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...contemplative tour attracts its share of New Age types and spiritual seekers. A woman I met said she had stayed two weeks with a shaman, working on neurolinguistic programming. You need not rely on mystical powers, however, to find this a special place...
...doubt his hearing and sight were dulled by the enormous pressure and he made many crude, irreversible mistakes. But maybe not. In a country accustomed to the ruler's answering for everything, even burned stew and spilled milk are held against the Czar and are never forgiven. Similarly, shamanism has always been a trait of the Russian national character: we cough and infect everyone around us, but when we all get sick, we throw stones at the shaman because his spells didn't work...
...this stress has inspired corporations like AT&T and Boeing to recruit poets and other spiritual gurus to help managers cope creatively. "I teach people to find a special, still place inside themselves," purrs Richard Sandore, an obstetrician turned Andean shaman healer who founded a company called Soaring Spirit Inc. As a practitioner of "energy healing," Sandore works with Chicago-area businesses to tap the intuition and wholeness "that produced the works of Shakespeare and turned Microsoft into a billion-dollar giant within a decade...
...company has 12 teams of physicians and ethnobotanists working year-round to establish relationships with native healers in 40 countries throughout Africa, Southeast Asia and South America. Skeptics, most of whom work for competing drug companies, suggest that Shaman cannot depend on primitive healers, who are seen as a cross between country doctors and clerics...
That may, however, be a matter of cultural interpretation. Shaman's ethnobotanists have found that many rainforest healers actually live with their patients to witness firsthand the full range of medical symptoms. "That," says Conte, "is much more sophisticated healing than what we do here...