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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