Visit Spiritist Centers and Hospitals
Emma Bragdon is offering new tours /mobile classrooms in Brazil for health professionals and ministers. We go as a group to experience and learn about Spiritist Healing Therapies in Spiritist Centers and Spiritist Hospitals. Spiritist doctors and psychiatrists–trained in conventional medicine AND gifted as healers will give presentations. This is being sponsored by a new group, “The Foundation for Energy Therapies, Inc.”. Learn about the personal transformation offered through healing, especially in Spiritist Centers and Hospitals.
October 26 - November 2, 2008 in Porto Alegre
April 13 - 25, 2009 in Porto Alegre
November 9 - 21, 2009 in Porto Alegre
Research:
We are exploring how we can oversee research in Brazil studying the effectiveness of Spiritist Therapies. Our intention is to fund Brazilian researchers in rigorous studies and then assist in the publication of the results in internationally recognized journals.
About Spiritual Alliances, LLC: We are a group of colleagues who have been deeply involved in transformative healing for a number of years. We have been particularly impressed by the healing work of John of God in Brazil, but have also had the opportunity to study with other healers and teachers. We want to facilitate others to understand the positive potential of spiritual healing and energy medicine.We would enjoy hearing from anyone who is drawn to any of these programs.
Contact: EBragdon@aol.com
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US Health Professionals Visit Spiritist Centers
and Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil
What are Spiritist Therapies?
Spiritist therapies have been developed in the last 130 years in Brazil. They are practiced in community centers and Spiritist Hospitals. They are free, complementary, integrative therapies working alongside conventional medicine.
Examples of Spiritist therapies:
- laying-on of hands (similar to Reiki or Touch for Health) done in a group
- disobsession—a way of helping people rid themselves of obsessions
blessed water
- psychic surgery—surgery accomplished through directing powerful prayers that are effective in facilitating physical and emotional healing
- medical intuition—gifted intuitives can see into the physical, emotional and spiritual suffering of a patient
- training healers—people gifted as healers need to harness these gifts or what is beneficent can be harmful if repressed
- assistance in personal transformation, “reforma intima” (Portuguese)
- group discussion of spiritual questions, eg. Why are we here?
How can Spiritist Therapies help those of us in the USA?
Although medication and surgery have improved health care, we cannot rely on them to be the only therapies to heal illness. In fact, complications stemming from medications and in-hospital care are the 4th leading cause of death in the USA. We need to bring care for the spirit back into the practice of health care, as human beings consist of body, mind and spirit working in harmony. Spiritist Centers have been able to accomplish this without indoctrinating anyone into a specific religion or philosophy. Spiritist Centers are ecumenical, educational and charitable organizations. Participation leads one from pathology to empowerment.
What is our intention in taking this trip?
The US health care system is in crisis. It is the most expensive in the world but ranks 37th in effectiveness according to the World Health Organization. Brazil’s Spiritist Centers and Hospitals are a model that can help us improve our system. This model does not add expense, in fact, may make attending physical and psychiatric problems less expensive while adding therapies that improve well-being and longevity. We contemplate how to use the Spiritist model in the USA, and commit ourselves to a plan on contributing to positive changes in health care.
Tour sponsored by The Foundation for Energy Therapies, Inc.
Director: Emma Bragdon, PhD. Contact: EBragdon@aol.com or 802-674-2919