COURTESY OF BRACO.NET
THE
GAZER
potent and purposeful.”
On the night of the Allman
Brothers concert, she recalled,
“Someone said, ‘Oh, it’s so late.’
And he said something to the effect of, ‘What is time? It’s just a
number.’ We were all like, ‘Did
you hear what he just said?’ There
is a profoundness to him, and not
in the normal guru way.”
Sibbett calls Braco a “real man.
He eats everything. He doesn’t
drink, but he does smoke. There’s
a lot of spiritual people who do.”
She remembers finding
“creepy” videos of people fainting
and screaming on YouTube before
taking the job, and knowing Braco
needed an image change. In the
DVDs she produces, Braco often
stares out at the Pacific Ocean, his
hair floating on the breeze.
Sibbett’s first session was in
Whitecliff’s living room. She and
her husband couldn’t stop giggling, stuck in what she calls a
“bliss bubble.” Soon, she says,
she saw Braco, who was gazing via
Skype, “shape-shift into a Native
American man with feathers in his
hair.” More sessions transpired,
and she became sure that her allergy problems, brought on by the
moist Hawaiian climate, were getting better.
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“Believe me, if I were to hear
myself, I would think it’s crazy,
too,” she said. “But it happened.”
ONLY THE BEGINNING
Braco’s friends want him to blow
up. They talk about seeing him on
Oprah’s couch, the seat where gurus are made. They cite role models
such as Eckhart Tolle, the German
spiritualist who vaulted into bestseller lists after Winfrey gushed
Jane Sibbett,
who runs one
of Braco’s
websites,
shoots DVDs
of Braco
staring off
into the
Pacific
Ocean.