Frédérique Apffel-Marglin (PhD, Brandeis) is Emerita Professor in Anthropology at Smith College. She is Director of the Sachamama Center for Biocultural Regeneration in Peru and has authored 6 books and over 55 articles and has edited 8 books.Stefano Varese (PhD, PUC-Lima) is Professor Emeritus of Native American Studies at the University of California-Davis. He is the founder of the Indigenous Research Center of the Americas and has authored 8 books and over 100 articles.

“This book is a remarkable collection of essays on a topic of immense importance for our times. Bringing years of experience and expertise, the authors illustrate brilliantly the healing dimensions of the living world. Apffel-Marglin and Varese are to be congratulated on this singular achievement.”—Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University Forum on Religion and Ecology

• List of Figures – Acknowledgments – Frédérique Apffel-Marglin and Stefano Varese: Introduction: Cosmic Dialogues – Frédérique Apffel-Marglin: Western Modernity and the Fate of Anima Mundi: Its Murder and Transformation into a Postmaterial Ecospirituality – D. Ahmed: Lost and Found: Gifts, Dreams, and Sanity – Inés Hernández-Ávila: Spirit Crossings: An Indigenous Cultural Perspective on Mortality, Death, and Dying – Jacques Mabit: The Sorcerer, the Madman and Grace: Are Archetypes Desacralized Spirits? Thoughts on Shamanism in the Amazon – Stefano Varese: Between Matter and Spirit: An Unfinished Journey – Rabbi Fern Feldman: To Dwell in the Thick Darkness: The Sacred Dark in Jewish Thought – Guillermo Delgado-P: Andean Entifications: Pachamama Ajayun, The Spirit of Mother Earth – Neela Bhattacharya Saxena: Mapping the Chiasmus: Liberating Patterns in a Planetary Mandala – Robert Tindall: Shamanic Archaeology at Chavín de Huántar – List of Contributors

Frédérique Apffel-Marglin (PhD, Brandeis) is Emerita Professor in Anthropology at Smith College. She is Director of the Sachamama Center for Biocultural Regeneration in Peru and has authored 6 books and over 55 articles and has edited 8 books.Stefano Varese (PhD, PUC-Lima) is Professor Emeritus of Native American Studies at the University of California-Davis. He is the founder of the Indigenous Research Center of the Americas and has authored 8 books and over 100 articles.

“This book is a remarkable collection of essays on a topic of immense importance for our times. Bringing years of experience and expertise, the authors illustrate brilliantly the healing dimensions of the living world. Apffel-Marglin and Varese are to be congratulated on this singular achievement.”—Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University Forum on Religion and Ecology

• List of Figures – Acknowledgments – Frédérique Apffel-Marglin and Stefano Varese: Introduction: Cosmic Dialogues – Frédérique Apffel-Marglin: Western Modernity and the Fate of Anima Mundi: Its Murder and Transformation into a Postmaterial Ecospirituality – D. Ahmed: Lost and Found: Gifts, Dreams, and Sanity – Inés Hernández-Ávila: Spirit Crossings: An Indigenous Cultural Perspective on Mortality, Death, and Dying – Jacques Mabit: The Sorcerer, the Madman and Grace: Are Archetypes Desacralized Spirits? Thoughts on Shamanism in the Amazon – Stefano Varese: Between Matter and Spirit: An Unfinished Journey – Rabbi Fern Feldman: To Dwell in the Thick Darkness: The Sacred Dark in Jewish Thought – Guillermo Delgado-P: Andean Entifications: Pachamama Ajayun, The Spirit of Mother Earth – Neela Bhattacharya Saxena: Mapping the Chiasmus: Liberating Patterns in a Planetary Mandala – Robert Tindall: Shamanic Archaeology at Chavín de Huántar – List of Contributors

Frédérique Apffel-Marglin (PhD, Brandeis) is Emerita Professor in Anthropology at Smith College. She is Director of the Sachamama Center for Biocultural Regeneration in Peru and has authored 6 books and over 55 articles and has edited 8 books.Stefano Varese (PhD, PUC-Lima) is Professor Emeritus of Native American Studies at the University of California-Davis. He is the founder of the Indigenous Research Center of the Americas and has authored 8 books and over 100 articles.

“This book is a remarkable collection of essays on a topic of immense importance for our times. Bringing years of experience and expertise, the authors illustrate brilliantly the healing dimensions of the living world. Apffel-Marglin and Varese are to be congratulated on this singular achievement.”—Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University Forum on Religion and Ecology

• List of Figures – Acknowledgments – Frédérique Apffel-Marglin and Stefano Varese: Introduction: Cosmic Dialogues – Frédérique Apffel-Marglin: Western Modernity and the Fate of Anima Mundi: Its Murder and Transformation into a Postmaterial Ecospirituality – D. Ahmed: Lost and Found: Gifts, Dreams, and Sanity – Inés Hernández-Ávila: Spirit Crossings: An Indigenous Cultural Perspective on Mortality, Death, and Dying – Jacques Mabit: The Sorcerer, the Madman and Grace: Are Archetypes Desacralized Spirits? Thoughts on Shamanism in the Amazon – Stefano Varese: Between Matter and Spirit: An Unfinished Journey – Rabbi Fern Feldman: To Dwell in the Thick Darkness: The Sacred Dark in Jewish Thought – Guillermo Delgado-P: Andean Entifications: Pachamama Ajayun, The Spirit of Mother Earth – Neela Bhattacharya Saxena: Mapping the Chiasmus: Liberating Patterns in a Planetary Mandala – Robert Tindall: Shamanic Archaeology at Chavín de Huántar – List of Contributors