Secrets of the talking jaguar Book

The official book summary and most of the reviews here talk about the external Guatemalan world that Martin Prechtel inhabited; however, I was struck by the dream-like passages describing his close encounters with death and with deities, and by his philosophical descriptions of how the world works, according to the ancient Maya world view. Even though I've read a lot of books about the nature of spirit (or perhaps because of that), many of the passages struck me as profound. It had a real meaty substance, not new-age flim-flam. I love real-life accounts of syncronicities, bizarre happenings, and the way spirits and dreams interact with the tangible, visible world.