Between Zen and Now: A Journey Through the Modern Shamanic Matrix

By Ashley Tomasino

Book Overview

In her first book, part personal memoir and part spiritual manifesto, Dr. Ashley Tomasino takes the reader on a profound journey into the mystical world of Amazonian shamanism and plant-based medicine.

​​​​​​​Expertly weaving the mundane and the sacred, her own worldly experiences and encounters with higher spiritual realms, Tomasino offers a book that takes the reader on an exciting journey of reflection, personal evolution, and forgiveness. It is a book is full of wisdom, guidance, and adventure in which the reader travels along with the author to the Amazon Jungle, into the maloca and the sacred ceremonies of ayahuasca, and then back to her life as a practicing healer and acupuncturist in San Diego.

In sharing her own personal tragedies with humility and humor, and then how she forged a new path towards healing and rejuvenation, Between Zen and Now is a powerful guide for all those seeking personal healing and higher levels of spiritual awareness in their lives.

"This is a profound and intimate telling of a journey of self discovery. Ashley (or Dr. Tomasino) takes the reader deeply and in detail into her own experience of trauma and subsequent growth and healing. Insightful and raw, this story takes the reader into the author's inner psyche, the jungles of Peru and realms outside of time and space as they are commonly experienced."

From Richard Gold, PhD, LAc

Co-Founder of Pacific College of Oriental Medicine

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1637922132
• ISBN13: 9781637922132
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Beyond Publishing
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"