Black Smoke by Margaret De Wys - 9781594774621

Black SmokeHealing and Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon\nAuthor(s): Margaret De Wys\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company, United States\nImprint: Inner Traditions Bear and Company\nISBN-13: 9781594774621, 978-1594774621\nSynopsis\nWhen 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 of potent visionary plants, harrowing initiations, ritual purification, and miraculous healings, including the complete.