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As ayahuasca continues to spread around the world, with ceremonies happening in nearly every city of every country, curanderismo continues to be a mysterious and often misunderstood science of indigenous wisdom. Unfortunately, due to a general lack of understanding this sacred science, many people think that ayahuasca is a magical medicine that cures everything. In reality, ayahuasca can only heal a few types of illnesses. It is magical in other ways, though. So what does it mean to receive treatment from a curandero?
There are basically seven components to receiving treatment for an illness in the Amazon curandero tradition. Ayahuasca is just one of these components. Depending on the illness, the other six components are often more important than the ayahuasca. These seven parts work together to heal the patient of their illness and bring about health on all levels, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Only when a person has achieved balance and harmony on these levels can he/she truly be considered healed.
The first component is the diet. It is very surprising that western medicine has not yet realized the importance of diet in treatment, with hospital food still being on par with airplane food. Often times, people’s diets are the reason for their illnesses; therefore, making dietary changes is necessary to restore their health. The diet one follows during treatment may have specific prohibitions according to the illness, but every diet shares the same basic rules: no salt, no sugar, no oil, no hot spices, no caffeine, no alcohol, no chemicals, and no sex; basically, no stimulation. When a bland diet is followed, the body does not change from its normal function and can therefore return to a normal harmony. Having the digestive system working properly is the foundation of health and aids the other components as well. The diet is followed during the entire treatment.
The next component is the vapor bath. This is a very important aspect of healing that would greatly help western medicine. The vapor bath uses water boiled with medicinal plants to create a medicinal steam that the patient stands or sits in like a sauna. By opening up the pores many toxins are removed and the medicinal qualities of the steam are absorbed into the body, cleansing the system from the outside in. When a patient has been cleansed, the body has a much easier time returning to its normal, healthy state. Usually a patient will start treatment with a vapor bath each day for several days.
The next component is the plant bath. Patients bathe in water that has had certain plants soaking in it. The patients then refrain from bathing as they normally would in order to let the plants soak into their systems through their skin. This is a further cleanse of the system that also has aroma therapeutic effects. Plant baths help a patient open the mind and cleanse his/her spirit. They are very effective in enhancing the ayahuasca experience in ceremonies. Patients often do plant baths each day for consecutive days during the treatment.
Another important component is the purgative. While ayahuasca is also a purgative, it is not as strong as other plant preparations. Some well known purgatives are oje, huacapurana, pinon blanco, mapacho, and sangre de grado. The patient takes the purgative early in the morning on an empty stomach. The usual effects are vomiting and diarrhea, as the body is cleansed on the inside and the blood is purified. This part of the treatment can sometimes be the most important part in the case of illnesses carried in the blood, but regardless of the condition, a purgative is always helpful in cleaning the physical body, and also enhances the ayahuasca experience. Patients typically take a purgative once during treatment.
Of course, ayahuasca is an important component in the healing process. It is important for many reasons. Probably the most important reason is that it provides the curandero the capacity to see inside the patient to understand and properly diagnose the affliction(s). Much like an MRI or an x-ray, ayahuasca is a powerful diagnostic tool. In addition to diagnosing the illness, the curandero also uses an intimate connection to the spirits of the plants to determine the most effective remedy for the patient. For the patients, their experiences during ayahuasca ceremonies can be very helpful in determining the roots of their illnesses, which may be traumas from their past or times of emotional or spiritual weakness when they lacked self love. By understanding these roots, the patients can become active participants in their own healing by releasing pent up emotions, realizing their true beauty and specialness, and returning to a state of self love where they deserve to be. By experiencing their true selves, their spirits, patients remember their divinity and can once again fill their hearts with divine love. Love is the active ingredient of healing. Patients may attend ceremonies throughout the treatment, but at least once in the beginning and once at the end of treatment. The curandero will often use the ceremonies to measure the progress of the patient during treatment.
The most familiar component is likely the plant remedy, the medicine. A preparation made from a single medicinal plant or group of plants is taken by the patient for the duration of the treatment. Often the quantity of the remedy is a measure of the length of treatment. For example, the treatment will last until the patient has finished the bottle(s) of medicine. While the vapor and plant baths cleanse the body of toxins, thus helping to weaken the illness, and the purgatives remove many more toxins, further weakening the illness, and the ayahuasca strengthen the mind and spirit, it is the plant remedies that heal the affliction once and for all. It is common that when patients have been healed they say that it was the particular plant remedy that healed them.
