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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

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Publisher

Inner Traditions Bear and Company

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2014

Condition

New

Number of Pages

224

Place of Publication

Rochester, United States

ISBN

9781594774621

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V9781594774621

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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 traveled extensively and worked closely with many traditional healers throughout the world. Currently working ... Read more

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 moreSpirit of the Shuar, and Confessio
“This is unlike other books on ayahuasca in that it is not just a Westerner’s romanticized memory of a ‘wild time once had.’ The author offers us an honest appraisal of the impact on her, on her shaman/mentor, and on Western participants of the clash of cultures and ideologies that is usually also a part of the ‘ayahuasca experience’ for non-natives who drink the brew. Are the visions ‘real’? Can ayahuasca really heal a Westerner who is so ‘in his head’ that he wants to psychologize (and so disempower) every spiritual encounter he has? How does immersion in a rational, mind-and-money-orientated Western culture begin to affect the medicine man himself? And what happens when the American legal system becomes the judge of an age-old practice of rainforest healing? Margaret De Wys has written an interesting book that explores these questions, making it an adventure story that is more grown-up and real than other books on a similar subject.”
Ross Heaven, therapist, workshop leader, and author of Cactus of Mystery and Shamanic Quest for the
“De Wys has written an extraordinarily informative book about Carlos, a Shuar Ecuadorian shaman, who uses not only ayahuasca and tobacco but many other plants and practices for healing. His ways of teaching her illuminate the real complexity and rigor as well as the amazing successes of his own tradition’s training. In addition, De Wys’s personal story of healing, learning, and transformation is unsentimental, engrossing, and explores the confusions that arise when one mixes indigenous cultural values with Western materialism and medicine.”
James Fadiman, Ph.D., microdose researcher and author of The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Saf
“This book will thrill and support all readers traveling
or wishing to travel themselves
into the unknown and the mystery of the human spirit.”
Josie Ravenwing, author of The Book of Miracles: The Healing Work of Joao de Deus
“Black Smoke is a profound, vibrant personal story of healing and transformation, both medical and spiritual. A clear, objective account of how immersion in ayahuasca shamanism cured De Wys’s breast cancer and transformed her into a healer. As we follow her path, we come to understand her calling and grow with her as she comes into her truest self
the most valuable gift an author can offer. I highly recommend you receive this gift, in De Wys’s beautiful, healing memoir.”
Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D., author of Psychedelic Healing: The Promise of Entheogens for Psychotherapy
“In the end, Black Smoke’s greatest strength is the theme of liberation, which de Wys examines quite consistently through a number of devices.”
Psychedelic Press UK, June 2014
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