This is the 7th consecutive year in which I’ve taught the Anthropology class entitled the Performance of Healing. We examine rituals of healing from Korean, to the Amazon, from Brasilia to San Francisco. Our primary focus is Spiritist healers in Brazil and the medical pilgrims who come from all over the world to find miracles.
Hollywood Spiritualist Church
Last weekend we examined anthropological methodology by doing participant observation in the Hollywood Spiritualist Church. Spiritism is alive and well in California. In the first few minutes of the service, we were given a powerful lecture on spirit possession after a homeless woman, shaking, jerking her head and claiming to be Jesus joined the congregation. This woman’s body was “hijacked” by an evil spirit claimed the spirit Ujamay speaking from the body of the medium Nampima Kaddu. Protect yourselves, “clean your aura with sea salt, call your guides, and use discernment….. you are light workers.”
Stacey, Makenna and Marika prepare for our Brazilian travels by reading the Relaxation Revolution
We will keep these lessons in mind along with the others that we have studied after three weeks in the classroom. We leave this weekend for Brasilia, Abadiania, and finally Rio.