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Path Of The Shaman is a documentary crowd-sourced film about the shamanic sacramental medicine known as Ayuhuasca. It is produced by Todd Harris and Christina Gooding. It focuses on a shaman known as Dave, also known as Ronin Nai, and his various discoveries with a combination of two of the psychoactive plants that make up the medicine used spiritually and ceremonially by the Shipibo Indigenous people of Peru.

The film, produced in British Columbia focuses on ayahuasca ceremonies and the retreats of Vancouver physician Gabor Maté, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction and his patients. Maté had been threatened by the previous government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Canada for using Ayuhuasca in ceremonies in Vancouver.

Maté has held a series of "healing retreats" led by Dave and "integrated traditional Amazonian ceremonies with his psycho-therapeutic work" according to promotional materials related to the film.

The film has been funded to the total of $52,990 CAD total funds raised, 101% of the goal reached on June 16th, 2017.