After a slight delay, we're back with a new episode. I, Milton and my brother Frank do a show from Abadiânia, where we went to see Brazilian healer John of God. (If only Milton had been cured of his insanely loud sniffles.)
Links:
- Friends of the Casa -- The official John of God website
- Orbs -- I say they're lense flare and dust
- Spiritism -- a fairly widespread belief system in Brazil
- Randi's Criticisms of John of God
- More Randi Criticisms -- link courtesy of Peter
I have to say this was interesting episode...i was interested but confused at the same time. audio was lil worse than other episodes but i could still understand everything. it bout killed me to wait this long for an episode lol. i say yall should make another one this week...or weekend lol. but i am still very interested in hear the econmey in brazil, jobs and what not a episode. but this john of god is intresting im jsut confused as to what he will do for you i mean i know he heals you but is it more of a spirtul healing and a real surgrey. i checked the link of his website on here and looked at where people have got cured by him and some were cured by cancer...and there hasnt been people fully cured of cancer here in america. but good episode though.
chris,
southern kentucky
Posted by: Chris | October 08, 2008 at 01:28 AM
Chris,
The sound was worse, because we had to record everything on an old pocket audio recorder. (We weren't in Belo Horizonte when we made this.) John of God does both spiritual and physical healings.
Posted by: Kinsey | October 09, 2008 at 07:15 PM
Hello Guys!
I'm from Jaraguá do Sul, a Santa Catarina city, next to Joinville and Blumenau.
I listened your first podcast last week, that's great idea.
Next weekend I'll go to my girlfriend apartment in Blumenau. And now, October, is they have a big german party, the Oktoberfest. It's a traditional party and we have tipical foods, music and lot of CHOPP. The party have twenty five years old. It's a sister of Munich's Oktoberfest in Germany.
(USA - Munich / GER - München / BRA - Munique)
Here, all most of citys are German colonization. My mother's last name is german (Schwartz). We have some italians too, for example my last name (Murara).
The south of Brazil is realy different if you compare with northeast. For example: the food, temperature, races, economy, culture, musics, and lot of things.
We like "comida mineira" (is the best), pizza, "churrasco" (barbecue), italian food.
In the winter we got -5~15ºC (23~59ºF), it depends the city location. It's cold. But the summer is so great with 25~35ºC (77~95ºF), we have a lot of beautifull and cleaner beaches. You can take a shower without fear.
I can to send more info about Santa Catarina for you.
Mail me: [email protected]
Never stop the podcasts! Congratulations.
Cheers...
Luis Fernando Murara
Posted by: Murara | October 11, 2008 at 07:31 PM
Hi Luis,
Thank you for the info about southern Brazil. I've never been down there but have heard and read a lot about it. It's definitely something we'll eventually cover when we do regions of Brazil.
Posted by: Kinsey | October 14, 2008 at 05:49 PM
Wow, I hadn't noticed that two episodes popped up recently! Interesting episode, it's always fascinating to me to see the strange things that people will believe.
I'm with you on the orbs, though; as an experienced photographer, they definitely look like lens flares and other light aberrations than anything spiritual.
Posted by: Bishop^ | October 21, 2008 at 03:06 PM
Bishop^, yes, I can't really pass judgement on John of God, but those orb pics are complete BS.
Posted by: Kinsey | October 25, 2008 at 04:25 AM