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Title: Arigo: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife, by John Grant, Fuller ISBN: 0-690-00512-1 Publisher: Ty Crowell Co Pub. Date: June, 1974 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $19.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Too good for words.
Comment: This book needs to be made into a serious full length movie on the order of "Gandhi".
Rating: 5
Summary: Rigorous scientific documentation of paranormal medicine
Comment: According to this book and other information available on the Web:
Arigo was a Brazilian peasant, with no formal medical training, or other schooling past 3rd grade. He was able to diagnose and cure virtually any malady. He did diagnosis at a glance and prescribed modern pharmaceuticals -- often in combinations and doses that made no sense in conventional terms, but which worked in virtually all cases where this could be followed up by investigators. Arigo performed operations of kinds which have apparently never been duplicated by conventional physicians. For example, he commonly excised even those metastatic tumors that extensively infiltrated vital organs, amid blood vessels and nerves. He regularly removed cataracts with a kitchen knife by scraping the cornea and removing the lens -- and his patients were able to see well afterwards. Most operations were done within 5 to 60 seconds, without anesthesia or antiseptics, yet without pain or damage or infection to patients. He commonly treated up to 300 patients/day.
This sounds like a fairy tale, but was extensively documented by highly respected physicians and other scientists from America (led by Henry Puharich) and Brazil. They made detailed films, and performed on-the-spot diagnoses and examination of patients before and after treatment by Arigo. His "instant" diagnoses agreed with their diagnoses at least 96% of the time.
This is not only among the best-documented records of psychic healing, but among the most intruiging sets of evidence for psychic phenomena in general. Instead of just rehashing the same o same o notions of telepathy, clairvoyance, etc. it opens up entire new phenomena. In particular, it suggests a radically new perspective on the nature of disease and healing.
Granted, this perspective has something in common with notions of the so-called etheric body and how it can be operated on -- an approach common in Brazil, where physicians commonly combine so-called spiritist practices with modern medicine. (But Arigo's skill and the intelligence underlying it went far far beyond that of his peers.)
This is the so-called intellectual Karcec school of medicine, and is reputedly practiced by hundreds if not thousands of physicians who have graduated from top ranking medical schools [including American and European schools] and who publish regularly in professional journals.
The Kardec approach involves consultation with spirit physicians -- discarnate beings that were allegedly once alive on Earth -- through mediums. Arigo was unusual in that he was his own medium. His spirit helpers either gave him advice or used him like a puppet to perform treatments -- at which time he was in a trance.
Although this sounds extraordinarily far fetched, the documentation is good enough to warrant serious thought. Alas, Arigo was killed in a car wreck before his work could be studied in enough detail for his methods to be passed on to other healers. Many healers aspire to emulate him, but apparently none has equalled his prowess and gentleness.
This is the kind of book I've been waiting for for 30 years. I only wish that the films and detailed medical records were available too.
Rating: 5
Summary: It was all a bunch of sleigh of hand (magic type) tricks?
Comment: According to James (The Amazing) Randi, most if not all of what Arigo accomplished was mere sleigh of hand (magic) tricks with perhaps some of the placebo effect involved (people's expectations being met). While I tend to agree, I am puzzled as to some things which can't be explained away such as the thoracic surgery performed on Senator Betancourt, some leukemia cures on babies, and Arigo's use of the German language.
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Title: The Book of Miracles: The Healing Work of Joao De Deus by Josie Ravenwing ISBN: 0759689822 Publisher: 1stBooks Library Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: The Miracle Man: The Life Story Of Joao De Deus by Robert Pellegrino-Estrich, Robert Pellegrino-Estrich ISBN: 064633767X Publisher: Triad Publishers Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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