Wizard of the Upper Amazon

The retelling of a true story, a younger rubber harvester is kidnapped by indians of the upper Amazon forest and trained to become a chief and medicine man. Through a regimen of hallucinogenic spirit journeys he learns and develops the skills and knowledge of these people that thrive in one of the most treacherous and beautiful landscapes on earth. These indians can SMELL different types of snakes before they see them, they can find a single insect making a noise in a multi-mile radius of dense jungle, they can hit a bird a hundred yards above them in the jungle canopy with a single blowdart, and so on and so on. Reading this will change the way you look at our own culture as you realize how far we've come from our deep connections with show more nature. show less

The retelling of a true story, a younger rubber harvester is kidnapped by indians of the upper Amazon forest and trained to become a chief and medicine man. Through a regimen of hallucinogenic spirit journeys he learns and develops the skills and knowledge of these people that thrive in one of the most treacherous and beautiful landscapes on earth. These indians can SMELL different types of snakes before they see them, they can find a single insect making a noise in a multi-mile radius of dense jungle, they can hit a bird a hundred yards above them in the jungle canopy with a single blowdart, and so on and so on. Reading this will change the way you look at our own culture as you realize how far we've come from our deep connections with show more nature. show less

This is a book about the South American indians, about the ayahuasca ritual and about the Nature, but above all, this is a book about the strenght of a man to fit in the society, first in a comunity he was inserted by force, then in a society he was no longer part of. This book show us the connection that our minds have with the people around us and the environment where we live in. It shows how a society that is considered primitive by many,in fact have way more consciousness and knowledge about life than some people nowadays.