That tens of thousands of people in Germany also want to experience the spiritual healing work of Joao de Deus is a sign of an up-and-coming attitude towards life: people’s increasing readiness to take the responsibility for their health, their personal well-being and happiness into their own hands. More and more people are using their right to implement the vision of health conceived by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and verified by almost all countries in the world. Here health is not defined as just the absence of illness, but seen in its wider context – ‚health’ as the realization of important potentials: the meaning of life and fulfilment thereof, creativity, strength, harmony, happiness and joie de vivre. The WHO’s far-reaching definition regards the individual and collective gratification of needs, recognition and substantiation of wishes and hopes, and the ability to cope with and change their situation as important and legitimate.
The power of spiritual healing can play an inspiring rôle by breathing life into this vision of authentic health, whereby the WHO approach can, with its aid, be considerably extended. We, by our very nature, are a unity of body, soul and spirit, and therefore treatment on the spiritual level is of immense importance. As we are not only physical-material beings but also divine-spiritual ones, true fulfilment can only be reached when we understand the deeper meaning of our existence; not by adhering to some religion or philosophy but by finding answers to the existential questions in our lives – Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Spiritual healing could be the key. Through the wondrous work of the spiritual entities we can directly witness that the spiritual world indeed exists and that the entities have powers, knowledge and insights which are far superior to ours. And not only that: we recognize that all of us are part of this divine-spiritual existence.
Spiritual healing as the third force:
Supplementary impulses for state health schemes
The Spiritual Healing Days originated in 2004, shortly after the German Constitutional Court had declared legal the healing methods of spiritual healers, even if the healer was not a member of the medical profession. Before this date there was no possibility of Joao de Deus visiting Germany, as an act of healing by someone who was not a doctor was punishable by law, even if by the laying-on of hands he wanted to cure the patient. As a result of this auspicious decision, which fully embodies the spirit of the WHO’s definition of health, every individual has the possibility of consciously deciding for himself which appropriate path he wants to take in finding health, strength and joie de vivre. With the judges’ courageous verdict, ‚Those who heal are right’, personal health has been raised to commodity which can’t be monopolised by a single profession.
The bottom line is: the seeker of healing carries the responsibility for his health himself. It is he who must consciously look at the way he deals with sickness and health, with symptoms which maybe be psychosomatic and have real, deeper, causes behind them. This self-responsibility is probably not always easy. Some people may even feel threatened by the idea that health or ill-health depends on many factors which, in the long run, only the individual himself can comprehend or comes to grips with. This needs a conscious decision to understand in what context we live our lives and the correlations, to recognize the often complex conditions, whether unhealthy or healing, under which we live – and then to live according to these discoveries. This is only possible with the courage to walk new paths, to listen to our own inner voice – and this with consequence. And then, out of this intuition, to choose doctors, healers, methods of healing and remedies which fit to our personal situation.
Spiritual healing can support us in this process. It has the capacity to complement our one-sided health system – where the emphasis is on sickness– with a concept of health which is life-affirmative and promotes human potential. The quest for the meaning of life is always a deep liberating process. In meditation, contemplation and prayer we allow ourselves to go beyond the everyday worries and (what we consider to be) life’s necessities and to turn our attention to our real task, our God-given destiny. We try to fathom out our mission in this life. By again coming into contact with our divine, spiritual nature, we connect ourselves to the inexhaustible energy of Existence. This energy can pervade all areas of our life and led to vitality, joie de vivre and health in all its facets.
To the degree to which more and more people recognize their own responsibility for all aspects of their life, in particular for their health, the financial problems of our state health schemes will eventually belong to the past. The vicious circle of increasing contributions but less benefits can only be broken if the focus shifts from the fixation solely on sickness to a more conscious awareness of what health of body, soul and spirit really is.
