Healing States · Episode 08

The Secrets of Machu Picchu

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