The following is a guest post courtesy of Skye Cielita Flor, a friend and one of the moderators of our Dieta of Teacher Plants & Trees group on Facebook where more nuanced discussions take place. Skye’s direct experience with plant dietas is primarily based on her time in the Peruvian Amazon, working and apprenticed primarily […]
“Plantas con madre”: Plants that teach and guide in the shamanic initiation process in the East-Central Peruvian Amazon
What follows below are relevant excerpts from one of the most comprehensive studies ever conducted (to the best of my knowledge) on the shamanic practice of “la dieta,” for the purpose of healing, learning, and apprenticeship on the path towards becoming a curandero, or healer, under the indigenous vegetalista tradition of the Amazon Rainforest. The […]