Touching the Jaguar: Transforming Fear into Action to Change Your Life and the World

"This eloquent book inspires us to create a new reality of what it means to be humans on this magnificent planet." (Deepak Chopra) This all happened while Perkins was a Peace Corps volunteer. Then he became an "economic hit man" (EHM) , convincing developing countries to build huge projects that put them perpetually in debt to the World Bank and other US-controlled institutions. Although he'd learned in business school that this was the best model for economic development, he came to understand it as a new form of colonialism. When he later returned to the Amazon, he saw the destructive impact of his work. But a much more profound experience emerged: Perkins was inspired by a previously uncontacted Amazon tribe that "touched its jaguar" by uniting with age-old enemies to defend its territory against invading oil and mining companies. For the first time, Perkins details how shamanism converted him from an EHM to a crusader for transforming a failing Death Economy (exploiting resources that are declining at accelerating rates) into a Life Economy (cleaning up pollution, recycling, and developing green technologies) . He discusses the power our perceptions have for molding reality. And he provides a strategy for each of us to change our lives and defend our territory - the Earth - against current destructive policies and systems.