Spiritual Alliances: Discovering the Roots of Health at the Case D Edom I Vacio

by Emma Bragdon

Book Overview

Spiritual Alliances offers a clear-eyed report of extraordinary events at the Casa de Dom Inacio in Brazil, where dramatic healings are taking place, apparently through the intervention of spiritual... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962096032
• ISBN13: 9780962096037
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Lightening Up Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A must read book!

I absolutely loved this book. Emma Bragdon is a gifted writer. In her book, "Spiritual Alliances", she takes one on a journey to a world far removed from that which most of us westerners have been taught. Emma shows us in very understandable language both who John of God is and what and how he does what he does. She explains the basic principles of Spiritism, the history, how the mediums work. She includes personal stories of people who have received the miracle of healing and also of physicians who have changed the way they practice because of what they witnessed. This is a book for anyone who wants to go to Abadiania. Or, for anyone interested in what its all about. It teaches us to be receptive to the exploration of nontraditional methods of treatment, particularly in situations in which our present science has little to offer. Oh, and for those interested in learning more about Spiritism, I heartily recommend her second book, "Kardec's Spiritism: A Home for Healing and Spiritual Evolution". Thank you, Emma, for your meticulous research and for presenting it in a way which was fascinating and easy to understand. You helped prepare me for the miracle I found on my visit to Brazil and John of God. Leigh Willmore Lansing, Michigan

Spiritual Alliances

This is such an important book for those of us who are not doctors or healers but are people who are seekers of health and happiness. Ms. Bragdon has done a masterful job of explaining the unexplainable and making available to us, mystical explanations that are grounded in language that we can understand. The format is helpful to step right into issues that would bring a reader to the book in the first place and the descriptions of the life at the Casa are wonderful. It is a book that brings hope and caring into a world that is begging for real healing.

A Clear Eyed Report of Extraordinary Events

As someone with a longtime interest in alternative medicine and healing practices, I loved this book. Spiritual Alliances offers a clear-eyed report of extraordinary events at the Casa de Dom Inacio in Brazil, where dramatic healings are taking place, apparently through the intervention of spiritual entities who are either channeled by a man called Joao de Deus, or presencing directly in special group healing rooms.Bearing witness to the events taking place at "The Casa", Spiritual Alliances powerfully suggests that there is profound healing support available from the spiritual dimension, and that this phenomenon may not be limited to special places like The Casa. I appreciate author Emma Bragdon's impactful, yet non-polarizing look at the shortcomings of Western Medicine. I loved the interviews with Western medical types who came to observe, learn and be transformed by what they witnessed and experienced for themselves at The Casa. I was moved and inspired by the stories of people who came to the Casa and were healed, not only physically, but in their hearts, minds and spirits.This book offers an inspiring gateway to the possibility that neither illness nor the process of healing are what we have been programmed to believe they are. Inherent in the book is Emma's deeply felt vision for how this gateway could potentially transform Western medicine and its practitioners, to the benefit of both patients and doctors. I so appreciate Emma's evenhanded work in writing this book. She is clearly awed and inspired by what she has witnessed and experienced at the Casa, yet never ventures into "true believer" territory. Spiritual Alliances richly blends Emma's mastery as witness and reporter with her deeply human response to an extraordinary place in our world.

Testimonies of those touched by spiritual healing

Spiritual Alliances: Discovering The Roots Of Health At The Casa De Dom Inacio by psychologist and alternative medicine expert Emma Bragdon looks at the spiritual healing work of Joao de Deus (John of God), who has applied his talent to people with AIDS, cancer, and physical and emotional problems of all kinds. His healing center, the Casa de Dom Inacio de Loyola, welcomes people of all faiths and expects no payment for Joao's aid. Highly recommended to students of metaphysics, spirituality, and alternative medicine, Spiritual Alliances explores the daily happenings at the Casa de Dom Inacio, and presents stirring testimonies of those who have been touched by spiritual healing.

"Spiritual Alliances" - A Book for the Ages

Rarely does a book sear the soul with the mark of truth like Spiritual Alliances has touched mine. Indeed, just having finished reading Emma Bragdon's landmark publication for the second time, I wish to share my thoughts with others about this book that has had such a profound effect on my life perspective. A story about Joao Teixeira da Faria, a/k/a John of God, a spiritual healer in Brazil who regularly helps cure people of such extreme health problems as cancer, AIDS, heart disease, blindness, and paralysis, Spiritual Alliances is at once both fascinating and disturbing. Fascinating because of the way in which it describes in such detail the activities of a healer so wondrous that he is known as "The Miracle Man." Disturbing because, in this era of reality-show television, the mainstream media has not yet picked up on the revolutionary nature of this most amazing real-life man of marvel.The tale of John of God is the type of topic that one wishes were dominating the airwaves. Indeed, the TV talk show hosts would likely see their ratings soar should they bring on their shows this incredible individual, so that word of the work he is doing can spread the world round. I can just imagine how riveting a guest he would be on The Oprah Show, and the heartwarming response viewers would have to such inspiring information.What makes John of God's story so exhilarating is that it provides a beacon of hope for those in seemingly hopeless situations. While all of us may not be afflicted with some supposedly incurable disease or life-threatening condition, there are few of us who do not know someone else who could benefit mightily from the astonishing abilities of this extraordinary health care practitioner.Yet Spiritual Alliances is not just a must-read because it offers hopefulness to those afflicted with severe health problems. It is a book that is just plain and simply good for the soul. For those amongst us who believe in prayer, it is a resounding affirmation of its mighty power. At the same time, however, it makes "miracles" understandable and helps explain why the seemingly impossible is sometimes possible. Indeed, for all who believe in God or some sort of higher power, this is a book that you need to read. And for those of you who do not believe in any such thing, then you really need to read this book. For all of the "faith-based" reasons, however, why Spiritual Alliances provides a dramatic account of some remarkable events, the book also contains numerous other elements that make an extremely persuasive case for the legitimacy of John of God's exceptional capabilities. Here, in no particular order or priority, are my personal "Top Ten":1. The book includes multiple eyewitness accounts by traditional board certified physicians with conventional medical academic backgrounds verifying John of God's abilities.2. Spiritual Alliances has actual interviews done with specific individuals who have personally experienced the phenomenon of h