Urban Healer
Healers in the 21st century? Why do they still exist at the time when medicine and science made such remarkable advances?
THE WAY IT USED TO BE
My great-grandmother was a healer. She lived in a small Russian village which you wouldn’t even be able to find on a map. Born before the Soviet Revolution, she had only finished four grades of school but could still teach me the multiplication table in the 1980s. The only church in the village was dem...