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patients who experienced no pain, trauma, or infection. He treated hundreds of patients a day in the 1950s and 1960s in a shed by his house, doing surgeries with his rusty jackknife, and correctly diagnosing patients' ailments and writing medically correct prescriptions. Arigo was known to stop the blood flow of his patients with a verbal command, though he was unable to control his own blood flow. 30 He believed that the spirit of a dead German doctor whom he had never met, and whom he called Dr. Fritz, guided him in the surgeries, and told him the names of the medicines to prescribe.
Both the Brazilian Medical Association and Catholic church officials sued Arigo for illegal practice of medicine and witchcraft. He was jailed in 1958 and 1964, despite the fact that he was revered by multitudes of people whom he helped, and despite the fact that he worked for free, accepting donations. Friends of mine in the Peace Corps watched Arigo do his amazing surgeries over a period of years. Russell's friend, the American physician and psychic researcher Dr. Andrija Puharich, led a team of doctors to Brazil to investigate and film the healer. Arigo removed a tumor from Puharich's arm with his jackknife, while Puharich felt nothing and didn't bleed. Puharich believed that Arigo controlled some unknown form of life energy. The phenomenal healer died in a car accident in 1971. Arigo apparently functioned on an entirely different level of nonlocal mind than the healers we've been discussing thus far.
Other Transpersonal Approaches
Historically, many different types of practices have been used by people to alter their state of consciousness, and to enable them to access a nonlocal transpersonal realm. These include Buddhist and Yoga meditation methods, as well as techniques involving sound or rhythmic body movements. Examples of these are the chanting of mantras, prayers, or songs; the beating of drums; and the movement practices of Yoga, Tai Chi, Anthroposophist Eurythmics, and Hassidic and Sufi Dervish dances. Other more physiological methods of consciousness-altering techniques have been used, such as fasting; the use of hallucinogenic and other pharmacological agents

 
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