Some sannyasins have been getting into this guy. SN leave readers to judge and comment! Worth remembering the CIA in the sixties were interested in harnessing new age methods, as we remember, featured later in a movie, called “Men who stare at Goats”. They got very interested in people who claimed to be able to pass through walls and then adopt such methods for their own nefarious ends. The imbecilities of man! (SN)
Croatian Man Can Allegedly Perform Miracles Just by Gazing at People
Braco the Gazer has a special talent in the realm of alternative spirituality. He can heal people by just by gazing at them for a few minutes. Hundreds claim that their aches and ailments have all vanished after they looked into his peaceful eyes. The 46-year-old Croatian is now immensely popular in Europe and is a growing phenomenon in the United States.
He doesn’t call himself a healer, guru or teacher. In fact, Braco (pronounced Brah-tzo) leads a pretty normal lifestyle; he smokes, eats meat and lives with his wife and child. But none of that gets in the way of his gazing powers. According to his followers, Braco has connectivity with the Sun, which makes him a conduit for the transmission of divine energy, and a portal to oneness or the quantum field. Apparently, the power of his gaze is so strong that pregnant women are forbidden to attend his gazing events…
That might sound like a whole lot of spiritual mumbo-jumbo to the uninitiated. But it makes perfect sense to those who have been ‘touched’ by Braco’s gaze. He does not speak in public or give interviews; the only time people have heard his ‘loving’ voice is on DVD. Some people say he hasn’t actually spoken to anyone outside his inner circle since 2002. It’s almost as though he might lose his special powers if he utters more words than strictly necessary.
Braco, a former engineer, wasn’t born with his gift; he inherited it from the Serbian master gazer Ivica Prokic, whom he met in Croatia. Prokic is said to have passed on his powers and re-christened him Braco, which means ‘little brother’. After Prokic died, Braco took his new gift, ‘the gaze’, on a tour of the world. He gathered many followers and supporters during his travels, who now vouch for the magical, healing properties of his eyes.
‘The gaze’ can be experienced in various ways – through DVD, via live online sessions, in group events, or through personal meetings. Braco encourages people to bring a photo of their child or a person needing help. The sessions are intended for adults above 18 years of age; children can meet Braco only on his birthday. These sessions can cost anywhere between $3 to $8. There’s expensive merchandise to be purchased as well, like a range of ‘sun jewelry’ featuring Prokic’s symbol – a golden sun with 13 rays. A 14 carat gold version costs around $5,000.
If the accounts of Braco’s followers are to be believed, the effects of the gaze are pretty strong. Some say that they saw him shape-shift instantly, while others describe it as a ‘shower of golden specks like a confetti’ flowing over their body. A few people were reduced to tears.
Some said that their ‘terrible foot pains’ had vanished and some were grateful for instant relief from a bad toothache. “My back usually really hurts and it hasn’t,” said a recipient of the gaze. Most people said that they felt heat, warmth, a lightness, a tingling sensation, and in some cases, a bubble of love.
According to one follower, the effects of the gaze extended to his family as well. “The next day I went to see my mom, and I walked into the hospital, and she was walking down the hall on a walker with a nurse on each side. And they’re all going, ‘My God! This was a miracle. She just got up this morning and wanted to walk in and eat breakfast.’ She hadn’t eaten anything but a cup of little something for a month.”
The gaze seems to cure all sorts of ailments and problems. One woman’s adopted daughter reached out to her birth mother, another’s brother recovered from a bone marrow transplant. A woman’s lost granddaughter found her way home. Some were cured of Lyme’s disease, a woman’s ovaries exploded (which was needed for curing her). It seems to work on animals as well, according to a woman who claimed that her mom’s cat was saved.
,As I recall, the thing about ‘Staring at Goats’ was a technique that Gurdjieff claimed. He once said he had killed a yak at 100 yards…The CIA got interested in those sort of powers in the sixties/seventies.
On Braco, well, it’s bit like John de Ruiter, I can’t really understand how they claim spiritual elevation when they munch beefburgers and freely smoke cigarettes. But then again, it is said that Jesus liked a glass of wine.
I have always felt the material ‘powers’ of enlightened men, if such exist, often confuse the issue around the alchemy of their presence. I found Osho sort of appealing cos he never claimed such naked powers and never spoke, as far as I know, of himself having them.
