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).
My "love and light party" pooper thought of the day:"I believe all of us were drawn to this path because we were very sick and sought healing, whether knowingly or not."
"And no matter what titles people may choose to later take on, be it Txai, Txana, Facilitator, Curandera, Healer, Medicine Man, Medicine Woman, or Shaman, I believe all of us, at some level, remain sick: because our separation from Spirit, and all that it entails, remains a fixture of our human existence."
"So when I hear someone take on an indigenous name for themselves, talk about how many learning dietas they have done, or promote their 'spiritual credentials' in a variety of ways, what I actually hear them saying is that they recognize how sick they remain but found great healing that is being honored."
"Because for me, healing and learning lie on opposites sides of the same medicine coin. You cannot have one without the other."
"And in this way, within a medicine world where many people try to be something or present themselves as someone, I find it a useful perspective to view all of us as patients in various stages of illness within the hospital of God."
"California lawmakers on Thursday narrowly approved a bill supported by veterans and criminal justice reform advocates to decriminalize the possession and personal use of a limited list of natural psychedelics, including ayahuasca and "magic mushrooms""Gov. Gavin Newsom will now decide the fate of Senate Bill 58, which would remove criminal penalties for the possession and use of psilocybin and psilocin, the active ingredients in psychedelic mushrooms, mescaline and dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, known as ayahuasca."
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Excerpts from Senate Bill 58:
"This bill would would, on and after January 1, 2025, make lawful the possession, preparation, obtaining, transfer, as specified, or transportation of, specified quantities of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and mescaline, for personal use, as defined, by and with persons 21 years of age or older. "
"The bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency to convene a workgroup to study and make recommendations on the establishment of a framework governing the therapeutic use, including facilitated or supported use, of those substances. The bill would require that workgroup to send a report to the Legislature containing those recommendations on or before January 1, 2025."
"This bill would, on and after January 1, 2025, make lawful the cultivation or transportation of specified quantities of spores or mycelium capable of producing mushrooms or other materials that contain psilocybin or psilocyn for personal use, as defined, by and with persons 21 years of age or older."
California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms and other natural psychedelics
www.latimes.com
California lawmakers approved a bill to decriminalize possession and personal use of certain natural psychedelics, including psilocybin, or magic mushrooms.Now they just have to open shaman schools Cause psychedelics without a shamans are just make you high All those companies and people already going for big profit ...... scientist putting everything clean into categories......yuck
The Yawanawa people are celebrating after Brazilian President Lula signs a decree to officially recognize Rio Gregorio as indigenous territory (187,944 hectares in size), giving them legal protection as a reservation to defend against invasions by illegal loggers, gold miners and cattle ranchers. President Lula has so far signed decrees recognizing 8 indigenous territories since taking office.
[Video by Tashka Yawanawa]
Does anyone know a good contact for visiting sitting singing with the yawanwa ?
"There are many rapés being sold. But many hold just tobacco and ash, and do not carry the right medicinal plants to bring about the healing. Katsarau is pure medicine and comes from Yuxibu, the Great Spirit." - Chief Tuim Nova Era of the Huni Kuin village of Espelho da Vida
[Bottle with the claw of the Amazon eagle, carrying Katsarau rapé]
Where to get this katsarau?
But mapacho alone is a master plant and a healer plant
Is this available to try ?
Componente epoxy empastrado sobre botella cualquiera con una pata de pajaro majestuoso ..decoracion para turistas ..pongo en duda tu "medicina" ..aparte trata de animales silvestres o sus partes es no solo ilegal si no tambien de poco gusto
El tabaco solo también cura amigo ninguna medicina es más que otra ahoo
No me gustan los cadáveres
That's gonna make the vegans purge
I’ll try some- DM me
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"We ask for things from the medicine that do not belong within the light of Great Spirit: to [have the visionary experience] of becoming a jiboia or a jaguar, to gain powers or abilities, to be better than others. And that is when we can get lost and go astray. There is no secret to the medicine - it is simply to ask for the healing of our bodies and spirits, and the purification of our minds, so that we can become a better person."- Chief Tuim Nova Era of the Huni Kuin tribe
Sting and his wife expressing support for the Call of Chief Raoni:"We witness the way in which you, the original people of Brazil, have grown to engage with the Western world while maintaining your ancestral strength, your spiritual oneness with the natural world, and your cultural integrity."
"Your protection of the forest is absolutely crucial for everyone who inhabits the Earth."
