Mexico: Journey of a Nation Over a Rough and Rambling Road

by Bill Dean, Velázquez Enrique (Illustrator), Velázquez Belva (Illustrator)

Wall off the Border? Before blindly proceeding with miles of tall fences, razor wire, and towers, maybe first a look should be had at what’s on the other side. “Mexico-Journey of a Nation….” does just that. In it, Bill Dean unwraps Mexico and explains its culture, values, history, and people. He also takes a fair look at Mexico’s problems and opportunities. This is a fun-to-read book for vacationers, expats, exchange students, business travelers, sun-seekers, and armchair adventurers. It deals with hot-button issues (undocumented workers/path to citizenship, illegal drugs, border policy, poverty, corruption, and more). It tells Mexico’s colorful history starting with the hunters and gatherers who trekked the Bering Straits some 15000 years ago. It takes the reader on an odyssey in to Mexico’s ancient and splendid civilizations. It tells the story of colonization, enslavement of the natives, Independence, the Revolution, and the long run of one powerful political party. It tells of Mexico’s invasions by the USA and France. It explores the obscene wealth and power of the Catholic Church and the wars within Mexico to rein in the Church. The book deals with distribution of wealth, attitudes toward death, and the extraordinary importance Mexicans attach to friends, family and tradition. The book, however, is not just for the curious. It is also for Mexico’s detractors and skeptics. The author and his wife are the veterans of 40 years of poking Mexico’s nooks and crannies and living there winters for ten of those years.

238 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 5, 2016

About the author

Dr Bill Dean began practicing urology in 1979 and retired from this practice in 2011 to begin an Ayurvedic medicine fellowship at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Due to his training Dr Bill is uniquely positioned to serve as a guide to compare and contrast the matter and energy science healing disciplines. “When the current allopathic healing approach doesn’t have an answer Ayurveda can certainly shed light and help with difficult clinical problems This is because of how the 2 models differ in how they do their healing”

Dr Bill became interested in the alternative medical discipline of Ayurveda with the Chopra organization in 1995 This introduction showed him the science behind the discipline that was grounded in modern physics

In contrast he found that the science of Ayurveda used a different model of healing, not founded on molecular expressions of disease but on physiologic energetic imbalances in the body

With continued success using Ayurvedic principles in the office he began actively blogging at drbilldean.com which contrasted the matter science or molecular approach to healing which he was practicing to that of the Ayurvedic or energy science approach The blog was specifically to show the differences in the two approaches that he practiced
In the ensuing years of practice he continued to help his patient’s pain with what he now calls an energy science of healing This led to the 2010 publication of Foods Heal: Why Certain Foods Help YOU Feel Your Best which uses the nutritional model to show the differences between the current matter science medical discipline and the Ayurvedic or what he terms the energy science medical discipline