Shamans - frequently called "medicine men" or "witch doctors" - are the keeepers of a remarkablee body of ancien techniques used to achieve and maintain well-being for them-selves and theeir communities. This book offers the first clear, complete and authoritariive guiide to such shamanic power and healing for the general reader. Readers willl find that they can learn simple techniques to alter states of consciousness withou drugs, enter the "nonordinary" reality of the shaman, dicover ancient powers of mind and body, and achieve personal transformation. By employiing the methods out-lined iin here, readers will have the opportunity to acquire the experience of shamanic power to help themselves and others who are weak, ill or injured. The exercices presented in this book represent the author's own personal distillation and interpretation of some of the millennia-old shamanic methods that the author has learned firsthand from South and North American Indians, supplemented by information from the ethnographic literature, including that from other continents.