El Maestro Ajo Sacha
I met Master Ajo Sacha in Chazuta, a town in the northeastern Peruvian jungle. He came by the hand of Don Guillermo Ojanama, a well known maestro or expert plant doctor and master plant diet expert of the Lamista tradition, descendant of an Andean nation that rebelled against the Incas and was exiled to the Amazon and fused their Quechua customs with the cosmovision of the Amazonian tribes.
It was my first master plant diet in the middle of the Amazonian jungle, where the sounds, the darkness and the explosive life of insects, birds, tarantulas and reptiles inside and outside my tambo (wooden pallet under a rustic roof of dry leaves) in the middle of the bush was the biggest challenge outside of the unusual circumstances for my urban mind.
Guillermo’s ikaros, without me realizing it, began to tell me about the magic and opportunity of the master. That ability to take you to a state similar to lucid dreaming, where night and day dissolve and space-time becomes a continuum along with the forest and the sounds. As a natural state of being where wandering beyond the mind begins to be experienced as a state of its own. Fear dissolves, the burdens of the past and in front of the sound of the forest, clarity of the heart and peace. Nothing matters. Nothing, just being one with everything.
Ajo Sacha is a masculine master healer, a hot plant, a strong plant that innervates sexual energy thereby giving back to the being its vital energy, its creativity, its love and power, through cleansing and purification. It is “Sinchi medicina” or “war medicine” that cleanses the bad energies in the subtle world, the “demons” or energetic parasites – those frequencies that connect our addictions, lack of forgiveness, compulsions, anger or unbalanced passions. In the jungle he is often referred to as “legitimo curandero” or “legitimate healer”, because the being and essence of Ajo Sacha is completely that of a master and doctor par excellence. A master who, as Don Guillermo used to say, teaches you the chants, the ikaros, the melodies of the forest, the language of the plants, the art of healing.
He is a teacher that leads you to understand forgiveness, the key to the beginning of the path of healing, that which comes from the real acceptance of pain as a product of the suffering of humanity, and teaches us our responsibility to let go of our suffering, the cause and the offender, accepting their suffering as our own, and thereby burning the trace of the act, the aggression or transgression, burning the feeling of victimhood. He helps us to offer the pain to the understanding of the universe, to the forest and to the sun in order to reconnect our being to the earth. It is a great teacher’s reason to help us open our hearts, leading us to an encounter with our real self.
The shamanic master plant diet with Ajo Sacha is an awakening and with it, activates our sexual energy, kundalini and vital functions, developing a deeper connection with ourselves, without fear, without limits. It strengthens and revitalizes our life force, helping us to develop the resilience to overcome our challenges. It helps to summon the energy of the warrior (Sinchi Medicina), teaching us to walk our path with righteousness, love and truth. Ajo Sacha burns everything that does not belong to us, helping to eliminate “panema”, the heavy negative energies that tend to weigh us down and make it difficult for us to move forward in life.
Ajo Sacha is sometimes called “the opener of the way”, because he can help to initiate us, through a deep encounter with ourselves, into the understanding of our life path or Dharma.
It is brewed over many days with chanting and invoking of the entity of the plant.
On a physical level, Ajo Sacha helps with arthritis and rheumatism, helps calm the body and balance the nervous system. He strengthens the immune system and helps with immunodeficiency diseases, and helps cleanse the lungs and respiratory system by burning away all the mucus that got stuck – all our cries that were never cried out, our sense of being a victim, or not being able to take action.
The shamanic diet with Ajo Sacha is one that we work with often at Sinchi Runa, and a plant with which I have developed a very deep relationship over many years of working with master plants. Ajo Sacha, along with other master plants, are part of the Amazonian healing world. By settling in Europe we have initiated work with this lesser known part of Amazonian plant medicine, but which is actually the central aspect of Amazonian healing. A master plant diet is a profound process, which brings the healing into action and the Ayahuasca sessions into the concrete. The diet of Ajo Sacha and other master plants, masters and healers, is the opportunity to embody the master and merge with him in order to understand our circumstance, as each master plant embodies a divine master and healer, with its own personality and properties, which can be found through a shamanic master plant diet.
Sanango
November 2023
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