In this powerful interview, Frédérique Apffel-Marglin shares insights from her groundbreaking book Initiated by the Spirits: Healing the Ills of Modernity through Shamanism, Psychedelics and the Power. Drawing from decades of fieldwork in the Amazon and the Andes, she explores how shamanic rituals, plant medicines, and Indigenous cosmologies offer profound healing and spiritual reconnection in an age marked by disconnection and ecological crisis. Discover how the wisdom of ancestral traditions can guide us toward wholeness and restore balance in our modern lives.