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Island of the sun : mastering the Inca medicine wheel
- Title
- Island of the sun : mastering the Inca medicine wheel / Alberto Villoldo and Erik Jendresen.
- Author
- Villoldo, Alberto.
- Publication
- Rochester, Vt. : Destiny Books, ©1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | BF1622.I4 V55 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Jendresen, Erik.
- Description
- xiii, 210 pages : maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Island of the Sun recounts the American psychologist Alberto Villoldo's return to Peru in search of the Quechua Indian shaman Don Jicaram. The authors' earlier book, Dance of the Four Winds, described Villoldo's first initiation, under Don Jicaram, into the secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel and the spiritual journey of the Four Winds. Villoldo had begun that journey in the South, "where one goes to confront and shed the past." With use of the powerful mind-altering plant ayahuasca, he had continued to the West, a direction also inhabited by fear and death. Now in Island of the Sun he prepares himself for the journey to the North, where lies the wisdom of the ancient Inca shamans. Traveling from Machu Picchu to the "Island of the Sun," a sacred site in Bolivia, Villoldo uncovers a profound secret about the journey to the East--the journey home."--Page 4 of cover.
- Uniform Title
- Journey to the island of the sun
- Alternative Title
- Journey to the island of the sun
- Subject
- Villoldo, Alberto
- Villoldo, Alberto
- Shamanism > Peru
- Indians of South America > Peru > Religion
- Incas > Religion
- Indians of South America > Religion
- Shamanism
- Travel
- Religion inca
- Indiens d'Amérique > Pérou > Religion
- Chamanisme > Pérou
- Peru > Description and travel
- Bolivia > Description and travel
- Machu Picchu Site (Peru)
- Titicaca, Lake (Peru and Bolivia)
- Bolivia
- Peru
- Peru > Machu Picchu Site
- South America > Lake Titicaca
- Pérou > Descriptions et voyages
- Bolivie > Descriptions et voyages
- Titicaca, Lac
- Machu Picchu (ville ancienne)
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies.
- Note
- Originally published: San Francisco, Calif. : HarperSanFrancisco, c1992.
- Contents
- Map of Inca trail -- Map of Lake Titicaca -- Prologue -- The first story ever told -- The other -- Life in death -- Journey to the island of the sun.
- ISBN
- 0892815205
- 9780892815203
- LCCN
- 94034598
- OCLC
- ocm68671754
- 68671754
- SCSB-9543908
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library