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Hillary S. Webb, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist, author, and mixed-media storyteller. After receiving her undergraduate degree in journalism from New York University, Webb went on to earn an MA in consciousness studies from Goddard College and a PhD in psychology from Saybrook University. Currently a faculty member at Goddard College, she is also the former Managing Editor of Anthropology of Consciousness, the peer-reviewed journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness. She is the author of Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World, Traveling Between the Worlds, and Exploring Shamanism. When not lurking around the stand-up comedy clubs of Europe, Webb lives in Maine with her husband, photographer Carl Austin Hyatt.