To me, those reaching the real shores of enlightenment are those who have already engaged in SELF-healing, and allow the power within to deal with such stuff. Miracles speak only to the childhood of men.
Btw, Jon Ronson’s book, ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’, is well worth reading, well-researched and engagingly humorous.
Staring at a kebab may induce salivation in certain sickers.
A lot of men become transfixed whilst staring at twerking bottoms…
Staring at walls is a well-known Japanese Zen pastime, before Sony invented the television.
If the goat stares back, you must be in Wales looking for love.
Staring at the price of a coffee in Geneva is bad manners.
Staring at potential sexual partners on the London metro means you have just arrived from Sofia where it is instead legally encouraged along with leering, smiling, and provocative displays using castanets and gypsy trumpets.
In London, staring for longer than 0.00003 of a millisecond is regarded as an arrestable offence, where only staring at adverts and looking away from everyone, and ending up staring at your feet is regarded as necessary in a preamble to death.
Staring in the mirror for long periods means either someone booked you into a Primal group without you knowing it, or you are thirteen.
Staring at your watch often means you are in the moment, and not enjoying it at all.
Staring out the window means you are probably in one of my English lessons.
Stark staring bonkers means you took sannyas before you actually realised what you were letting yourself in for.
Staring at blogs online means you probably never actually had a life, so actually getting one might seem a challenge, and better to avoid it in case it leads to embarassing conversations about what you do in your spare time.
Being stared at around the groin area (men) means your flies are undone.
Being stared at and having people laugh and point at your groin area means…you have a terrible sense of insecurity after watching certain videos…and are probably over- worrying – after all, size doesn’t matter…no, really…relax…oh, ok, it does and you’re never going to accept it….
Osho didn’t stare…I would just say his eyes were so far gone that even his blinks were intentional and restful and inviting.
Osho’s darshans were famous for their transformational quality…but it’s because of what they provoked in you…the unwinding of your own energy was fundamental to being…
Perhaps it was that transmission that sannyasins were open to, and just like each life-force, is unique….
Yeah, go get some staring – but do it in private, when no-one else is looking…and then look around with a healthy, surprised, pleased-to-be-here look on your face… it’ll really make people wonder – especially on the metro.
Prem Martyn
Yours is a worthy piece. I am staring to find out if it is original or copied.
Still worth to stare and gaze and see the mirroring effect.
Braco’s gaze. No smoke without fire. Quite sure the man has something and some people want to believe anything. Never been much interested in such things beyond reading about the subject.
Edward Cayce was certainly on to something. Underwent an impromtu kinesiolgy session couple of weeks back. I was deeply impressed and am trying to completely eradicate sugar from my diet. You know it makes sense.
PM declares, “I can’t really understand how they claim spiritual elevation when they munch beefburgers and freely smoke cigarettes.”
Such a statement is based on a misconception about the nature of enlightenment. Lots of enlightened guys have had a qualities about themselves that don’t fit with holy enlightenment. Come on, PM, your fave guru, Osho, was addicted to pills, gas, cars, big bouncing girls etc., yet you can somehow understand that he was enlightened, while many cannot.
As the Beedie-Wallah once said, “The body aquires a few habits.”
So if you are enligtened it is okay to visit Macdonalds for a fry-up and smoke fags. I don’t find that difficult to understand. Partial to a nico inhalation after a heavy meal myself. Perfectly all right, but then I am not enlightened. Phew! What a relief. I can do what I want without having to live up to someone’s holy projections. Pass the mustard.
Thanks, Prem Martyn, for the contribution. Good stuff.
Staring into each other’s eyes. Remember that form of mutual hypnosis, or are you too far gone in the years..?
Or, star-struck by David Beckham…one-way involuntary hypnosis.
Or looking into Osho’s eyes, intentional hypnosis maybe, but forever bliss.
I never wanted to kill a goat or a yak, and given you are a vegan, I am sure you were even less likely to have wanted to.
I do remember, Parmartha. Long sessions of just vulnerably dribbling and staring into partners’ eyes. Everything we did used to go on for hours. Staring, listening, dribbling…better than the unexplored neuroses of suburbia and so much more fun.
