If you’re looking for Braco, the “healer” who doesn’t call himself a healer, it’s wise to know where you’re going: he doesn’t advertise, and even when you arrive at the right location (in my case, the LAX Marriott earlier this summer) there are no signs or posters pointing you to the correct room. Maybe it’s one of those things where if you’re supposed to be there, you find it.

Braco (pronounced Brat-zo) comes from Croatia and is amassing a substantial following with his non-healing-healing “gazing” sessions. He doesn’t talk to his visitors, touch them or make suggestions; he simply gazes at them. Followers rave about his amazing abilities, but I’m a skeptic by nature, and this was all new to me.

I attended the event with a friend, whose husband had suffered a serious illness during the past year; he was volunteering to help out at the event all weekend so that he could receive maximum benefits from Braco’s presence and repeated gazing. My friend was already waiting for me in line at the hotel, a line that grew quite long before we were allowed in for the 1:15 session. Sessions are limited to just 300 people and scheduled every hour.

Following some introductory info (much of which I’d seen on his website), we were asked to stand for Braco’s arrival, but he entered with no pomp. He walked softly across the stage and stood front and center, gazing over the audience, his expression still and unchanging. He was a living version of every photo I had seen of him. As we all returned his gaze, I began to feel a tingling sensation come over my body. It was a very strong vibration, unmistakable, like a cool breeze on my bare skin—yet not enough to make me shiver, just tingle.

Braco’s website claims the power of his gaze can reach people through photos and the same level of healing and transformation occur as if the person were in front of his living gaze. I had brought my mother’s and sister’s photos—my mother is in recovery from major surgery, and my sister suffers from chronic nerve problems—and was holding them over my heart, hoping he would look at them. At one point his eyes and mine did seem to meet, but it was almost as if he were looking through me—did he really see me? I wasn’t quite sure, but I was somehow confident that he felt me. Soon after that moment I began coughing uncontrollably. I’d had a little respiratory stress the previous day, and it chose this moment to launch an all-out assault. I tried to hold it in, but an insistent tickle at the top of my throat would not be suppressed. I bowed my head, hoping to contain some of the coughs pushing their way up through my windpipe.

By now it seemed Braco was looking at the whole room—every being present, simultaneously—and I no longer felt the need to return his gaze. Then he turned around and softly walked out. As we all sat down in silence, my coughing completely stopped. And it stayed stopped. I felt as though the seed of the illness inside me had been pulled out during that session.

Angelika Whitecliff, author of the book 21 Days with Braco (and organizer of at least some of his events) writes of his “amazing ability to transform lives through the mysterious energy he radiates.” She believes his roots are in a long line of mystics little known to the Western world, and indeed, a number of paranormal researchers have reportedly affirmed his abilities. There is no indication of how or when he became aware of them, but he did spend 15 months at the side of an alchemically inclined healer named Ivica, who seems to have been a mentor and teacher to him.

Ivica has since passed on, but Braco’s organization reports more than 200,000 people visit his gazing sessions each year, and that many feel improvements in their life and health. He can’t be in it for the money, since he takes none for sessions in his hometown of Zagreb, and only a small fee to cover traveling expenses at international events. But how he regards his own abilities is unclear; he hasn’t spoken publicly or given an interview in eight years.

Conventional wisdom says the only person who can really heal you is yourself, yet after this session my cough disappeared, and my mother, who was in poor health prior to her recent emergency surgery, is now recovering exceptionally well. It’s difficult to measure what influences healing in these situations, but perhaps some people can act as catalysts and help propel healing in another. Most purported healers use words, but in the overload of media bombarding us on all fronts, Braco’s silence is refreshing.

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