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Oprah-featured “psychic healer” to be arrested on sex abuse charges after an astonishing 258 women step forward with detailed accusations
A “psychic healer” from Brazil is now facing arrest, after over 200 women came forward with allegations of sexual abuse. The women say that João Teixeira de Faria, also known as “John of God,” abused them while they were seeking out spiritual guidance. Teixeira de Faria reached celebrity status after appearing on a television show hosted by Oprah Winfrey in 2013. Prosecutors are now calling for his arrest, according to reports.
This is not the first time a celebrity has been accused of taking advantage of women, but the victim toll here is astonishingly high. Many of Teixeira de Faria’s followers are choosing to reject the accusations, and are continuing to welcome him in their communities with open arms.
Accusations are piling up
Teixeira de Faria has his own spiritual center, nestled in the small town of Abadiania, located in the central Brazilian state of Goias. The Sydney Morning Herald reports since the first accusation hit the airwaves, a total of 258 women have contacted the Goias state prosecutors’ office, alleging that they too were victims of the self-proclaimed faith healer.
Teixeira de Faria first opened his “practice” in 1976. Thousands of people, from Brazil and abroad, traveled to his clinic — so much so that the town of Abadiania has become dependent on the sheer volume of tourism related to the spiritual center. Teixeira de Faria garnered a substantial amount of attention by claiming he’s able to perform “miracle” surgeries with nothing but his hands; no tools, no anesthetics.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-12-16-oprah-featured-psychic-healer-arrested-abuse-charges.html
Can We Unlearn The Fear That Creates Our Reality?
Imagination is a wonderful thing. Emotions are often a result of the mind telling us stories without our direction over the outcome. When we imagine any fear repeatedly in a safe environment, soon our phobia, and our brain’s response to it, begins to subside.
That’s the takeaway of a new brain imaging study led by CU Boulder and Icahn School of Medicine researchers, suggesting that imagination can be a powerful tool in helping people with fear and anxiety-related disorders overcome them.
“This research confirms that imagination is a neurological reality that can impact our brains and bodies in ways that matter for our wellbeing,” said Tor Wager, director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at CU Boulder and co-senior author of the paper, published in the journal Neuron.
Being afraid of the unknown is not a new concept. From birth to death we’ve been trained to fear everything for a very long time. The dangers of modern life have a stranglehold on people’s imaginations. Sociologists call the phenomenon a risk society, describing cultures increasingly preoccupied with threats to safety, both real and perceived, but most definitely imagined.
Our ability to judge risk is sophisticated, and instinctual decisions often serve us well. But when something doesn’t quite seem to sync up, gut to head, then it’s time to pause and at least question what’s causing the discrepancy.
Neurolinguistic programming, emulating psychosis, television, advertising, the illusion of terrorism and several other remarkable concepts affect every facet of our lives and our world at the expense of our health, safety and security.
About one in three people in the United States have anxiety disorders, including phobias, and 8 percent have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Since the 1950s, clinicians have used “exposure therapy” as a first-line treatment, asking patients to face their fears–real or imagined–in a safe, controlled setting. Anecdotally, results have been positive.
But until now, very little has been known about how such methods impact the brain or how imagination neurologically compares to real-life exposure.
“These novel findings bridge a long-standing gap between clinical practice and cognitive neuroscience,” said lead author Marianne Cumella Reddan, a graduate student in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder. “This is the first neuroscience study to show that imagining a threat can actually alter the way it is represented in the brain.”
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2018/12/can-we-unlearn-the-fear-that-creates-our-reality.html
Study claims some fertility treatments raise the risk of autism in children
For couples who cannot have children, fertility treatments could be heaven-sent. But according to a study by American and Swedish researchers, the said treatments may not be as seamless as they are made out to be, with progesterone hormone therapy, in particular, causing a rise in children who have autism.
The researchers from Mount Sinai Hospital in the U.S. and Karolinska Institute in Sweden conducted a study involving 1,08,548 boys. This focus on boys was because they were more likely than girls to develop autism.
The researchers found that couples who undergo progesterone hormone therapy have 1.5 times higher odds of having a child with autism compared to couples who did not go through fertility treatments.
Progesterone hormone therapy involves supplementation with progesterone, also known as the pregnancy hormone. It is one of two hormones mainly produced in the female body, the other being estrogen. Progesterone prepares the woman for the process of carrying and giving birth to a child.
In progesterone hormone therapy, women are given supplements of this hormone to stimulate their reproductive process. The hormone supplement is administered throughout the pregnancy. Women have several options, including gels, suppositories, and vaginal inserts, among others. (Related: Hormone therapy linked to breast cancer risk.)
While the idea of using a hormone that naturally exists within the female body may seem like an ideal solution to infertility, it may not be safe and practical in the long run. The researchers hypothesize that the effect has something to do with progesterone’s other function – stimulating brain development. They believe that using the hormone leads to a cascade of factors that eventually cause autism in the infant.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-12-16-fertility-treatments-raise-the-risk-of-autism-in-children.html
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EU, Ireland ‘Conniving’ to Keep UK Close to Bloc to Take Money, Says Kate Hoey
Brexiteer Labour MP Kate Hoey has said that the Republic of Ireland and the European Union have overblown the Irish backstop issue and “connived” to keep the UK close to the bloc to take its money.
Defending comments she made where she said that the EU is attempting to succeed where the IRA failed in dividing Northern Ireland from Great Britain, the Ulster-born Unionist told Sophie Ridge on Sky News on Sunday, that “as Northern Ireland is left, supposedly, once this deal will go through… in the Customs Union, there is no one in Northern Ireland elected to speak for the people of Northern Ireland.
“So the country that would be speaking for Northern Ireland is the Irish Republic.”
“And ultimately, as divergence happens and Great Britain decides to go on different rules and changes things, Northern Ireland would be left behind.
And this is not acceptable because this is another way of actually driving Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom,” Ms Hoey added, echoing concerns expressed by Members of Parliament from the Unionist Northern Ireland DUP (Democratic Unionist Party) that the Withdrawal Agreement presents a threat to the Union.
“I do, genuinely, find it very dangerous. The whole idea that somehow a hard border is needed when time after time customs experts from both sides have said it is not — with goodwill.
“The goodwill hasn’t been there because the Irish government and the European Union have connived together to see this as a way of keeping the United Kingdom in as close as possible a relationship with the EU and keep taking our money.”
She added of the Government’s approach to exiting the EU, “There are no real problems that can’t be overcome. The problem is the prime minister, and the Government — many of the Cabinet — have seen Brexit not as an opportunity to the country but as a problem to be managed.
“They’ve gone from Day One to ‘let’s stay as close as possible, intertwined, keeping in the Customs Union as far as possible’ and then under this deal leaving Northern Ireland to treat Great Britain as a third country.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/12/16/eu-ireland-conniving-keep-uk-close-bloc-says-labour-brexiteer-hoey/