In this sacred and challenging time, I wish to speak from the heart, as someone who has heard a deep calling and consecrated his life to healing, the search for truth, and the spirit. To speak precisely from that place we’ve been taught to silence, from where there are no barriers, no fear, and no distrust. Sinchi Runa is not…
Master Plants are sacred healing tools that require a deep understanding and a rigorous process of preparation on the part of those seeking to integrate into this ancestral tradition. As the popularity of these practices expand beyond the jungle, so do challenges related to their adaptation, and the preservation of respect and purity in the application of these medicines, which…
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…
You will hear my serpent voice slithering in your ear…you will see my light without seeing it through the senses…and my warmth will follow you beyond the cold…And I will be part of you, earth thrown to the infinite…(translation of Icaro Ayahuasca, Rosa Giove / Peru)Not long ago in the Peruvian Amazon, healing with plants was almost the only “system”…
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