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From best-selling author of The Suicide Club, The Plantation Raj, Tortured Island and For A Sovereign State
Sri Lanka in general, and the south of the island, in particular, was, and still is, in a world of its own occultism; replete with sorcerers, astrologers, witchcraft, tumbler-talking; you name it - they have it.
For well-known planter, Malinga Herman Gunaratne, a son of the south, to be drawn into this mystical world comes as no surprise. His tryst with a self-proclaimed Godman whose mission in life was to detect hidden, blood-soaked 'landmines' and 'missiles' in copper capsules from houses and gardens emanating bad omens targeted at householders, and then freeing them from these evil spirits, changed his own spiritual outlook.
Typical mumbo-jumbo for the rationalist, Faith - absolute, blind Faith is a sine qua non from the 'devil-possessed' victim seeking solace. Hotly contested it may be, but 'Mind over Matter' - and Faith is now scientifically established as a means to an end in the healing process of the body. As that debate goes on, Gunaratne's book is riveting, chilling and the contents stranger than fiction. Sinha Ratnatunga, Editor-in-Chief, The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka. ISBN:9789550392100
