'Alberto Villoldo and Healing the Luminous Body' (Great Minds Series, Vol. 10) is a study about one of the greatest and most gifted Western shamans the world has seen. He has studied the healing practices of the Amazon and Inka shamans for more than 25 years. While at San Francisco State University, he founded the 'Biological Self-Regulation Laboratory' to study how the mind creates psychosomatic health and disease, and it was with this research intention in mind that he left his orderly life and ventured into the Andes to find a knowledge that dates back thousands of years among native shamans and natural healers. Villoldo directs the Four Winds Society, where he trains individuals throughout the world in the practice of energy medicine and soul retrieval. He has training centers in New England, California, the UK, Holland, and Park City, Utah. The author of the best-seller 'Shaman, Healer, Sage', Villoldo now draws on his vast knowledge to bring us a practical and revolutionary way to discover the source of an original wound that may have occurred during childhood or in a former lifetime, and that derailed our destiny. He then shows us how to track forward along our time lines to find our best and highest future. The book comes with extensive book reviews and quotes, and comments, as well as illustrations, and two bonus reviews of the books 'Ayahuasca' by Ralph Metzner and 'The Cosmic Serpent' by Jeremy Narby.