In this guidebook Dr. Ashley Tomasino, a Modern Day Maestra lays out the ways that shamanic practices can enhance anyone's life with or without psychedelics. Shamanism is coming to the West because we are in desperate need of alternative forms of healing that branch outside of the conventional frame of thinking that now centers almost entirely on the use of surface forms of therapy and the rampant use of pharmaceuticals drugs.

What follows in this book explains shamanic practice in a way that will allow the reader to, first and foremost, understand what shamanism is all about. It will show the reader how they can apply shamanic practices to his or her daily life and how this new practice can assist in the ongoing process of self-evolution and expansion. Additionally, this book will demonstrate how you can protect yourself from potential threats, dangerous shamans, or any other potentially challenging situation one can encounter when operating in shamanic or spiritual territories. How you can integrate your psychedelic experience into your preexisting psychic structure will also detailed before exploring how we can all use shamanic tools as an offering in our community to help participate in the ongoing healing of the world. And then, finally, this book will explore how the reader can become more in alignment with his or her purpose through clearing and cleaning out our internal space so to allow for new shamanic energies to revitalize our lives.

In short, this book is here to help you experience what unique qualities exist within yourself; with the accompaniment of the plant spirits to help guide and support you in ways that perhaps your adult figures or authorities could not. It is in this relationship with living plant intelligence that we can again access our true nature and reconnect to the living biosphere that surrounds us. They, the plants, are here to help us. And now we are here to help them too. In our growth and expansion in knowledge, we help them to grow. It is a reciprocal and radically healing relationship.