The Casa de Dom Inácio is a healing center set in the gently rolling hills of Goiàs, in a little town called Abadiânia, approximately 120 km west of Brasilia. This is the place where, in 1978, João was directed by his spirit entities to establish a healing center built on a bed of crystal and where many powerful natural energies are available to assist in the healing work.

It is here that every Wednesday morning at 8:00am the work starts. Hundreds assemble in the Casa assembly hall to open the work with prayer and meditation. It is important not to cross your arms or legs since this will cut the energy flow in the body and so diminish the current (the energy flow linking different people) which the entities use to perform their healing work. Then, shortly after 8:00am, people who are scheduled to have an operation, enter the current rooms to be guided to the operation room. At this point, they are given the choice to undergo visible or invisible operation, the former involving a physical procedure and the latter being a spiritual intervention without any surgical instruments. Operatees sit and wait in the operation room with their eyes closed, allowing the entities to work on them, until João in entity announces that the operation is completed.

Meanwhile, mediums in the current rooms are meditating to raise the vibration of the current, keeping it strong, which allows João to incorporate more easily and allows the entities to do their work. The work of the casa is unique in that all cooperate in their own healing. The entities assist with their skills and compassion, we give and receive of our own energy and in so doing, become active participants in our own healing.

This is most obvious in the first, also known as the medium's current room. The medium's current room is the first room people enter when they stand in line to bring their questions and photos of loved ones in front of the entity. In this room, people experience an initial cleansing as administered by the entities. When people come from the world, they often carry dense layers of energy with them which are at times the result of years of suffering. Here, the entities use the energy of the sitting mediums to cleanse and to lighten the energy field of those who are in line. The work of the mediums in the first current room is essential and has been likened to that of a spiritual washing machine. They contribute energy for the healing of their fellow human beings standing in line, in turn they are being healed by the entities; it is a case of giving and receiving energy with very beneficial effects on one’s karma.

Then the participants in line shuffle through the second current room, the Entity’s current room, where they will meet with João in entity and they will have an opportunity to present him with their questions and photos. When one finally approaches the entity, he will scan your energy field in a matter of seconds, knowing in that instance the details of your present condition as well as past circumstances that contributed to it. With unconditional love, he will consider your questions in a manner that is most conducive to your healing. Many times, he will simply say, “sit in my current” or “do your work”. For many people, this is a big disappointment as they come with detailed questions about their illnesses, that in most cases, the entity seemingly does not consider. However, you can be assured that the entities know fully the conditions of your current situation and are addressing them. But they are doing so in a manner that will not obstruct with your own healing. The entities know the power of the mind, and in most cases do not wish for you to focus on the problem as that will only continue to direct energy to it. By repeating the importance of a positive attitude; one that is characterized by a healthy acceptance, faith and surrender of the problem to a higher power, they are gently pushing you in a direction of change at the level of your soul.

It is important to realize that despite our normal attachment to the body, the entities are primarily interested in the healing of our soul. This is what makes the healing here profoundly spiritual. At the Casa de Dom Inácio, it is recognized that all of our physical problems find their roots in the spiritual and emotional core of our being. And it is here that the entities address them. The effects of the treatment may accordingly be felt first at the spiritual and emotional levels, only to trickle down, seemingly slowly and with a time lag, to the physical level. And sometimes, it doesn’t reach the physical level at all. In extreme cases of physical deterioration, it may well be that the soul has decided to leave its vehicle and to continue its lesson plan on the next level. Here too, the entities will gently assist that soul in its decision.

CAVEAT: As with all healing, there is no guarantee of a cure, the amount of healing experienced at the Casa varies remarkably from individual to individual. The time frame for healing can also not be predicted, some are instantly healed, while others wait for many years. This is not surprising given that spiritual healing depends, apart from one’s merit and faith, above all on the cooperation of the patient to the treatment (following the rules) and his or her commitment to personal change (lifestyle, diet and moral improvement).

For more information, the astute observations of Dr. Appel are added below. Dr. Appel is a long-time medium of the Casa, who has written insightfully on the healing modality practiced by the entities of the Casa.

Illness and Health by Dr. Carlos Appel, MD

Illness and health are concepts referring to a condition or state of a person as a whole, rather than related to an organ or part of the body as normally inferred.

Never is the body sick or healthy.

The body only expresses information from our spiritual consciousness - it does nothing for itself. It owes its entire functioning to immaterial elements which we call spirit, soul, life.

When our bodily functions perform in a harmonious fashion according to predetermined patterns, we find health. When any function fails or alters the harmony of the whole, illness appears. But the disturbance originates at the source, which is spiritual consciousness, only later to be manifested as a symptom in the body. It is not right to say that an organ or part of the body is ill or diseased - it is the human being as a whole who may be unhealthy, eventually manifesting this as a symptom or a signal of the body. Just as a body cannot live without consciousness, it cannot suffer on its own. The appearance of the symptom acts as an alert, pointing to a threat to the harmony of the whole.

