Book Nook: SHAMANISM: Personal Quests of Communion with Nature and Creation

 Today’s shaman leaves new footprints on paths of psychic awareness and spiritual wisdom that are more than 70,000 years old. 

The process of shamanic awakening is as vast as the universe itself. Physical and spiritual worlds blend with one another, and the shaman’s path lies in attaining a life of harmony with both.

Respected kamasqa curandero Oscar Miro-Quesada teaches shamanism as a tradition of healing, power, and wisdom that sees all life as interconnected and sacred in his new book SHAMANISM: Personal Quests of Communion with Nature and Creation, the seventh book in the Common Sentience book series.

In Part One: Understanding Shamanism, explore the shamanic art of a noble death, becoming a hollow bone, traveling through the three worlds, and how to embrace the imaginal beauty of a living, sentient, and ever-evolving cosmos.

In Part Two: Personal Quests of Communion with Nature and Creation feel soul-animating moments with Creation itself as don Oscar and our sacred storytellers share their transformative experiences, including those of:

• a woman who meets a sister she never knew—child to child, soul to soul.
• a man whose animal ally gives him the gift of unconditional love.
• a woman who connects with the Amazigh who served as oracles long ago.
• a granddaughter who conquers her fear and completes her first vision quest.
• a woman whose reverence and songs to Gaia bring much needed rain.
• a man who is protected from harm by sacred plant allies.

In Part Three: Deepening Your Shamanic Connection cultivate spiritual discernment, learn how to consecrate your shamanic ceremonial space, practice an ancient Andean earth walk ritual, internalize the soul-nurturing beauty of Mother Earth with the Pachamama Renewal Process, work with the five principal animal allies of Universal Shamanism, and discover the loving grace that sparked the emergence of shamanism as a universal path of healing service.

OSCAR MIRO-QUESADA is a respected kamasqa curandero and altomisayoq adept from Peru, founder of The Heart of the Healer (THOTH) Shamanic Mystery School, originator of Pachakuti Mesa Tradition cross-cultural shamanism. An internationally acclaimed shamanic teacher and healer, earth-honoring ceremonialist and author, don Oscar is OAS Fellow in Ethnopsychology and member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle. He has been guiding ethno-spiritual pilgrimages to sacred sites of the world since 1986, with special emphasis on Peru and Bolivia.