The Beautiful Side of Evil

This was a very frightening account of one young woman's unusual upbringing and subsequent terrifying spiritual experiences by malevolant unseen entities. Her spiritual journey led her to become the personal assistant of a Mexican woman named Pachita who performed psychic surgery on locals as well as wealthy Americans during the 1970's. Pachita's (channeling the spirit of an ancient Aztec healer named Cuauhtemoc) miraculous surgical healings performed without anesthesia and with just a pair of scissors and a kitchen knife are documented in an American medical journal ("A Surgeon's Observation on Psychic Surgery" by Dr Stanton Maxey, 3/1972). The title (The Beautiful Side of Evil) is the theme of the book: how God revealed to the author the source of these miraculous healings as being satanic in nature. She observed that when doing follow-up care, the patients that were believers in Jesus Christ would experience excruciating pain during the surgeries and that their operations would not last, but would be only a temporary healing. The story is also about her conversion to the Christian faith and the difficult journey that brought her there. I decided to give this title 5 stars, namely because of how brave this author was for sharing such a personal and heart-wrenching story.