"In the face of the powerful forces aligned against you, it is vital that all the indigenous peoples of Brazil and beyond come together in strength and I know that you fight tirelessly to unite all indigenous peoples."
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Excerpt from the Call of Chief Raoni, which led to a gathering of 800 indigenous and a letter signed by 56 indigenous leaders:
"For time immemorial, we Indigenous Peoples have been guardians of the forests, rivers, air and animals of the lands where our ancestors walked."
"These lands represent not only our home, but also our cultural identity, our traditions, and science that has always existed in a joint and balanced way with nature. It is essential to understand that the ownership of these lands is not just about a material aspect, but an essential element for our existence."
"The application of the Temporal Framework would result in the exclusion of thousands of indigenous peoples from our traditional territories, compromising our subsistence, our way of being and violate our guaranteed self-determination as Indigenous Peoples."
"Furthermore, it would set precedents for the invasion and exploitation of our lands by economic interests that affect not only us, but according to research made by IPAM, 55 million hectares of native lands will be destroyed and 20 billion tons of CO2 will be emitted."
"The earthly spirits are becoming angry. How many manifestos, letters and protests will it take for you to take a humane step to protect the planet and future generations?"
"We are not just talking about the lives of our people, we are also speaking of your lives and that of your heirs."
"Does that not concern you?"
A cautionary perspective on serving medicine___________
"When people choose to make their living by serving the medicine, I have known many who lose their clarity."
"It no longer becomes listening to Spirit calling upon them to serve the medicine at a certain place and time."
"Instead, it becomes the mind of a person deciding to serve over and over again because they have to."
"And as I have witnessed many times over...that, is when the protection of Spirit disappears."
- Curandero from the Shipibo & Peruvian mestizo traditions, twenty years on the medicine path
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[Note: The speaker was not advocating in favor of curanderismo being a part-time job; nor was the person against adequate compensation for healers (this seems to be quite the emotional trigger for some people). The speaker was also largely addressing mishaps and tragedies that I brought up among "facilitators" who serve medicine regularly as their primary job but never bothered to spend significant time in dieta & deeper studies with experienced maestros/pajes.]
Yeah it's a temptation The best thing about putting you in perspective is Buddhism Cause you gain power through magic but if you abuse it for personal goals you create bad karma which will mess your spiritual path seriously up You can roll like a aya Rock Star making big bucks and have a ton of sex ....but boy oh boy
Cielo, a wonderfully messy, honest, and straight-talking woman, who went through her ups and downs, kept the faith, and who will be missed .____________________
Cielo (posted publicly on her FB page): "I am posting this as I have had people recently wanting to come for a month or so and think they can serve afterwards. I will never accept or endorse this."
"Just want to say clearly and strongly - do not come to me with your ideas of becoming a shaman in a week or month or even a year."
"I have too much experience with the medicine, good curanderos and bad, to endorse these ego-induced delusions of becoming a guru."
"I have sat in over 2,000 ceremonies, have dieted over 20 master plants, have facilitated thousands of people in their process, and I know that you cannot come to Peru for 3 months and propose to serve medicine. There is so much more to the medicine than dishing out ayahuasca, playing some ambient music and basking in glory in the morning as everyone adores you. Shit can happen and does often."
"If you do not know how to bring down a person who is high and losing it, things can go terribly wrong very quickly. This cannot be learnt quickly."
"This medicine, ayahuasca, is strong, amazing, healing and insightful when used correctly, with impeccability, authenticity, responsibility and with respect and knowledge."
"If served without these and with ego and desire for yourself you are putting people at risk."
"I am struggling financially here to keep my center going with the pandemic this last year and a half. While I charge a fee here as there is overhead to take care of you, it is not a way to get rich. If it was, after 13 years, I would be a millionaire. Even though I am struggling, I will never accept guests who have the idea to abuse the medicine."
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Psychedelic enthusiast and ayahuasca & mushroom "healer": "Hey Cielo, whenever I drink ayahuasca, I see dead prostitutes, blood, corpses, and other horrible images. Why is that?"
Cielo: "Because you are very dirty."
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Cielo: "I did warn you about him."
Me: "Uhm...you warned me that he might steal my money, not that he would almost kill me."
Cielo: "Ha ha ha. I was taken in by him and my visions blocked for a long time by him. I had some pretty horrible ceremonies getting rid of it all."
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Me: (babbling after a tremendous purge back in the day) "I think I was purging for everyone in the ceremony space...."
Cielo: "You need to shut up, stop looking around in ceremony, and focus on your personal work."
