Robert Schwartz, author of the book Your Soul’s Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born, will discuss why we ourselves plan our greatest challenges before we’re born.
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.
Can a sacred plant from the Amazon heal our minds and spirits? For centuries, indigenous people of South America have used ayahuasca, a psychoactive plant medicine, to cure all manner of psycho-spiritual ills.
In this unsparing tour of the perils and promises of the current era, visionary author Daniel Pinchbeck helps us understand that we don’t need to wait for the dawning of the next age to radically change our perspectives.