Bonnie Glass-Coffin

Bonnie has been deeply immersed in Peruvian shamanic healing since 1982. As a soon-to-be Emerita Professor of Cultural Anthropology, she has researched, published, taught, and served at the intersections of culture, gender, spirituality, and healing (especially with plant-spirit-medicines) for most of her adult life. She is the author of The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru (1998) and has also published in the Handbook of Entheogenic Healing, the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, Anthropology and Humanism, Anthropology of Consciousness, the Journal of Psychedelic Studies, the Journal of Ritual Studies, and Zygon: the Journal of Religion and Science. She met don Oscar when he invited her to speak at an international gathering on the shores of Lake Michigan in 2005. Resonating deeply with his transformative vision for traditional Peruvian shamanism in service to sacred community and to the New Earth, she began her formal apprenticeship in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Cross-Cultural Shamanism in 2006, becoming a sanctioned teacher and eventually co-authoring (with don Oscar) Lessons in Courage: Peruvian Shamanic Healing for Everyday Life in 2013. She is currently in her last year of a three-year apprenticeship with teachers Darcy Kopas and Robin Flynn to receive sanction as a plant-spirit-medicine ceremonialist in alignment with the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition ethic and ethos and she also works as a board-certified hospital chaplain, applying her many gifts in service to patients at a Trauma 1 hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah.