ABSTRACT
In 1983, in my hotel room in Recife, the capital of the northeastern state of Pernambuco, I watched a videotape of the next Spiritist healer-medium I was to meet: Edson Cavalcante de Queiroz. In his mid-thirties and wearing a physician’s white jacket, he was assisted by a surgeon and a gynecologist. He asked them to examine the woman lying on an operating style table. She appeared to be in her fifties. Her left breast was exposed. Edson had already moved his fingers along its surface while gazing off into space. He told her there was a tumor, which he would remove. Stepping back, he gestured to the two assisting physicians.
