This text by Daniel C. Noel, an independent scholar of religion and culture, presents an innovative and startling path that will enable Western seekers to become sorcerers. The shamans of indigenous cultures took trance journeys into otherworlds where they contacted spirits; we can do the same through the path of imagination. Noel finds in Mircea Eliade's novel "The Forbidden Forest" and in the counterculture fairy tales of Carlos Castaneda the literary sources of a new shamanism. He discusses Jung's rediscovery of soul and then moves on to an erudite evaluation of the imaginal psychology of James Hillman, Thomas Moore, and others. Here imagination provides us with "healing fictions" and enables us to creatively affirm our dreams, fantasies, and inner wounds. The imaginal power of the psyche challenges us to do soul work in everyday life and to connect with ensouled things of the anima mundi. A mindful reading of this profound book is in itself an example of the new shamanism.