AuthorsNana Nauwald, born in 1947, is an internationally known visual artist. Author of many books, and lecturer. For about thirty years she has researched shamanism worldwide: Peru, Columbia, New Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Siberia. After completing extensive studies with Dr. Goodman, Nana Nauwald became a certified trainer and facilitator in Europe, presenting and teaching ritual trance workshops in many European countries. She is the founder of the German Felicitas-Goodman-Institute, and she also initiated the Russian Felicitas-Goodman-Institute. She lives near Luneburg in northern Germany.www.ecstatictrance.com
Felicitas D. Goodman, Prof. Ph.D., born in 1914 in Hungary, and died in 2005. She worked in the fields of linguistics and psychological anthropology; she conducted workshops throughout Europe and the U.S. Her books include: Where the Spirits Ride the Wind; Ecstasy; Ritual and alternate reality; Speaking in Tongues; The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel; How about Demons?; Maya Apocalypse - 17 years with the Woman of a Yucatan Village. She discovered and researched the shamanic technique of ritual body postures and different methods of achieving non-ordinary states of consciousness.