Robert Tindall

A writer, musician, practitioner of Zen Buddhism and inveterate traveler, Robert Tindall sees the practice of pilgrimage as an antidote to creeping monoculturalism, a reawakening to our ancestral roots. His work explores themes of pilgrimage and the crossing of frontiers into other cultures and states of consciousness. Besides his personal narrative of his journey into the vanishing realm of Amazonian shamanism, "The Jaguar that Roams the Mind," and his various articles on the practice of Vegetalismo, Robert has published on pilgrimage along the Camino to Santiago, the commodification of Buddhism in the Himalayas, and on the spiritual practice of the medieval quest in the poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Robert and his wife, Susana live and teach in the San Francisco Bay Area.