments had been stripped back off the left shoulder revealing two severed
nerves. These were repaired by inserting a piece of very fine silver wire type
fiber into the severed nerve end and similarly into the other end and both
ends seemed to fuse together. The other nerve had the same treatment after
which all muscle, tendon, ligaments, and skin were replaced in the correct
position. At the same time the Entities were examining and rearranging cells
in Sue’s body and legs. I then told Jean that Sue had a frozen shoulder for
eighteen months which had defied several types of therapy, physiotherapy,
acupuncture, Reiki etc. Sue also has a gene which is hereditary and gives her
a 90% chance of deep vein thrombosis.
During the Casa rest days there were trips into the capital for sight
seeing and shopping. Other trips took in mountains, waterfalls, the Rain
Forrest and other places of interest but I am sure that you are more interested
in the outcome of our operations.
Sue now has 99% mobility in her shoulder and it gives her no
discomfort. With regard to her naughty gene, she won’t know until it has been
tested at the hospital. The same applies to my diabetes but I can report that ny
blood sugar dropped off the lower end of the scale and I had to reduce my
medicine by half to get it back into the acceptable range When I arrived in
Brazil I only had 30% peripheral vision with no centre eye vision. I now have
about 70% peripheral vision and very marked improvement in my centre eye
vision.
All other members of the group reported improvements in their
ailments.
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