It still happens all over the place for those who are curious enough to give it a go…but that’s enough yakking from me….
“I never wanted to kill a goat or a yak, and given you are a vegan, I am sure you were even less likely to have wanted to.”
Some ultra-proper ‘vegans’, Parmartha, shifted their cannibalistic approaches to life
just to another level – and also their ‘non-aggressive’ approach to life as such
can be questioned meanwhile; you may have to broaden your vision of these people.
I remember the Master having been digging into that issue several times.
Madhu
Being answerable to the corporate wilful sentient-being exploitation-industry is for each person to assess…at the supermarket – given full information at the point of delivery.
Being accountable to an intentional community and with whom and for what purpose in that networked community is, or at least was, collectively definitive in sannyas as a fellowship around a table.
When faced with carnivore Greek festivals of so-called sannyasins…I stopped going.
However, my Swiss veganmentalist gf does go out with her friends when the others eat flesh…and used to feed her dog cows in tins…
Extremely rarely (about 11 or 12 or 12.5-20 times in the last 5 years) I eat vegetarian rennet dairy cheese (but only after watching a porn film). I do wish there was a singular cow who I could sponsor for the favour, because I’d happily pay her back without taking her calf away for slaughter…
As for the porn film, I’d never pay to watch, because if it’s consenting adults, then herpes is their ‘choice’.
My porn is flesh on the table…most of morality is obsessed with the effects of flesh on screen. Maybe because swallowing in the first is linked to exploiting pleasure and vanity…whilst in the second, swallowing is linked to exploiting pleasure and…vanity.
“Staring at blogs online means you probably never actually had a life, so actually getting one might seem a challenge, and better to avoid it in case it leads to embarassing conversations about what you do in your spare time.”
Agreed, Prem Martyn.
I would try to express it in a more human way – seeing the point that a fulfilling possibility of a face-to-face contact may be sometimes missing (for everybody) – as well as fulfilling exchange with others.
Madhu
Dear friends at SN,
“They got very interested in people who claimed to be able to pass through walls and then adopt such methods for their own nefarious ends. The imbecilities of man! (SN)”
This little ‘ by-product’ of the issue is a true shot, so to say, and I am quite glad that it was mentioned while preparing for the rest of the thread issue.
for a ‘nice little bugging game’ not even the staring is needed nowadays -
neither some psychic powers of people who are psychopaths.
I remember having seen a documentary piece about shamanistic approaches worldwide, in which one part of it was a man in Siberia who – standing in snow and ice outside – changed by psychic power the operating of a computer which was tucked few feet under the frozen ground in a sort of bunker thoroughly protected by a metal door.
While the other protagonist shamans dealt with sick people this Russian man was very special and I got Siberian freezing in the cinema seeing it, and to see after the performance the scientists getting the proof of what this man was able to do.
We are living in a time where the borderline of dealing with misuse of power, be it on the IT and other-technical lines, be it on the psychic, be it on the merging crossovers of all the sections, including the biosphere, are on the full GO.
Look – just this Serbian Croat – who is now sitting where he belongs, who, after having committed so many war crimes became an advertised ‘famous healer’ with a lot of clients in Belgrade, where he was arrested, years ago.
Yes, the marketplace is full and maybe more important is that the ways of selling ‘healing’ and making it a business with people who believe or are in need of help is exploding, and the capacity to sort out charlatans is diminishing – as the shows go on increasing, the games are increasing which are confined to manipulation and nothing else.
Our “staring” expert (up to now), Prem Martyn, found beautiful words for the Master who indeed did neither ‘stare’ nor manipulate with those eyes of His, yet so many people who never meditated in His presence claimed to know that He was hypnotising with His eyes.
The way to inspire people for the ‘looking insight’, what we call Meditation,
is an ART; most people are interested in power for whatsoever fucking reasons with whatsoever fucking methods to do so. Well, what Parmartha named “the childhood” of man has entered a new phase the last decades and some of it is indulging in ‘magic junkie´s plays’.
Madhu
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/controversial-american-evangelist-morris-cerullo-returns-to-britain-for-one-final-crusade-9643696.html
This link fits with the theme of the string.
Healing without medicine is a big business. Sannyasins too are expert in milking the cash crows.