I've just got done reading a book titled "Spirits with Scalpels", written by Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Sidney Greenfield. In a span of over 20 years Greenfield documented 4 medium-healers of Brazil, capturing footage and photos of these individuals at work. These healers had revealed that during their operations there bodies would become possessed by spirit doctors, allowing them to heal ill individuals using physical means. The surprising thing is that many of these healers only had a grade school level education (one having only made it past the first grade). However, these medium-healers would perform complex surgical procedures; removing tumors, growths, cysts, and even scrape away pterygium with household tools. Often times these individuals would use butter knives, kitchen knives, rusty scalpels, etc. to perform their procedures. None of the tools that were used were sterilized. The procedures were completed in a fraction of the time of modern day standard medical procedures. The medium-healers would not even wear gloves during the procedures, and would often get bystanders to feel inside the wounds without proper means of sterilization as well. The patients would be awake during these procedures, and were given no anesthetics or antisepsis, reporting little to no pain and no infection. The medium-healers would see up to 300 patients a day, not charging a dime for there services. Many of the patients were deemed terminal by their western trained medical practitioners, only to later be healed by these various medium-healers. Some of the patients were in fact doctors themselves! To prove the validity of his experience Greenfield displayed his footage at a magician conference in Chicago, in which 400 stage magicians were in attendance, in which they concluded that the procedures were in fact real. I would definitely recommend reading the book, in which there are photos of some of the procedures that had taken place and plenty of great information.
Below is a video showing one of the medium-healers (Edson Quieroz possessed by Dr. Fritz, a WWI German Doctor) performing 3 operations on various ailments. Warning, the video is graphic:
What are your general thoughts on these cases?
For opponents of paranormal/ psi phenomenon, what are your thoughts?
Below is a video showing one of the medium-healers (Edson Quieroz possessed by Dr. Fritz, a WWI German Doctor) performing 3 operations on various ailments. Warning, the video is graphic:
What are your general thoughts on these cases?
For opponents of paranormal/ psi phenomenon, what are your thoughts?
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