Shaman's Drum new issue

The new issue of Shaman's Drum, "A Journal of Experiential Shamanism & Spiritual Healing" is now available.

It features:

Leo Panthera: When the Student Is Ready: Apprenticing with the Visionary Vine relates stories of a health care practitioner’s initial encounters with ayahuasqueros, and shares some of the lessons he has learned as an ayahuasca apprentice in the Shipibo tradition.

Vance Gellert, Ph.D.: Finding the Jaguar: Tracking the Spirit of Indigenous Healing recounts the evolution of an American photographer’s efforts to capture in interpretive fine art photographs the healing traditions of Andean and Amazonian shamans, folk healers, and ayahuasqueros.

Wade Davis, Ph.D.: On Preserving the Diversity of the Ethnosphere, adapted from the book Light at the Edge of the World, describes some of the author’s experiences as an ethnobotanist studying with shamans and indigenous healers around the world, and champions the idea that the well-being of our planet depends upon the preservation of indigenous languages and cultural diversity.

Rak Razam: Seekers of the Mystery on the Ayahuasca Trail relates a journalist’s insightful observations of presenters and participants at the 2nd International Amazonian Shamanism Conference, held in 2006 in Iquitos, Peru, and raises concerns about the potential impact of Western marketing on the integrity of ayahuasca ceremonies.

Plus the usual departments....

Please visit Shaman's Drum to order the new issue or, even better, to subscribe to this fascinating and interesting magazine, well worthy of all our support.

(Front cover photo by Rak Razam; back cover photo by Vance Gellert)