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## “The Witch's Dream: A Healer's Way of Knowledge” - ©1985 by Florinda Donner-Grau

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"The work of Florinda
Donner has a most special
significance for me...
In solitude and against
terrifying odds [she] has
remained faithful to the
warriors' path, and has
followed don Juan's
teachings to the letter."

-Carlos Castaneda

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, Florinda

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Donner 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 remark-
able 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 land-
mark piece of work, a revelation
of the power of the human mind
over the human body.

About the Author:

FLORINDA DONNER lives in
Paris and Sonora, Mexico. She is
also the author of Shabono.

Jacket design & painting by Bob Guisti
Printed in U.S.A. Copyright © 1985 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

ARKANA
The Witch's Dream
Florinda Donner-Grau is an anthropologist and the author of Shabono ©1982, Witch's Dream ©1985, and Being in Dreaming ©1991.
She lives in Los Angeles, California, USA, and Sonora, Mexico.
The
Witch's
Dream
A Healer's Way of Knowledge

FLORINDA DONNER-GRAU
With a Foreword by
CARLOS CASTANEDA

Copyright © 1985 by Florinda Donner
All rights reserved
including the right of reproduction
in whole or in part in any form
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Donner, Florinda.
The Witch's Dream.

1. Matus, Florinda. 2. Donner, Florinda.
3. Mediums-Venezuela-Biography. 4. Healers-
Venezuela-Biography. 5. Witchcraft-Venezuela-
Miranda (State)-History-20th century. 6. Miranda
(Venezuela : State)-Social life and customs.
7. Miranda (Venezuela : State)-Religious life and customs. I. Title.
BF1281.D66 1985 133.4'3'098735 85-3620

ISBN 0-671-55198-1 (hc.)
ISBN 0 14 01.9531 9 (pbk.)
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TO ALL THOSE
WHOM I CANNOT
MENTION BY NAME

### Contents

- Foreword
- Author's Note

- Part One

- Chapter 1.
- Chapter 2.
- Chapter 3.
- Chapter 4.
- Chapter 5.
- Chapter 6.
- Chapter 7.

- Part Two

- Chapter 8.
- Chapter 9.
- Chapter 10.

- Part Three

- Chapter 11.
- Chapter 12.
- Chapter 13.

- Part Four

- Chapter 14.
- Chapter 15.
- Chapter 16.
- Chapter 17.
- Chapter 18.

- Part Five

- Chapter 19.
- Chapter 20.

- Part Six

- Chapter 21.
- Chapter 22.
- Chapter 23.

- Part Seven

- Chapter 24.
- Chapter 25.
- Chapter 26.

- Part Eight

- Chapter 27.
- Chapter 28.
- Epilogue