Excerpt

Brazil’s Soulful Medicine presents a new and comprehensive perspective to healing, an interdisciplinary approach combining wisdom from both science and many world spiritual traditions. In the advent of globalization, this book offers HOPE for the global medical system, as well as hope for the individual’s eternal life. This book is a practical guide for those seeking to discover a genuine and integral healing approach. For medicine to be complete, it must be holistic, scientific, and above all compassionate. The book does not offer quick solutions to the health needs of the critically ill or dying, nor to those less seriously ill, it does however offer a greater understanding of the realities of the human soul, pain, suffering and our human nature of impermanence; and how each of these can be better dealt with. The uniqueness of this is found in the unity and collaboration of Brazilian spiritual healers as they invite and lead the world in bringing together important aspects of the world’s healing and spiritual knowledge. Unity will help many achieve their greater self. Unity will also raise the realms of medicine to a greater one. Unity promises to also create a personal life and a society that no longer represses the spiritual needs of the individual; nor one that breeds neutrality or inertia among people.

Because everyone is to some degree affected by the human soul, human pain and suffering, it is a book intended for the general audience, whether this be a patient, medical provider, medium, psychic, or skeptic alike. The ill health of our society should move you to read this book.

The book has been divided into four sections, History and Overview of Brazilian Spiritual Healing, Concepts of the Brazilian Worldview, Soul Doctors and Soul Clinics, and Transcendental Medicine, Working Collaboratively. Each one of these sections offers information that is simple yet has profound depth and meaning.

Section one describes the main aspects of Brazilian spiritual healing, including the moral, scientific, and philosophical aspects of healing.. Covering the origins of Brazilian spirituality, how it has evolved into the legacy of the new scientific and mediumistic medicine of the new millennium. The author introduces Brazilian spiritual healing within the context of other healing and spiritual traditions as well as biomedicine.

Section two takes the reader through important concepts of the Brazilian worldview, which are important to understand in order to gain a complete understanding of how spiritual healing works in correlation to physical healing. Essential concepts such as health and illness, and at its core, the human soul, are broken down, providing a new base of understanding, not only for the field of medicine, but also provides a deeper explanation of many societal ills, thus offering more than a simple solution for optimal physical health. Lastly, the author presents human emotions in a different light as they turn out to be the catalyst for the human energy system that determines the optimal health or illness of the individual.

Section three covers the therapeutic soul interventions by soul doctors and clinics that specialize solely in treating the many ailments of the soul, including two major soul problems: flabby and wounded souls, souls that lack spiritual exercise, knowledge, and practice…. souls that require to be redirected, retracted onto the spiritual path. This section introduces the reader to world renown mediumistic healer of Abadiania, João de Deus, his healing “miracles”, his mission, and the healing sanctuary he directs in central Brazil. The casa’s important non-denominational aspect brings together people of different faiths, cultures, and healing traditions to experience the wonders and the might of God.

This section provides a comprehensive review of the non-surgical treatment modalities that are at the core of spiritual healing: the importance of educating the soul, faith, meditation and prayer – all are important in rebalancing the energy fields that have been affected. The casa also serves as a humble yet collaborative environment for physicians and other healthcare providers to learn of the greater realms of medicine: spirit medicine. It also serves as a teaching institution for other mediums in training. For patients it has an invaluable message of what the service of Love can do for an ailing soul, or a body that has fallen out of rhythm. This section also provides a glance at psychic surgeries, what they are and how they work.

Section four deals with a discussion of why our present model of biomedicine must change. It presents a brief overview and history of biomedicine, how medicine has treated both chronic and acute illness in the past. The major discussion of bringing together two systems of medicine (natural and supernatural) to satisfy the growing needs of a healthcare system desperately seeking answers to today’s many questions will be found in building new health partnerships that provide an integral cure. Most importantly, bringing the two systems together promises true evolutionary progress for the planet.

Ultimately what emerges from this book is the need for a communal change of heart, with a new cooperation, collaboration, collectiveness, communion, and integration, a genuine empowerment and healing can be gained.