Meet the Author

Steve Beyer

Welcome to Singing to the Plants! A bit about myself: I have a law degree and doctorates in both religious studies and psychology. I lived for a year and a half in a Tibetan monastery in the Himalayas, and have published three books on Buddhism and Tibetan language and religion. I have been a professor at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, the University of California—Berkeley, and Graduate Theological Union.

For twenty-five years, I was a lawyer and litigator at a major international law firm in Chicago. I have been a wilderness guide and a peacemaker and community builder. I studied wilderness survival among the indigenous peoples of North and South America, and sacred plant medicine with traditional herbalists in North America and curanderos in the Upper Amazon, where I received coronación by banco ayahuasquero don Roberto Acho Jurama.

I have worked with ayahuasca and other sacred plants in the Amazon, peyote in ceremonies of the Native American Church, and huachuma in Peruvian mesa rituals; and I have undertaken numerous four-day and four-night solo vision fasts in Death Valley, the Pecos Wilderness, and the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico. I am a member of the Society of Shamanic Practitioners, American Herbalists Guild, Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness. I have served as an editor of the Journal of Shamanic Practice and as a contributing editor of Ayahuasca.com.

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See how my journey began. If you are interested in my other books, take a look here.