Fire in the Head

<p><strong><em>Fire in the Head</em> is Tom Cowan's</strong><strong> engrossing intelligent and shamanically well-informed work that is an important gift to all those Westerners seeking a knowledge of Celtic shamanism.</strong></p><p>In <em>The Song of Wandering Aengus</em> William Butler Yeats refers to the 'fire in the head that characterizes the visionary experience. Tom Cowan has pursued this theme in <em>Fire in the Head</em> a lyrical cross-cultural exploration of shamanism and the Celtic imagination that examines the myths and tales of the ancient Celtic poets and storytellers and outlines techniques used to access the shaman's world.</p>