Maya HealingI

by Amy Bernstein

I have been doing extensive research on the healing tradition of the Maya for my book. Though I would call myself a just about totally non-spiritual person, and an intense atheist, still I find the role of the gods in healing a compelling story. Western medicine, when it looks at traditional medicine at all tends to want to go straight to the use of traditional medicines, separating that from the other parts of treatment which are spiritual as well as physical.

In the ending of the novel I am writing, Maya medicine in all of its parts becomes a central part. There is also the power of story in medicine.

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My Weirdest Story

by Amy Bernstein

A story that I actually wrote several years ago, though I have been tinkering with it off and on is finally accepted by a magazine for speculative fiction, whatever that means. It is called “Penumbric Magazine.” “More information as events warrant” as Calvin used to say in the Calvin and Hobbs cartoons