Amazon Healer: Life and Work of an Urban Shaman
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This book focuses on the healing practices of an urban Amazonian folk healer, don Hilde, who uses a powerful plant psychedelic, ayahuasca, in the treatment of witchcraft and emotional disorders. His healing style is in many ways unique, since he incorporates a new spiritualist perspective into the traditional and cosmopolitan healing arts of the region. "Amazon Healer" examines traditional Amazonian healing practices, both as part of the region's tribal heritage and as the philosophy of a modern mystical group, The Septrionists. New breakthroughs in our knowledge of the immune system are also described, in an attempt to help us understand how traditional folk healers, with their stimulation of endorphins and other unusual states of consciousness, can help patients invoke their own healing powers. Marlene Dobkin de Rios is the author of "Hallucinogens: Crosscultural Perspectives".
Author: Marlene Dobkin de Rios
Format: Paperback, 180 pages, 139mm x 216mm
Published: 1998, Prism Press, United Kingdom
Genre: Alternative Therapies & Health
This book focuses on the healing practices of an urban Amazonian folk healer, don Hilde, who uses a powerful plant psychedelic, ayahuasca, in the treatment of witchcraft and emotional disorders. His healing style is in many ways unique, since he incorporates a new spiritualist perspective into the traditional and cosmopolitan healing arts of the region. "Amazon Healer" examines traditional Amazonian healing practices, both as part of the region's tribal heritage and as the philosophy of a modern mystical group, The Septrionists. New breakthroughs in our knowledge of the immune system are also described, in an attempt to help us understand how traditional folk healers, with their stimulation of endorphins and other unusual states of consciousness, can help patients invoke their own healing powers. Marlene Dobkin de Rios is the author of "Hallucinogens: Crosscultural Perspectives".