About this title: This book looks at the shamanic world to seek explanations for the healing and psychic powers displayed by shamans, in terms of quantum physics. Fred Alan Wolf is a physicist and popularizer of the New Science and author of "Taking the Quantum Leap" which won the American Book Award for Science in 1982. Throughout the remotest corners of the old and new worlds, the author visited shamans from many different traditions, recording their conversations and distilling from these experiences a vision of human potential.
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover in Dustjacket
Publisher: Summit Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780671675349ISBN:0671675346
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Very Good in Very Good jacket Hard cover in dust jacket. First Edition. Light wear to corners and edges of cover. Nice condition. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Summit Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780671675349ISBN:0671675346
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall; A small chip on the upper edge of dj. and on cloth bd. spine, otherwise a very good copy, clean and tight, 318 like new pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Summit
Date Published: 1st printing, 1991
Description: Very Good/Very Good hard cover. 8vo, boards, 318pp. edgewear dust jacket. slight shelfwear. light yellowing paper, clean and tight text. shelved in science. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Summit Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780671675349ISBN:0671675346
Description: New. 1st edition, 1st printing. Beautiful brand new hardcover book in brand new condition dust jacket. Unread, no markings or wear of any kind. Mendopower Employment Services carefully packs each book in high-quality bubble lined, envelopes. We appreciate your business and welcome any questions. read more
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine d/j jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. D/j is tape to pastedowns with two pieces of tape in front and two in rear and edge of heel of spine of d/j is lightly worn. 318 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Summit Books, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780671675349ISBN:0671675346
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Light moisture mark on rear end paper, otherwise crisp and bright, excellent dust jacket with light edge wear, and a crease on the rear flap. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Touchstone
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780671792916ISBN:0671792911
Description: New. Item is brand new. Just a bit of ever so slight shelf wear but it is new, crisp and unread! May have publishers remainder mark on the edge just to assure it is not returned to the store. From Publishers Weekly: Personal odysseys through shamanic rites lead Wolf to posit links between the Shaman's experience and the "new physics. " A captivating, lucid quest for awareness. From Journal: Wolf, a theoretical physicist and author of The Quantum Leap ( LJ 11/15/81), focuses on his personal ... read more
Description: Wolf, Fred Alan., Simon & Schuster, 'A Touchstone Book', 1991, c1991, 1st Edition, stiff wrapps, fine, 318 pps w/index & bibliography, 8 3/8' x 5 1/2', 'A Physicist Finds Scientific Truth at the Heart of the Shamanic World' read more
Description: Ex library copy with usual stamps, stickers and barcode, one section of pages breaking away from spine, otherwise good in good protected dustjacket. 318 pages. A Psychiatrist's Search for Truth in the Heart of the Shamanic World. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Touchstone
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780671792916ISBN:0671792911
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Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
"This well written book takes you on the adventure of a quantum physicist into the traditional shamanic drug of South American practitioners - ayuhuasca, the plant medicine.
Dr. Wolf has several hypotheses he wants to see if the shamans of South American (and a few North American ones) are working with the quantum field.
As he looks for these answers, he is taken on his own journey of initiation and healing.
Nicely written, easily absorbed concepts.
Not too spooky for those who are not aware of shamanic practices since it comes through a scientist's life experience.
"If you are like me and love Quantum Physics, the mysteries of the shamanic world, and a fan of Fred Alan Wolf's writing, you will love this book. In this book The Eagles Quest, Mr. Wolf takes you on the ground floor (where we all live) and lifts you up to the spiritual plateaus of common/un-common experiences of the most altered of states. Now it did remind me of the 60's and Carlos Castaneda. But as you read on you get this dab of science wrapped up in the lives of people that Fred knows and knew back when. Some of the stuff in this book made me scared. Oh yea. Quantum Physics and the un-seen world of spirit(s) makes one wonder am I a **live** human being or am I one day going to wake up. Now I have to re-think my whole outlook on stuff like is the here and now - here and now!! I have read a lot of Fred's books he is my favorite of them all, that is physics majors who reminds me of a zen person who knows what is down the rabbits whole in Alice in Wonderland. He's a scientist and all of a sudden **Wham** he no longer knows what, when, or where, but he does have it figured out. Maybe. He then leaves his job goes to India and begins to look for answers that might explain his total mystical experience. What does he look for on this journey? The mystery of healing, non-local communication, non-local healing, altered states of consciousness that leads to higher levels of "knowing". It all reminded me of the Apostle Paul when he said, "I knew a man caught up into the third heaven, whether in the body or out I could not tell". Well I can't either. I think Fred might have the best clue. But as for me I am still looking through the looking glass. Ayin"
"I'm about 10 years late in reading this book which has been on my bookself all that time. But I think Wolf has pretty well nailed the physics behind shamanic experience."
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