AYA: Awakenings (2013)

Director: Timothy Parish, Rak Razam Producer: Timothy Parish, Rak Razam Genre: Documentary, Mystery Country: Australia, Peru Language: English We who solve mystery, become mystery. AYA: Awakenings is a documentary journey into the world and visions of Amazonian shamanism, adapted from the cult book Aya: a Shamanic Odyssey by Rak Razam. As Razam sets out to document the booming business of Amazonian shamanism in the 21st century, he quickly finds himself caught up in a culture clash between the old world and the new. Braving a gringo trail of the soul, he uncovers a movement of spiritual tourists coming from the West for a direct experience of the multidimensional reality shamanism connects one to.