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Quote:A fasinating book. Gersi recounts his experiences where he witnessed amazing powers among peoples of a wide range of different cultures that western civilization would consider `primitive'. Gersi witnessed one account of actual teleportation where he noticed that each time the shaman disappeared there was what appeared to be a strange moving "trail" (like heat waves) riding behind the shaman that resembled or took the form of a broomstick. He speculated that this might be the basis of the legend that witches ride broomsticks, such as, in pre-Colombian Mexico, the Aztecs worshiped Tiazolteotl (the witch-Goddess), who was usually depicted carrying or riding a broom.

I would highly recommend this book.
From the dust jacket:
"Gersi begins with stories about his childhood experiences in the Belgian Congo - of murder by magic, of faith healing, of survival after death - that whetted his appetite for the frontiers of human knowledge. In this book he recounts some of his most stunningly provocative adventure in dimensions of experience normally thought impossible by the Western mind, but lived daily by peoples of tradition on islands, in jungles, and high in remote mountain ranges.