Books by Alberto Villoldo

Drawing on more than 25 years of experience as a medical anthropologist, as well as his own journey back from the edge of death, acclaimed shamanic teacher Alberto Villoldo shares how to detoxify your brain and gut with superfoods, techniques for working with your luminous energy fields to heal the body and tools to pave the way for rebirth.

The author has studied the shamanic healing techniques of the descendants of the Incas for more than 20 years. In this manual, Villoldo explains the luminous energy field that he maintains surrounds living beings and shows how to use it in healing.

Access the gifts of transformation, heal the self, and live in harmony with one another and with the Earth by journeying through the wisdom wheel--a fresh take on the traditional medicine wheel--its archetypes, and its four wisdom challenges. The teachings of the medicine wheel have existed from the beginning of time. Today, however, we are creating modern paradigms of shamanism while drawing on the sacred traditions of the past. In this book, shamanic practitioner Alberto Villoldo explains that the medicine wheel is also a wisdom wheel: an advanced tool for working toward personal and planetary transformation. By journeying through the wisdom wheel and its four directions--South, West, North, and East--each of which is associated with an archetypal animal and sacred journey, you will be able to access powerful healing energies and step into a new personal and collective destiny.

Budskabet i Sundhed indefra er, at vores krop er i stand til at helbrede sig selv under de rigtige omstændigheder. Vi har her i Vesten generelt meget travlt med at overlade autoriteten til en læge eller behandler og glemme, at kroppen besidder selvhelbredende evner, som vi alle har mulighed for at aktivere.Forfatteren Alberto Villoldo præsenterer her en syntese af ældgamle visdomstraditioner og moderne videnskab, der udfordrer vores nuværende sundhedsparadigmer og gør os i stand til at komme ud af en passiv offerrolle og blive herre over vores egen sundhed og skæbne.I Sundhed indefra giver han konkrete råd om alt fra udrensning, superfødevarer, vitaminer og kosttilskud til, hvordan vi styrker vores tarmflora og afstresser krop og sind. Hertil kommer vigtig indsigt i, hvordan vores følelser påvirker vores helbred, den nyeste neurovidenskab, og hvordan spiritualitet hænger sammen med sundhed.Med krop-sind-ånd-medicin får vi mulighed for at skabe et helt nyt liv med større sundhed, ny visdom, nye aktiviteter, nye menneskelige relationer og nye muligheder.Bogen er propfyldt med viden og visdom alle kan drage nytte af, hvad enten man er syg eller ønsker at forblive stærk og rask, og den er ikke mindst relevant for alle alternative behandlere.

The Heart of the Shaman will take you on a journey into the sacred world of the shaman, through stories, dreams, and ancient rites. In his latest book, Alberto Villoldo sets his focus on the dreaming and time-travel practices of the medicine men and women of the Andes and Amazon, whose wisdom radically changed his worldview. Villoldo shares some of their time-honoured teachings that emphasize the sacred dream: an ephemeral, yet powerful vision that has the potential to guide us to our purpose and show us our place in the universe. The practices in this book will help you forge a sacred dream for yourself. They will help you craft a destiny infused with courage, and driven by vision. You'll be invited to follow the footsteps of the luminous warrior and learn how to break out of the three nightmares surrounding love, death, and safety that have held you captive, and transform them into the experience of timeless freedom, known as the Primordial Light. This creative power exercised by shamans will lead you to create beauty and healing, and dream a new world into being.

The Illumination Process guides the reader on a healing journey, forged by the timeless wisdom of indigenous cultures and the latest theories of neurobiology. Through various stages in this journey of initiation, we grow to understand the causes of our suffering and how to free ourselves from the pain and drama of our unhealed emotions.

Island of the Sun recounts the American psychologist Alberto Villoldo''s return to Peru in search of the Quechua Indian shaman Don Jicaram. The authors'' earlier book, Dance of the Four Winds, described Villoldo''s first initiation, under Don Jicaram, into the secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel and the spiritual journey of the Four Winds. Villoldo had begun that journey in the South, “where one goes to confront and shed the past.” With use of the powerful mind-altering plant ayahuasca, he had continued to the West, a direction also inhabited by fear and death. Now in Island of the Sun he prepares himself for the journey to the North, where lies the wisdom of the ancient Inca shamans. Traveling from Machu Picchu to the “Island of the Sun,” a sacred site in Bolivia, Villoldo uncovers a profound secret about the journey to the East--the journey home.