Pachita, the Mexican shaman who cured only with a knife

Bárbara Guerrero (1900-1979), better known as Pachita, was a Mexican shaman and psychic surgeon who cured only with a bush knife. Although she is questioned by the scientific community, the truth is that she was the most powerful psychic in Latin America. She attended people of all social classes at her home in Mexico City, who were looking for someone to cure physical and psychological ailments. Her connection with the indigenous cultures of her country profoundly influenced her career as a healer. Throughout her life, Pachita claimed to channel the spirit of the Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec emperor, who guided her in her rituals to achieve the goals of healing.

Her work

When performing psychic surgeries, she used a mountain knife to make imaginary cuts, ensuring to extract tumors or repair internal organs. The patients, who did not suffer any injuries after the procedure, claimed to feel total relief. The room where she operated was loaded with Aztec religious symbols and also Catholic religious symbols, with candles, incense burners and ritual objects that highlighted the mystical atmosphere.

Pachita would sit on a chair in front of an altar in her healing room, close her eyes and breathe slowly until she perceived a ringing in one of her ears, in which she concentrated until she fell into a trance that she described as a big hole. Then, he would change his state of consciousness, which allowed her to start the surgical procedures.

The psychic operation consisted of opening the patient's body, without anesthesia, and removing the organs instinctively, possessed by the spirit of Cuauhtémoc, whom the Spanish conquistadors renamed as Guatemuz, the last emperor of the Aztecs, cousin of Montezuma. If the operation required it, Pachita would remove one vital organ and place another in its place. Pachita was able to create organs out of nothing and manipulated them at will.

Pachita asked her patients to bring a sheet, a liter of alcohol, cotton wool and bandages that she placed on them after their surgery. At the conclusion, Pachita simply told them to rest for three days. To some, depending on their beliefs, he recommended syrups and herbal teas; to others, medicine, prayers or reconnecting with Mother Earth. On the fourth day, the patients could resume their routine activities.

She took her work as a natural virtue of her person, of which she did not express herself as arrogance or with intentions of profiting.

The perspective of Jacobo Grinberg

As a psychic healer, Pachita became famous all over the world. This aroused the curiosity of the brilliant Mexican psychologist Jacobo Grinberg, who mysteriously disappeared in 1994, leaving no trace. Grinberg wanted to know about Pachita's work to study it, believing at first that she was deceiving people. After working with her for a year, Grinberg revealed that she did an impeccable job. He explained Pachita's healing powers through the syntergic theory, which states that there are no objects separated from each other, but that it is an information field of extraordinary complexity and that the brain interacts with this field.

Grinberg, after working with Pachita, assured that there are no limits to the human mind.

According to the Mexican psychologist, shamans like Pachita can make their brains enter states of high energy synthesis, tune in to the universe, and then decode it and obtain as a result a materialization that may well be a healthy organ ready to enter and replace a sick one or simply create healing energy.

Grinberg explains that Pachita could transform the network that makes up space-time thanks to his control over its neural field. She was a transcendent character in the healing processes that go beyond Western rationalism, that's why many do not finish understanding the healing processes that this healer carried out.