The author who includes thirty-six shaman-narrators whose
material is herein is reproduced. Behind these narratives are
a host of seers and healers whose voices could not be included
in this volumn because of the limitations of space. It was intended
to be read in sequence, from beginning to end. One voice illuminates
the next. This book lets the shamans tell us about shamanism.

"There is a doorway within our minds that usually remains hidden
and secret until the time of death. The Huichol word for it is 'nierika'.
Nierika is a cosmic portway or interface between so-called ordinary
and non-oridinary realities. It is a passageway and at the same time
a barrier between worlds."