I am a Brazilian-American researcher, writer and lecturer on paranormal phenomena such as out-of-body experiences (OBEs), near-death experiences (NDEs), deathbed visions (DBVs), after- death communication (ADC), reincarnation, mediumship and the afterlife. And an unabashed believer in our survival of physical death and the immortality of the spirit.

My interest in these subjects was triggered after I began having spontaneous OBEs, back in the year 2000, and I wanted to understand the phenomenon. Since then, I have had hundreds of lucid and amazing experiences which have proven to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are immortal beings.
Aware of the sadness that death of a loved one can cause – and I have experienced it myself – I have made it my life’s mission to spread the notion that there is no death, that only the body dies, and since we are not our body, we survive death – unscathed.
For my own edification regarding the dynamics of physical death, I have worked as a hospice volunteer providing spiritual support to terminally ill patients as they waited for their time to cross over to the other side of life. And this is what death is, a change of worlds, the end of one mode of living, the physical, to the beginning of a spiritual existence.
I have bachelor’s degrees in psychology and liberal studies, and a master’s in theology.

I am an avid reader with a broad interest in world and religious history, anthropology, geography, world affairs, and the humanities.
I have written five books in my native Portuguese language on death, dying and the afterlife, and two in English on related topics. I write and lecture in both languages, as well as Spanish, the third language I speak.
I live in Homestead, Florida, with my wife, two daughters and my lovely grandson.