About the Author

Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., a psychologist and medical anthropologist has studied the healing practices of the Amazon and Inka Shamans for more than 25 years. While at San Francisco state University, he founded the Biological Self-Regulation Laboratory to study how the mind creates psychosomatic health and disease. Dr. Viilloldo directs The Four Winds Society, where he trains individuals in the U.S. and Europe in the practice of energy medicine and soul retrieval