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

by Wolf, Fred Alan

• ISBN13: 9780671792916
• ISBN10: 0671792911
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-12-01
• Publisher: Touchstone

Summary

From Simon & Schuster, The Eagles Quest is a story of a physicist finding the scientific truth at the heart of the Shamanic world.

The Eagle's Quest is an exploration of shamanism and its interaction with quantum physics examines natural healing, shape shifting, fire walking, near-death and out-of body experiences, lucid dreaming, and time traveling.

Author Biography

Fred Alan Wolf is an author of eleven books, a physicist, and a lecturer who earned his PhD in theoretical physics at UCLA in 1963. He has taught at San Diego State University as well as the University of London, the University of Paris, the Hahn-Meitner Institute for Nuclear Physics in Berlin, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Scholars, and the author of eleven books including Mind into Matter and Taking the Quantum Leap, for which he received the National Book Award.

Table of Contents

Cast of Principle Characters	13	(4)
Preface	17	(2)
What Does the Word Shaman Mean?	19	(3)
An Intuitive Physicist's Quest	22	(10)
Shamanic Physics: Nine Hypotheses	23	(1)
Shamanic Physics and Mythic Reality	24	(1)
Altered Consciousness	25	(1)
The Sham of the Shaman	26	(1)
The Physics of Meaningfulness	26	(1)
Parallel Shamanic Worlds Are Real	27	(1)
A Sense of a Higher Power	28	(1)
Sexuality, Love, and Healing	29	(1)
The Test of Death	29	(1)
A Recap: Shamanic Physics Hypotheses	30	(2)
The Winds of Ayahuasca	32	(6)
Science Hints	37	(1)
The Power of Words and Sounds	38	(19)
In the Beginning Was the Word and Word Was: ``Satan''	41	(4)
The ``Shaman'' in the Gray Flannel Suit	45	(6)
The Sound of Wyrd	51	(1)
Shamanic Poetry	52	(1)
Words and Wyrd	53	(4)
Rituals and Initiations	57	(41)
A Journey into the Unconscious	60	(11)
A Family Firewalk	71	(6)
A Physicist's Shamanic Initiation	77	(1)
The Eagle's Initiation	78	(1)
The Sweat of the Questing Eagle	79	(5)
The Trickster-Shaman from Rosebud	84	(3)
The Shaman with the Flashing Lights	87	(11)
Sacred Places and Plants	98	(19)
Where Does Shamanism Work Best?	99	(2)
Norse Runes Don't Work in Mexico	101	(2)
Place of Power	103	(3)
Curious Anomalies at Sacred Sites	106	(2)
Drugs and Evolution	108	(2)
Ayahuasca History	110	(1)
Functions of Ayahuasca	111	(2)
Ayahuasca Rules	113	(1)
The Shamanic Planet	114	(3)
Sexuality, Magic, and Potency	117	(26)
Male and Female Medicine	122	(1)
Wave and Particle Action	123	(1)
A Sexual Flight on the Winds of Ayahuasca	124	(3)
Wilfredo and the Sexual Potion	127	(3)
No No, Nonoy	130	(2)
The Singing Jungle	132	(1)
Raw Fish in the Morning	133	(1)
Night Winds of Ayahuasca	134	(4)
A Sexual Dream Under Ayahuasca	138	(1)
Dusk in a Different World	138	(5)
Shamanic Healing	143	(34)
Least-Action Paths and the Unconscious Mind	150	(8)
Nothing But Vibrations	158	(3)
Nothing But a Dream	161	(1)
Chumash X-ray	162	(1)
The Ten Senses	163	(1)
A New Principle of Life	164	(1)
The Vibration of the Ayahuasca Master	165	(1)
Sacrificial Action	166	(2)
The Spirits of the Ayahuasca	168	(1)
I Was Mistaken	168	(1)
A Growing Rage Inside of Me	169	(1)
Lessons from the Jungle Mother	170	(2)
Lying in the Jungle Mother's Womb	172	(5)
Other World Experiences	177	(21)
My Dream Journey to a Shamanic World	179	(4)
Out-of-Body Experience	183	(3)
Drifting in Illness	186	(1)
Dream Flights of the Indian Medicine People	187	(1)
Chumash Telekineses	188	(1)
Shape-Shifting and Animism	189	(1)
The Berserkers and the Shapeshifters	190	(1)
Caught as a Raven	190	(1)
The Birds of Death	191	(1)
The Animal Guardians	191	(1)
Sending Spirits to Guard the Land	192	(1)
Recovering Our Lost Senses	193	(2)
How to Enter a Parallel World	195	(3)
Time Traveling and Visions of Past and Future	198	(32)
Journeys of an Ayahuasquero	200	(6)
Time-Slips and Sacred Places	206	(2)
The Rails of Time	208	(1)
Time Traveling to the Past	208	(1)
Setting Your Mind Spining	209	(1)
How to Be an Angel in the Past	210	(1)
A Universal Principle of Support	211	(5)
Eagle-Man-Oglala-Sioux	216	(2)
The Past and the Present Are the Parents of the Future	218	(2)
Intent and a Beam of Light	220	(1)
Seeing into Mythic Time	221	(1)
Subjective Antedating	222	(2)
Description of an Ayahuasquero	224	(2)
The Two Levels of Time	226	(1)
Visions, Time Travel, and the Unconscious	227	(3)
Death	230	(27)
Absalom	236	(1)
The vision of Michael and the Holographic Universe	237	(1)
The Pendragon and the Movie Reel of Death	238	(2)
The Moment of Death	240	(4)
Conductors of the Dead	244	(1)
Death and Birth Are One	245	(1)
The Shamans from Thunderhouse	246	(1)
A Map of the Middle world	247	(4)
The Edge of Heaven	251	(1)
The Death Dream	252	(1)
Shamans, Death, and the Jell-O Mind	252	(1)
The Middle Realm	253	(4)
Shamanic Consciousness	257	(25)
The Sleeper Awakens	257	(1)
The ``Real'' Reality	258	(2)
The Drop of Consciousness	260	(2)
Shamanic Sensitivity	262	(3)
The Materialization of Consciousness	265	(2)
Act Cleaning	267	(4)
Cancelado	271	(1)
The Whole-Mind Illumination	272	(1)
What Does the Body-Mind Do When Death Approaches?	273	(1)
Pulling Off the Scab of the Unconscious	274	(1)
The Dogs of Sacrifice	275	(1)
Dancing with a Open Heart	275	(1)
Escape from Iquitos	276	(1)
The Cabinet of Dr. Cabieses	276	(2)
The Model of Dr. Cabieses	278	(1)
What Is Your Consciousness, and Where Is God?	279	(3)
Finale: It's Jus a Movie, Fred	282	(19)
Bibliography	301	(4)
Index	305