The last component was touched upon during the description of the role of ayahuasca, but it deserves its own attention, and that is the connection to God. Essentially, all of the healing components in curanderismo treatment increase and strengthen the patients’ connection to God. Cleanliness is next to Godliness. God is what ultimately heals all afflictions, for God made the plants. This connection requires work on the part of the patient as well as the curandero. Both must have faith in the healing, and prayers play an essential role in demonstrating, maintaining, and utilizing that faith. The curandero says prayers over the baths, over the remedies, during the ceremonies, and throughout the treatment process, asking that God heal the patient. The curandero also demonstrates their faith by fasting during the preparation of all the components, making a sacrifice for the benefit of the patient. It is also essential for the patients to make a sacrifice, which is done through the diet, and to know in their hearts that God will heal their afflictions. When we know that we will be healed, then we will be healed.
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The Ayahuasca Foundation offers a very special course for people who feel called to the healing traditions of the Amazon Rainforest. A growing number of spirit seekers have felt a call to study ayahuasca with a true indigenous shaman. The Ayahuasca Foundation’s Curandero Initiation Course is an answer to that call, an opportunity to receive an authentic initiation in the same tradition that has been passed on for thousands of years in the jungles of Peru by the shipibo curanderos. This is not for tourists, this is for people who are serious about learning the ancient science of plant spirit medicine and contributing to the rebirth of shamanic culture throughout the world. Humanity is in desperate need of remembering the traditions that kept us healthy, happy, and in harmony with our environment. Many of those traditions have been lost forever due to fear, ignorance, and most likely a well thought out conspiracy to weaken people and make them more susceptible to manipulation for the benefit of a few. But not all the traditions were lost, not all the shamans were persecuted and executed, and those powerful people are ready to teach these important methods, techniques, and philosophies that have been developed for thousands of years in the Amazon Rainforest.
The six week Ayahuasca Initiation Course takes place at a remote jungle camp deep within a National Reserve near Iquitos, Peru. Surrounded by thousands of acres of virgin rainforest, students learn from an authentic indigenous curandero, a shipibo healer named don Enrique. The camp is very comfortable, with cabins featuring private baths that are fully tiled with flushing toilets, sinks, and showers. The cabins have locking doors and screened windows, well furnished and even have lighting thanks to solar panels. The kitchen is also fully tiled with sink and gas stove and the dining area is ample and open. There are two additional bathrooms and a traditional ceremony space called a maloca. Because the camp is located near a black water river, there are very few mosquitoes and it is comfortable to stay out in the open for hours without repellent, even at night. It is in this paradise that the students learn how curanderos use ayahuasca and the plants of the jungle to heal any and all afflictions.
During the course, students follow traditional plant diets to enhance their connections to the plant worlds, they receive plant baths, vapor baths, and learn how to prepare and give these baths as well. Students take plant remedies to heal particular illnesses or conditions and to strengthen their immune systems and mental faculties. They learn how to make these remedies and the medicinal properties of dozens of plants that are identified for them by their teacher. They learn how to prepare the powerful brew ayahuasca as well, and how to properly lead an ayahuasca ceremony. Students learn the healing songs, called icaros, that curanderos use to call to the spirits for assistance and learn techniques like soplaying and chupando with tobacco and agua florida. They attend 18 traditional ayahuasca ceremonies during the course and take part in a traditional celebratory ceremony to break their diets at the end of the course. Each student is given the chance to lead a ceremony under the guidance of the curandero to utilize the tools they’ve learned. By they time they leave, students will have the knowledge and power to lead their own ceremonies and treat patients. It may seem a short time to achieve so much, but this course is an intense introduction to the healing traditions, taught by a curandero who has a real gift and passion for teaching, which he feels is his personal mission.
