Douglas Wright Boyd was a humanitarian researcher, lecturer, teacher, activist, and internationally renowned author. He was the founding director of the Cross-Cultural Studies Program, a long-range investigation of traditional and esoteric ideologies. Boyd traveled the world, studying with adepts and healers from diverse traditions and cultures. He was a master storyteller possessing incisive wit, sharing personal tales of telepathic experiences, communication, rainmaking, and psychic healing gleaned from years of working with and learning from yogis, monks, psychic healers, and medicine people across many cultures.
The book delves into the teachings and extraordinary mental abilities of contemporary mystics, highlighting their unique human qualities and personalities. Through insightful exploration, it reveals how these individuals harness their mental powers and the implications of their teachings on personal growth and understanding.
Rolling Thunder, the subject of this book, is a keeper of tribal secrets-a modern medicine man. After witnessing one of Rolling Thunder's healing rituals at a conference sponsored by the research department of the Menninger Foundation, Doug Boyd decided to open his mind fully to the mysteries of such secret healing powers as might be revealed to him. Boyd's book is an account by a contemporary white man of the inner experience of American Indians, an exploration into what some accept as the "real" world. To the believer or to the skeptic, Boyd's experiences form a penetrating and challenging story of a world that is little known to most Americans.