Joao Teixeira Da Faria is arguably the most powerful medium alive at this time and must surely rank amongst the greatest of the past 2000 years. A medium, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary, is a person who is a spiritual intermediary between the living and the dead. Joao not only communicates with spirit, he incorporates the spirit entity. He is literally taken over by the spirit and in so doing, looses consciousness, waking a few hours later without any knowledge of his actions during the incorporation. Whilst in entity his body is used as a means of conducting physical surgery and seemingly miraculous healing of the sick by the spirit entities who work through him. His "gift" is not hereditary, it is not a learned technique, nor is it transferable to any other person. At the age of sixteen he accepted the responsibility of devoting his life to spirit incorporation for the purpose of healing the sick. He accepted a life-long task that would demand much of him and frequently repay him with abuse, personal deprivation, persecution and unlawful incarceration. To be trusted with such an awesome responsibility requires a strong, moral, righteous but humble man with unquestionable integrity. As if these restrictions and puritan criteria were not enough, he must also provide his service free of any charge to negate the criticisms of sceptics and to ensure that his divine gift is not denied.