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The Eagle's Quest: A Physicist Finds the Scientific Truth at the Heart of the Shamanic World

Journeying through the shamanistic world, from the Himalayas to the jungles of Peru, Fred Alan Wolf encountered strange phenomena—natural healing, firewalking, shape-shifting, near-death and out-of-body experiences, visions of the past and future, time traveling, and lucid dreaming-that seemingly could not be reconciled with his training as a theoretical physicist.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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