Mystics, Magicians & Medicine People

Author: Doug Boyd
Paperback: 192 pages
Language: English  

This inspiring and entertaining journal relates Doug Boyd's personal odyssey through ancient and traditional cultures from around the world in search of a practical and relevant mysticism. Boyd's gift of storytelling captures the wisdom, magic, humor, eccentricities and spiritual strength of the extraordinary people he met along the way.   Doug Boyd is the founding director of the Cross-Cultural Studies Program in Tuscon, Arizona, and the author of the critically acclaimed Rolling Thunder, and Swami.  He has lectured nationally on his experiences with mystics and teachers of different traditions  

Reviews:
"This is a fascinating odyssey into myth, mystery, legend, and human capability. Doug Boyd is a superb story-teller and invests his book with an almost spell-binding appeal." --Norman Cousins, author of Anatomy of an Illness