The eagle’s quest : a physicist’s search for truth in the heart of the Shamanic world

338 Pages·1991·59.549 MB·English

by  Wolf, Fred Alan

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
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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