Finding Eagle: A Journey into Modern-Day Shamanism offers a rare and candid view of the internal experience of shamanic initiation and healing in modern times. It is the author's story as a scientist, mother, and budding writer who is pulled from depression by the miraculous appearance of a shaman in her life. Unlike more inaccessible stories of those who learn from indigenous shamans, her story begins in a motel room in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The shaman is dressed in blue jeans, his rattle is a box of Tic-Tac's, and his drum is the plastic motel wastebasket. From this beginning, she learns to...