num_pages: 287
description: Not since the publication of Carlos Castaneda's Teachings of Don Juan has there been a book as extraordinary as this- a young woman's initiation into the world of healers who succeed by ancient lore in curing the diseases that in our world are treated, often less successfully, by drugs, surgery, or psychoanalysis.Florinda Donner immersed herself in the world of sorcery, witchcraft, and healing as the apprentice of a famous healer, Mercedes Peralta, in a small town in northeastern Venezuela. Just as Carlos Castaneda became the Boswell of don Juan, FlorindaDonner has succeeded in taking us into the mind and heart of a spiritual healer and illuminating the process, not as an outsider, but as a participant and an initiate.She writes with both remarkable precision and a brilliant flair for the poetry and supernatural complexity of a world in which the healer and the patient relate to one another in the language of sorcery and dreams. The Witches Dream is a landmark piece of work, a revelation of the power of the human mind over the human body.FLORINDA DONNER lives in Paris and Sonora, Mexico. She is also the author of Shabono.
language: English
title: The Witch's Dream
titlecomplete: The Witch's Dream
genres: Occult, Witchcraft, Anthropology, Nonfiction, Spirituality, Magic, New Age, Mysticism, Biography, Magick
ratings_count: 478
publisher: Simon & Schuster