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Title: Yes, but...
Review: Riveting throughout, yet (not suprisingly) replete with unanswered questions: what exactly are the healing powers and methods discovered by shamans during their otherworldly journeys? Are there specific instances of shamans curing disease? Why is the supposed wisdom gained by those who tune into the other realms bereft of the practical, such as being of use to the residents of the Amazon in keeping their homeland from destruction or, earlier, the San people from extermination? What part do the trances alledgedly gone into by spiritualist mediums play in these doings? Why did thousands of years of psychoactive plant ingestion leave our ancestors exactly where they started, with no apparent progression in their culture? Nevertheless, this--like almost all of Mr Hancock's books--is eminently worthwhile, start to finish.
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