Some say that ayahuasca is the real teacher, and of course that is true, but it would be highly unlikely for someone to spend six weeks drinking ayahuasca eighteen times and expect to know how to prepare remedies for dozens of conditions, administer plant baths and vapor baths, give therapeutic massages, practice shamanic techniques like soplaying and chupando, sing healing icaros, and lead ceremonies. A teacher is really a necessity, for a teacher brings decades of experience, thousands of ceremonies, and a lineage of healing that may date back thousands of years. Don Enrique is a perfect example of how beneficial it is to have a teacher who wants you to not only learn from him, but to go on and surpass him, continuing and furthering the development of the science of plant spirit medicine. There are so many people who need help, who need healing, and there simply are not enough healers to treat them all. We must teach others and spread the wisdom of healing with ayahuasca and the plants so that humanity can return to a state of love, peace, and harmony with all beings. That is the goal of the Ayahuasca Foundation’s Curandero Initiation Course.
Our next course begins on October 17th and runs until November 27th. Interested participants must fill out an application form to apply for the course. The cost for the course is $3250 and is all inclusive, including two nights in a hotel in Iquitos (at the beginning and end of the course) and two meals in Iquitos. In addition to lodging, food, medicine, and of course the teaching, students also receive traditional shipibo clothing to wear in ceremonies and during the course and also receive healing tools like mapachos, agua florida, and their own hand carved pipes. There are two courses offered each year, one in the spring and one in the fall. The Ayahuasca Foundation also offers healing retreats that are either two or three weeks in duration. A schedule of our programs, including the next Initiation Courses can be found on our main website. For more information on the course and to fill out the application form, visit us at: http://www.ayahuascafoundation.org
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During the last initiation course of the Ayahuasca Foundation, a six week course featuring forty days in the jungle and 18 ceremonies, I had drank the brew and was waiting for the effects to come on. I think it was around the 12th or 13th ceremony. My eyes were open, but it was dark enough to have open eye visions, which I prefer. I then had a palm leaf fall on my face, then another and another, creating an interesting pattern, looking through the the zigzags of leaves and spaces in between. I was facing forward and so I then moved through the leaves, as if on a conveyor belt. I could now see that I was headed for a giant cave. As I got closer to the cave, I realized that it was actually the mouth of a giant beast.
I got a little nervous at this realization, but I had so much faith in ayahuasca after four and a half weeks of dieting and learning so much during the course, I went with it, although I did create a sphere of protective light around me just in case. It would do little for me. I entered the mouth of this beast, admiring the giant teeth up above. It was a bit Indiana Jones, actually. I began to descend down its throat, still being carried on the conveyor belt. Down and down I went, and the further I went down, the more red the atmosphere began to get. I pondered, “Am I descending into Hell?” A shiver of fear ran over me but was quickly replaced by the feeling of confidence. “Perhaps Ayahuasca wants to show me Hell. Maybe there is something there that I need to learn.” I descended further…
All of a sudden, several giant insect like creatures appeared from the darkness and started to attack me. I quickly pulled my sword and did my best to fight them off, but they were like monstrous dinosaurs and no matter what I did, they persisted and eventually, I realized that I would not prevail. They were going to defeat me. At this point, my consciousness left my eyes and I began to see the scene from the outside looking in. I watched as the creatures bit me and killed me, and then a giant translucent worm crawled up from below and swallowed me whole. I could see my body being digested inside the worm, and followed it as it dissolved along the way towards the other end, where a small stone was deposited out of the worm. That was me, reduced to a small brown stone, basically a turd… I watched this from afar, well not that far, but not from my normal eye vision. I wondered what would happen next, if anything.
Then, the turd exploded in a brilliant display of white light and like a shooting star the stone soared into the sky, up into the heavens with the stars all around. I say heavens because there were angels flying around, ascending even higher. I was back to being myself again, rather than the turd, and I, too, wanted to soar even higher with the angels, but a voice told me that I could not and had to return. I was then transported back to Earth, the Amazon Rainforest, the Ayahuasca Foundation’s jungle camp, and the ceremony. I was back, but I had been reborn. Needless to say it is hard to describe the feelings I had at that moment, but I will say that it was very profound and I was filled with joy and wonder. I had completely discarded everything that was not needed, and from the core of my being I was totally rebuilt anew. It was simply amazing. And that was just the beginning of my ceremony. The rest of the ceremony and the rest of the initiation course was a continuation of that rebirth. What a beautiful experience, and what an incredible journey.
