Singing to the Plants – Steve Beyer

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Singing to the Plants with Steve Beyer

Steve Beyer’s new book, Singing to the plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon, emphasizes both the uniqueness of this highly eclectic and absorptive shamanis— plant spirits dressed in surgical scrubs, extraterrestrial doctors speaking computer language — and its deep roots in shamanist beliefs and practices, both healing and sorcery, common to the Upper Amazon. The work seeks to understand this form of shamanism, its relationship to other shamanisms, and its survival in the new global economy, through anthropology, ethnobotany, cognitive psychology, legal history, and my own personal experiences studying wilderness survival and plant healing in the Amazon.

Steve Beyer has a law degree and doctorates in both religious studies and psychology. Living for a year and a half in a Tibetan monastery in the Himalayas, Steve has published three books on Buddhism and Tibetan language and religion as well as been a professor at the University of Wisconsin— Madison, the University of California— Berkeley, and Graduate Theological Union.

For twenty-five years, he was a lawyer and litigator at a major international law firm in Chicago and also has been a wilderness guide and a peacemaker and community builder. Studying wilderness survival among the indigenous peoples of North and South America, and sacred plant medicine with traditional herbalists in North America and curanderos in the Upper Amazon, he received coronación by banco ayahuasquero don Roberto Acho Jurama.

He has worked with ayahuasca and other sacred plants in the Amazon, peyote in ceremonies of the Native American Church, and huachuma in Peruvian mesa rituals; and undertaken numerous four-day and four-night solo vision fasts in Death Valley, the Pecos Wilderness, and the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico. Steve is also a member of the Society of Shamanic Practitioners, American Herbalists Guild, Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness. http://www.singingtotheplants.com