From the Omega Institute website: "The Omega event is the only event in North America that John of God travels to and is a unique opportunity to experience one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders. "
Dr. Rosa Haritos of Healing Channels, a Boulder-based Energy Healer, Serves as Lead Medium at Omega Event in NY This Month & Opens Registration for 2018 John of God Tours
The Omega Institute welcomed John of God (João Teixeira de Faria), from Abadiânia, Brazil, to its 9th annual event, held October 3-5, 2017 in Rhinebeck, New York. John of God was joined by his healing team, including Boulder-based Rosa Haritos, Ph.D., to help more than 1,600 attendees per day experience the power of energy within a loving and accepting community.
With a Ph.D. in Medical Sociology from Columbia University and Andrew Mellon Fellowship at Stanford University, Rosa Haritos has worked in hospital, research, and academic environments for more than 20 years. During her first trip to John of God in 2004, Rosa Haritos was identified as a medium and made a Daughter of the Casa. She applies her past education and constant learning to understand the spiritual underpinnings of physical and emotional illness.
Uh huh..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Institute_for_Holistic_Studies
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies is a non-profit educational retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. Founded in 1977 by Elizabeth Lesser and Stephan Rechtschaffen, inspired by Sufi mystic, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and his ecumenical spirituality, today it offers classes to over 25,000 people a year, at the 190-acre (0.77 km2) campus
In 1977, co-founders Stephan Rechtschaffen, author of Timeshifting, and Elizabeth Lesser, author of The Seeker’s Guide and New York Times best-selling Broken Open, say they were inspired to create the Omega Institute by scholar and Eastern meditation teacher, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan.[8][9][10][11] The name “Omega” came from the teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a 20th-century French philosopher and Jesuit priest who used the term “Omega Point” to describe the peak of unity and integration toward which all life is evolving.
New York City events have included speakers such as Al Gore, Christopher Reeve, and Eckhart Tolle. ... Other Omega speakers and teachers have included Adyashanti, Maya Angelou, Deepak Chopra, Pema Chödrön, Jeanne Fleming, Jane Goodall, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Ram Dass, Thich Nhat Hanh, Allen Ginsberg, Gloria Steinem, Pete Seeger, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Philip Glass, Betty Williams, Lon Milo DuQuette, and many others.
Elizabeth Lesser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Lesser
She has shared her work and teachings at TED (conference)[4] and on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday.
The Omega Institute and the CIA :
Russell Targ, a physicist, author, and pioneer in the development of the laser and laser applications, was cofounder of the Stanford Research Institute’s investigation into psychic abilities in the 1970s and 1980s for the CIA. There, he participated in 20 years of experiments in remote viewing, a psychic method of gathering information from afar...
In 1997, Russell Targ retired from his position as senior staff scientist at Lockheed Martin, where he developed laser technology for peaceful applications. Today, he pursues esp research, including remote viewing, in Palo Alto, California.
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kingcosmo ago
i went to this in 2016 if anyone has questions
think- ago
Yes! What where your experiences? How did you travel there - via an organized tour by a guide? How was the guide like?
What was your impression how John of God treated women? And your impression of the 'healing' sessions? The general atmosphere at the Casa and in town?
Every info would be very appreciated!
kingcosmo ago
so i went to see him at omega, not at the casa (sorry i didnt make that clearer)
it was fucking STRANGE.
I've been to omega many times before, and I actually enjoy the retreats and programs they have. a friend of mine invited me and paid for my ticket (otherwise i probably wouldn't have gone, because he always rubbed me the wrong way), and I went with a group of about 15 people.
omega set up a giant tent- i mean MASSIVE. It was probably bigger than a football field and had hundreds of people under it all in white. it was a lot of waiting, it was freezing. occasionally they had random speakers come out and talk about how amazing JOG is, or how amazing knowing/being healed by JOG is. It was all super culty, but I've been working in the "spiritual" industry for about ten years, so I'm used to all of these guru-worshipper church campy types.
When your section is called, you would walk into a room to be "healed" by JOG. This was all done in masse. You would walk past JOG, which he was just sitting up in a chair surrounded by flowers, and then you would take a seat (there were probably about 50 people in the smaller room). You'd sit there quiet, eyes closed, and eventually JOG would come in the room. I have to say, I was surprised that I immediately could sense when he entered the room. Now here's my fucking weird experience, which could either be real or the result of me convincing myself something would happen. When he was doing the "healing," I had visualizations of my mind being "erased." Like my brain computer was being defragged or something. It was noticeable. Again, I've been to hundreds of workshops/events/woo-woo type things as a result of my career over the years, and I was taken aback by this experience because normally I am extremely dismissive of these things. Anyways, the "healing" lasted maybe five minutes and we were shuffled out of the room.
After I waited outside of the "healing room" waiting for my friend (who was held back to stay in his "vortex," which is basically a woo-woo name for a bunch of people that sit around him and stay in the room the whole time). At some random point a woman started screaming bloody fucking murder, blood-curdling sounds, and to this day I have no idea what that was about. Again- I will say this didn't surprise me as these types of events attract crazy people/ schizo-types, so I assumed it was just your run of the mill nutjob going crazy. I will say that at no point did I see "private" rooms or anything - so I think the screamer was just a looney toon and not someone getting murdered.
Here was the weird thing, after I left Omega I was DRAINED. I slept probably 15-16 hours after the event. I felt ill, exhausted, and totally depleted. My friend said this is "normal" and lots of people have this reaction. Now after all this stuff about JOG came out, I'm wondering if the experience I had was actually some form of energy-theft/vampirism which is why I was so exhausted after.
The friends I went with acted like they experienced the most transformational thing EVER. For me it was a solid "meh."
Piscina ago
I have heard about other people who got worse after being around JOG. Many get sicker. I had a friend who went to listen to a New Age guru speak. She said she got sick and spent the day in the bathroom vomiting. She was fine at the end of the day. Personally, I think some of these gurus have negative entities attached to them and they suck the life out of people.
kingcosmo ago
I agree completely. Who did your friend go to see speak?
Piscina ago
Doreen Virtue, when she was into the New Age. Virtue has now turned her back on the New Age and is a Christian.
kingcosmo ago
Interesting. I know Doreen used to do a lot with Chakra work & angel work. I wonder if her quick and final conversion to Christianity has anything to do with uncovering some of the dangers in what she was promoting all those years.
Piscina ago
She says she had a vision of Jesus in church. She now advocates volunteer work and service-to-others, as opposed to service-to-self, which is what the New Age is all about. The New Age is simply an extension of the luciferian doctrine, first promoted by Alice Bailey, Blavatsky and Steiner. Another interesting convert from the New Age to Catholicism was Valentin Tomberg, who said that what was missing from the New Age was humility and obedience to something greater. There is not much in the New Age close to what Jesus Christ taught--humility, loving your enemies, doing good deeds for others, rejecting worldly materialism, caring for the sick and the poor, self-sacrifice.