Ñawi [nya-wi] is the literal translation of “eye” in Quechua, however the meaning of the term goes beyond that, it also means to look and even speaks of another vision of the world. It is a pre-Hispanic Andean vision that dates back to the ancient civilization of Caral (pre-Inca, 5000 years old, the oldest city in America) where offerings woven…

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…

We live in times of change and confusion in which the voices of the search for truth, righteousness, justice, while they may be real in intent, are shrouded in confusion. Many times the social movements that embody these searches end up trapped in revenge, violence, and sectarianism, creating even more pain and alienation from the truth. Times of great epidemics…

The culmination of a path with the plants, or any spiritual healing path, leads us to the search for true human Dharma through service. As we begin to recognize the Dharma as the path to true humanity, we can begin to recognize the illusions of a false self that binds us to our suffering, and we recognize that the way…

“Open up Heart, open up feeling, open up understanding, leave reason aside”Rosa Giove Nakazawa (Tarapoto – Perú 1952-2022)The human capacity to learn to leave the mandates of the mind, to leave the “shoulds”, the ego, accumulated through hundreds of suffering generations sheltered in the intellect in order not to feel, is the key to the hope of a new time. The ikaro…