Book description
Combining elements of Andrew Weil's SPONTANEOUS HEALING and Carolyn
Myss's ANATOMY OF THE SPIRIT with a concept all its own, Alberto
Villoldo's remarkable book, Shaman, Healer, Sage demonstrates the
healing power of energy medicine - a tradition practised in the
Americas for more than 5,000 years - which is finally being recognized
today by the medical establishment.
As he explores such subjects as the Luminous Energy Field that
surrounds our bodies, Villoldo shows us how, by learning to see and
influence the imprints of disease on this aura of energy, we can
discover not only how to heal ourselves and others, but prevent
illness as well. Here too, he explores the subject of life beyond
death, navigating this unseen world with the knowledge of a scientist
and the wisdom of a shamanic healer.
Classically trained as a medical anthropologist and a foremost
teacher of the shamanic techniques of the Inkas, among whose
descendants he has studied for more than twenty-five years, Villoldo
weaves together a host of illuminating stories and exercises to
provide an accessible, practical, and revolutionary programme of healing.
Alberto Villoldo, Ph. D., was born in Cuba, where he was exposed to
Afro-Indian healing traditions at an early age. While pursuing his
doctorial studies in psychology and medical anthropology, he travelled
throughout the Amazon and the Andes, researching Native American healing
techniques. He later directed the Biological Self-Regulation Laboratory
at San Francisco State University, where he investigated mind-body
medicine and the neuro-physiology of healing. He founded and directs the
Energy Medicine School at the Four Winds Society, and teaches energy
medicine to thousands of nurses and physicians, psychotherapists and lay
persons every year. He is an internationally recognized leader in the
field of alternative medicine and shamanic studies, and has written ten
other books. He lives in Los Angeles.
