Paperback: 336 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.91 x 9.12 x 6.16 Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap); Reprint edition (December 1, 1999) ISBN: 0553379321

Book Description

In 1985, anthropologist Hank Wesselman began to experience disturbingly vivid altered states that ultimately propelled him on 12 fantastic journeys across time and space. 

He wrote about these in Spiritwalker. Now Dr. Wesselman continues his extraordinary narrative as he recounts his true adventures where he is given foreshadowings of imminent ecological, political, and spiritual challenges to the future of civilization. 

Dr. Wesselman learns that his journeys are much like the journeys shamans of all cultures have taken for years. But his journeys take him far into the future, past the collapse of civilization, to a "new" stone age. 

There he meets a Hawaiian Kahuna mystic named Nainoa who teaches the author about what the world is like after the fall of the modern age. 

The result is another fascinating adventure, an exciting discovery, and the story of how a hardheaded scientific realist may have stumbled on an important piece in the puzzle of human evolution.

From the Back Cover

"A rare combination of visionary and scholar whose message has the ring of truth, clarity, and urgency."
--Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Prayer Is Good Medicine

"Medicinemaker is vibrant, beautiful, and intimately written. This book is the wake-up signal humanity has been waiting for and is one of the most important books you can read in your lifetime."
--Gay Luce, Ph.D., director, The Nine Gates Mystery School

"A document of shamanic knowledge and vision...substantial and well-wrought."
--Booklist

Look for Hank Wesselman's Spiritwalker: Messages From The Future

"A fascinating and futuristic story."
--San Francisco Chronicle

Dr. Wesselman, an anthropologist, has written a paranormal narrative that is convincing, and entertaining enough that it's hard to put this one down. (There are obvious comparisons to Carlos Casteneda. I wonder if Dr. Wesselman's peers have received his story with any more open-mindedness.)

Meeting your own descendant, (or perhaps your own reincarnated self) 5000 years into a post-apocalyptic future makes for a pretty incredible read. Also interesting is the description of a dig in the Rift Valley of Africa where Wesselman and colleagues find the most ancient human remains--along with a few mystical encounters.

This story raises many questions about the destiny of our planet, and our spirits: the workings of visionary journeys, and reincarnation in relation to the Grand Scheme; and, particularly, about the time line. Just how unalterable, or malleable might it be? 

The end of the story left me wondering how Dr.W copes with the apparent knowledge that his descendant, Nainoa, lives in a world that is testament to the decimation of human civilization by catastrophic global warming. 

Does he believe that there may still be hope (to alter our collective course in time)?
DJ from Gulf Coast, U.S.A

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