Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca, the visionary medicine of the Amazon, is typically used in formal ceremony by the maestro to open and close the dieta.
Tobacco
The Amazonian form of tobacco, smoked as mapacho or ingested as rapé, is often used during dietas for energetic cleansing and connecting with the spirit of the plant or tree being dieted.
Deep Healing
Each master plant or tree is characterized by its ability to offer a special type of healing. Many believe that successful completion of a dedicated plant dieta offers more healing than any other type of healing modality.
Shamanic Apprenticeship
The dieta is the process by which apprentices from the Amazonian tradition of vegatalismo (plant-based shamanism & healing) learn to become curanderos (healers).
Shipiba maestras Olivia Arevalo (decd.), Manuela Mahua, and Luzmila Mori (decd.) from the year 2009 | Photo courtesy of Christophe Madrona & Habib
A video featuring the Huni Kuin and their message to the world | [Directed by Yassa Khan and the SAGE Foundation]
So ashamed of mankind!
O que será dos povos da floresta..
Biodiversity of the Amazon Rainforest through art | All artwork by various artists from "Kene al Bicentenario: Reflexiones Desde El Arte"
Photos taken today @ Silver Laurel forest of La Gomera
Oh that magical forest.. I have a wonderful memory of walking there rather awestruck.
Magic 😍😍
Juliana Lapa acho que estou com saudades de vocês 😍🤭💜 !!!
Beautiful!
Niklas Pohlman
"There is not a single person who encounters the tree [the Samauma, or Shunum, as the Huni Kui people say in Hatxã Kui), who does not learn something. It is the place where studies of spirituality and shamanism are carried out, the space where the elders pass on knowledge to the youngest. We consider it to be the space where all the yuxibus, the spirits, dwell.”"The medicine is connected with the woods, with the leaves, with the roots, with its own aroma, with the sounds. This connection (with the forest) is not an indirect connection for our people; our traditional knowledge-keepers, our medicine men, our healers, relate to all these very directly, and through them the medicines connect with the rest of the people…. It is a spiritual connection, a relationship in which we treat medicine like a mother or an aunt, and many people are named after medicines.”
"We are making ourselves available to contribute to this land. We have been resisting for 520 years and we will continue to resist… We are not afraid, we will fight until the last Indigenous person is standing, defending what we believe, what we want for future generations. Protecting the forest is a responsibility that is not only of the Indigenous peoples, not only of the Huni Kui people. Protecting the forest, protecting biodiversity, is a responsibility of all of humanity.”
- Chief Ninawa Huni Kui
Ohhhh my YEEEESSSS. We are fortunate to have plant, animal...all nature Elders to teach us if we can stop and learn. We need them!!!! Deepest thanks and respect for this message.
I agree! Trees share their wisdom! 💜
Gracias! Gracias! Gracias! 💛💛💛💛💛💛💙💙💙💙💙💚💚💚💚🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳♾️🤍
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Abraham: "Michael, if you still have questions about what is happening, you are still in process. Once you are with Spirit, there are no more questions."Photo is of Noya Rao, Bobinsana, and the altar of Abraham
[Note: The late Maestro Pascual Mahua and his long-term apprentices believe that the physical tree dieted by many nowadays, does not confer the wind of Noya Rao, which is considered the true dieta and grace of Palo Volador]
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The Tree of Life _______
Behold that before the emanations were emanated and the creatures were created,
The Upper Simple Light had filled the whole existence.
And there was no vacancy, such as an empty air, a hollow,
But all was filled with that Simple, Boundless Light.
And there was no such part as head, or end,
But everything was One, Simple Light, balanced evenly and equally,
And it was called “the Light of Ein Sof (Infinity).”
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There is no force and no attainment in The Ein Sof,
As there is no mind of a created that could attain Him,
For He has no place, no boundary, no name.
- Rabbi Isaac Luria
Aerial view of the Ucayali River (Peru), where the Shipibo Conibo communities have traditionally been located.
The snake of fertility and life.
Memorable conversations #63_______
Me: "I feel like things are being cleaned, altered, straightened, opened, almost without end, but preparing for that moment that I have been afraid of for a long time. Where the egoic self dissolves and there is only Spirit. I went through it once and in retrospect, I think I passed out that night because I was unable to go through it fully."
Abraham: "I have this experience almost every time I drink ayahuasca. And each time, I get nervous, anxious, and sometimes just want to stop the ceremony and do anything else besides go through it. But then it happens and afterwards, everything is much better. At times, I return to my self and realize I am singing, but do not even remember how long I have been singing."
Me: "Do you mean you go through a full ego dissolution, what many consider the most difficult and profound mystical experience that a human being can undergo, in almost every ayahuasca ceremony?"
[Dionisio Santos describes "the experience of death-rebirth as the initiatory process par excellence, which inevitably lead to a dissolution of all personal, somatic, psycho-socio-cultural religious references."]
Abraham: "Yes. But once it occurs, you are brought back. In a way, that is the cosmic joke of it all. It happens, the indescribeable, but then you come back in an instant, once that gift has been received."
Me: "I can see why you are such an open channel. I think that level of surrender to Spirit is rare, even among curanderos and maestros."
Abraham: "When that moment arrives, just breathe. Hold yourself firm with your hands on the ground. And realize that it is only the death of separation and illusion. It is an extraordinary blessing."
Me pasa igual, hay momentos que se quiere detener las sensaciones jaja
A butterfly explores the fruits and leaves of the Chacruna plant [Psychotria viridis] | Photos by Altinho Machado
El Drago Milenario, the Dragon Tree (Dracaena draco), estimated to be approximately 1000 years old and located on the island of Tenerife, Spain
Pajé Tekahayne of Aldeia Vakaynu of the Shanenawa people | Photo courtesy of Abraham Lozanobrioso
"When I first started dieting Noya Rao, I used to feel such cold during the ayahuasca ceremonies. I would wrap myself in two blankets and would still be shivering from its wind. You will eventually get used to it though, just like we did." - Shipiba curandera Luzmila Mori (decd.) | Photo courtesy of Céline Etcheverry-Mendy and taken circa 2009