Review by Booklist Review
After shaman astronauts reveal universal truths to them in a secret part of the Amazon Basin, two tribal elders travel to Santa Cruz to find a white woman in whom to entrust this knowledge. The author is that woman. They know her instantly when she stoops to pet a cat. Thereafter they meet in coffee shops and apartments to teach her the ways of power in chapter-long lectures interspersed with occasional walks by the creek. She is sworn to secrecy about her training; even her middle-class family knows nothing of it until recently when, conveniently for the boomlet in shaman literature, she is released from her vow. A heavy promotion budget will neither make this "true-life story" more believable nor help legitimize it in comparison with the numerous less commercial but more serious studies of shamanism available; it will incite demand, however, so be prepared. ~--Pat Monaghan
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