When experiential journalist Rak Razam sets out to report on the booming business of twenty-first-century Amazonian shamanism, he finds himself caught in a culture clash between the old world and the new. He meets people who have used the hallucinogenic plant ayahuasca for generations to heal and purify the spirit as well as a new wave of Westerners seeking greater connection with the web of life. Razam trains with indigenous curanderos and documents his experiences and burgoning relationship with the plant world; the more he drinks the potent medicine of ayahuasca, the further it leads him, into the middle of the Amazon and on into the raging heart of consciousness itslef....