How does spiritual surgery work?

Human faith is grounded in the "unexplainable." You must believe to get the graces you need. Thus, it is not surprising that people who have been deceived by traditional medicine seek through unorthodox methods for a cure for their diseases. Some become fervent in churches, praying for an explanation of their evils.

However, some also seek what would be a more "immediate" cure. Something that would come from beyond. And this is where spiritual surgery takes its breath: when dealing with the "now" many people believe in a miracle cure. But how is this process done? Is there anything real and concrete or is it pure quackery? It is difficult to prove anything by speculation alone, but we will cover some aspects of this universe with this article. Prepared?

The spiritual world and the perispirit

First of all, we must understand how the spiritist belief works. In spiritualism, there is something beyond matter and the physical body. His followers believe in God and communication with spirits called "superiors." For spiritists, the "soul" has stages of growth, requiring a few thousand incarnations to reach its fullness.

Allan Kardec was one of the pioneers in this doctrine / philosophy and in the study of mediumship. He translated his findings and beliefs into books that are sources of reference for Spiritists to this day - and look how he did it in 1857, with the publication of "The Spirits' Book."

Allan Kardec published "The Spirits' Book" in 1857

It was Kardec who coined the term “perispirit” to say that our material body has a link with our soul (or our spirit). When someone claims to see "ghosts, " what he would be seeing is this perispirit, which is invisible to us as a material body, but would somehow be "semi-material."

The perispirit would consist of electricity, a magnetic fluid and inert matter. For scholars of this religious current, the perispirit and the carnal body "share" the same subject, but in different states.

It would be in the perispirit that would be recorded the "diseases of the soul"

Spiritual medicine

Spiritism believes that many manifestations of disease in our material bodies are the result of our spirit's actions in other incarnations that have been "impregnated" in the perispirit, and may be from disturbances of other spirits as a remnant of past incarnations.

Our physical body is always changing. If we eat wrong, we get obese. If we smoke, we can develop cancer. And so on ... The perispirit also changes with these habits, because it is a fluid around an intelligence. But beyond physical matter, "intelligence" itself can affect it: thoughts, actions, and consciousness are part of the transformation of the perispirit.

Through the spiritist pass, mediums can channel good fluids from the spirit world

That is, if we are sick and just taking medicine, we can heal our physical body. But certain diseases would be much more rooted and the “semi-material” plan would have to be cured before we can get rid of them.

This is where the "spiritual pass" comes in. For those who do not follow the doctrine, just imagine that some of your followers get a greater connection with the spirit world and through this can channel good fluids to people. It's like sending positive energy to someone, but on a spiritual level.

Spiritual surgery

Just as Christianity has several aspects, the study of Spiritism also has different branches. Several indigenous tribes around the world claim to be in touch with this spiritual universe, making practices associated with spiritualism much older than what was founded by Allan Kardec almost 200 years ago.

What is considered spiritist practice is also a point of divergence. Many spiritist centers have mediumistic practices that are not open to the public, while other places perform spiritual surgeries by the hundreds, daily, whether or not accompanied by the study of Kardec's work.

There are reports of psychic surgeries dating back thousands of years! Speaking of this phenomenon as something more recent, it became popular in the West from the 1940s in the Philippines. It began with Eleutério Terte and took great proportions with Antonio Agpoa as early as the 1960s.

Antonio Agpoa performing spiritual surgery on a patient's eye

Agpoa became popular, initially in the United States, with the publication of a book that reported his spiritual surgeries through incisions (skin cuts) and tissue removal. From then on, many Americans and Europeans sought the “healer” after miracles for their ailments.

However, proponents of spiritual surgery argue that at first there would be no need to cut or remove anything. The cure would be at the level of the perispirit, and it does not have a "matter" to be removed. However, many people only believe that something is acting on their body when they feel that some kind of intervention is being done.

Psychokinesis, placebo effect or miracle?

The instruments used by people who claim to be spiritual doctors can range from kitchen knives and scissors to traditional scalpels, which are usually not sterilized. Most mediums, however, prefer to use only the power of their hands to act on the evils of those who seek them.

Psychokinesis could explain these "cures." It deals with the mind's power to "move objects." Applied to living beings, would be the ability to move the soul (or perispirit), fixing the "flaws" of these structures. Many do this by incorporating famous doctors such as Dr. Fritz or Dr. Hans.

These surgeries are still poorly studied by traditional medicine or even specialists who can prove their effectiveness. Most skeptics believe this is just a placebo effect: the patient so fervently believes that he is being cured that psychosomatic effects are noticed in his brains, increasing the sense of well-being and the belief that they are cured.

Could spiritual surgery be the result of psychokinesis or just a placebo effect?

It is worth remembering that many places that promote spiritist healing recommend the intimate reform of their visitors as a form of prophylaxis so that the disease does not return. As we said at the beginning, our actions are believed to cause us illness, so care must be taken not to continue to act on these problems again in the future.

Cures are performed to respond to emergency suffering, but it is recommended that the person seek to reflect on their actions and positions to improve their spiritual quality of life.

Religious tourism

Antonio Agpoa's disciples made the Philippines the great mecca of "spiritual healers." Although not covered by consultations, the faithful who achieve a miracle cure end up making generous donations to these centers, which turn entire regions into major tourist hubs.

This is what happens in Brazil in the small town of Abadiânia, Goiás. It is there that the medium João Teixeira de Faria, known as João de Deus, supposedly works his miracles through the “reception” of the spirit of Dr. Hans. The municipality of just 15, 000 inhabitants profits from tourists from all over the world who go after the religious in the hope of getting rid of their ills.

Abadiânia's commerce grew with the popularization of Dom Inácio de Loyola House, where he attends the medium João de Deus

Dr. Fritz: The Most Brave German Doctor

Worldwide, Brazil only loses to the Philippines in terms of importance in the universe of spiritual surgeries. Although nowadays the main national name is João de Deus, which incorporates the spirit of Dr. Hans in his surgeries, it was in the 1950s that the country had its big boom in this field.

And the name best known for that was Dr. Fritz. He was allegedly a German by the name of Adolf Fritz, who was born in Munich in 1876. After graduating from medical school, he would have treated wounded on the battlefields of World War I - always with limited surgical resources. Fritz would have died in 1918, of unknown cause.

Design attributed to being Dr. Fritz

The first medium to incorporate Dr. Fritz would have been Jose Arigó. Supposedly, he would have been a friend of the German doctor at the time of the First War during his past life, reincarnating in Brazil years later. Therefore, he would have a great mediumistic connection with Fritz. Some even claim that it was Aleijadinho who asked the German to come to "work" in Brazil after being disincarnated.

José Arigó died violently in a car accident in the early 1970s. After him, other mediums claimed to receive the spirit of Dr. Fritz - and at least two of them also died in car accidents. Currently, two mediums would be working under the influence of German: Rubens Farias Jr., in Rio de Janeiro, and Aylla Harard, in Guaratinguetá (SP) and Caçapava (SP).

Ze Arigó in photo for Italian magazine about the Brazilian medium

Traditional medicine

The vast majority of mediums who perform spiritual surgery advise that patients should not abandon traditional medicine - even in cases where it can no longer afford a cure or a solution to their illness.

Some scholars are still analyzing the effectiveness of spiritual treatment, although many people consider this to be just scamming. An article from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (MG) concluded that: “The surgeries are real, but although it was not possible to evaluate the effectiveness of the procedure, they apparently had no specific effect on curing patients. Undoubtedly, our findings are more exploratory than conclusive. Further studies are needed to shed light on this unorthodox treatment. ”

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