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Margaret De Wys first became aware of ecstatic trance healing when
she was a young girl fascinated by the rapture of the Holy Rollers.
However, it would be decades before she would be called to explore
that early fascination. At a gathering in Upstate New York thirty
years later she was spontaneously possessed by a sacred Zulu
necklace--a gift from one of the most powerful shamans in Africa,
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa. Frightening yet exhilarating, the
experience set her on a search to understand the depths of ecstatic
healing. Margaret journeys to Brazil to work with famous healer
John of God (Joao de Deus), where she witnesses hundreds of
miraculous healings through psychic surgery. During her years of
spiritual service at John's Casa, she experiences ecstatic visions,
which increase her hunger for more knowledge. She begins to attend
possession rituals held by Pai Lazaro, an Umbanda priest, and finds
she is a natural medium to the African gods. Called through her
dreams to work with Credo Mutwa, she travels to Credo's Healing
Village in Africa, where she discovers her gift as an ecstatic
healer and the meaning of true faith. In sharing her journey to
reach a profound understanding of ecstatic states and shamanic
healing, Margaret De Wys not only gives the reader a direct
experience of holiness but also reveals the potential each of us
has for miraculous healing.
When composer and Bard College music professor, Margaret De Wys,
learned she had breast cancer, the diagnosis shattered her
comfortable life. Seized by fear, crushed by existential
loneliness, she couldn't respond when her loved ones reached out to
her. To everyone's concern, the illness propelled her away from her
family and deep into the Amazon to work with Carlos, a charismatic
Shuar shaman and master of medicina milenaria, an ancient mystical
tradition with a highly sophisticated and precise technology of
healing. In BLACK SMOKE, De Wys writes of her amazing encounter
with Carlos as he guided her into a world of potent visionary
plants, harrowing initiations, ritual purification and miraculous
healings, including the complete disappearance of her cancer. It
was, as Carlos called it, "the path of the warrior." Sharing a
journey not only through cancer, but, also, through
self-transformation, De Wys provides an intimate inside look at the
shamanic ceremonies of ayahuasca and the ways this spiritual
medicine can heal the emotional origins of disease now plaguing our
modern technological culture. Capturing her physical, emotional and
"holy voyage" through a world that differs vastly from our own, she
offers a revealing chronicle of spiritual insight and a trenchant
exploration of the limits of idealism. She not only provides a
probing look at how our society can learn and benefit from
indigenous wisdom, but, also, weaves a cautionary tale about how
potentially dangerous it is-on both sides-to try to cross those
frontiers. * Explains in vivid detail De Wys's experience of being
healed from cancer through visionary ayahuasca rituals in Ecuador *
Describes her apprenticeship and relationship with the shaman who
cured her * Explores the ways this spiritual medicine can heal the
emotional origins of disease now plaguing our modern technological
culture
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