Last Saturday in my humble studio apartment in Santiago, I couldn’t think about much except Haiti. After spending the day in thought, I concluded Haiti has traumatized me personally as it probably has many of you. We cannot begin to comprehend the images of bodies being buried and never iden[...]
Posts Tagged ‘healing’
October 23rd, 2009 - 3:58 pm § in Around Town, Guatemala
Culture of the Shaman
What interests me these days is the number of people in San Pedro I run into who were told at birth that they have a gift - a “don” – and will become a curandero/a or shaman to serve their communities. Shamans are discouraged by tradition from accepting pay for their work, and thus were [...]
