Ava and I continue our conversation on the now infamous healer, John of God. In 2008, in a small Brazilian town, I stood before him waiting to know if I would have surgery. He did not perform his crude practices on me (eyeball scraping--with a butter knife, forceps up the nose, slicing open bodies to remove tumors), but he did grant me the title of "medium," suggesting I had the gift of spirits moving through me, just as they did through him. I was skeptical, but I was desperate to escape a disfiguring surgery, so why not believe I had spiritual gifts?
After intense "invisible" surgery where I felt "entities" or surrounding spirits working on my bowels, I headed home to San Francisco to wait and see if John of God's powers cured me of Crohn's...and, hopefully, of bipolar disorder as well.
There's some good healing news in this episode, while at the same time, trying to work with my medium or "psychic" abilities began to unravel me. Enjoy my chat with Ava, the kindest physician, and the ultimate skeptic.

Music composed and performed by guitarist, JD Cullum

Edited by Brandon Moran

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