The four winds : a shaman's odyssey into the Amazon

Author(s)

• Villoldo, Alberto
• Jendresen, Erik

Bibliographic Information

The four winds : a shaman's odyssey into the Amazon

Alberto Villoldo and Erik Jendresen

Harper & Row, c1990

1st ed

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Through ritual, ceremony and the use of potions, Villoldo discovers that the four cardinal points of the medicine wheel represents formulas for over-riding the primal response mechanisms that have controlled human behaviour since the birth of the species. He enters another realm of the mind and body unlocking the transcedental secrets of the ancient Quecha masters and awesome powers of the human psyche.

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Details

• NCID: BA11038304
• ISBN:
  • 006250911X
• LCCN: 89045987
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: San Francisco, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 265 p
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : F3429.3.D79
  • DC20 : 299/.883
  • DC20 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Quechua Indians -- Drug use
  • LCSH : Quechua Indians -- Religion and mythology
  • LCSH : Villoldo, Alberto
  • LCSH : Ayahuasca
  • LCSH : Shamanism -- Peru
  • LCSH : Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience