Shamanism

As I write this introduction in 2013, twenty-four years after Terence first wrote his manifesto, the massive global shamanic resurgence, spearheaded by the ayahuasca movement worldwide, is seeing a critical mass.

We’re 45 kilometres out of Iquitos, deep in the Peruvian Amazon, in the great green web of nature with our native Shaman, Percy Garcia. He has the boyish enthusiasm of a physical education teacher, which is reinforced by his western garb.

An interview with Rak Razam and Niles Heckman, co-creators of Shamans of the Global Village.

When we think of, what is social change? It brings up, for me, questions of what is a society, what is our culture? And, even if you look at the language of a culture, it’s an organism. It is an organism which grows, and is made up in this case of individuals who— Western culture, at least 20th century, 21st century culture, has been very dominated by the idea of the individual.