Jim DeKorne is the author of four books, including Psychedelic Shamanism, which has been translated into six different languages. He holds a master's degree in English from San Francisco State University, and he was the founding editor and publisher of The Entheogen Review. He was an active participant in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, the back-to-the-land and appropriate technology movements of the 1970s and '80s, and the psychedelic renaissance of the 1990s. Throughout his varied career history, he has been an epidemiologist, a professional photographer, an importer, a homesteader, a college English professor, an editor, and an author. He currently resides on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Jim DeKorne expertly weaves together diverse threads...into a coherent vision of the challenges and potential that inhabit our modern psyche. -Erowid The collection of sources, woven together by DeKorne's keen intellect, becomes, not so much eclectic, as a multifaceted view of a numinous path unfolding in a common language of the Perennial Philosophy. This is a good book, intellectually stimulating, with diverse and always relevant quotations. -Circles of Light This is an interesting philosophical exploration of two opposing views of the world- materialist vs. perennial. One holds that what you see is what you get, the other that there is more to life than meets the eye and that we are all a part of the divine being... If you are interested in philosophy and spirituality, you will find it a fascinating read. -My Spirit Radio