“A wonderful thriller from the world of shamanism and sacred plants.”
Luis Eduardo Luna Ph.D
Author of Vegetalismo

Call of the Forbidden Way reminded me of Castaneda’s work, except this book is more evocative for the times. There is a kind of parallel—while Castaneda wrote fiction disguised as anthropological fieldwork, you get the sense that Owings is presenting certain realities disguised as fiction. When you grasp the deeper context of the book, it’s very disturbing material consider.
Seth Armstrong
Santa Fe, NM

A gripping tale, reads great. If you are into shamanism, or have had encounters with spiritual beings, this is as must read. If you understand this book at the deeper levels, it reveals some frightening potentials and challenges for us all to respond to. Bravo!
William
Silver Springs, MD

A friend pushed Call of the Forbidden Way on me at a weekend retreat. I don’t read much fiction but when I do, it usually isn’t something like this. I ended up ignoring my friend over that entire weekend—I couldn’t put this book down. I still don’t know what to make of it but I can’t stop thinking about the concepts it introduced me to.
Howard Beatty
Pasadena, CA

It’s a rare to find someone who writes about working with dark spiritual forces who isn’t couching the subject in some juvenile context of evil. I refer to Owings’ inclusion of a Dharmapala, a wrathful deity. This was bold, and generated a wonderful character for us readers.
Gordon Mays
Charlottesville, VA

This book pushed all my buttons, including ones I never knew I had. It enthralled me, disturbed me; made me laugh and ignited my anger, anger that our culture has stripped away the ways of our ancestors.  Thank you for opening my eyes to those things that have been forbidden to us.
Janet DeMint
Cambridge, MA

Wow, what a page-turner. At first I was simply engrossed by the story. Then I started to wonder, is something like this actually going on? While I suspect that very question is part of the author’s intent, it left me with a new respect—no, longing—to be connected to a spiritual tradition that honors such a path.
Maggie Eisner
San Diego, CA

I don’t really know what to make of this book; it’s different. This story made me consider things I’ve never conceived of, but now it’s got my mind open to some radical new potentials. Ironically, I realize that these possibilities may have always been with us, but that we have been blinded to them, or more accurately, not allowed to know about them. Whatever it is, I want to read more about these things. Jonathan Klein
Boulder, CO

Where has this book been hiding all these years? It’s just what’s needed to wake people up.
Stacy McNear
Seattle, WA

When can we read the sequel?
Louis Biggs
St. Paul, MN