Information on Mayan Healers More than priestesses, people like Buch Balam are considered healers.

. Spiritual guides, using folk medicine. These people speak in very regular language, dress very normally. A teacher might choose someone in whom they see the power or the gift to become a healer. Or a person can choose to become a healer. There are healers specific to all cultures/religions. Healing is painful. The spine causes pain when it penetrates, but also when it exits. That spine that in the past was burdening you, today is asking to be taken out. But let me tell you, the origin of your pain goes much further than the break-up of your marriage. Do you know where your pain comes from? Are you willing to acknowledge it and heal? Your pain comes from your lack of XXXXX. The shadow that follows you day and night is the absence of deep knowledge of yourself. As a consequence, what arrises is the form of how you perceive life, or how you put value to yourself, and if you do that at all. The lack of love in your life is the lack of love for yourself, not for other people. The torturous lack of love has come to you so that your spirit will become stronger. Learn of your dark side and gain in the succession of gains and losses the pain that will drag you toward your spiritual destiny. Along with the spiritual guidance they would then give you an herbal, folk remedy. A healer can be very young when they are chosen. The medical profession doesnt like these folk, fringe medicine types, so they tend to dress very low-key, humble so that they cant be identified and chased by mainstream medicine. Theyd have a shanty in a run-down part of town, with birdcages, herbs hangingbut then a TV over there with Jerry Springer. Theyre very proud of what they do and know, but theyre very secretive. You have to find them if youre worthy of the cure. You remember that woman who had terminal cancer? He healed her. And so you go seek out that guy. That guy has a regular, lower-middle class home. His office has a cement floor, a mattress, two chairs and a discreet altar in the corner with herbs hanging. You lie down, he gives you a massage, and talks to you briefly, then gives you some herbs. This guy charges 500 pesos for an hour ($40), so if he sees 8 people a day, he can make around $8000/month. Healers tend to be very simple and laugh a lot. Theyre not UBER serious. They say something stupid and then laugh a lot.