Behind the Locked Door - Jones, David Herstle
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In the 1970s, Eric Martin, a young attorney, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Eric finds hospitals and traditional treatments insensitive and ineffective, so he decides to gamble on an unproven but popular alternative: Laetrile, legally available to him only at a clinic in Mexico. While there, he befriends an unconventional Catholic priest who introduces him to the mysterious world of spirits and shamanic healers. In a dreamworld populated with characters real and imagined, Eric discovers a life he'd formerly ignored in order to focus only on things of practical importance. In the course of…mehr

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In the 1970s, Eric Martin, a young attorney, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Eric finds hospitals and traditional treatments insensitive and ineffective, so he decides to gamble on an unproven but popular alternative: Laetrile, legally available to him only at a clinic in Mexico. While there, he befriends an unconventional Catholic priest who introduces him to the mysterious world of spirits and shamanic healers. In a dreamworld populated with characters real and imagined, Eric discovers a life he'd formerly ignored in order to focus only on things of practical importance. In the course of treatment both at the clinic and by a curandera in a remote mountain village, Eric threads his way among gangsters, drug dealers, corrupt politicians, greedy charlatans, and a principled scientist. In time, Eric's health improves, and he begins a new and surprising future. This remarkable story shifts between the ordinary and the extraordinary as it raises age-old existential contrasts-dream versus reality, optimism versus nihilism, and the spiritual versus materialist view of humanity.
Autorenporträt
David Herstle Jones earned a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and a master's in Economics and Statistics from UC Berkeley. In his varied career he has been owner/operator of The Sea Gull Restaurant in Mendocino, California, an Instructor of Economics, a Certified Financial Planner, and the creator of the Think in the Morning blogsite. He wrote a monthly column "Notes From a Financial Planner," and hosted a weekly radio show, Money Talks, on the Mendocino Coast, where he has lived throughout his adult life.