Over the past 100 years we’ve done more damage to the earth - and to ourselves - than in all the rest of recorded history. So much so that this very statement has become almost a cliché!

Which raises the question: Can we heal the mess we’ve made so there’s hope for the new millennium?

Dr Bradford Keeney says we can, but that to do so we need to put shamans back at the heart of every culture on earth, right where they were for the first 15,000 years of our history. And since Bradford Keeney is a fully initiated shaman in half a dozen traditional societies around the globe, his answer’s no surprise.

It would be an easier answer to reckon with, though, maybe even to dismiss altogether, were it not for the fact that Keeney also holds a PhD in cultural anthropology, which he earned under the mentorship of the great anthropologist Gregory Bateson. Easier still if Keeney weren’t an internationally renowned psychotherapist who has directed several clinical doctoral programs and has worked at some of the most respected psychotherapy centers in the United States, including the Ackerman Institute in New York City, the Karl Menninger Center in Topeka, and the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. And easier again if he hadn’t compiled, edited and brought to print the astonishingly beautiful book series ‘Profiles in Healing’, which, through original photography, audio CD’s, and written text, tell the stories of leading healers, shamans, medicine people, and practitioners of complementary medicine almost entirely in their own words.

As Eric Utne, founder and editor in chief of Utne Reader, likes to say "Keeney's vision is leading the vanguard in defining and articulating the territory between psychology and spirit."

Our point being of course that this is a man to whom we should perhaps pay very careful attention. Especially since he wants to take us to traditional shamans all over the world, with our cameras on him every step of the way, to show us how he thinks we should now get down to healing the new millennium.

According to Bradford Keeney, the best way to heal the next millennium is to renew the spiritual and psychological life of the West by returning to the most archaic spirituality on the planet. ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ will take one large step in that direction.