One Spirit Medicine

Today our minds, our emotions, our relationships, and our bodies are out of kilter. We know it, but we tend to ignore it until something brings us up short—a worrying diagnosis, a broken relationship, or simply an inability to function harmoniously in everyday life. When things are a little off, we read a self-help book. When they’re really bad, we bring in oncologists to address cancer, neurologists to repair the brain, psychologists to help us understand our family of origin. But this fragmented approach to health is merely a stopgap. To truly heal, we need to return to the original recipe for wellness discovered by shamans millennia ago: One Spirit Medicine.

Through One Spirit Medicine, the shamans found that they could grow a new body that allowed them to live in extraordinary health. They learned how to switch off the “death clock” inside every cell, and turn on the “immortality” genes that reside in password-protected regions of our DNA. Cancer, dementia, and heart disease were rare. The shamans of old were truly masters of prevention.

Drawing on more than 25 years of experience as a medical anthropologist—as well as his own journey back from the edge of death—acclaimed shamanic teacher Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. shows you how to detoxify the brain and gut with superfoods; use techniques for working with our luminous energy fields to heal your body; and follow the ancient path of the medicine wheel to shed disempowering stories from the past and pave the way for rebirth.

Using the principles and practices in this book, you can feel better in a few days, begin to clear your mind and heal your brain in a week, and in six weeks be on your way to a new body—one that heals rapidly, retains its youthful vitality, and keeps you connected to Spirit, to the earth, and to a renewed sense of purpose in your life.

Praise for One Spirit Medicine

“One Spirit Medicine is the new manifesto for body and soul.”
— Mark Hyman, M.D., author of #1 New York Times bestseller, The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet, and director, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine

 “A paradigm-shattering synthesis of wisdom traditions and modern science that enables the reader to move from passive victim and become the master of their fate.”
— Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., cell biologist and best-selling author of The Biology of Belief and co-author of Spontaneous Evolution

 “In One Spirit Medicine Dr. Villoldo artfully weds traditional wisdom with leading-edge nutritional science, delivering a program that pushes the reset button, paving the way for health.”
— David Perlmutter, M.D., F.A.C.N., author of #1 New York Times bestseller, Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar—Your Brain’s Silent Killers

 “Alberto Villoldo does a brilliant job in carefully demystifying age-old wisdom with practical cutting-edge science. One Spirit Medicine is the big answer to our health-care problems in the 21st century. This book will change your life.”
— Joe Dispenza, D.C., author of New York Times bestseller You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter and Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

 “Easy-to-read, yet brimming with timeless wisdom, Alberto leads us on a journey of discovery that shatters common misconceptions about us, our relationship to our body, and the world.”
— Gregg Braden, New York Times best-selling author of The Divine Matrix and Deep Truth