{"title":"Alan Shoemaker","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlan Shoemaker’s work offers profound insights into the transformative potential of natural healing, blending traditional wisdom with modern understanding. His explorations into plant medicine guide readers through journeys of physical, emotional, and spiritual renewal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for those interested in holistic health and wellness, Shoemaker’s books delve into the therapeutic power of ayahuasca and similar medicines, providing compassionate and thoughtful perspectives on healing and self-discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ayahuasca-medicine-by-alan-shoemaker-9781620551936","title":"Ayahuasca Medicine","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDetails the author's training and life as a curandero using ayahuasca medicine, San Pedro cactus, tobacco purges, psychedelic mushrooms and other visionary plants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOffers first-hand accounts of miraculous healing where ayahuasca revealed the cause of the illness, including how the author healed his mother from liver cancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShows how \"ayahuasca tourism\" symbolises the Western world's reawakening need to connect with the universal life force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor more than 20 years, American-born Alan Shoemaker has apprenticed and worked with shamans in Ecuador and Peru, learning the traditional methods of ayahuasca preparation, the ceremonial rituals for its use and how to commune with the healing spirit of this sacred plant as well as the spirit of the San Pedro cactus and other sacred plant allies. Now a recognised and practising ayahuasquero, or ayahuasca shaman, in Peru, he offers an insider's account of the ayahuasca tradition and of its use for expanding consciousness and achieving healing through access to other dimensions of being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShoemaker details his training and his own curandero practice using ayahuasca medicine, tobacco purges, psychedelic mushrooms and other visionary plants. He discusses the different traditions of his two foremost teachers and mentors, Don Juan in the Peruvian Amazon, an ayahuasquero, and Valentin in Ecuador, a San Pedro shaman. He reveals the indispensable role played by icaros, the healing songs of the plant shaman, and offers firsthand accounts of miraculous healing resulting from ayahuasca's ability to reveal the cause of an illness, including how he healed his mother from liver cancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe author also addresses the rising popularity of Northerners travelling to the Amazon to seek healing and mind expansion through ayahuasca and shows how this fascination is triggered by humanity's reawakening need to connect to the universal life force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430101008620,"sku":"9781620551936","price":26.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781620551936.jpg?v=1774559752"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/alan-shoemaker.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}