Encounters with Power: Adventures and Misadventures on the Shamanic Path of Healing - José Luis Stevens 2017

Encounters with Power: Adventures and Misadventures on the Shamanic Path of Healing - José Luis Stevens 2017

Introduction

Expression—Storyteller-Artist

The Power of Prophecy: India and the Life-Changing Reading

The Right Way to Die

Lost in Mexico

The Guatemala Test and Initiation

Encounters with the Power of Aborigines and Songlines Down Under: Or “When the Student Is Not Ready”

Inspiration—Ceremonialist-Healer

Q’eros: Encountering the Power of the Land and Its People

Journeys for Power with Medicine: Visions with Ayahuasca

The Power of Dieting in the Jungle: Plant Teachings

The Power of Communion: A Magical Andes Wedding

An Encounter with Power Through a Healing Crisis: The Natural Traveling Pharmacy

Action—Chief-Warrior

An Encounter with Power: Completing a Huichol Apprenticeship with Sacred Peyote

A Second Pilgrimage to Regalia: Encounters with the Dark Shaman

An Encounter with the Dolphin Brujos

Nevado Aconcagua: Pilgrimage to a Sacred Mountain for Power

Traversing the Andes and Other Powerful Passages

In Closing

Acknowledgments