What stops so many of us from transcending our fears, realizing our hopes, and reuniting our physical and spiritual selves to become whole? Riding the Spirit Wind, an often surprising and invariably uplifting look at the practice of shamanic healing, offers important clues. Shamanic healer John Myerson and co-author Robert Greenebaum point to the wide range of emotional and spiritual roadblocks that can impede our life journey and hamper our growth as individuals. Just as revealing, they describe the paths Myerson‚s many clients have taken to surmount such obstacles. Listen to Tracy, a vibrant woman who couldn‚t get pregnant but then did. Find out how Alethea‚s torment from a long-recurring nightmare was finally quelled. And consider the power of a „call‰ on an aging man‚s soul that led to triumph against illness and depression. With Myerson‚s help, these and other seekers tap into the unseen forces that act within and upon each of us. His patients not only discover the transformative power of dreams, visions and prayer, they also conquer a host of afflictions˜rage, fear, pain, shame, isolation, hopelessness˜that too often throw our lives out of balance. Riding the Spirit Wind's accounts of John Myerson‚s shamanic healing offer us tantalizing hints that there is indeed a spiritual plane at least as rich in answers for the soul as those found in the physical world. In short, Greenebaum and Myerson have given us all a gift. Their book is an awe-inspiring and compelling portrait of shamanic healing. It is comprehensive. Often confounding. And, ultimately, profoundly comforting.