Human beings generally prefer not to be bothered and attempt to repress the symptom. Academic medicine persuades the patient that the manifested illness is a mostly random event consequence of a mechanical dysfunction of the body, confusing the symptom with the disease. Therefore this kind of medicine treats the organ or bodily part in isolation, failing to treat the human being as a whole.

It is necessary to understand the difference between symptom and disease.

The symptom is not an enemy to be fought, but an ally helping us discover what may be missing, giving us the elements to overcome our afflictions.

As symptoms point out what may be missing they enable us to gain insight on our problems and to interpret them. With spiritual development, as we gain more knowledge we may begin to transform them, to change our attitudes, to increase our moral standing, to learn Love.

Instead of fighting disease we may attempt to interpret and transmute it. Healing doesn’t represent a victory over a symptom - it implies that we have become wiser. Healing always indicates that we have gained a new insight by going through the process, transmuted the affliction and have come closer to enlightenment.

Healing only takes place with the incorporation of that which is missing: love, unselfishness, expansion of consciousness and spirituality.

Illness and health are twin concepts which only matter regarding consciousness - they cannot apply to the body because by itself it cannot be diseased or healthy. All it does is reflect what takes place in consciousness. Since we have reached the Casa we know that the entities seek above all our healing - that is to say the cure of body and spirit.

Disease turns us into a ‘healable’ being. It represents a turning point. To interpret it correctly, with the help of the entities of the Casa, will turn illness into goodness.

Though we come into the world with a new body, we bring along an old spiritual consciousness which carries and expresses notions from past lives.

Let us take advantage of this opportunity so that we may improve ourselves and our next life may be even better.

Disease therefore is part of the path towards perfection, because it helped us to get to the Casa and its practice of unconditional Love. Let’s be grateful.

Dr. Carlos Appel,
Abadiânia,
15th February 2006

Pain follows our every move and we ask the eternal question: Why does pain exist?

Some say it is a punishment, a penance. Others say it is reparation for the past, redemption from errors committed in past lives.

In reality, pain is the law of equilibrium, of education. Suffering should be seen as a necessity, as an agent of development and progress. Its effects are beneficial, but only those who have felt it personally can understand this. It is very difficult to make people understand that suffering is good. Disgrace and trials spring wells within us of a new and more beautiful life. Sadness and suffering make us see, hear and feel thousands of things, great and small, that a happy person cannot perceive; the average person is too caught up in the material world.

Those who have not suffered cannot understand these things because they only value the superficial. There is a lack of greatness in their hearts and they are small-minded. Misfortune and anguish are necessary to give the soul its moral beauty and awake its sleeping sentiments.

There is a certain something in faces that tears have furrowed that is serious and moved. They take on an expression of austere beauty, a type of majesty that impresses and enchants.

Pain is not reserved for the guilty. In our world, the honorable suffer as much as the wicked. This is because the virtuous soul is more sensitive as it is on a higher evolutionary step, and also because it often seeks pain out, knowing its value in the evolutionary process.

There are souls that come to this world only to be examples of greatness in the face of suffering We praise Christ, Socrates, Joan of Arc, but what of the many others who die daily in the name of service or love and are forgotten? Their examples are not lost; they illuminate the lives of the few who knew them.

Behind all pain is the unseen force that guides and regulates it according to the needs of each individual; pain is merely a method that the Infinite Power uses to call us to It.

For this God put frequent and prolonged pain alongside the rare and fleeting moments of happiness, so that we may feel how our world is a passage and not a final destination. To all of you who complain bitterly of the disappointments, the minor miseries, the tribulations from which the seeds of all existence are sown, who feel overwhelmed by weariness, despondency and self-pity. If you want to learn to face adversity happily, to bear, with resignation, the lot you're given, take a look around you.

Consider the often ignored pain of the masses, the deserted; the suffering of thousands of our fellow humans; the blind, deprived of the light that guides and comforts, those who are paralyzed and powerless; those who want for the most basic necessities; those suffering through unrelenting winter. Think of all these sad, dark, miserable lives. Compare your ills, often imaginary, to the torture of your brothers and sisters who are suffering in pain and judge yourself less unhappy. Have patience and courage and the feeling of limitless compassion and immense love will descend from your heart over all of life's struggling pilgrims.

Make an effort to be an example for others; for your attitude in the face of pain, for the willing and courageous way that you accept it, and for your trust in the future.

Remember that nothing happens in vain or without cause; nearly all of our pains come from ourselves, from our past and they open our way to Heaven.

Dr. Carlos Appel,
Abadiânia,
April 2006