Faces of Your Soul
Rituals in Art, Maskmaking, and Guided Imagery with Ancestors, Spirit Guides, and Totem Animals
Written by Elise Ching and Kaleo Ching
Price: $21.95
North Atlantic Books
In Faces of Your Soul, Elise Dirlam Ching and Kaleo Ching combine art and archetypes, meditation and acupressure, guided imagery, journaling, and many different creative processes in a collage of healing knowledge and wisdom. The authors start by stressing the balance of complementary opposites—left brain/right brain, challenge/comfort, practicality/the sacred—as crucial to...
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Stealing Benefacio's Roses
A Mayan Epic
Written by Martin Prechtel
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
Following the acclaimed Secrets of The Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, this is an expansive, lyrical novel in the tradition of indigenous oral storytelling. Based on the author's many years of living in a Guatemalan village, Stealing Benefacio's Roses interweaves dramatic recountings of village life and the...
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The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun
A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form
Written by Martin Prechtel, Illustrated by Martin Prechtel
Price: $13.95
North Atlantic Books
Author and illustrator Martín Prechtel is internationally known for his explorations of ancient folklore and uncovering the lessons therein for modern readers. In The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun, he revives a hitherto unknown Guatemalan Tzutujil Mayan tale of the beginnings of the world with a poetic retelling of...
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Long Life, Honey in the Heart
Written by Martin Prechtel
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
Martín Prechtel continues the narrative of his unique life in Santiago, Atitlan in Long Life, Honey in the Heart, an eloquent memoir replete with the subtle intelligence and sophistication of Mayan culture. Set against the dramatic backdrop of Guatemala's political upheaval in the 1980s, this heady mix of magic, humor, and...
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Eduardo el Curandero
The Words of a Peruvian Healer
Written by Eduardo Calderon, Richard Cowan, Douglas Sharon and F. Sharon
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
A fascinating glimpse at a day in the life of a Peruvian shaman, Eduardo el Curandero relates the philosophies of a Peruvian shaman and illustrates the medicinal use of natural drugs. This revised version of Eduardo el Curandero includes an updated preface, an 'in memoriam' section devoted to the life Eduardo...
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Ayahuasca Visions
The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman
Written by Pablo Amaringo and Luis Luna
Price: $35.00
North Atlantic Books
The mythologies and cosmology of Amazonian shamanism materialize in fantastic color and style in this unique, large-format volume, representing the fruit of several years of collaboration between a Peruvian folk artist/shaman and a Colombian anthropologist/filmmaker.
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Ayahuasca Visions
The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman
Written by Pablo Amaringo and Luis Luna
Price: $60.00
North Atlantic Books
The mythologies and cosmology of Amazonian shamanism materialize in fantastic color and style in this unique, large-format volume, representing the fruit of several years of collaboration between a Peruvian folk artist/shaman and a Colombian anthropologist/filmmaker.
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Rio Tigre and Beyond
The Amazon Jungle Medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios
Written by F. Bruce Lamb
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
Fulfilling Manuel Córdova’s promise of another story, F. Bruce Lamb’s Rio Tigre and Beyond recounts an unparalleled Amazonian adventure, completing the life story of Manuel Córdova Rios who at the beginning of the 20th century was abducted by Native American tribals to be trained as their new shaman. Here he remembers...
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Wizard of the Upper Amazon
Written by F. Bruce Lamb
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
Wizard of the Upper Amazon is an extraordinary document of the life among a tribe of South American Indians at the beginning of the 20th century. For many readers, the most compelling sections of the book will be the descriptions of the use of Banisteriopsis caapi, the ayahuasca of the Amazon...
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