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This episode was about a farmer in Brazil who millions of people flock to for healing. They call him John of God, and he's been healing people for around 10 years. He only has a second grad education, doesn't use Western medicine, and performs surgery on people without using anesthesia. Can this be real?? Oprah isn't necessarily known for her hard hitting journalism, but her report of this story was fair, well represented and well rounded.
She interviewed people who went Brazil as skeptics, and came back believers. One was a doctor who graduated from Harvard and studied religion as well as medicine. He thought there had to have been more than met the eye. He came back as big of a believer as there ever was. He admits that there's no way to medically explain what was happening there, but he also admitted that he doesn't doubt for a second that these people were being healed by John of God's touch, words, and prayers.
Then came the woman who was diagnosed with stage four cancer, who went to see the healer in hopes of a cure. He performed a nasal probe on this woman (he literally sticks a 4 or 5 inch steel rod up a person's nose, and jimmys it around in their brain!!!). It's been about three years since she saw John of God, and though she's still cancer-ridden, she says that her faith in life has been restored, and that she no longer fears what's on the other side.
Can this farmer turned healer heal physical ailments as well as a lack of faith? Most of the people who went to see John of God came out healthier. ALL of them came back with a stronger sense of faith, and a deeper passion for life. Is this all hooey? Or is there really something to this Brazilian farmer?
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