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I have doctorates in religious studies and in psychology. I have been a university professor, lawyer, wilderness guide, and peacemaker. I have studied wilderness survival among the indigenous peoples of North and South America, and studied sacred plant medicine with traditional herbalists in North America and curanderos in the Upper Amazon, where I received coronación by banco ayahuasquero don Roberto Acho Jurama.

I have worked with ayahuasca and other sacred plants in the Amazon, peyote in ceremonies of the Native American Church, and huachuma in Peruvian mesa rituals; and I have undertaken numerous four-day and four-night solo vision fasts in Death Valley, the Pecos Wilderness, and the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico.

I am a member of the Society of Shamanic Practitioners, American Herbalists Guild, Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness. I am an editor of the Journal of Shamanic Practice, and a contributing editor of Ayahuasca.com. My book on shamanism, sorcery, and plant medicine in the Upper Amazon is to be published by the University of New Mexico Press. My blog, Singing to the Plants, has a feed below. Pay a visit!