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Shaman, M.D.: A Plastic Surgeon's Remarkable Journey into the World of Shapeshifting [Paperback]

Eve Bruce M.D. (Author)
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Book Description

January 1, 2002
A highly successful plastic surgeon embraces shamanic healing techniques and helps her patients experience true beauty and ecstasy.


• The author has been featured by Healthy Living magazine as one of the top 19 holistic healers for the millennium.


• Shows readers how to embody the spiritual within the physical to shapeshift their lives on all levels.


• Both an exceptional  personal journey and an extraordinary exploration of the nature of real healing.


As a dual board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon and the first non-Quechua woman to be initiated into the Circle of Yachaks (bird-people shamans of the Andes), Dr. Eve Bruce sees herself as an agent of change in both worlds. 

After traveling to Central and South America to study indigenous healing techniques, Bruce realized that although our culture is obsessed with narrowly defined standards of physical beauty, we actually devalue the physical because we separate it from the spiritual. She saw that her plastic surgery patients who felt ashamed of their "vanity" had the least successful outcomes. Those ready for change on emotional and spiritual levels were able to use the physical "shapeshift" provided by the surgeon's knife to transform their entire lives. By integrating the two healing modalities of surgeon and shaman, Bruce is able to help people shapeshift into newfound health on all levels--physical, emotional, and spiritual.

Because she bore her first child at sixteen, rose to the challenges of single motherhood, and worked her way through medical school, Bruce learned early to redirect the flow of her life, turning apparent obstacles into opportunities. As a powerful example of the human capacity for self-transformation, Bruce is uniquely qualified to inspire readers to redirect their own lives to places of beauty and self-acceptance. 


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"Shaman MD offers a way outside the box of Western culture and its view of healing. I highly recommend it."
(Jule Klotter, Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, April 2003 )

"This book should be required reading in Medical School.& Eve Bruce is a medical scientist by training, whose life experiences have taught her the true spirit and art of healing. . . . An inspiring journey that will be savored by all."
(Stephan Rechtschaffen, M.D., Co-Founder, CEO--Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, author of Time Shifting )

"Eve Bruce's incredible Shaman, M.D. leads the reader into a world where pain, suffering, and fear open the doors to hope, healing, and courage. We are drawn into an ecstatic journey like the ones she has taken with shamans of the Andes and Amazon, Himalayan oracles, and African sangomas. Reading this book is a life-changing experience."
(John Perkins, author of Spirit of the Shuar )

"This book is for anyone who wants to learn more about holistic healing or the human capacity for self-transformation."
(Carolyn Caselli, Magical Blend's Natural Beauty & Health, Summer 2002 )

About the Author

Eve Bruce has a plastic surgery practice in Maryland. She also performs shamanic healings, gives workshops on shamanic techniques, and leads shamanic study tours for the Dream Change Coalition to places as far flung as Ecuador, Tibet, and South Africa.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Destiny Books (January 1, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0892819766
  • ISBN-13: 978-0892819768
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #542,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A journey not for the faint of Heart., June 5, 2007
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Shaman MD is a compelling story of a journey into one of the last refuges of human and planetary mystery. This is a journey not for the weak of heart. The risks can be life changing, or life threatening. Hiking along the high jungle deep into the Amazon forests of Ecuador with Jaguar, Anaconda, and hundreds of species of poisonous snake hidden from sight, is not always something many in our domesticated culture would care to risk. Or high in the Andes entering into poisonous fume producing caves seeking knowledge and power.

Bruce's story unfolds as autobiography on the plains of Africa where she grew up in a family not afraid to march to its own beat by abandoning the comforts of western culture. With great courage, Bruce, tells her own story as a fifteen year old girl getting pregnant and choosing to keep her baby. The astonishing story unfolds in her return to America by entering college and then medical school followed by completing a surgical residency no other women had achieved to that point.

The story eventually takes her into the world of indigenous healing and cross cultural norms on many different continents working with elders, shamans, sangomas, and sages. The story underscores the personal transformation she finds in these simple and honest communities still honoring our Earth Mother and those who remain conversant with her language.

As someone who has walked this same path, I can only attest to its power to transform lives. The question, of course, can you let go of your cultural inhibitions, to enter into another way of knowing?

This is a great book, by a modern visionary. My only regret is that Bruce has not written another book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars a must have, August 14, 2005
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This is my second copy. . . There's so much to grasp in this book that I need a second reference copy. . .. Just the notion that we have the ability to shapeshift our life from moment to moment and with an enormous heart. . . . what a great gift!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A REMARKABLE STORY, March 31, 2009
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I recommend this book very highly indeed. Eve Bruce is an extremely courageous woman, who has learnt a great deal from her fascinating, often painful, life, and sets a good example for coping admirably with adversity. She writes quite beautifully and very readably, and besides the fact that her personal story is an absolutely fascinating one, she is full of wisdom. The book will be of particular interest to those who are already pursuing some form of shamanic studies, but only those with very closed minds will have nothing to learn from it. For a 'real doctor' her grasp of the principles of so-called 'alternative medicine' is quite exceptional too!
Ann Merivale
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JOURNEYING IN DREAMTIME, I sat in a trance opposite the Shuar shaman Wachapa while he chanted prayers of healing and connection. Read the first page
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shamanic communities, physical dreams, shamanic training, indigenous wisdom, shamanic healings, dream change, authentic power
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Dream Change Coalition, John Perkins, United States, Maria Juana, Mother Earth, Jose Joaquin, Dalai Lama, Alberto Tatzo, Juan Gabriel, South America, Esteban Tamayo, New York, Destiny Books, World Dream Institute, Daniel Wachapa, Lyn Roberts-Herrick, South Africa, Valley of the Dawn
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