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Arigo: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife
Dust jacket "In May of 1968, a team of American medical doctors arrived in a small plateau village of Brazil with extensive modern medical equipment to study a peasant named Arigo, whose cures and surgery had been reported to be nothing short of miraculous! What they uncovered was a story that defies belief and yet it is a true story. This is the documented account of a man who cured hundreds of thousands of sick and dying and yet was prosecuted by the government under which he lived and ostracized by the church in which he fervently believed. This is the strange and wonderful story of Arigo - one of the greatest healers of all time. Arigo had only a third grade education and no medical training whatsoever, yet thousands flocked to the small village where he lived from all over Brazil and South America, indeed from all over the world, to be cured by him. He performed hundreds of operations daily without antiseptics - usually with an ordinary kitchen knife or jackknife - without anesthetics, without tying off blood vessels, without major bleeding, without any of the benefits of modern science. He made thousands of correct diagnoses without even examining the patient. He wrote thousands of prescriptions which were pharmacologically accurate but in unusual combinations and potency. And, one after the other, patients left his primitive 'clinic' cured. He saved many with cancer and other fatal diseases who had been given up as hopeless by leading doctors and hospitals in many of the most advanced countries. He performed the most excruciatingly painful procedures without any discomfort to the patient. Among those he healed were the educated, famous, and wealthy as well as the poor and desolate. He never charged for his services or would accept any remuneration. Arigo's healings were witnessed by both Brazilian and American doctors. Among the latter was Henry K. Puharich, M.D., leader of the American team, who has written an afterword for Arigo...."
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274 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1974
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About the author
John G. Fuller
33 books36 followersJohn Grant Fuller, Jr. (1913 - 1990) was a New England-based American author of several non-fiction books and newspaper articles, mainly focusing on the theme of extra-terrestrials and the supernatural. For many years he wrote a regular column for the Saturday Review magazine, called "Trade Winds". His three most famous books were The Ghost of Flight 401, Incident at Exeter, and The Interrupted Journey.
The Ghost of Flight 401 was based on the tragic Eastern Air Lines airplane crash in December 1972, and the alleged supernatural events which followed; it was eventually turned into a popular 1978 made-for-television movie.
Incident at Exeter concerned a series of well-publicized UFO sightings in and around the town of Exeter, New Hampshire in the fall of 1965 (see the Exeter incident). Fuller personally investigated the sightings and interviewed many of the eyewitnesses, he also claimed to have seen a UFO himself during his investigation.
The Interrupted Journey tells the story of the Betty and Barney Hill abduction. The Hills were a married couple who claimed to have been abducted in 1961 by the occupants of a UFO in the White Mountains of New Hampshire while returning home from a vacation. The book was the first to seriously claim that competent, reliable witnesses were being abducted by UFOs for medical and scientific experiments. The book remains one of the most influential in UFO history; and has been hotly debated since its publication. Like The Ghost of Flight 401, The Interrupted Journey was also turned into a made-for-television movie in 1975.
Fuller wrote The Great Soul Trial (1969) about the disappearance of Arizona Miner James Kidd and the later trial regarding his will, which left his fortune to anyone who could prove the existence of the human soul. The book was published prior to the final resolution of the case in 1971.
John was also married to a NorthWest flight Attendant who was the researcher mentioned in his book "Ghost of Flight 401" His book We Almost Lost Detroit deals with a serious accident at the Fermi nuclear power plant near Detroit. The book title was later the title of a song by Gil Scott-Heron on the No Nukes live album recorded by the Musicians United for Safe Energy.
He wrote two plays -- The Pink Elephant, which opened in 1953, and Love Me Little, which opened in 1958, both on Broadway.
His most important book was the fictional novel We Almost Lost Detroit. There is a song by Gil Scott-Heron, same title.
Fuller died of lung cancer in 1990.
The Ghost of Flight 401 was based on the tragic Eastern Air Lines airplane crash in December 1972, and the alleged supernatural events which followed; it was eventually turned into a popular 1978 made-for-television movie.
Incident at Exeter concerned a series of well-publicized UFO sightings in and around the town of Exeter, New Hampshire in the fall of 1965 (see the Exeter incident). Fuller personally investigated the sightings and interviewed many of the eyewitnesses, he also claimed to have seen a UFO himself during his investigation.
