I believe that we receive continual messages from the Divine in order to guide us along our life path.  Throughout 2012, I kept hearing the name ‘John of God’.  John of God is a powerful unconscious medium who lives a humble life in rural Brazil.  John of God considers himself an instrument in God’s divine hands.  According to his website he does not claim to cure anybody, but rather, he gives over his consciousness to the spirits of past doctors and saints to heal and console us.  It is estimated that he has treated, either directly or indirectly, up to 15 million people during the past 40 years.

One of my favorite spiritual teachers, Wayne Dyer, credits John of God with healing him of leukemia.  Wayne Dyer passed away from heart failure on August 30, 2015.  According to the coroner’s report he had no trace of leukemia in his body, which scientifically confirms his claim of healing with John of God.  To read his story click here.  I also read the amazing testimony of a man with glioblastoma multiforme, the most aggressive type of brain tumor that Ted Kennedy had, who fully healed after living at John of God’s Casa retreat for a few years.  His story can be found in the New York Times bestseller Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds, which shares the 9 key factors in healing ‘incurable’ cancers.   Pretty fascinating and ‘out there’ stuff right?

Oprah Winfrey has interviewed John of God at the Casa de Dom Inacio de Loyola, named for Saint Ignatius Loyola, one of the regular entities that comes to heal and the founder of the Jesuit order of Catholic priests, where John of God resides and conducts his work.  John of God does not accept payment for his services.

I know that when I hear the same name, or supplement, or exercise etc… from multiple sources that it is a message.  That is what happened for me with John of God.   Although a trip to Brazil would have been fascinating, it was not likely to happen.  In January 2013, after yet another prompting of the name John of God, I began to research him again.  This time I discovered that distance healing was possible through dedicated guides who present your picture along with healing requests to him.  The cost is approximately $70 which covers the cost of energy-enhanced supplements fitted to your exact energetic healing needs and the cost of shipping them to the States.  The passionflower supplements come with instructions to take for about 50 days, and in that time, to avoid spicy foods and alcohol.  All this sounds nuts I know, but just hold on…

My guide, a woman from the U.K., emailed me to let me know my picture would be presented to John of God on that coming Thursday around 1 p.m..  My healing requests were for healing of the brain tumor, naturally, as well as for financial support.  Healing naturally is not cheap, mainly because my insurance will not cover vitamins, energy work, body work or my nutritionist; only an LDN is allowed not a Ph.D. in nutrition – don’t get me started on the nonsense of this. If you could see me you would know that I am very healthy right now whether a tumor is still present or not.  In fact, I am far healthier than I was prior to my diagnosis.  My guide told me that I could meditate during this time, but didn’t have to.  I wasn’t that great at meditation then, but I did quiet myself at 1 p.m. for about 30 minutes and I felt….NOTHING.  She told me that she would email me a few days later if I required ‘surgery’ or with any special instructions.

That night, while I was sleeping, I had the most vivid dream of my life.  There was a man in my dream whom I had never laid eyes on before.  Now that alone is really odd as I can’t recall ever having a dream about a stranger.  This man kept smiling at me.  He totally freaked me out.  I mean TOTALLY.  He didn’t threaten me in any way, but everywhere I turned I found him directly in front of me smiling.  He had brown bouffant hair and piercing brown eyes.  When I awoke Friday morning I shared my dream with my husband Mike.  I told him how freaky the whole thing was.  It didn’t even cross my mind that this could be connected to John of God.  Over the next 3 days, I couldn’t get this man from my dreams out of my mind.

On Sunday evening, 3 days later, I heard back from my guide.  She told me I had no special instructions other than to take the passionflower supplement as directed until they were gone.  The package would arrive in about 3 weeks – the Casa is in rural Brazil.  She told me that the entity who came through John of God for my healing was Dr. Augusto de Almeida, a Casa ‘regular’.  I was curious to find out any information I could about this spirit doctor so I Googled him.  My husband was standing next to me as I typed in his name and witnessed my stunned reaction when his image (a painting) revealed that Dr. Augusto was my mystery dream man.  I KID YOU NOT.  That guy, who showed up in my dream the night of my healing, was in fact my healer!  I am 100% certain of it.  The only difference was that in the painting he had a beard and in my dream he did not.   Wow….  I started yelling excitedly to my husband “that’s the guy, that’s the guy from my dream!”  We both thought it was amazing and it certainly gave me hope that what John of God was doing was real.

I began taking my passionflower supplements when they arrived.  After about 3 weeks, I began to realize that my fear of the brain tumor was gone.  Up until this point, I did my best to live my life one moment at a time, but always carried this heavy, fearful energy below the surface.  Like magic, I realized that I had no more fear.    Although the brain tumor was still present on MRIs after that, the fear was gone.  I have come to understand that fear prevents healing.  I was grateful.  Very, very grateful.

With only about a week left of supplements, I received the answered healing for my other request as well, in a very unlikely way.  On the Saturday night before Easter my daughter Kyra said she smelled gasoline.  I immediately went down to our basement.  When I opened the door, our storage area where our furnace is, was engulfed in heavy black smoke.  I ran up the stairs yelling for everybody to get out of the house.  We called the Fire Department right away and made a huge spectacle of ourselves as you might imagine.  The fire department determined it was a furnace malfunction.  We had a lot of smoke damage and lost a lot of what we stored there.  I even lost all the Easter candy and gifts for the following morning and found myself scouring Dicks, Old Navy, Michaels and Target at 8:50 p.m. for replacements.

Now although this sounds like anything but the answer to my prayers, it was, in fact, a huge blessing.  Not only did we get rid of a lot of ‘stuff’ that was just taking up space, but we also received a very good insurance settlement to cover our lost possessions and we had our house cleaned, top to bottom, by a professional restoration crew that became my housemates for a week.

So beyond these 2 amazing outcomes what else did I learn?  I learned through this experience that I don’t always know what is best for me or how it should arrive.  When I surrendered myself, when I turned myself over to God, I opened myself to what God wanted for me at that moment.  It was a major moment in my enlightenment.  It was the beginning of a rapid spiritual awakening.  It made me Know that I am watched over, loved and protected in all that I do.  The experience instilled patience in me.  There are no accidents.  Trust in the process of life and trust in God.  And know that we are never, ever alone.

To learn more about John of God’s work please click here.