The book contains twelve real stories about how the author helps people develop the ability for self-healing through shamanic energetic medicine. Each story is told both from the patient’s perspective and from the shaman’s. The thirteenth story is devoted to healing the author himself. Alberto Villoldo is the author of many bestsellers on shamanism; he is a doctor of science, a psychologist, and a medical anthropologist. For more than thirty years, he has studied healing methods of the Amazon and Andes shamans.