The Interrupted Journey tells the story of the Betty and Barney Hill abduction. The Hills were a married couple who claimed to have been abducted in 1961 by the occupants of a UFO in the White Mountains of New Hampshire while returning home from a vacation. The book was the first to seriously claim that competent, reliable witnesses were being abducted by UFOs for medical and scientific experiments. The book remains one of the most influential in UFO history; and has been hotly debated since its publication. Like The Ghost of Flight 401, The Interrupted Journey was also turned into a made-for-television movie in 1975.
Fuller wrote The Great Soul Trial (1969) about the disappearance of Arizona Miner James Kidd and the later trial regarding his will, which left his fortune to anyone who could prove the existence of the human soul. The book was published prior to the final resolution of the case in 1971.
John was also married to a NorthWest flight Attendant who was the researcher mentioned in his book "Ghost of Flight 401" His book We Almost Lost Detroit deals with a serious accident at the Fermi nuclear power plant near Detroit. The book title was later the title of a song by Gil Scott-Heron on the No Nukes live album recorded by the Musicians United for Safe Energy.
He wrote two plays -- The Pink Elephant, which opened in 1953, and Love Me Little, which opened in 1958, both on Broadway.
His most important book was the fictional novel We Almost Lost Detroit. There is a song by Gil Scott-Heron, same title.
Fuller died of lung cancer in 1990.
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October 26, 2012
John G. Fuller led an interesting life. As a reporter he became known for his powerful and clear prose that delivered the message without ornaments. His topics too, from lost nuclear weapons to price-fixing in the electrical industry to UFOs, cover quite a range. But no matter what the topic, his voice is loud and clear.
To me the epitome of his work is The Airmen who Would Not Die, because the evidence for that case of communication with the dead is incontrovertible. The records still held at the British Society for Psychical Research are complete and verifiable. His reporting of the incident is a perfect case example of the professional journalist in action.
When Fuller turned to the case of Arigo, the uneducated man who claimed to perform surgery under the tutelage of a Dr Fritz (a quite dead entity), he packed a pound of salt before embarking on the trip to the Brazilian jungle. He used the grains of salt to good effect through the book, and with the 16mm film shot in the remote village and brought back as evidence, he wrote down the story. And it is a remarkable story.
Arigo performed surgery with no anaesthesia, no painkillers, no sterilized equipment. Sometimes a penknife passed over a lighter would do. And yet, on film, in front of witnesses, he extracts tumors and cures various other ailments in a trance, without so much as a second glance at the patient after he pronounces him cured. Patients report full recovery and no infections after the operation.
Fuller ponders long and hard whether this is true. I am not sure whether the Philippine pen knife surgeons were active at this time, but they were incontrovertibly proven fakes. No such luck with Arigo - his work stands as an example of a mystery, performed on film, in daylight, and reported on by Fuller. He comes to the conclusion that something not explainable by modern man takes place when Arigo goes to work on a man with a tumor in the throat and in five seconds flat has the bulging cancer growth in a dirty enamel dish.
I will of course leave it up to you to decide what you think of this. Call it a hoax, call it sleight of hand - but read the book first, and judge only after you've seen the evidence.
To me the epitome of his work is The Airmen who Would Not Die, because the evidence for that case of communication with the dead is incontrovertible. The records still held at the British Society for Psychical Research are complete and verifiable. His reporting of the incident is a perfect case example of the professional journalist in action.
When Fuller turned to the case of Arigo, the uneducated man who claimed to perform surgery under the tutelage of a Dr Fritz (a quite dead entity), he packed a pound of salt before embarking on the trip to the Brazilian jungle. He used the grains of salt to good effect through the book, and with the 16mm film shot in the remote village and brought back as evidence, he wrote down the story. And it is a remarkable story.
Arigo performed surgery with no anaesthesia, no painkillers, no sterilized equipment. Sometimes a penknife passed over a lighter would do. And yet, on film, in front of witnesses, he extracts tumors and cures various other ailments in a trance, without so much as a second glance at the patient after he pronounces him cured. Patients report full recovery and no infections after the operation.
Fuller ponders long and hard whether this is true. I am not sure whether the Philippine pen knife surgeons were active at this time, but they were incontrovertibly proven fakes. No such luck with Arigo - his work stands as an example of a mystery, performed on film, in daylight, and reported on by Fuller. He comes to the conclusion that something not explainable by modern man takes place when Arigo goes to work on a man with a tumor in the throat and in five seconds flat has the bulging cancer growth in a dirty enamel dish.
I will of course leave it up to you to decide what you think of this. Call it a hoax, call it sleight of hand - but read the book first, and judge only after you've seen the evidence.
