Lecture by Nicholas Clapp - Old Magic: Lives of the Desert Shamans

For a thousand generations, desert shamans of the far West sought order in the stars and in the mysteries of their grand, unforgiving landscape. They epitomized a Native American ability “to relate to the land in ways beyond a Western way of thinking.“ Drawing on the lore of a dozen tribes, the book Old Magic conjures the year-to-year life of a shaman--a life of service to his people, a life fraught with torment and danger, a life often taking a man or woman to the edge of madness. Documentary filmmaker Ni