Josie RavenWing
The Book of Miracles
is a firsthand, inspiring account of the daily miracles of healing that have taken place at the Casa de Dom Inacio in the interior of Brazil. One of the world’s most famous healers, Joao de Dues (John of God), cares for hundreds and sometimes thousands of people daily, usually at eh Casa and occasionally in other parts of Brazil. Over the past four decades he has treated millions of people! Numerous cures of cancer, AIDS, blindness, asthma, drug addiction and other physical problems as well as psychological and spiritual illnesses have occurred through his work.
Joao does not take credit for these miracles. With true humility, he says he has never healed anyone, but that it is God who heals. If this is the case, Joao is a singularly powerful medium of God’s work and love and an invaluable resource for those seeking healing of body, mind or spirit.
The luminous and breathtaking stories within this book will stretch the beliefs of some readers, affirm and deepen the faith of others. All will receive empowering information for their own personal healing. Author Josie RavenWing has one again succeeded in combining the practical and the mystical in this, her third and most exciting book yet!
Josie RavenWing has a B.A. in dance movement therapy and M.A. in clinical and jumanistic psychology, and had her first visionary experience when she was about ten months old. This set her on a lifelong journey of spiritual exploration and discovery.
In the early 1970s, she began her work in the field of human development as an innovative pioneer of dance therapy and holistic healing. She also started exploring shamanistic traditions, which she has incorporated into her work since that time. At Antioch University in Seattle, she developed and taught sources in the first Holistic Health graduate program in the U.S. During that same period, her growing concern about women’s issues and self-esteem inspired her to organize one of Seattle’s first women’s support groups and later led her to create a variety of workshops and retreats to meet women’s needs for spiritual exploration and growth.
RavenWing continued to expand her work. Throughout several decades as a psychotherapist, she has integrated Western theory with spiritual, shamanistic and hands-on healing practices of many cultures.
Described as a "practical visionary" by author Joan Borysenko, she applies her grounded, ongoing synthesis in counseling work with individuals and as an accomplished workshop leader. She has lectured at college campuses and national conferences and offered her seminars and workshops throughout the United States and abroad since the 1980’s. She has also been widely interviewed by the media, including radio and television, and has had a number of articles published in various newspapers and magazines.
More recently, Josie has spent a great deal of time within the spiritual healing cultures of Brazil. Her own effectiveness as a healing facilitator has been enhanced greatly by her exposure to and involvement in Brazilian healing practices, which she has creatively incorporated into her work.
RavenWing’s creativity also expresses itself in her song writing, poetry, ceremonial leadership and spiritual dance choreography. In addition to this book, she has written two others: The Return of Spirit: A Woman’s Call to Spiritual Action and A Season of Eagles.
Josie presently divides much of her time between the U.S. and Brazil, where she continues to learn and to take groups for healing and spiritual work.
To pass through the gates of the Casa de Dom Inacio is to pass through a portal into a parallel world. In this world is a spiritual hospital in which the medical personnel are spirits, the chief administrator is God, and daily miracles of healing are the norm. And although the portal seems to be the simple wrought iron fence that is the physical entrance to the Casa, this is not the deeper reality. The true gateway to this parallel world is the dedication of one of the most powerful trance medium healers of our time, Joao Teixeira da Faria, known most often as Joao de Deus: John of God.
As Joao stared at me, he reached his right arm out to the side and lowered the palm of his hand toward the longer candle until its flame was touching his palm. Then he curled his fingers downward and, leaving his palm in the flame, grabbed the candle itself with his fingertips and lifted it up. He then stood there holding it, gazing at me from time to time. The glow of the flame burning within the small cage of his hand was lighting my way down yet another path of the paranormal. As it continued to burn, Joao began to speak about the power of transmutation of energy. He was speaking in Portuguese, yet it seemed as if I could understand the essence of what he was saying.
I kept looking at the candle burning within his hand, and as the seconds ticked by, the glow began to expand until it appeared that a huge ball of white light surrounded his hand. I’m sure that my jaw must have been dropped wide open by then. Joao finally turned, placed the candle back on the ledge, and beckoned me over. I got up in a daze, walked over to him, and he showed me the palm of his hand. It was completely unmarked by the flame – not a sign of burning, blistering or even redness anywhere – even thought the flame had been touching it for several minutes. The only mark was a dark wavy line left by the smoke from the candle.
