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Eliot Cowan has a degree in anthropology from Pomona College, and has done postgraduate work in ethnographic documentary filmmaking at UCLA. He began to study and practice herbalism in 1969, then studied acupuncture. He is a licentiate, and has a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in acupuncture from J. R. Worsley at the College of Traditional Acupuncture, Leamington Spa, England, and served on the faculty there (1979-80). Currently he is the apprentice and designated successor of Don Guadalupe Gonzalez Rios, an elder Huichol Indian shaman and plant spirit healer. He lives in Santa Barbara, California, and spends much time in Mexico and giving workshops and lectures around the world.