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Black Smoke: Healing and Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon
Margaret de Wys
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Description for Black Smoke: Healing and Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon
Paperback. A diagnosis of cancer leads to healing and transformation in the Amazon jungle. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; VXWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
When composer and Bard College music professor, Margaret De Wys, learned she had breast cancer, the diagnosis shattered her comfortable life. Seized by fear, crushed by existential loneliness, she couldn't respond when her loved ones reached out to her. To everyone's concern, the illness propelled her away from her family and deep into the Amazon to work with Carlos, a charismatic Shuar shaman and master of medicina milenaria, an ancient mystical tradition with a highly sophisticated and precise technology of healing. In BLACK SMOKE, De Wys writes of her amazing encounter with Carlos as he guided her into a world ... Read more
When composer and Bard College music professor, Margaret De Wys, learned she had breast cancer, the diagnosis shattered her comfortable life. Seized by fear, crushed by existential loneliness, she couldn't respond when her loved ones reached out to her. To everyone's concern, the illness propelled her away from her family and deep into the Amazon to work with Carlos, a charismatic Shuar shaman and master of medicina milenaria, an ancient mystical tradition with a highly sophisticated and precise technology of healing. In BLACK SMOKE, De Wys writes of her amazing encounter with Carlos as he guided her into a world ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9781594774621
SKU
V9781594774621
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Ref
99-13
About Margaret de Wys
Margaret De Wys is a composer and sound installation artist whose musical works have premiered with dance groups and orchestras across the country and been performed at venues including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum. Since her initial experience with ayahuasca, she has travelled extensively and worked closely with many traditional healers throughout the world.
Reviews for Black Smoke: Healing and Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon
“Black Smoke is a wonderful, beautifully written story . . . a true adventure told in a style that rivals the best of novels. This first-person account by an extraordinary woman of her inner and outer journey through darkness into light is a must read for anyone interested in healing.”
John Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Shapeshifting, ... Read more
John Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Shapeshifting, ... Read more