I was 15 battling cancer and not responding to treatment that well. 1 day,I was watching the Oprah show and the segment was about a healer in Brazil who had cured many from ailments, people coming from all over the world gave testimonials. As my mom was asleep, I called my aunt to convince her to watch the show. It didn’t take much to convince my mom, after all she was a woman of faith and we were both desperate. After we talked to my doctor, all the plans were underway. The day we were to depart, I went to see my doctor one last time and both my white blood and red blood cells were low- prone to infection, doc became reluctant about letting me travel. I could see the fear in my mom’s eyes, were we about to miss a life changing opportunity?A blood and platelets transfusion later, I was given the ok to travel.
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We arrived in Abadiania and people just as desperate as us all in white were roaming this small compound: I recall meeting a man with schizophrenia, a mother making the trip for her paralized daughter and many more. John of god performed surgeries on some:by cutting their bellies open or inserting a sharp object up there noses. More cautious than desperate my mom opted for the crystal therapy and a spiritual surgery, which was performed wellll spiritually.
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After the trip, we came back to the US, to find that nothing had changed. Sure we were disappointed but at least we tried.
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A couple of days ago I was in Dubai and met a Brazilian girl, I told her I’d been to a town close to Brazilia , told her I went to see a healer and she replied “John of god?” She then told me he was arrested fo molesting women, “shooketh” does not even begin to express how I felt. A quick google search and there it was, arrested for : running sex slave farms, held young women to produce babies and sell them for up to $50,000, 600 women accused him of sexual abuse, victim ranging from age 7-67, some of the accusers mysteriously committed suicide-and the list goes on.
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Thinking about this whole experience has often angered me to see how naive I was but now it just makes me sick to my stomach because I might have been touched by a devil right here on earth.
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