Healing States · Episode 07

Rituals of Power

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