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Me: "I hear he is sending plants to the U.S. and telling people they can open dietas for people?"
Cielo: "He tells people they are shamans when they are not trained at all. He sings beautifully but when there is an issue with someone in ceremony, he cannot bring their mareacion down. I have had several problems with it. His medicine is too strong and he does not know how to control it. I love him and I love his ceremonies but they can go sideways because he is not a medico."
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Me: "I started dieting with Luzmila Mori recently."
Cielo: "Luzmila is so sweet. I have known her since I first drank at her house with all the potential curanderas for the Temple of the Way of the Light back in 2008. I am sorry to say the women I drank with then were pure but corrupted through the Temple. I left the Temple in 2009 vowing to never work here like that."
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Me: "I had one of the most frightening yet profound ceremonies in recent memory with Olivia Arevalo. Have you ever dieted with her before?"
Cielo: "The last dieta I started with Olivia was Pinon Blanco. She had to leave me mid-dieta and she asked her son Julian to take over. I sat in one ceremony with him and it felt so dark that I broke my dieta rather than to work with him."
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Cielo: "One night, years ago on the bridge in my house, Abraham and I were waiting on Antonia [partner of Benjamin Mahua] in the bathroom. Abraham leaned in to me and said: "I want to give you a gift." He started singing into my neck below my ear and I saw him directly connected to the stars. I really do think he is illuminated by God. I receive more healing from him than I do with any Shipibo."
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Cielo: "Goodness, I cannot be bothered with all this stuff. This stuff of shamanic competition or even business. I am with God."
"I was given some pretty strong things I had to deal with personally, so that I could then help others go through such things themselves. I can only do my best."
"I am not striving for more dietas, more force, more knowledge, and all that constant wanting. I strive to help those that God entrusts to me."
"I am nothing. I am a bridge. I am a mother. So I do not fight. I encase with love. And I try the very best for each person God entrusts to me. Sometimes things are given to us in ways we cannot understand. But it is always right."
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RIP Cielo Tierra.
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Excerpts from a thoughtfully written essay "What ayahuasca wants" by Silvia Mesturini Cappo:________________
"As ayahuasca becomes a complex space in which people live and get related, we can see that it is not only an active biochemical principle, a plant or a ritual setting, not only shamanic tourism, mass consumption or another intrusion of modernity in the heart of the Amazon, not only an alternative way to learn about the world, not only a remedy, not only a way to cultivate witchcraft in order to damage those who are thought of as damaging, not only the expertise of trained ayahuasqueros and ayahuasqueras of varied origins, not only what links individuals from all parts of the world into new forms of shared experiences, lives, and values, but all of these realities entangled together."
"In this collective becoming, beyond the divide of the Western and the Indigenous, beyond the divide of “human” and “nature,” beyond the comparison of “us” and “them,” ayahuasca becomes a complex relational space where usual frontiers are blurred, frontiers that have since long been functioning as basic concepts of the anthropological discipline itself."
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"These ingredients are plants that the apprentice ayahuasquero or ayahuasquera has “dieted.” They have ingested, each one of them separately, within a process of assisted training with a master ayahuasquero who has helped them meet the plants’ “spirits” through song and vision in order to learn how to communicate with them."
"Encountering the plants means learning their songs. The plants teach their songs to the ayahuasquera who acquires the ability to call the plants and to put them to work in the ceremonial space or during smaller healing sessions by learning to sing them. Each plant encountered by the ayahuasquera through ingestion and song can then become “familiar” to her; meanwhile, she becomes known among the plants’ “spirits.” The apprentice ayahuasquero will progress in recognizing each plant in vision, their modes of intervention, their likes and dislikes, and their way of working or of refusing to work, and, through this process, the plants will become his “allies,” “friends,” and “family.”
"Training with teaching plants means “meeting” them regularly, spending time with them and getting to know them well. It is a relational training. It means negotiating relational ethics and subtleties. It implies learning to meet with radical otherness; and yet, meeting these plants means recognizing them as people. It means finding that very space, or that very song, where the ayahuasquero’s and the plant’s spirit are close enough, similar enough, to actually exchange something, to actually commune and communicate. In a second phase, the ayahuasquera will meet all kinds of other spirits for whom other songs can be sung, thanks to the mediating power of the plants."
"As Labate, Cavnar, and Gearin well synthetize: ayahuasca is an “ultimate agent of metamorphosis, akin to the greatest tools of any rite of passage, past or present, that reveals and transcends the limits of the human experience to the ‘Other’".