The Ayahuasca Foundation’s New Website is up and running. It is still being worked on, of course, and will be constantly be developed over the next decade, but there is already over 75 pages of information, including a great plant directory. I invite you to check out the website and sign up for our mailing list to find out about our new updates, offers, and projects coming up this year and next. We hope to begin our Ayahuasca Museum project next year as well as some permaculture projects to ensure the amount of ayahuasca never runs out in the Amazon Rainforest. We’ve also been working on an indigenous culture retreat where tourists can live with and learn from authentic indigenous tribes like the Boras and Yaguas and Shipibos.
We currently work with a shipibo curandero named don Enrique who is simply amazing. He is literally out of this world and worth meeting and drinking with in traditional ayahuasca healing ceremonies. He leads our two and three week ayahuasca healing retreats as well as our six week ayahuasca initiation course. Our last course was simply outstanding and we are really looking forward to the next one taking place in October. For more information on our ayahuasca retreats, the ayahuasca initiation course, and next year’s Ayahuasca Curandero Seminar, visit www.ayahuascafoundation.org for more information. We hope to meet you in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru soon!
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This new course is truly an amazing opportunity. It is the culmination of five years of work developing and refining a program that would produce the most benefit in the smallest amount of time. The new Ayahuasca Curandero Advanced Course is the answer to my personal search for the true teachings of curanderismo. The curandero don Enrique Lopez will be leading this six week course, with translation and interpretation from Carlos Tanner and Matt Koczkur. Eight students will spend 40 days straight at a very remote jungle camp inside a national reserve, learning from the maestro don Enrique and his wife dona Wilma, who will also be preparing the food and medicines.
This course will follow the authentic shipibo tradition of healer initiation. Clothes will be provided, as well as jewelry and headresses specifically designed for students of the science of plant spirit medicine. All of these items will be hand made by don Enrique’s wife dona Wilma. This program is unlike any other in that it is a program completely dictated by the curandero, even deciding who will be accepted to the program. There will be no compromises, no exceptions because the students are foreigners, just the true teachings the way they have been passed on for millenia to each new generation of future healers. This tradition will be passed on again in the same manner.
For more information, visit www.ayahuascainitiation.com or visit the ayahuasca foundation website.
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The Ayahuasca Foundation offers Spirit Healing Retreats in the beauty and tranquility of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest. Participants work closely with indigenous healers, called curanderos, to change the direction of their lives, specifically with respect to their physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Treatments include plant remedies, healing massage, therapeutic discussions, and traditional ayahuasca healing ceremonies. The curanderos work on all levels to treat the afflictions, including spiritual dimensions that are not recognized by modern medicine.
Because these powerful shamans are still familiar with the ancient healing techniques and traditions of plant spirit medicine, they are able to access the roots of many afflictions that would be considered uncurable in Western Society. Once the curandero and the patient have discovered the roots of the affliction, then the healing process works to pull those roots and bring the physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies back into harmony. Participants learn a great deal about themselves and the importance of love and compassion in maintaining a healthy, balanced life. Most Ayahuasca Healing Retreat participants return home with a new outlook on life, and a new path to follow.
Last year, a man from Los Angeles came down for our 18-day retreat in January. He had been diagnosed with colon cancer four years earlier and it could not be cured with modern medicine. He recieved treatment and made great progress. When he returned to the US, he had an exam to see if the cancer had been minimized. He was happy to hear that he was now cancer free. In less than three weeks he had been completely healed of colon cancer. Here in the Amazon, the curanderos have a saying, “Nothing is impossible when you truly want it.” In spanish, the word to want also means to love, so it could also be said that nothing is impossible when you truly love it.
For more information on our healing retreats, visit www.ayahuascahealingretreats.com
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From 2004 to 2008 I lived with a curandero named don Juan on the outskirts of Iquitos, Peru. I studied with him and together we set up the Ayahuasca Healing Retreat program and the Ayahuasca Initiation Course. During my time with him we talked about many different topics surrounding curanderismo, the sacred science of plant spirit medicine. One of the first things we spoke about was extraterrestrials. This was due to a UFO sighting I had during my very first ceremony with him.