July 19, 2021
The story of a Brazilian healer who treated young, old, rich, poor, everyone. A firm believer in Christ and the Catholic church who was a reluctant healer to hundreds of thousands.
I am not one who jumps on the bandwagon, I consider myself a skeptic if anything. John Fuller writes of Arigo, a man with a third grade education as someone who can diagnose disease without speaking to a patient, do complex surgeries without anesthetic or antiseptic conditions, write prescriptions for both old time remedies and state of the art pharmaceuticals all without one reported incidence of him doing any harm and he provided all his services without ever taking a cent or a favor.
Fuller provides accounts of physicians, from both Brazil and the United States, from researchers who studied Arigo, from patients and reputable witnesses. As a reader I kept looking for the crack, the flaw in the story, however with account after account of Arigo's healing power one has to finally say that what happened was real and was amazing.
The story of Arigo is at a loss as to how exactly he is able to perform his healing other than by channeling a German physician that has died but is working through Arigo. As a modern cynic, it's a lot to swallow however there are so many accounts of what this man was able to do with such crude techniques that you just have to say incredible.
I read of the story of Arigo in Alan Arkin's book Out Ff My Mind (Not Quite a Memoir) and then after reading the full account here by John Fuller I can't believe that more people don't reference Arigo and that more people don't know the story.
There are things known and there are things unknown in the universe and the story of Arigo holds a candle as to what possibilities may be out there.
I am not one who jumps on the bandwagon, I consider myself a skeptic if anything. John Fuller writes of Arigo, a man with a third grade education as someone who can diagnose disease without speaking to a patient, do complex surgeries without anesthetic or antiseptic conditions, write prescriptions for both old time remedies and state of the art pharmaceuticals all without one reported incidence of him doing any harm and he provided all his services without ever taking a cent or a favor.
Fuller provides accounts of physicians, from both Brazil and the United States, from researchers who studied Arigo, from patients and reputable witnesses. As a reader I kept looking for the crack, the flaw in the story, however with account after account of Arigo's healing power one has to finally say that what happened was real and was amazing.
The story of Arigo is at a loss as to how exactly he is able to perform his healing other than by channeling a German physician that has died but is working through Arigo. As a modern cynic, it's a lot to swallow however there are so many accounts of what this man was able to do with such crude techniques that you just have to say incredible.
I read of the story of Arigo in Alan Arkin's book Out Ff My Mind (Not Quite a Memoir) and then after reading the full account here by John Fuller I can't believe that more people don't reference Arigo and that more people don't know the story.
There are things known and there are things unknown in the universe and the story of Arigo holds a candle as to what possibilities may be out there.
October 18, 2007
Interesting account of some uneducated guy who performed thousands of "surgeries" with little else than a rusty knife, a long-dead German physician who gave him psychic guidance and a stong-faith in God, on the indigenous peoples of South America. His successes are apparantly confirmed by Western Science.
July 15, 2025
José Pedro de Freitas (aka Arigo) was a Brazilian psychic surgeon who, from the early 1950's until his death in 1971, healed hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom medical science marked as incurable.
So what's the catch? As this book testifies, there is no catch!
What Arigo did was spectacular. I hestitate to use the word "miraculous" lest I be marked as a religious fanatic, but let's go with that word.
So what did Arigo do that was miraculous? Let's count them off.
Arigo was under constant attack by the Brazilian medical establishment for being a quack despite his astounding record of success and never charging for his services. He was also attacked by the Church for practicing witchcraft. He spent years in court and jail fighting these attacks. In the end they couldn't find a single case of Arigo failing to heal those who came to him.
So how did Arigo do what he did? That's when the story gets really crazy. Introducing Dr. Adolf Fritz.
Arigo claimed to be a medium for a German doctor, Adolf Fritz, who died in 1918. Arigo performed surgery and wrote prescriptions while being "posessed" by Dr. Fritz. He also spoke with a German accent and could converse in German, a language he never learned.
In North American culture, thanks to movies like The Exorcist, the term "possessed" has a overwhelming negative connotation; we unconsciously prefix it with "demonic". Not so in Brazil.
There some believe that they can draw on the power and knowledge of the spirit world through mediums who are carefully trained for this purpose. Such was Arigo. The story ends when Arigo died in a traffic accident in 1971 (an event he foresaw). The historical Dr. Adolf Fritz was never found. All knowledge of him came through Arigo.
Several in the American medical establishment were interesting in learning how Arico did what he did and mourned his passing. In fact he was extensively studied during his life. That's why I found this book outstanding. It goes beyond reporting his astounding record as a healer and relates the theories and findings of those who investigated him, giving a more complete picture of the phenomenon that was Arigo.
