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anecdotes — a follow-up survey, or
anything medical — Braco’s staff
said they didn’t have the manpower
or funding to track outcomes.
On cult-watch forums, critics
say his sessions are designed to
force a placebo effect, squeezing
Braco into 10 minutes toward the
end of an hour packed with hypemen and -women. They deride
a ban on pregnant women and
children, whom Braco’s literature
warns may be “overburdened” by
the energy.
“You know why kids aren’t
allowed, right?” wrote a commenter on the site NewAgeFraud.
com. “This kinda stuff is considered 18+ ever since the Emperor
got himself a new outfit. Kids
*ask questions*.”
BRACO IN AMERICA
Nearly every English-language factoid about Braco comes from the
two employees closest to him in
the U.S.: Angelika Whitecliff and
Jane Sibbett. At first glance, the
leggy blondes, both of whom live
in Hawaii and wax poetic about
energy fields and swimming with
the dolphins, seem like twins.
In reality, they’re at odds. The
women promote the “Braco In
America” campaign more or less
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independently, and even run similar but competing websites selling
his goods. Sibbett, an actress (she
played Ross Geller’s lesbian ex, Carol, on Friends) is linked into L.A.
and New York. She can be breezy
and persuasive about how Braco
won over her “pragmatic mind,”
“Believe me, if I were to
hear myself, I would think
it’s crazy, too.”
whereas Whitecliff, a hardcore New
Age-ist, never expresses doubts.
Tall and angular, she flits around
sessions gripping a cup of coffee
and trembling with nervous energy.
Whitecliff met Braco first, at
a UFO conference in Las Vegas
in 2009. She followed up with a
pilgrimage to Zagreb, where she
wrote a memoir, 21 Days With Braco, that she says was meant to prep
American audiences for his arrival.
In it, she details the moment Braco
commissioned her help. By her account, he told her she was the one
to bring him to America.
Back home in Hawaii, she hired
Sibbett to film a line of DVDs, in
which followers detail the miraculous turns in their lives. (These
can be purchased on the dueling websites: Braco.net, run by