Island of the Sun: Mastering the Inca Medicine Wheel
by Alberto Villoldo
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Island of the Sun recounts the American psychologist Alberto Villoldo's return to Peru in search of the Quechua Indian shaman Don Jicaram. The authors' earlier book, Dance of the Four Winds, described Villoldo's first initiation, under Don Jicaram, into the secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel and the spiritual journey of the Four Winds. Villoldo had begun that journey in the South, "where one goes to confront and shed the past." With use of the powerful mind-altering plant ayahuasca, he had show more continued to the West, a direction also inhabited by fear and death. Now in Island of the Sun he prepares himself for the journey to the North, where lies the wisdom of the ancient Inca shamans. Traveling from Machu Picchu to the "Island of the Sun," a sacred site in Bolivia, Villoldo uncovers a profound secret about the journey to the East--the journey home. show lessTags
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Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., is the author of 10 previous books. He teaches energy medicine to thousands of medical professionals & laypeople every year. He lives in Los Angeles, California. (Bowker Author Biography) Alberto Villoldo is a psychologist, medical anthropologist, and healer who has has mastered the healing practices of the Amazon and the show more Andean shamans. He is the director of The Four Winds Society, the founder of the Light Body School, and director of the Center for Energy Medicine in Chile. He is the author of numerous books including Shaman, Healer, Sage; The Four Insights; Courageous Dreaming; Power Up Your Brain; One Spirit Medicine; and The Heart of the Shaman: Stories and Practices of the Luminous Warrior. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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