We are committed to the following three activities:
  • Facilitating Alliances: We organize and create venues to facilitate healing individuals and our ailing health care system.  Even though we acknowledge the importance of including body, mind and spirit in health care, we perceive that aligning with the Spirit must occur before the body and mind can be fully well.   Spirit is primary.
  • Education: We educate others about the positive potentials of Energy Medicine through personal experience with excellent practitioners, tours, films, books and presentations.
  • Research: We support research into the effectiveness of Energy Medicine therapies.  Our goal is to contribute to an Integrative Medicine in which the best of allopathic medicine is complemented with the best of Energy Medicine techniques.

Emma Bragdon, PhD is the founder of Spiritual Alliances and is the current Director.

Larry Dossey, MD, is a spokesperson for an Integrative Medicine in which the best of Alternative and Complementary Medicine is brought together with Conventional Medicine to offer superlative healing modalities. Please take a few minutes to watch the video inserted here, produced by the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Spiritual Alliances is aligned with this vision—that fully recognizing and respecting ourselves on a Spiritual level is essential to wellness.

Since 2001 Spiritual Alliances, LLC, has been providing safe, supportive, comfortable, and inspiring tours to visit John of God in Brazil. The two -week tours , led by Emma Bragdon, provide time for spiritual retreat, meditation, and self-reflection. Participants enjoy being in nature, eating healthy food prepared at their local Inn, and participating in the activities of John of God's sanctuary--including meeting and consulting with this world-renowned healer. The life in this community is uniquely suited to helping people grow and open spiritually, and thus improve their physical and emotional well-being.

The book, "Spiritual Alliances" gives a written orientation to John of God's sanctuary, the Casa de Dom Inacio. The 30 minute documentary film, "I Do Not Heal, God is the One Who Heals: A Tribute to John of God" shows exactly what one experiences during the healing work of the Casa. Both of these were produced under the guidance and with the blessing of John of God.

Spiritual Alliances has also played a pivotal role in introducing "Spiritism" to those outside Brazil through books, articles, book chapters, and film. “Spiritism,” an unusual branch of Spiritualism, originated in Paris, France with an academic who initiated seminal research in psychic phenomena in the 1850s and 1860s. The materials he wrote created an ecumenical philosophy that supports mental health and spiritual evolution. Today, Spiritist mediums and healers work with conventionally trained physicians in more than fifty psychiatric hospitals, and more than 12,000 Spiritist community centers throughout Brazil.

The publishing house, “Lightening Up Press”, was created in 1987 to print and distribute the work of Emma Bragdon, PhD. It does not publish any other materials. Lightening Up Press is a division of Spiritual Alliances. The work of Spiritual Alliances has been supported by generous grantors with the help of the Marion Institute.

The Foundation for Energy Therapies, Inc. was created in 2008 to advance education and research in energy medicine within a not-for-profit framework to benefit the public good and align with other not-for-profit groups.