What’s so frightening is that none of the sheep felt the difference between evil and the Holy Spirit, very similar to all the good-hearted progressives who believe tyranny will liberate them.  One could say the same thing about the Catholics (and their sexual predator priests), or the idolizers of Clinton, Bush, Obama, Hollywood celebrities, etc. It's a human condition, I'm afraid.  We know LOTS of people in the SF Bay Area who went to see him and raved about being completely healed of things the doctors told them were impossible.  I visited Abadiania three times many years ago and experienced life-changing healing. I went back not because of Joao (who I was skeptical of) but because of the location, which I learned sits on a bed of crystals and was the reason Joao's teacher told him to go there. I experienced many extraordinary synchronicities and made wonderful connections with others drawn to that place.  Some believe that healings that took place there were due to a team of spirit beings, not Joao himself, who only claimed to be an intermediary anyway. The spirits were presumably drawn by the many, many thousands who traveled there in need of healing and perhaps their work was facilitated by the crystals.