How the Shaman Stole the Moon

About the Book

"Combines the wonder of magic and ancient lore with the skill and intellectual honesty of modern science. William Calvin guides us on just such a marvel-packed quest, in search of techniques used by sages and shamans, tracing discoveries made sometimes by accident and sometimes by sheer genius long before the dawn of our own age."
-David Brin

About the Author

William H. Calvin is a theoretical neurophysiologist at the University of Washington. He is the author of the Atlantic Monthly cover story, ?The Great Climate Flip-Flop,? and of ten books, including The Cerebral Code, How Brains Think, The Throwing Madonna, The River that Flows Uphill, The Cerebral Symphony, The Ascent of Mind, Conversations with Neil?s Brain, and Lingua ex Machina.