Overview
"When Margaret De Wys learned she had breast cancer, the diagnosis shattered her comfortable life. To everyone's concern, she journeyed deep into the Amazon to work with Carlos, a charismatic Shuar master of medicina milenaria, an ancient mystical tradition with a highly sophisticated and precise technology of healing. In ""Black Smoke"", De Wys writes of her amazing encounter with Carlos as he guided her into a world of potent visionary plants, harrowing initiations and ritual purification - 'the path of the warrior'. At once an adventure story, a romance and a rich exploration of a little-known culture, ""Black Smoke"" is destined to become a classic. It captures one woman's physical, emotional and 'holy voyage' through a world that differs vastly from our own. And what emerges is a revealing chronicle of spiritual insight and a trenchant exploration of the limits of idealism."
Full Product Details
Author: Margaret De Wys
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Imprint: Sterling
Dimensions:
Width: 13.60cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.408kg
ISBN: 9781402748837
ISBN 10: 1402748833
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 January 2009
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
Black Smoke is a wonderful, beautifully written story . . . a true adventure told in a style that rivals the best of novels. This first-person account by an extraordinary woman of her inner and outer journey through darkness into light is a must read for anyone interested in healing. --John Perkins, The New York Times best-selling author of Shapeshifting, Spirit of the Shuar and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man This book will thrill and support all readers traveling--or wishing to travel themselves--into the unknown and the mystery of the human spirit. --Josie RavenWing, author of The Book of Miracles
"""""Black Smoke"" is a wonderful, beautifully written story . . . a true adventure told in a style that rivals the best of novels. This first-person account by an extraordinary woman of her inner and outer journey through darkness into light is a must read for anyone interested in healing.""--John Perkins, ""The New York Times"" best-selling author of ""Shapeshifting, Spirit of the Shuar ""and ""Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"" ""This book will thrill and support all readers traveling--or wishing to travel themselves--into the unknown and the mystery of the human spirit.""--Josie RavenWing, author of ""The Book of Miracles """
Author Information
Margaret De Wys is a professor at Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, as well as a composer and sound installation artist. Her pieces have been performed at the Museum of Modern Art, Pace Gallery, Kitchen and The Knitting Factory. A CD of her music, I Oh, was released in 2000.