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"Ayahuasca is described as the one that introduces the other spirits. It is the one that opens the vision, the one that opens the way: the door and the gatekeeper. It stands as a guardian of those who travel with it. Therefore, if the ayahuasqueros speak of meeting with ayahuasca’s spirit, this is only considered the very beginning of a training that not only involves a plurality of spirits, but that also appears as a relational training, forging the very capacity of the ayahuasquera to relate to as many beings and forms of existence as possible."
"Ayahuasca as a brew, therefore, appears as an analogue of the ayahuasquero’s apprenticeship and expertise: it is made of what he had to learn and with the challenges he had to confront in order to gain knowledge, experience, and closeness with all kinds of beings. It is all of this, “made liquid.” Ayahuasca does not “represent” the ayahuasquera’s knowledge, experience, and relations. It is made by it. It is all of this, liquid and drinkable."
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"As one of the ayahuasqueros I’ve worked with explains it:
"You are not drinking a plant that allows you to see spirits. You are drinking spirits in a liquid form. Ayahuasca is spirit, millions of spirits, turned into liquid for you to drink. When you drink those spirits you are actually choosing to host them into your body. That’s why you have to diet. You have to prepare a space acceptable enough for them to be in and comfortable enough for them to get to work. That’s why diets can be very strict sometimes. You are actually inviting people into your body and these guys are trees."
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"Yet a third component has to be added to this plurality: the participants in the rituals. Each one comes to the ceremony with his or her own agenda, with his or her own “intention.” Diet and intention are often described as analogues. Dieting and working on the intention behind the participation in a ceremony is what the participant “puts” in the ritual space. Ayahuasca’s answer shall be pertinent and congruent with each one’s input – ayahuasca being, as we’ve just argued, the coming together of the brew, the ayahuasquero’s expertise, and all their relationships."
"Moreover, during the ceremony itself, and thanks to the mareación, the participant is required to work with ayahuasca in order to address what needs to be addressed and to attentively respond to what it addresses. As a common saying in the milieu goes: “She meets you halfway.”
"Therefore, participation in ayahuasca rituality cannot be taken lightly. The ayahuasqueras put it to work with their singing, ayahuasca puts the participant to work through the mareacion; and yet, this only goes halfway. The participant’s contribution is a third and important part, together with the brew and the ayahuasquero, of what ayahuasca does during ritual practice."
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"Yet, who does what? Who cures? The brew? The songs sung by the ayahuasquero? The participant, through their commitment and concentration? And where do the healing songs come from? From the plants, who intimate them to the ayahuasquera, or from the singing ayahuasquera who uses them to get the brew to work? So, who puts who to work?"
"The impossibility of answering any of these questions by referring back to one type of “agent” is at the very core of what interests us here. Partly human, partly vegetal, partly visible, partly invisible, at the same time singular and plural, related to each person individually, and yet made of all the relationships that together bring it into existence; ayahuasca as a relational space is made, at the same time, of the plants, the brew, the ayahuasqueros, all the ritual participants, and all their relations. To understand ayahuasca as entanglement, participation is key."
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"Participating with ayahuasca means, becoming with it and, at the same time, refining the capacity of relating to it. In this process of tying knots with ayahuasca, we become entangled with everything and everyone that ayahuasca is tied to. And yet, in this entanglement, what emerges is something not only bigger, but also far livelier and far more intelligent than any of its separate parts; something that holds together, and that, because of the very processes that sweep through it, can provide unexpected answers as a whole."
“When my thoughts turn sad, I sometimes ask myself if, some time in the future, there will be any true shamans left. Maybe not". "But if that happens, our children will have their spirits so entangled that they will no longer be able to see the spirits. They will no longer be able to hear their songs."
"Without shamans, our children will be unprotected and darkness will take over their thinking”
- Davi Kopenawa, leader of the Yanomami people
It is very interesting
give no more sad thoughts to that… great spirit has not forsaken us. You do not see them yet, as they did not attend an 8 week curandismo class in the jungle or ‘shamanism’ online course..or drink Ayahuasca in a single ceremony and decide they were a shaman.. no man has hastily taught and launched them to serve others in ego without sacredness and reverence… no… while the foolish have stepped forward in haste..the real have been buried deep in the lessons at the hand of the most high..they have spent years in darkness, stripped down to their beginning, stumbling through the forest alone creating their tools and learning their songs… being trained as the original medicine people were.. by the spirits alone. I know who you search for when you say ‘real’ shaman… shamans that can speak all languages of the earth, past and present, through spirit… shamans that have ‘security clearance’ to ALL vibrational plains of existence… the anointing to lead someone to death… and aid them in their rebirth…authority over negative energies… can listen to a sick person speak and in that instant hear what plants will heal them..the ones that sacrificed their ‘life’ here, offering their mind and vessel to the most high in unknown ancient ritual to be used as seen fit for the betterment of mankind.. and only move according to spirit. No worries, they are here. Have peace with that thought today. Oan: Is there anything we can do to aid the Yanomami people at this time?
