Shedding the Layers: How Ayahuasca Saved More Than My Skin

Shedding the Layers: How Ayahuasca Saved More Than My Skin
ISBN-10
1470017334
ISBN-13
9781470017330
Category
Ayahuasca ceremony
Pages
200
Language
English
Published
2012-06-03
Publisher
Mark Flaherty
Author
Mark Flaherty

Description

"As the power of fear and hatred threatens to drive me back over the edge, I desperately try to focus on the positive. The harder I try, the faster my head vibrates, about to explode...Something suddenly cracks, followed by a rushing sound... I vomit again and again. The stench of death fills the air.Seconds later, the purest peace I've ever felt fills my body. I open my eyes and see the world for the first time, as it really is: pristine, beautiful and perfect..."Thirty-year-old computer programmer Mark Flaherty's world is turned upside down when he is diagnosed with an incurable illness, and a voice within insists the answer lies with ayahuasca-a sacred, visionary plant medicine.Flaherty leaves his native England to live among the shamans of the Peruvian Amazon where he participates in hundreds of ayahuasca ceremonies. What he discovers about himself and the nature of existence is as shocking as it is inspiring.This captivating true story of a man's fight to heal himself demonstrates that anything really is possible and everything does happen for a reason.

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