So what's the catch? As this book testifies, there is no catch!
What Arigo did was spectacular. I hestitate to use the word "miraculous" lest I be marked as a religious fanatic, but let's go with that word.
So what did Arigo do that was miraculous? Let's count them off.
1) He could sense a person's ailment, some times even before they spoke. Many times he found other ailments that the person was unaware of, but would be medically confirmed later.
2) He'd perform surgery without anesthesia using dull knives and kitchen utensils yet the subject, fully conscious and sometimes even standing up, felt no pain and bled very little.
3) The surgery was done remarkably fast. Henry Puharich, an America doctor who went to investigate Arigo, had a fat tumour removed from his forearm. Arigo opened the forearm with a pocket knife skillfully avoiding the ulnar nerve and brachial artery, reached in and pulled out the tumour with his fingers. Puharich was stunned. It was all caught on film and took 10 to 20 seconds.
4) Post surgery the wounds seemed to knit themselves without stitches and despite the complete lack of sterilization no follow up infections every occurred. Puharich, to prove himself as a test case, resisted the temptation to apply antiseptics or take anitbiotics following his own surgery and septicemia did not occurred.
5) Sometimes Arigo decided that surgery wasn't necessary and wrote a prescription instead. The prescriptions, despite medical professionals dismissing them as useless, always successfully treated the ailment.
Arigo was under constant attack by the Brazilian medical establishment for being a quack despite his astounding record of success and never charging for his services. He was also attacked by the Church for practicing witchcraft. He spent years in court and jail fighting these attacks. In the end they couldn't find a single case of Arigo failing to heal those who came to him.
So how did Arigo do what he did? That's when the story gets really crazy. Introducing Dr. Adolf Fritz.
Arigo claimed to be a medium for a German doctor, Adolf Fritz, who died in 1918. Arigo performed surgery and wrote prescriptions while being "posessed" by Dr. Fritz. He also spoke with a German accent and could converse in German, a language he never learned.
In North American culture, thanks to movies like The Exorcist, the term "possessed" has a overwhelming negative connotation; we unconsciously prefix it with "demonic". Not so in Brazil.
There some believe that they can draw on the power and knowledge of the spirit world through mediums who are carefully trained for this purpose. Such was Arigo. The story ends when Arigo died in a traffic accident in 1971 (an event he foresaw). The historical Dr. Adolf Fritz was never found. All knowledge of him came through Arigo.
Several in the American medical establishment were interesting in learning how Arico did what he did and mourned his passing. In fact he was extensively studied during his life. That's why I found this book outstanding. It goes beyond reporting his astounding record as a healer and relates the theories and findings of those who investigated him, giving a more complete picture of the phenomenon that was Arigo.
January 28, 2023
As a hard core skeptic and fan of the late Martin Gardner, (Who wrote a scathing rebuttal of this book) I don't know what to think.
Arigo: Surgeo of the Rusty Knife tells the story of Zé Arigó (José Pedro de Freitas) a Brazilian "psychic healer" who (allegedly) performed numerous surgeries with no antiseptic, anesthetic, pain or ill effects.
Patients included high-profile individuals, like Brazilian senator Carlos Alberto Lucio Bittencourt and the daughter of then Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek.
As Gardner points out, psychic surgery is (normally) a simple trick performed by low-grade con-artists. The "Surgeon" either pinches the skin or makes a very superficial cut and then produces a piece of animal tissue that he has carefully palmed as the excised tumor or growth.
Obviously, there would be several easy ways to falsify such a trick. One way would be to film the procedure in good light with a high speed camera and then analyzing it frame by frame. Another even more obvious method would be to examine the tissue that was supposedly "removed" from the patient. If it was non-human in origin or definitely doesn't belong to the patient, then the hoax is exposed.
With the foregoing in mind, Arigo does not seem to have been a garden-variety con-artist inasmuch as:
He performed his operations in broad daylight.
He allowed anyone to watch
He didn't charge money.
He worked all day long, treating hundreds of people a day. In the end, he had performed many thousands of "Cures."
He allowed his procedures to be filmed and photographed.
He "operated" on a member of the research team, removing a lipoma from his arm. The complete absence of pain and the rapid closure of the incision are directly attested to.
Regardless of your conclusion, this is a truly fascinating book.
Arigo: Surgeo of the Rusty Knife tells the story of Zé Arigó (José Pedro de Freitas) a Brazilian "psychic healer" who (allegedly) performed numerous surgeries with no antiseptic, anesthetic, pain or ill effects.
