Steve Beyer

Current

• President at Peacemaker Services

Past

• Wilderness guide at Wilderness Drum, Inc.
• Attorney at Sidley Austin LLP
• Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Education

• Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center
• University of Wisconsin Law School
• University of Wisconsin-Madison

• University of Rochester

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Websites

• Singing to the Plants

Steve Beyer’s Summary

Over the years I have been a university professor, a trial lawyer, and a wilderness guide; now I am a peacemaker and community builder. I lived for a year and a half in a Tibetan monastery in the Himalayas, and have published three books on Buddhism and on Tibetan language and religion.

I studied wilderness survival among the indigenous peoples of North and South America, and studied sacred plant medicine with traditional herbalists in North America and curanderos in the Upper Amazon, where I received coronación by banco ayahuasquero don Roberto Acho Jurama. Singing to the Plants, my book on shamanism, sorcery, and plant medicine in the Upper Amazon, is to be published by the University of New Mexico Press.

I have studied the use of ayahuasca and other sacred plants in the Amazon, peyote in ceremonies of the Native American Church, and huachuma in Peruvian mesa rituals. I have undertaken numerous four-day and four-night solo vision fasts in Death Valley, the Pecos Wilderness, and the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico.

I am a member of the Society of Shamanic Practitioners, American Herbalists Guild, Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness. I have been on the editorial board of the Journal of Shamanic Practice, and a contributing editor of the ayahuasca website, http://www.ayahuasca.com. Visitors are always welcome to my blog, Singing to the Plants, at http://singingtotheplants.blogspot.com.

Steve Beyer’s Specialties:

• Shamanism
• Hallucinogenic and other sacred plants
• The Upper Amazon culture area
• Ethnomedicine and indigenous healing systems
• Anomalous experiences and altered states of consciousness

Steve Beyer’s Experience

• President

  Peacemaker Services

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  2004 — Present (5 years )

  Community builder, peacemaker, and carrier of council, offering facilitation, advocacy, and training in council processes, conflict transformation, peacemaking circles, communication skills, mediation, and restorative principles and practices. Lecturer in the Department of Criminal Justice, Chicago State University, teaching undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in restorative justice and in the theory and practice of nonviolence.

• Wilderness guide

  Wilderness Drum, Inc.

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  2002 — 2006 (4 years )

  Wilderness guide, offering guidance in wilderness spirituality, vision fasts and rites of passage, traditional and self-created ceremonies, and personal empowerment through council, wilderness survival skills, and harmony with the natural world.

• Attorney

  Sidley Austin LLP

  (Law Practice industry)

  1981 — 2006 (25 years )

  Attorney, senior litigation partner, and senior counsel, with practice focus on mass torts, complex litigation, and consumer fraud class actions.

• Associate Professor

  University of Wisconsin-Madison

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  1969 — 1981 (12 years )

  Teacher of undergraduate and graduate courses and seminars and director of graduate research in Buddhist Studies, history of religions, and advanced research methodology.

Steve Beyer’s Education

• Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center

  Ph.D. , Psychology , 2002 — 2005

• University of Wisconsin Law School

  J.D. , Law , 1978 — 1981

  Articles Editor, Wisconisn Law Review; William H. Page Award for outstanding written contribution to the Wisconsin Law Review.

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Ph.D. , Buddhist Studies , 1964 — 1969

  Phi Beta Kappa; Woodrow Wilson Fellowship; National Defense Fellowship; Ford Foundation Fellowship; HEW Project Grant.

• University of Rochester

  B.A. , Philosophy , 1960 — 1964

Additional Information

Steve Beyer’s Websites:

• Singing to the Plants

Steve Beyer’s Interests:

• Shamanism • Hallucinogenic and other sacred plants • The Upper Amazon culture area • Ethnomedicine and indigenous healing systems • Anomalous experiences and altered states of consciousness

Steve Beyer’s Groups:

•    PsychologyLinked
•    The Psychology Network
•    Indigenous Issues, Rights & Advocacy
•    The Anthropology Network

Steve Beyer’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• expertise requests
• getting back in touch