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Jeannie Beck
The Transformational Power of Ritual explores the author’s experiences at a sweat lodge ceremony, and her subsequent dream and visionary encounters with a bear spirit.
Jon Turk
Reaching for Otherworlds: A Healing in Siberia relates how, after poor snow conditions led to serious accidents, the author’s badly damaged pelvis was healed miraculously by a Koryak shaman, Moolynaut.
Agnès Paicheler
The Journeys of Mallendi, a Bwiti Nganga, explores the life story of a Gabonese healer who has been active in introducing Europeans to Bwiti healing rituals involving the use of iboga.
Agnès Paicheler
Holy Wood of the Ancestors: The Story of Iboga and Bwiti provides a brief history of the evolution of Bwiti traditions in West Africa, and describes how iboga, an entheogenic root, is used in traditional ceremonies to help initiates connect with their ancestors.
Kristine Blair
Blindfolded in Order to See: Encounters with the Spirit of Iboga relates the author’s experiences working with ibogaine in Western clinical settings and then undergoing a traditional Bwiti initiation in Gabon, West Africa, under the guidance of Bernadette Rebienot.
ON THE FRONT COVER: “Mallendi Paints a Bwiti Initiate,” a photograph by Laurent Sazy, shows the nganga (shaman-priest) Mallendi painting special markings on the face of a woman who has been initiated by iboga.
ON THE BACK COVER: “A Bwiti Initiate,” another photograph by Laurent Sazy, shows an African woman painted in kaolin and wearing a parrot feather on her head, representing the knowledge gained in Bwiti initiations.
DEPARTMENTS
FROM THE EDITOR introduces our new managing editor and discusses some of our plans for the future.
OPEN DIALOGUE offers thoughts by author Thomas Berry on the need to integrate new environmental principles into our legal system.
LETTERS
SHAMANISM NETWORK NEWS
EARTH CIRCLES reports how the sale of oil leases off the Alaska coast threatens the survival of already endangered polar bears.
REVIEWS offers critiques of Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind by G. Hancock, The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope by A. J. Hamilton, and Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art by Peter Macnair, D. Augaitis, et al.
RECEIVED & NOTED lists titles and brief information on new books and other media we have recently received from publishers.
UNCLASSIFIEDS
RESOURCES DIRECTORY
SHAMAN’S DRUM ARTS GALLERY (on the inside back cover) features two photographs of the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania, by Martin Gray.
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P.O. Box 270
Williams, OR 97544
1-541-846-1313