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John Healer Ministries also known as advanced ancient mystic church of Christian science is situated in south Africa. The organization is characterized by a small group of individuals who unite to learn more about God, the World and Self.

Some people have said it's an occult organization that can be similar to a sect.

Founder

The founder of John Healer Ministries is pastor John Healer, a name he said was used by people he met in dreams to identify him. He is the founder and pastor of this organization, John Healer has claimed that all the teachings he gives to his members was dictated directly by God who appeared to him in a form of light while he failed unconscious after thirty days of fast.

Childhood

Growing from a Christian family, John Healer hated to go to church, he also never knew why. He also never liked school because he thought school should have paid him so that he attend. Luckily John Healer finished high school and completed successfully his diploma in Latin and Philosophy. He said, finishing his high school and passing grades without repeating was a miracle because he was always absent from classes. He later graduated from university in the faculty of public administration. At age fifteen John Healer started being aware of the poverty and life his family led. He started having pain to see his mom who was a second hand shoe dealer in the market to do as she could to pay him and his seven other brothers school fees and to bring food on the table. It was then that he began to seek understanding through the bible and experimentation of God presence which he calls "Consciousness of God's presence.

Belief and Practice

John Healer Ministries church believe in Jesus the son of God and absolute example to imitate, the church believes also in the help of Angeles and saints who assist members in their daily problems. They practice meditation, visualization, and call up on God EHEIEH as their basic prayer. They mainly practice what they call “devotional acts” a practice which is said to be above prayer, ritual or anything that is used to communicate with God. The written and unwritten devotional acts are discretely for members of the church, they are practiced rhythmically just instructed by God when he appeared to John Healer.