Patients included high-profile individuals, like Brazilian senator Carlos Alberto Lucio Bittencourt and the daughter of then Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek.
As Gardner points out, psychic surgery is (normally) a simple trick performed by low-grade con-artists. The "Surgeon" either pinches the skin or makes a very superficial cut and then produces a piece of animal tissue that he has carefully palmed as the excised tumor or growth.
Obviously, there would be several easy ways to falsify such a trick. One way would be to film the procedure in good light with a high speed camera and then analyzing it frame by frame. Another even more obvious method would be to examine the tissue that was supposedly "removed" from the patient. If it was non-human in origin or definitely doesn't belong to the patient, then the hoax is exposed.
With the foregoing in mind, Arigo does not seem to have been a garden-variety con-artist inasmuch as:
He performed his operations in broad daylight.
He allowed anyone to watch
He didn't charge money.
He worked all day long, treating hundreds of people a day. In the end, he had performed many thousands of "Cures."
He allowed his procedures to be filmed and photographed.
He "operated" on a member of the research team, removing a lipoma from his arm. The complete absence of pain and the rapid closure of the incision are directly attested to.
Regardless of your conclusion, this is a truly fascinating book.
April 23, 2019
This is probably the most mind-blowing book I have ever read. As New York Review of Books commented in its original review of this book, "More mind-blowing than extraterrestrial spacecraft." If there was ever a book one would want to go back and re-read, not just once but even a second re-read, this has got to be the one. "This immaculately objective report will un-nerve even the most stalwart skeptic", wrote The Kirkus Reviews, and my own reading certainly confirmed the truth of this statement.
August 25, 2022
Originalmente, o livro foi lançado em 1974 e chama-se Arigó: O Cirurgião da Faca Enferrujada e hoje a versão mais atualizada e já com imagens do filme foi lançado pela Editora Pensamento.
O livro possui 11 capítulos, além da parte pré-textual, prefácio, sumário e nota do autor que estão bem atualizadas e ainda um texto extraído da revista Times de 1972 e a lista das legendas das fotos que são encontradas no final do e-book. Por fim, ainda tem o epílogo com a visão do autor e do surgimento da obra, os comentários de Henry Puharick e a bibliografia.
Sendo assim, Arigó e o Espírito do Dr. Fritz começa a ser discorrido através dos olhos dos americanos Henry Belk e o doutor Henry K. Puharick, onde ambos chegam a pequena e pacata cidade de Congonhas no interior de Minas Gerais para desbravar o mundo e as questões sobre José Arigó.
A partir de então, o leitor passa a acompanhar o desenrolar dos encontros, o olhar dos dois tanto com a cidade, com o próprio Zé Arigó, as cirurgias, sua incrível mediunidade ostensiva de cura e todo o mistério que envolvia naquela época. Além disso, todo o aparato feito para entender melhor toda a situação e o próprio médium.
Depois, o livro volta um pouco para o começo, ainda com Zé Arigó sendo o simples José Pedro de Freitas, seu devotamento e ligação com a Igreja Católica, a relação saudável e de parceria com a esposa Arlete e seu trabalho normal junto com políticos bem relacionados na época. Tudo muda quando o espírito de Dr. Fritz resolve, enfim, fazer a parceria tão bem conhecida depois de ter estudado o médium por um bom tempo. Inclusive, no mesmo período em que começaram as manifestações, o amigo espiritual deu comunicações em Centros Espíritas respeitosas do local explanando o quanto analisou José Pedro para ser sua voz e mãos terrenas para auxiliar a tantos.
Com o passar da narrativa, é mostrado todos os desafios enfrentados por Zé Arigó e também as angústias porque ele não tinha nenhum conhecimento e estudo mediúnico e espiritual sobre o que estava se passando. E na realidade, naquela época, quase ninguém tinha tanto conhecimento sobre este estilo de mediunidade, tanto que foi processado e acusado de bruxaria / feitiçaria inúmeras vezes, além do exercício ilegal de médico por causa das cirurgias.
O texto é de médio entendimento e a leitura é fluída e envolvente do começo ao fim. Você termina já querendo montar acampamento na frente do cinema para assistir ao filme. Inclusive, depois de todas as questões envolvendo João de Deus, ter uma história real de outro médium de cura que deu certo e cumpriu muito bem sua função sem se tornar arrogante e tudo mais é um bálsamo e tanto. E sim! Terá um post da manhã sobre essa diferenciação que é mega importante.
