PACHITA: PSYCHIC AND HEALER

Psychic Surgeon

Meet the powerful healer who claimed to be possessed by the spirit of Cuauhtémoc, the last ruler of Tenochtitlan.

She is a healer. Bárbara Guerrero, also known as "Pachita" or "Santa" by Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum, was born in Parral, Chihuahua in 1900 and died in Mexico City on April 29, 1979. She is known as the only "psychic surgeon" because of her extraordinary ability to read people's minds and perform inexplicable surgeries.



Her parents abandoned her because she was an illegitimate daughter, and she was adopted by a strange character named Charles, who was of African origin. According to Pachita, Charles dedicated himself to teaching her a series of healing procedures, energy management, star visions, and obtaining oracular information.


Her power resonates throughout the world

Pachita and her cures have been studied by researchers from all over the world, including American psychologist Stanley Krippner, Cuban medical anthropologist Alberto Villoldo, Spanish paranormal investigator Salvador Freixedo, Mexican neurophysicist Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum, Chilean writer Alejandro Jodorowsky, who has dedicated numerous pages to her in his texts, and Peruvian Carlos Castaneda, a scholar of traditional Mesoamerican nah.


First patient: Elephant 

Pachita claims that she was unaware of her own healing abilities until one day, while attending a circus performance near where she lived in the country's north, she discovered a baby elephant that was very sick; Ella Pachita approached this animal and cured it; and from that moment on, she began her career as a healer.


Ella Pachita began to heal with herbs and demonstrated great skill, which gave her confidence. At some point, she began performing "surgeries," claiming to be possessed by the spirit of Cuauhtémoc, whom she referred to as "Hermanito," who "took over her physical body to perform the procedures," according to the healer.


Only with her hands and a knife

Pachita always used the same kitchen knife to perform her "surgeries," the handle was covered and lined with black insulating tape, and the dull blade had an Indian with a plume engraved on it. She never used an anesthetic and, as she put it, literally removed organs from her patients' bodies and replaced them with others.


Pachita always used the same knife

The most impressive aspect came at the end of the surgery, when, almost immediately after the wound was closed, she rinsed with a little alcohol and applied bandages to send his patients home, where they would have to rest for a couple of hours. Over three days she instructed all recently "operated" patients to take specific syrups and infusions, and if they followed the treatment exactly, her patients could resume their normal activities on the fourth day.


Different recovery methods

Pachita's methods varied depending on her patients' worldviews: she recommended herbs to natives, medicine to foreigners, prayers to Catholics, others to connect with Mother Earth, and if the person had in mind a rite in particular to heal, Pachita allowed it. These placebos were clearly intended to aid in the healing of her patients.


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The patient was given a sheet, a liter of alcohol, a cotton pack, and six rolls of bandages, all of which were necessary for the operation and his recovery. It is said that she was able to materialize healthy organssuch as livers, bladders, and kidneys, in the dark room where she performed surgical procedures.


She never charged for her treatments. Patients made donations in a jar of mayonnaise. It is claimed that she saved approximately 90% of those who went in search of her.

The following prayer of thanks to Little Brother was sung at the end of the surgery:

Goodbye, lovely Cuauhtémoc, sky emperor.
You bring us comfort and remove all evil.








“Your body hears everything your mind says.” 

Naomi Judd