To understand ancient mystic healers, you must first understand their lifestyle and culture.

This book is irreverent by design and fearless by nature. It will challenge everything you have been taught about the history of the Americas, and the connection between spirituality, mysticism and healing.  It’s the story of the native people who lived here thousands of years before the arrival of the first Europeans.  This story combines legend and history along with hypothetical and circumstantial narratives. The story begins with a young female indigenous healer, rebel and warrior named Anah-ní, who battles the invading Spaniards from the mountains of Burekén (Land of Great Cassava Bread – modern day island of Puerto Rico). She was also a “seer” which was the term used by indigenous people all over the new world to describe those who could speak to the spirits and see the future. She was the descendant in a long line of “seers” we now call mediums. She was  an embarrasment to the invading Spaniards who denied her existence and erased her from history. It could never be known that someone they considered to be an aborigine and stone age inferior female, had the intellect and talent to outsmart them. Her people kept her existence a secret to protect her, for she was like a Robin Hood figure to them. Her name was only whispered and even today most people on the island she was from have never heard about her which includes many of  her descendants. Those that know the story and the legend, like my deceased grandmother, still talk about her only in a whisper. She had been born with a genetic anomaly, a mutation which made her a super-human; cunning, smarter, faster, stronger and more agile than the average human being. She was not a super hero in the modern comic book sense, but a real life super-human that left a legendary mark on the history, the struggle and the many battles fought between the natives and the invading Spaniards. The second part of our series includes a runaway female African slave named Abenia. She was also a Mystic Healer and a “seer”.

She was a young Yoruba healer and just like Anah-ní, she was a rebel and a warrior. She escapes when her slave master is engaged in a battle with the rebel natives on the island and heads to the mountains along with a small group of slaves to seek refuge. There she meets Anah-ní and her band of mountain rebels and this marks the first time Anah-ní sees a black person. That encounter is the stuff of legend!

Anah-ní  predicted the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in greater numbers than any indigenous leaders of the time thought was possible, she was fearless, cunning, and brilliant. She knew the plants that could heal…but also those that could kill! The superstitious Spanish conquistadors thought she was a witch possessed by demons and could not die. Stories told by descendants say that her gaze alone was enough to paralize an enemy. Her people called her “The Spirit of the Forest” because she waged a guerrilla-style warfare against the invading Spaniards, using the mist in the mountains  we now call a rainforest, to hide and strike again and again. The new science of genetics has taught us that some people can be born with genetic anomalies that make them, in fact, super-human. This was the case of a little indigenous baby girl born on an Island known as Puerto Rico today.  She developed into a very creative and cunning warrior. Under her leadership, rebel  warriors stole Spanish weapons, burned ships and terrorized the first colonizers. She used  a guerrilla style of mountain warfare that was very similar to the one used by the Diné (also renamed Apaches by Spaniards who could not pronounce their name) in the Southwestern mountains and hills of the U.S.  She learned how to combine hallucinogenic compounds with medicinal plants to achieve a mind-body healing process we now call “Holistic Healing”. We don’t really know what she looked like, but the Spanish left us a hint when they wrote that the women of this island were among the most beautiful they had ever seen. Anah-ní did not look like any other indigenous female, she dressed differently, painted very creative symbols on her body that did not correspond to the traditional symbols used by these ancient people. She let her hair down unlike the round cut used by other native females…she was an enigma and this contributed to her mystique! This first book is her story,  along with descriptions of some of the plants she used to heal and others, to poison and wage war! thank you, we appreciate your support.