This is a much better book than Plant-Spirit Shamanism although I couldn’t say why. I think it may be because Ross Heaven writes with such passion about Voudou, and in particular his initiation into Haitian Voudou, that you are just carried along. I knew nothing about Voudou before reading this book and now want to find out more. I think that the author certainly honours the spirits he works with and also does a great service to a much maligned and misunderstood tradition. Definitely one I’ll be reading again – there are also some excellent rituals/exercises contained in its pages that I look forward to trying.