Synopses & Reviews
What happens when a person leaves the stability of western life to learn the mysteries and secrets of shamanism in the heart of the Amazon rainforest?The author goes from Canada to Peru to Mexico, on a journey of spiritual discovery. He enters deep into the secret world of spirits and magic and experiences things which he never thought were possible. This is his story.The first part of the book gives the inside story on Amazonian shamanism. The author becomes a shaman's apprentice to a powerful local healer. For seven months, he interviews shamans, learns their techniques, witnesses incredible healings, suffers from black magic, and learns everything that he came to learn. Yet, after beginning to see the dark side of shamanism, he returns to Canada exhausted and unsatisfied. In the second part of the book, he continues his spiritual journey to Mexico. After having ceremonies with Mayan elders, Lacota chiefs, Huichol shamans and mushroom grandmothers, he unexpectedly ends up in a Christian healing center. The center is run by ex-shamans. He meets Christian prophets, witnesses the amazing power of prayer, and continues to have transcendental experiences, this time without the aid of plants. After many personal experiences and conversations with Christian healers, he learns the powerful Liberation Method.Beautiful, revealing, and fascinating to read, this intimate and often humorous account offers an insider's view of Amazonian shamanism and radical Christianity. Over twenty beautiful paintings and drawings by the author decorate the inside pages. This book holds so many spiritual gems that you will want to read it more than once.
Synopsis
The Amazon rainforest of Peru holds many secrets. There, magic is still alive, the impossible happens, and spirits freely interact with humans. Shamans with very real supernatural powers claim to heal incurable diseases using magical songs. Darkness battles against light in a constant war, and many souls are at stake. But the biggest secret of that mysterious world has never been told. Until now.
Shamans and Healers is non-fiction account of an amazing and dangerous spiritual journey. Compiled from the author 's travel journals, these living words will touch your heart and transform your universe. Written with honesty, wisdom, humor and plainspoken boldness, the book discloses firsthand experiences with the healers of Peru and Mexico. It is a wild journey into a world where nothing is as it seems, and the truth is stranger than fiction.
--Beautiful original illustrations accompany every chapter. Contains 24 black and white photos from the journey.
--REVIEWS
This is one of those books that anyone with the slightest interest in Shamanism or the New Age Movement should read
May just turn your world upside down
Fizzes with intense experience laid out in a clear & direct manner page after page
A complementary work to that of other authors who have won fame and prestige writing on similar themes
Shamans and Healers] helped guide me back to the path. I feel so strange and silly, I didn't have any clue that the story would go to my heart the way it did. God is truly working through Andrew Osta] and never stopped working through me.