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Anna Marie 0°Angelo
News Reporter dangclo@nsnews.com

A North Vancouver woman is con-
vinced that she watched a Brazilian
healer perform miraculous operations
on terminally ill people.

“Thave seen the ones from the Philippines.
There is too much corruption there. There is
too much chicken guts,” satd Shi Shani A
Deva Durta,

“This is truc. Itis unbelievable when you sce
it,” said Shanti.

Shanti, whose name means God’s holy mes-
senger of peace in Sanskrit, is a “speaker and
teacher of spiritual iaw.”

She heard about the healing village of Abaja,
Brazil through a friend in England and then
read an article about it in Késdved Spirit maga-
zine.

Abaja is a small village located about two
and a half hours inland by bus from Brasilia.

Shanti was at the village for about a week in
May where she obtained a videotape of 57-ycar-
old healer Joao de Deus (John of God) at work.

. For the last 40 years Joao de Deus has been a
“Conduit for an “entity that controls (him) from
the other world” called Dom Inacio.

Dom Inacio lived in the village about 150
years ago. He was a surgeon and became a
monk. Dom Inacio controls the healing village,
said Shanti.

On one of the days that Shanti was at rhe
healing village, 18 “visible” surgeries were con-
ducied by the healer.

He also did “invisible surgeries” through
prayer for sick people who preferred that
instead, said Shanti.

“You see people that are crippled that are
walking. You see children’s mangled little legs
straightening up. It is so wonderful and beauti-
ful,” said Shanti about what she saw after 20
minutes of invisible surgeries.

Shanti said the healer went to another room
to perform the “visible” surgeries. The healer
doesn’t use anesthetics.

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There is litte blood. The sick person has no
pain during the operation, said Shanti.

“He as talking to them when he is coing
their brain surgeries. You see the cumors com-
ing out,” said Shand.

The videotape of the healer shows him
doing eye surgery on a blind person with a
small kitchen knife.

A brain rumor was massaged cuz ef the top
of another man’s scalp.

Yet another man had a huge
removed on his upper arm.

The healer appeared to cut the man’s skin,
open up a hole tn his upper arm and scoop out
the growth.

“He goes in there and digs this whole rumor
out. The bow! is full of this tremor. You sce this
man three hours later and it (the wound) is
almost closed up,” said Shand.

“This is not the slight of hand operations
people have seen from other parts of the world.
This is so wonderful,” said Shanti. .

Shanti notes that the healer does nor ask for
moncy for his endeavors.

Shanti said the bealer treats about 1,000
people a day, three days a week.

“What we were seeing was bus loads from
Transylvania, from Scocand, from Australia.
During the night all you heard was the roaring
of the buses coming from all over the place,”
said Shanti.

Shanti went there with her sick friend who
lives in Toronto. Shanti said her friend w
cured of a bowel rumor. :

Shanti acknowledges that many people
would be skeptical about what happened at the
healing village.

“What I saw there was impossible to fake,”
said Shand.

When I came back, I said I would vow to
facilitate people who have no hope to go
there,” said Shanti.

Shanti is planning to return to the healing
village within the next few weeks with a friend
who has a degenerative disease.

For more intormation, call Katherine at
687-3796.

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