A leading thinker, writer and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all people, Martín Prechtel is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language and an ongoing fresh approach.
https://www.floweringmountain.com/martin/indexSUN.htmlBolad’s Kitchen is a school, people pay tuition.
He's been mentioned several times already here on the forum, including:
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=242.msg1030#msg1030http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=718.msg3622#msg3622 - archive of the first link in this post can be found here
https://web.archive.org/web/20060909143456/http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/Anthro/GSN/1198nnews.htmRelevant passage:
NOTICE OF DISASSOCIATION
Dr. Nathaniel Tarn (author of Scandals in the House of Birds: Shamans and Priests on Lake Atitlán) and Dr. Robert Carlsen (author of The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town) wish to disassociate themselves completely from the latest activities of Mr. Martin Prechtel. When they worked with him in the 1970s, Mr. Prechtel was an honest and knowledgeable collaborator and Tarn and Carlsen gave him joint-author status on a variety of projects as a result. Mr. Prechtel, now calling himself a "Maya Shaman," has in the 1990s, with Putnam as his publisher, written (or had written for him) a self-puffing volume without any scholarly basis whatsoever, but full of anthropology-bashing. His claim, in essence, is that all costumbre is now dead in Atitlán, but it lives inside him. Therefore he is the only Atitlán that is left. We regret that, without warning, he has broken all agreements made with us and reiterated over the years to work within a scholarly context. Further, we regret this blatant commercialization of Native American rituals and beliefs at the hands of someone who once respected them.
