06Episode 06
Don Eduardo Calderon, a Peruvian medicine man, leads a group of western apprentices through the steps and trials of becoming a shaman. The journey begins on the tree of life, a giant figure etched on a mountain side, where his students go in quest for a vision of healing and self-knowledge. In the Nasca plains they explore the monolithic figures carved on the desert floor, ritual designs crafted by ancient shamen, and used to journey into inner space.
Directed by: Georg Lhotsky
07Episode 07
Before one becomes a healer, one must become free of the past, erasing all personal history. In a night time ceremony, in the desert, the shaman's students learn to heal themselves. Don Eduardo demonstrates the use of power objects, with which he diagnoses disease and calls on the forces of nature. High in the Andes, the shaman summons the spirits of the four winds, and his nature allies the eagle, the horse, the jaguar, and the serpent.
Directed by: Georg Lhotsky
08Episode 08
The students of the shaman undergo a symbolic death in a canoe-shaped stone. They then call on the spirits of the medicine men and women who once lived in the now destroyed city of the Incas. The chief archeologist in Machu Picchu describes the origins of the city, while inside the ruins, in a bed of stone, Don Eduardos apprentices experiences the spirit flight, the techniques for out of body travel.
Directed by: Georg Lhotsky
09Episode 09
The medicine man uses a guinea pig for diagnosis, and finds that several of his students are suffering from black magic. The shaman explains that the worst kind of black magic is that which we do on our selves. This is the dark night of the soul, as the apprentices confront their fear, and then take part in the most ancient ritual known to humanity, a fire ceremony where they bring an offering of healing and place their hands into the fire.
Directed by: Georg Lhotsky
10Episode 10
In the Temple of the Moon in northern Peru, Don Eduardo teaches his students to develop the "inner vision", to see into the world of the spirit. For centuries, medicine men have brought their students to see these ancient ruins to learn the physical and spiritual healing arts, and to meet the master that led inside the temple. They build a medicine spiral between the Temples of the Sun and Moon.
Directed by: Georg Lhotsky
11Episode 11
In the Chimbe lagoons, Don Eduardo performs the ritual of shamanic initiation. This is the first time that westerners have undergone the tests and trials for becoming persons of knowledge. After initiation, they become responsible for their own self-heaing, and become caretakers of the earth, and in a night- long ceremony, make their first spirit journey.
Directed by: Georg Lhotsky
12Episode 12
The shaman makes a fire circle, a bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds, which his apprentices must enter to perform the Dance of the Four Winds, to become connected with the four directions of the spirit world. Several months later, six of his students come together to reflect on their journey of initiation into the world of the American Indian medicine man.
Directed by: Georg Lhotsky
HEALING STATES
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