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The old mananambal gives Tuko magic mushrooms and tells him to spend a night alone in a dark cave. This is the beginning of a voyage that takes Tuko, an Austrian physics student, deep inside himself, to the profoundest meditations on reality, ancient understandings and cosmological visions, and deep inside the mysteries of darkness and inner caves, of silence and the eternally sacred. His spiritual path leads him through unresolved childhood memories and past cultural confinements, urges him to give up his fears and his prejudices, and throws challenges at him he had never expected.He sees the origin and nature of the universe, dances with the dead, learns about sorcery and survives deadly dangers, while transforming his consciousness to escape the illusions of time and cultural perspectives. He travels into microcosmic reality including that of other species, and eventually finds out the answer to his oldest question - Who am I? Born 1955 in Germany, studies of law and economics at Augsburg University.At age twenty, the author was an international globetrotter, and dedicated to psychic experiments and spiritual disciplines.While studying law, he found months each year to train with shamans in remote places and natural societies.He left Europe and law at age 28 for a cave in the Philippines, but ended up having children in New Zealand and raising them on his own.Throughout his life he pursued a spiritual path, particularly the Taoist disciplines of transforming sexual energy into higher awareness, and shamanism.Apart from being a dad, travel, building houses and landscaping, he spent his creative time teaching chess, spiritual counselling, healing, traveling inner worlds, gardening, tree-planting and writing.The author's source of insight is not intellectual thought, but acute observation, untainted by any one cultural or personal perspective. He spent the last twenty years mostly living in the "bush" in NZ, in relative isolation from society, meditating on timeless things and cultivating inner abilities…He foresees a very difficult future for mankind and therefore wishes to contribute by publishing some of his unusual work.