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A PHYSICIST'S SEARCH I FOR TRUTH IN THE HEART OF THE SHAMANIC WORLD THE EAGLE'S QUEST THE EAGLE'S QUEST A Physicist's Search for Truth in the Heart of the Shamanic World FRED ALAN WOLF Mandala An Imprint of HarperCollins/W?/js/7m Mandala An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 77-85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB Published by Mandala 1991 13579 10 8642 © Fred Alan Wolf 1991 Fred Alan Wolf asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 1-85274-098-1 Printed in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham PLC, Chatham, Kent All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix CAST OF PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS xi PREFACE 1 What Does the Word 'Shaman' Mean? 3 1 AN INTUITIVE PHYSICIST'S QUEST 6 Shamanic Physics: Nine Hypotheses 7 Shamanic Physics and Mythic Reality 8 Altered Consciousness 9 The Sham of the Shaman 10 The Physics of Meaningfulness 11 Parallel Shamanic Worlds Are Real 11 A Sense of a Higher Power 12 Sexuality, Love and Healing 13 The Test of Death 14 A Recap: Shamanic Physics Hypotheses 14 2 THE WINDS OF AYAHUASCA 17 Science Hints 22 3 THE POWER OF WORDS AND SOUNDS 24 In the Beginning Was the Word and the Word was: 'Satan' 27 The 'Shaman' in the Grey Flannel Suit 31 The Sound of Wyrd 38 Shamanic Poetry 40 Words and Wyrd 41 4 RITUALS AND INITIATIONS 45 A Journey into the Unconscious 48 A Family Fire-Walk 61 A Physicist's Shamanic Initiation 67 The Eagle's Initiation 68 The Sweat of the Questing Eagle 69 The Trickster-Shaman from Rosebud 75 The Shaman with the Flashing Lights 77 5 SACRED PLACES AND PLANTS 89 Where Does Shamanism Work Best? 90 Norse Runes Don't Work in Mexico 92 Places of Power 94 Curious Anomalies at Sacred Sites 98 Drugs and Evolution 100 Ayahuasca History 102 Functions of Ayahuasca 104 Ayahuasca Rules 105 The Shamanic Planet 106 6 SEXUALITY, MAGIC AND POTENCY 109 Male and Female Medicine 115 Wave and Particle Action 116 A Sexual Flight on the Winds of Ayahuasca 117 Wilfredo and the Sexual Potion 120 No No, Nonoy 123 The Singing Jungle 125 Raw Fish in the Morning 126 Night Winds of Ayahuasca 128 A Sexual Dream under Ayahuasca 132 Dusk in a Different World 133 7 SHAMANIC HEALING 138 Least-Action Paths and the Unconscious Mind 146 Nothing but Vibrations 154 Nothing but a Dream 158 Chumash X-Ray 160 The Ten Senses 160 A New Principle of Life 161 The Vibration of the Ayahuasca Master 162 Sacrificial Action 164 The Spirits of the Ayahuasca 165 I Was Mistaken 166 A Growing Rage inside Me 167 Lessons from the Jungle Mother 168 Lying in the Jungle Mother's Womb 171 8 OTHER-WORLD EXPERIENCES 176 My Dream Journey to a Shamanic World 178 Out-of-Body Experience 183 Drifting in Illness 186 Dream Flights of the Indian Medicine People 187 Chumash Telekinesis 188 Shape-Shifting and Animism 190 The Berserkers and the Shape-shifters 190 Caught as a Raven 191 The Birds of Death 191 The Animal Guardians 192 Sending Spirits to Guard the Land 193 Recovering Our Lost Senses 194 How to Enter a Parallel World 196 9 TIME TRAVELLING AND VISIONS OF PAST AND FUTURE 200 Journeys of an Ayahuasquero 202 Time-slips and Sacred Places 209 The Rails of Time 210 Time-travelling to the Past 211 Setting Your Mind Spinning 212 How to be an angel in the Past 214 A Universal Principle of Support 215 Eagle-Man-Oglala-Sioux 219 The Past and the Present Are the Parents of the Future 222 Intent and a Beam of Light 225 Seeing into Mythic Time 225 Subjective Antedating 227 Description of an Ayahuasquero 229 The Two Levels of Time 231 Visions, Time Travel, and the Unconscious 232 10 DEATH 235 Absalom 241 The Vision of Michael and the Holographic Universe 242 The Pendragon and the Movie-reel of Death 244 The Moment of Death 246 Conductors of the Dead 251 Death and Birth Are One 252 The Shamans from Thunderhouse 253 A Map of the Middle World 254 The Edge of Heaven 259 The Death Dream 259 Shamans, Death, and the Jell-O Mind 260 The Middle Realm 261 11 SHAMANIC CONSCIOUSNESS 265 The Sleeper Awakens 265 The 'Real' Reality 266 The Drop of Consciousness 268 Shamanic Sensitivity 271 The Materialization of Consciousness 274 Act Cleaning 276 Cancelado 280 The Whole-mind Illumination 281 What Does the Body-mind Do WHhen Death Approaches? 283 Pulling off the Scab of the Unconscious 284 The Dogs of Sacrifice 285 Dancing with an Open Heart 285 Escape from Iquitos 286 The Cabinet of Doctor Cabieses 287 The Model of Dr Cabieses 288 What Is Your Consciousness, and Where Is God? 290 FINALE: It's Just a Movie, Fred 293 NOTES 314 BIBLIOGRAPHY 318
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