Jero Tapakan - Stories from the Life of a Balinese Healer (1982)

Release Date: 1982-01-01
Runtime: 0h 24min
Director: Timothy Asch

Jero, who know sustains a lively practice as both medium and masseuse, recalls her earlier poverty and despair as a farmer, and how she fled her home and wandered briefly in the countryside as a peddler. After serious illness and mystical visions, she returned to her husband and underwent a consecration ceremony as a spirit medium. Here she talks with Linda Connor about these experiences.