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Summary: Refreshing View of a Beautiful Healing Culture!
Review: Elena Avila delightfully takes her readers through an enlightening and joyful exploration of the traditional art of a Curandera(healer). She shows us the vibrant beauty of what "woman" is and the magnificent power within all of us to heal.The book truly brings to all of us the great power of love and ritual in our lives and how important it is to "remember" our past pain with respect, and then move forward to create new, more wonderful lives!
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Summary: Patch Adams, meet Elena Avila
Review: Elena Avila describes a compassionate healing art with soul and love. She also points out how we need to regain our own power to heal ourselves rather than giving up all responsibility for our own health as the western medical business practices decree we should. This book comes at a time when many are ready to take this responsibility back as they feel slighted by their current health community.
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Summary: An incredibly empowering, inspiring, enlightening book!!!
Review: Elena Avila's vision is years ahead of our present health care system, which fails to treat the whole person. We send the body to a doctor, the mind to a psychiatrist, the spirit to a church. Elena's heartfelt book explains why this doesn't work. She explores the mysteries of curanderismo in a straightforward, sensible way. No wonder this system of healing has worked for people for centuries. After finishing Elena's book, I found myself longing for a curandera to heal my own "susto" or soul wounds. Her rational explanations of folk diseases are treasures of understanding. She's right that people are frustrated with Western medicine because it lacks "heart." Her intelligent approach to healing is brave and she truly does have a foot in two worlds. This book is one I'll re-read again and again.
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Summary: The vision of a new health system for mind/body/spirit.
Review: Elena Avila's vision is years ahead of our present health care system, which fails to treat the whole person. We send the body to a doctor, the mind to a psychiatrist, the spirit to a church. Elena's heartfelt book explains why this doesn't work. She explores the mysteries of curanderismo in a straightforward, sensible way. No wonder this system of healing has worked for people for centuries. After finishing Elena's book, I found myself longing for a curandera to heal my own "susto" or soul wounds. Her rational explanations of folk diseases are treasures of understanding. She's right that people are frustrated with Western medicine because it lacks "heart." Her intelligent approach to healing is brave and she truly does have a foot in two worlds. This book is one I'll re-read again and again.
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Summary: Wonderfully alive & full of wisdom--just like Elana herself!
Review: Elena's book is wonderfully alive, and full of spirit and wisdom--just like Elana herself. The people who had the good sense and great fortune to be treated by her were very lucky people, and so are we as we take the opportunity to read about her life and work. WOMAN WHO GLOWS IN THE DARK not only takes us into the primary world of healing through curanderismo (expressed for the first time by one who is actually practicing it, rather than someone outside looking in), but also has the capacity to inform our own life and spirit. Joy has helped Elena do a wonderful job of telling this fascinating story. Beginning with Elena's own experience and on into the healing stories of others, this book will keep you deeply interested. OPEN YOUR MIND AND HEART AS YOU OPEN THIS BOOK - THERE IS MUCH TO GAIN.
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Summary: invaluable wisdom and knowledge on modern Curanderismo
Review: One of the most, if not the most important book of Modern Curanderismo. Lovely book, that is hard to place down, and belongs in every Healer's shelf. Beautifully written, touching, and very informative. The book teaches the importance of not just healing the body and mind, but also the soul. As a Puerto Rican Espiritista and Santero, I have really appreciated the deep wisdom and body of knowledge that came from this book. I Highly recommend this book. The lessons learned can be applied by any healer or spiritual councilor, no matter what ones spiritual path or religion, or race may be. The wisdom and knowledge that Elena Avila shares with her readers and students is invaluable. Well worth the money, and it is like having a wise sage or Curandera in your living room. I hope to see future works by Elena Avila, as I believe she has a voice and knowledge that needs to be heard. I am late commer to this book, and am happy to have had the chance to find it, and enjoy, brazo to you Seniora Elena Avila. Luz, Progresso, y Caridad!
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Summary: invaluable wisdom and knowledge on modern Curanderismo
Review: One of the most, if not the most important book of Modern Curanderismo. Lovely book, that is hard to place down, and belongs in every Healer's shelf. Beautifully written, touching, and very informative. The book teaches the importance of not just healing the body and mind, but also the soul. As a Puerto Rican Espiritista and Santero, I have really appreciated the deep wisdom and body of knowledge that came from this book. I Highly recommend this book. The lessons learned can be applied by any healer or spiritual councilor, no matter what ones spiritual path or religion, or race may be. The wisdom and knowledge that Elena Avila shares with her readers and students is invaluable. Well worth the money, and it is like having a wise sage or Curandera in your living room. I hope to see future works by Elena Avila, as I believe she has a voice and knowledge that needs to be heard. I am late commer to this book, and am happy to have had the chance to find it, and enjoy, brazo to you Seniora Elena Avila. Luz, Progresso, y Caridad!
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Summary: This is a wonderful book
Review: There is no end of thanks for such insight as is reflected in this book. Elena Avila is a selfless healer. What she does is the blessing of the Creator. Anyone interested in Healing will do well to read this book.
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Summary: This is a wonderful book
Review: This book is a beautiful and powerful testimony of the potential that lies within each of us to heal. Joy Parker accurately details the experiences and inner world of a curnadera working in the Aztec tradition. Her mastery of language and her ability to translate on paper the magic of Elena's work is exceptional. I highly recommend this book to any serious seeker on the path of healing, spirituality, native studies/indigenous cultures, and/or women's studies.
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