Alan Shoemaker

Details the author's training and life as a curandero using ayahuasca medicine, San Pedro cactus, tobacco purges, psychedelic mushrooms and other visionary plants. Offers first-hand accounts of miraculous healing where ayahuasca revealed the cause of the illness, including how the author healed his mother from liver cancer. Shows how "ayahuasca tourism" symbolises the Western world's reawakening need to connect with...