Medicine ceremony organizers gone wild_________
Shipibo maestros: "We are starving. Can you find us a chicken so that we can cook ourselves some chicken soup?"
Ceremony organizer: "No, there are no chickens in this country. And you should be eating only vegetables so that you can have more fuerza during ceremony."
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Shipibo maestros: "We are going to give this person just a little bit of ayahuasca to start out with."
Ceremony organizer: "No, I am going to pour him a cup myself because we want everyone to have a strong experience."
(The participant receives a large cup and goes on to attack the Shipibo maestros with a kitchen knife, which they escape by barracading themselves in the bedroom)
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Ceremony participant: "I wanted to ask you about plant dietas."
Ceremony organizer & facilitator: "I do not know what the big deal is with these plant dietas. I dieted for 10 days and did not see or feel anything."
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Ceremony organizer: "I take 25% of everything donated by the participants for each ceremony."
Curandero: "I feel this is not my way. When there are three curanderos in the ceremony, this means that you would be receiving as much as each healer. Much of the money earned is going to support their (indigenous) village as well.
(Western) Ceremony organizer: "But what about my tribe?! I want to build my own temple!"
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Ceremony organizer: "I want to rent a yacht so that I can take the pajés on the sea. How much would that cost?"
Curandero: "At least a thousand euros."
Ceremony organizer: "That sounds fine. We can pay for it from what we earned in ceremonies."
Curandero: "Is it the pajés that want a yacht ride or yourself?"
As an organizer.. my curandero and I had a secret tradition where we sneak and drink a Mexican coca-cola to reward ourselves for the hard work and sometimes eat chicken… and candy..away from the judgement of everyone 😂😂😂🙌🏽❤️. We usually always offered chicken with our ceremony meals. We were told one time by a medicine man back home they always kill and cook a chicken before ceremony.
What The he is wrong with these people… some humans really… can’t wait to meat with a real curandero again and make him a barbecue
In May the same story with chicken happend with curandero from Peru in Spain. The organiser did not give him chicken because .... she was vegan and all participants also.
I agree with the rest but 25% for organiser is not much
Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento with a young Benki Pianko, now Sheripiari & one of the leaders of the Ashaninka people, during a visit to Aldeia Apiwtxa in the year 1989 | Photo by Beto Ricardo
"People talk about the great number of years they have studied the medicine or the number of long dietas they have completed.""But I like it when they speak about self-accountability, responsibility, and active wisdom."
"And if the healers you meet are not what you expect them to be, then become that which you want to receive."
"Then give yourself to the world, so that those looking for inspiration can also see and become better. This is what you have to learn to be a true medicine man or woman."
- Abraham Lozanobrioso
So it is 🕊️🌍
Amen
This is an excerpt from the invitations I send out when I organize ceremonies on behalf indigenous healers. Should it resonate with anyone, please feel free to edit and/or use._______
Financial Transparency
I believe it is worthwhile to be financially transparent about the organization of ceremonies and dietas, particularly as the cost of ceremonies and dietas appear to be rising significantly around the world and going beyond the reach of many who are in need of healing.
100% of all payments contributed by the participants in ceremonies/dietas that I organize go directly to the maestros/curanderos/pajes who lead the ceremonies/dietas.
I have also committed myself to working with indigenous leaders whenever possible (vs “independent healers”), so that participant contributions are used, at least in part, to support projects that benefit the indigenous villages and communities that the healer(s) are rooted in or connected to.
The only costs deducted from the contributed payments are for: the rental of the ceremony venue; the medicine served; ceremony supplies and groceries for the meals served during the retreat; groceries for the meals provided to the healers during their stay in-country; fuel and auto rental for transport to and from the ceremony venue; and when needed, airline tickets to bring the healer(s) to where we are holding ceremonies.
I also try to donate the medicine itself (when available) when I organize for my personal teachers.
I do not retain any of the contributed payments myself and simply take this as an opportunity for healing and learning – a way of working that I have never deviated from since I began my studies of plant medicine over a decade ago.
So much Gratitude for you! ❤️