DVD The Healing of the Astral Body | Alberto Villoldo
In his mid-20s, Alberto Villoldo was the youngest clinical professor at San Francisco State University. He headed the Laboratory for Biological Self-Regulation and investigated how energy medicine could alter brain chemistry. One day, Alberto realized in his work that his research needed to be bigger, not smaller—that he was looking through the wrong end of the microscope. He needed to find a system larger than the brain’s neural networks. Many others were already learning the hardware—Alberto wanted to learn how to program the mind to create psychosomatic health.
Anthropological histories indicate that there were people all over the world who claimed to know such things, including the few remaining “shamans” in today’s modern world.
Alberto traded his lab for a pair of hiking boots and a ticket to the Amazon, determined to learn from researchers whose gaze wasn’t limited to the lens of a microscope, from people whose knowledge encompassed more than the measurable, material world he’d learned was the ONLY reality. He wanted to meet the people who sense the spaces between things and perceive the luminous strands that animate all life. Throughout the Andes and the Amazon, there were a number of wise men, or “earth guardians,” who remembered the ancient customs. Alberto traveled through countless villages and hamlets, meeting with numerous medicine men and women. The lack of a written body of knowledge meant that each village brought its own flavor and style to the healing practices that still exist today.
For more than 10 years, Alberto trained with the medicine men of the jungle. In healing his own emotional wounds, Alberto followed the path of the wounded healer and learned to transform old pain, grief, anger and shame into sources of strength and compassion.
From the Amazon, Alberto hiked along the coast of Peru, from Nazca, the site of gigantic markings on the desert floor depicting spirit animals and geometric figures, to the fabled Shimbe Lagoons in the north, home to the country’s most famous shamans. Then, at Lake Titicaca—the sea on the roof of the world—Alberto collected the stories and healing practices of the people from whom, according to legend, the Incas originated.
Along the way, Alberto discovered a series of technologies that can transform the body, heal the soul, and change the way we live and die.
These ancient teachings explain that a Luminous Energy Field (LEF) surrounds us and acts as a matrix or blueprint that maintains the health and vitality of the physical body.
Alberto is the founder of the world-renowned Four Winds Society and the Light Body School. In his teachings and writings, he shares the experience of infinity and its ability to heal and transform us, freeing us from the temporal chains that bind us to sickness, old age, and infirmity.