Journey to the Island of the Sun: The Return to the Lost City of Gold (Harper Odysseys) - Hardcover

Villoldo, Alberto; Jendresen, Erik

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062508954 ISBN 13: 9780062508959

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1992

Synopsis

Recounts the author's quest for the fabled Inca city of Vilcabamba and the secret Shamanic practice of mastery

About this title

From the Back Cover:

ANTHROPOLOGY / SHAMANISM

A moving testament to interior ways of knowing.
--Publishers Weekly

Profound and personal, cosmic and compassionate. . . . Memoir, Andean adventure, and quest for wisdom, the book is an even deeper, wiser, more moving tour of the extraordinary, with Villoldo a refreshing guide, frank amd engaging.
--San Francisco Chronicle

A narrative rich in myth, history, and metaphor.
--Booklist

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.

ALBERTO VILLOLDO, Ph.D., is also the author of Dance of the Four Winds, Millenium, Healing States, and Realms of Healing. ERIK JENDRESEN is a playwright and screenwriter.

About the Author:

Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., is also the author of Dance of the Four Winds, Millenium, Healing States, and Realms of Healing. Erik Jendresen is a playwright and screenwriter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0062508954
• ISBN 13: 9780062508959
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210