Healing, love, meditation and prayer
– for a healthy and fulfilled life
Numerous scientific investigations have now confirmed what spiritual philosophies and traditional healing methods have always propagated: the significance of meditation, prayer and love for human health and well-being. Those who are open to the benevolence and grace of higher powers live a happier, healthier and more fulfilled life. They recover more quickly from any illness, feel less pain and suffer less. People who have happy and loving relationships develop a stronger immune system and are less often sick. For this reason it is not advisable to turn to spiritual healing just at the point when mainstream medicine can no longer help. Even if healing can happen in such cases, the prospects are much higher when the illness is treated in its early stages.
Remember: spiritual healing is always a sign of God’s grace, it is a not a miracle remedy that functions at the push of a button, independent of a person’s lifestyle and sense of values. It is imperative to attune oneself to the healing process and to recognize and then let go of previous destructive habits. To the same degree to which meditation, prayer and love pervades our life, we are able to open ourselves up to the divine grace, so that profound healing can happen.
The emerging ‚spiritual medicine’ can help contribute to a happy, healthy and fulfilled life by offering its help, in deep respect for the wonder and uniqueness of each human being. However, from the point of view of the spiritual world, physical healing is not the most important aspect of its work. According to its understanding of life in the beyond – at the spiritual level – there is no reason to regard death as an enemy to life. At some time or another, sooner or later, the old and spent body has to be discarded, and before reincarnating, the soul returns to its spiritual home to gather more experience on the road to perfection. If we understand this background, it becomes clear that the degree of fulfilment and self-realisation in our earthly lives is closely connected to our understanding, our recollection (religio) of the spiritual world.
Through this a power is released by spiritual healing which, in many cases, goes far beyond the possible healing of body, soul and spirit. Our own eyes see it: the thousandfold proof that healing spirits most certainly exist. At the same time, each of us recognizes his/her divine, spiritual nature which, in this life, is encapsulated in the human form familiar to us.
Healing and Religion
– the good tidings: eternal life as a spiritual being
Many people go in search of spiritual healing and proximity to this powerful medium in order to have one or more ailments treated or as a prophylactic measure.
Many others who visit the Casa de Dom Inacio in Brazil or attend the European Healing Days are not physically ill. They come for the deep spiritual experience which has the power to transform their whole lives. Many have lost faith in God and eternal life, often because we are forced to believe blindly in the teachings of powerful institutions – a belief based on indirect, dead conceptions. When God and the spiritual world are deemed to be nowhere visible, materialism becomes a surrogate religion. Life is curtailed and reduced to the tangible, to that which is visible. Man feels forced to squeeze any and everything out of this one, small, limited life – and death, the destroyer of the physical body, automatically becomes the great, but invincible enemy. This narrow view of life produces existential fear and suffering. Even if thoughts of death are sublimated, if death itself is made a taboo, it continually hovers over us, its shadow follows us until it finally, relentlessly, puts an end to our physical existence.
The exhilarating experience of a meeting with Joao de Deus – and the real wonder – lies beyond all ‚miracle healings’. He is a powerful medium who helps us put our focus on the immortality of each individual soul, its development and maturing during many lives. The effects the 36 spiritual entities have is the exact proof of this. These entities live as fully-realised souls in a spiritual world which surrounds us and these therapeutic treatments are the fulfilment of their God-given tasks. According to the same principle, every soul is moving towards its own perfection through a variety of experiences and tasks: as different existences in the body in rotation with lifetimes in a non-material form in spiritual spheres. When we experience the work of these spirits with all our senses, we know that death is only a change in form, the shedding of a worn-out shell. Dying loses its terror. This realisation is the true blessing, that which God apparently wants to bring home to us in these critical times of transformation. Here, in a wonderful way, religion and spiritual healing meet. No longer do we need to only believe the good tidings of an eternal life as a divine being – something which more and more people find difficult or impossible in this era of analytical, scientific dominence.
Spiritual healing – especially those surgical operations without anaesthetic or antiseptic measures, which can only be described as miracles – proves both the existence of the spiritual world and the spirits which populate them, and their superior powers and abilities.
Spiritual healing as a powerful inspiration: 
Spiritual healing as the third force:
Healing, love, meditation and prayer
Healing and Religion