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Ep. 18 – Shamanic Wisdom with Alberto Villoldo, PhD

Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern

The shamans path is being of service. This discussion is with Alberto Villoldo, PhD.

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Lessons in Courage: Peruvian Shamanic Wisdom for Everyday Life

“Lessons in Courage” is the biography of an extraordinary man, who has awakened to his own purpose in life as a servant to conscious evolution for all humanity.

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Bonnie Glass-Coffin, don Oscar Miró-Quesada
2013
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Wisdom of the Shamans: What the Ancient Masters Can Teach Us about Love and Life

For generation after generation, Toltec shamans have passed down their wisdom through teaching stories. The purpose of these stories is to implant a seed of knowledge in the mind of the listener, where it can ultimately sprout and blossom into a new and better way of life.

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don Jose Ruiz
2019
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The Psychotropic Mind: The World according to Ayahuasca, Iboga, and Shamanism

In the Amazon, shamans do not talk in terms of hallucinogens but of tools for communicating with other life-forms. Ayahuasca, for example, is first and foremost a means of breaking down the barrier that separates humans from other species, allowing us to communicate with them.

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Jeremy Narby, Jan Kounen, and Vincent Ravalec
2025
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Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

While undertaking anthropological fieldwork in the Pichis Valley of the Peruvian Amazon, Narby became intrigued by the local community’s claim that they received their phenomenal biochemical knowledge under the influence of hallucinogens.

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Jeremy Narby
1999
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Masters of the Living Energy: The Mystical World of the Q'ero of Peru

Known as the “keepers of the ancient knowledge,” the Q’ero Indians of Peru are the most respected mystics of the south-central Andes.

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Joan Parisi Wilcox
2025
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Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond

Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar offer an in-depth exploration of how Amerindian epistemology and ontology concerning indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon have spread to Western societies, and of how indigenous, mestizo, and cosmopolitan cultures have engaged with and transformed these...

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Beatriz Caiuby Labate (editor), Clancy Cavnar (editor)
2014
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Dr. Gabor Maté—Ayahuasca Healing at the Temple of the Way of Light

Physician, best-selling author and renowned speaker, Dr. Gabor Maté shares his experience drinking ayahuasca and receiving healing from the Shipibo Onanya at the Temple of the Way of Light in June 2019.

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Gabor Maté
2019
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Shaman, Healer, Sage: How to Heal Yourself and Others with the Energy Medicine of the Americas

Villoldo explains that central to shamanic healing is the concept of the Luminous Energy Field that is believed to surround our material bodies.

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Alberto Villoldo
2000
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A Shaman’s Miraculous Tools for Healing

Meet a dancer who could barely walk until a series of sessions with Villoldo, a business woman who is freed from headaches and discovers the benefits of an integrated interior life, and a young woman who confronts her past and recovers from crippling depression.

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Alberto Villoldo
2015
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