The companion volume to Secrets of the Talking Jaguar, this memoir continues Prechtel's account of his years in Santiago Atitlan, focusing on the Tzutujil understanding of eloquence, beauty, and the sacred responsibility of human community to care for the spirits that sustain the world. The book deepens the teaching of the first volume, moving from initiation into the obligations of a fully initiated life — the ceremonies, relationships, grief work, and artistic practice that constitute a genuinely sacred human existence. For men engaged in serious inner work, the contrast between this vision of communal initiated manhood and the isolation of contemporary Western masculine life is both sobering and inspiring.