Huffington Magazine Issue 54 | Page 46

COURTESY OF BRACO.NET THE GAZER Whitecliff, and BracoAmerica. com, Sibbett’s site.) By the time of Braco’s first gaze on American soil — at a conference in Hawaii run by Whitecliff — Sibbett and her TV writer husband had moved from L.A. She and Braco got to know each other, she says, with volleyball matches and swim trips. “I took him horseback riding.” She recounts taking a walk one night and running into Braco, also on a stroll. The “mystical, magical meeting” lasted for hours. “He said, ‘I would like you to bring me to the mainland. I think you can do it.’” HUFFINGTON 06.23.13 He gave her a sun pendant, “different from Angelika’s,” said Sibbett, “a miniature version of the one he wears ... yellow with diamonds.” She called her friends, including old Friends pals. Three weeks later, Braco gazed in L.A. The tickets sold out, Sibbett said. “Kenny Loggins came.” She booked up the West Coast. (Whitecliff, she says, seemed reluctant to share her contacts.) A helpful new friend came in the form of the Rev. Michael Beckwith, star of the self-help franchise, The Secret. They discussed how energy “goes beyond the boundaries of time and space.” The two took the logical next step, live-streaming footage of Braco gazing at Beck- Advertisements for Braco’s gaze therapy appear in New York, where an estimated 3,000 people attended Braco’s sessions this spring.