Author Description

A guide to contemporary shamanism, this book takes an alternative view of an age-old subject, asking only that readers plunge in headfirst. There are many treats to be tempted by as Pinchbeck guides us forward in his always-plausible, always-sane, always-sceptical tour of the psychedelic horizon, from tribal rites in West Africa and Mexico, to other tribal rites in Brooklyn apartments and at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.