20TH ANNIVERSARY RETROSPECTIVE ISSUE

FEATURES

Jimmy Weiskopf
The Transformative Spirit of Yajé (from issue #39) relates the author’s experiences in Colombia learning about the purgative powers of yajé.

Interview by T. White
Ralph Metzner Speaks About Working with Sacred Plant Medicines (from issue #51) explores the insights of an eco-psychologist who has studied psychotherapeutic and shamanic ritual uses of plant entheogens since the 1960s.

Roberta Louis, with Jan Van Ysslestyne
Shamanic Healing Practices of the Ulchi (from issue #53) discusses some of the indigenous teachings and shamanic rituals practiced by shamans and elders of the Ulchi people in Siberia.

Interview by T. White, photographs by Anna E. Fuentes
Pray for the Water, Pray for the Land: The Wisdom of Western Shoshone Elder Corbin Harney (from issue #38) shares prophecies and shamanic teachings related by a respected healer and anti-nuclear activist.

Text by Josie RavenWing, photos by Mark Thomas
Joao de Deus, the Miracle Man of Brazil (from issue #58) describes the dramatic healing methods of faith healer Joao de Deus, who embodies spirits that help hundreds of people each week at his center in central Brazil.

Timothy White
An Introduction to Asklepian Dream Healing Practices (from issue #63) reviews archeological and historical evidence of a once respected but now undervalued dream healing tradition practiced in ancient Greece.

ON THE FRONT COVER: Four portraits, from a series by T. White, depict shamanic visionaries from Australia, the United States, Colombia, and Nepal.

ON THE BACK COVER: “The Sacred Thread Mandala,” a painting by Cynthia Ré Robbins, offers a cross-cultural interpretation of the four directions.

DEPARTMENTS

FROM THE EDITOR reflects on the magazine’s twentieth anniversary and responds to reader comments about its focus on entheogens.

OPEN DIALOGUE describes a series of spiritual council gatherings that bring together indigenous grandmothers to pray for world peace and the protection of traditional cultures.

LETTERS 

REVIEWS offers critiques of Divination and Healing: Potent Vision edited by Michael Winkelman and Philip M. Peek; and The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications by Christian Rätsch.

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 the painting “The Healing” by Cynthia Ré Robbins.
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