A psychologist-turned-shaman relates his experiences with ayahuasca, or the "vine of death," as he explores the subconscious amid Inca ruins in Peru

The Four Winds: A Shaman's Odyssey into the Amazon

Religion & Spirituality

VILLOLDO, ALBERTO

Jendresen, Erik

Occult & Paranormal

Harpercollins

Recounts the author's quest for the fabled Inca city of Vilcabamba and the secret Shamanic practice of mastery

Journey to the Island of the Sun: The Return to the Lost City of Gold (Harper Odysseys)

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

Travel

Travel Writing

A young explorer happens upon a map to the legendary Sacred City of Gold, Vilcamba, and begins his difficult journey, but one evening, he falls asleep and dreams of an old woman who tells him of the magic of the world when it was young, in a story based on Peruvian legend.

First Story Ever Told, The

Children's Books

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Simon&Schuster Children's Publishing

Dance of the Four Winds recounts the adventures of the American psychologist Alberto Villoldo as he journeys to Peru to explore the visionary ceremonies of the native shamans. Here Quecha masters use the jungle plant ayahuasca to further their spiritual progress along the four paths of the Medicine Wheel. Entering a magical realm of enigmatic sorcerers and powerful animal totems, Villoldo confronts the hidden powers of his own mind as he unlocks the secrets of the human psyche.

Dance of the Four Winds: Secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Destiny Books

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 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.

Island of the Sun: Mastering the Inca Medicine Wheel

The First Story Ever Told

Legends tell of Vilcabamba, a lost City of Gold somewhere in the mountains of Peru, that was built by the Incas and mysteriously abandoned. One day an explorer sets out in search of this fabled city. He claims the Mountains of the Moon, descends into the Valley of the Shadows, and explores the River of the Rainbow, but the ancient city and its gold are nowhere to be found. One night, while the explorer dreams by his campfire, a voice emerges from the flames - the voice of Grandmother Fire.

Action & Adventure

Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers

Sublime

York, Kathleen

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Copyright Collection (library Of Congress)

Cavanagh, Thomas

Florio, Robert

Newbern, George

Krantz, Tony

Myrick, Daniel

Shiban, John

Hilton-jacobs, Lawrence

Coiro, Kat

Brewster, Paget

Rogers, David Clayton

Golub, Peter

Raw Feed (firm)

Papazian-hirsch Entertainment

Distributed By Warner Home Video

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