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O livro possui 11 capítulos, além da parte pré-textual, prefácio, sumário e nota do autor que estão bem atualizadas e ainda um texto extraído da revista Times de 1972 e a lista das legendas das fotos que são encontradas no final do e-book. Por fim, ainda tem o epílogo com a visão do autor e do surgimento da obra, os comentários de Henry Puharick e a bibliografia.
Sendo assim, Arigó e o Espírito do Dr. Fritz começa a ser discorrido através dos olhos dos americanos Henry Belk e o doutor Henry K. Puharick, onde ambos chegam a pequena e pacata cidade de Congonhas no interior de Minas Gerais para desbravar o mundo e as questões sobre José Arigó.
A partir de então, o leitor passa a acompanhar o desenrolar dos encontros, o olhar dos dois tanto com a cidade, com o próprio Zé Arigó, as cirurgias, sua incrível mediunidade ostensiva de cura e todo o mistério que envolvia naquela época. Além disso, todo o aparato feito para entender melhor toda a situação e o próprio médium.
Depois, o livro volta um pouco para o começo, ainda com Zé Arigó sendo o simples José Pedro de Freitas, seu devotamento e ligação com a Igreja Católica, a relação saudável e de parceria com a esposa Arlete e seu trabalho normal junto com políticos bem relacionados na época. Tudo muda quando o espírito de Dr. Fritz resolve, enfim, fazer a parceria tão bem conhecida depois de ter estudado o médium por um bom tempo. Inclusive, no mesmo período em que começaram as manifestações, o amigo espiritual deu comunicações em Centros Espíritas respeitosas do local explanando o quanto analisou José Pedro para ser sua voz e mãos terrenas para auxiliar a tantos.
Com o passar da narrativa, é mostrado todos os desafios enfrentados por Zé Arigó e também as angústias porque ele não tinha nenhum conhecimento e estudo mediúnico e espiritual sobre o que estava se passando. E na realidade, naquela época, quase ninguém tinha tanto conhecimento sobre este estilo de mediunidade, tanto que foi processado e acusado de bruxaria / feitiçaria inúmeras vezes, além do exercício ilegal de médico por causa das cirurgias.
O texto é de médio entendimento e a leitura é fluída e envolvente do começo ao fim. Você termina já querendo montar acampamento na frente do cinema para assistir ao filme. Inclusive, depois de todas as questões envolvendo João de Deus, ter uma história real de outro médium de cura que deu certo e cumpriu muito bem sua função sem se tornar arrogante e tudo mais é um bálsamo e tanto. E sim! Terá um post da manhã sobre essa diferenciação que é mega importante.
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March 26, 2019
Just WOW!
Loved this book even though I tried to be skeptical about it.
Bottom line: There is more to the world, than what we perceive.
Arigo was a great man, who helped thousands of people to recover.
The way he did it, is unbelievable - just watch the video on Youtube from Dr Puharich.
Loved this book even though I tried to be skeptical about it.
Bottom line: There is more to the world, than what we perceive.
Arigo was a great man, who helped thousands of people to recover.
The way he did it, is unbelievable - just watch the video on Youtube from Dr Puharich.
September 18, 2020
Another dimension on health and getting well
Truly enjoyable, and fantastic, and even corroborated by the medical profession (not that Arigo needed any third party ‘validation’ - his patients took care of this in ample measure). Any one in healthcare could benefit from reading this as will their patients!
Truly enjoyable, and fantastic, and even corroborated by the medical profession (not that Arigo needed any third party ‘validation’ - his patients took care of this in ample measure). Any one in healthcare could benefit from reading this as will their patients!
November 9, 2025
This is a baffling case, if true. What is described seems physically impossible, with multiple witnesses throughout. The author’s enthusiasm for Uri Geller sets alarm bells ringing, but this remains a tantalising book nonetheless
October 13, 2025
Mind-boggling .
November 22, 2025
A fascinating book and well researched.
February 7, 2019
Utterly incredible!
I can not believe that 37 years of my life went by and I had never even heard a mention of this incredible man! Once I heard about him I had to read this book and was beyond amazed at what had really transpired consistently for almost 2 decades in Brazil. So incredible, everyone should read
I can not believe that 37 years of my life went by and I had never even heard a mention of this incredible man! Once I heard about him I had to read this book and was beyond amazed at what had really transpired consistently for almost 2 decades in Brazil. So incredible, everyone should read
October 1, 2008
Amazing... more amazing that its actually true...
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