ABSTRACT

Peter was a colleague and a fellow professor at the University of South Africa in Pretoria, where Keeney had been working as a visiting professor. One condition of his appointment had been that they arrange for someone to take Keeney into the Kalahari so that he could spend time with the Bushmen, the oldest practitioners of shamanic healing in the world. Peter had graciously volunteered

for the job, and although he might have been an able academic, he had done a questionable job of planning for this journey. They had neither the proper equipment nor the necessary spare parts if something broke down. Now they were about to run out of gas in the most remote place in the world. There’d be no rescuers any time soon.