I had gone outside to vomit and found myself staring up at the sky, watching a vibrating display of colored designs dance through the night air. While I looked up with my mouth open, in awe of the amazing movement of energy above me, a UFO gently glided above don Juan’s house. I could not believe my eyes. It was not like the psychedelic patterns, it was as real as the trees that encircled me, real as the house or my hand. I watched as it quietly hovered above me. It was spherical but in a flattened way and rather small. It looked like it could only hold three or four people, or beings. It had violet lights around its outer edge that seemed to be spinning. I could not stop looking at it.
Then, another space ship came into view, about the same size as the first. It was identical to the other one, and the two ships seemed to just float in the air above me, at a height that I guessed to be only a few hundred feet up. While I was incredibly excited, I was not afraid, and was actually quite calm. I think I was in shock. This was my first ceremony with don Juan and I had already seen many powerful visions. I had been having trouble deciding what was a vision and what was ‘real.’ Now, standing there in front of the house, from where beautiful songs poured out, I could not wonder about the reality of these ships. They were definitely up there and not in my head.
I did not think anything about them. No thoughts went through my head at all. I just stood frozen below them, staring up at the most incredible sight of my life. I was actually looking at two alien space ships. They seemed to be aware of me, as well, for they hovered above me. I didn’t move. I just looked. They moved back and forth like a kite on a long string, swaying with the breeze. They were beautiful. What was probably only a few minutes seemed like a lifetime. With the singing of don Juan as my soundtrack, I was in a near enlightened state. My beliefs about aliens had crystallized into truths that I could never deny. This was really happening. It was real.
Then, the most unbelievable thing happened, as if it could get any crazier. Another spaceship flew in above the other two, only this one did not resemble the others. It was a similar shape but this space craft was enormous. It nearly filled the entire sky above my head. I would say that it was at least 1,000 feet in diameter, and could’ve held hundreds of people inside it. I nearly fell over backward trying to see it all. I was breathless with awe. I think I may have been drooling from having my mouth open for so long. I watched as it slowly hovered above the others. Then, I actually had a thought, the first thought in a long time. I was scared.
I don’t know why, but I became frightened and decided that I should go inside. I walked back into the darkness of the ceremony and found my seat. After don Juan’s icaro, I told him that I had seen a UFO outside. He then promptly answered, “Did you see the big one?”
I said I had and he replied that he didn’t think they would be back so soon. I was so surprised and excited to hear such a strong confirmation of what I’d seen. We began a discussion about extraterrestrials. He explained that they were called the solar fathers and that they lived on the moon of Jupiter. He described their appearance and how they were here to help us and often worked with him to provide diagnosis and healing assistance. He said they existed in a different dimension where time passed much more slowly; giving the example that one year in our time was like one day in theirs. His comments had given me a lot to think about, but most importantly they gave me the confidence to believe in what I saw.
After four years with don Juan, I moved out and moved on. I had learned a tremendous amount and would forever be grateful for his help and guidance, but it was time for me to change the course of my path. I began working with a curandera named dona Othelia who knew the plants and their medicinal properties better than anyone I had ever met. A short time after studying with her, I came up with the idea for the Ayahuasca Foundation and put on the first Curandero Seminar a month later.
As part of the Curandero Seminar, I did a series of online interviews with the curanderos who would be participating in the Seminar. I interviewed dona Othelia out at her jungle camp. One of my questions was about extraterrestrials.
“Do you work with extraterrestrials?” I asked.
“Si, Claro.” She then said that since a child she had been in contact with an extraterrestrial who called himself the king of Ganymedes. I had never heard the word and simply took it to be an alien world. She described her relationship with this being and said that UFOs often come during her ceremonies, but that in reality they are always there, it’s just that we can’t see them without the help of ayahuasca. She, like don Juan, said that these beings were here to help us and often guided her in her work as a healer.
A week later, I interview don Pedro, a very knowledgeable curandero from Pucallpa who had recently moved to Iquitos. When I asked him if he worked with extraterrestrials I was shocked to hear his answer.
“Si, de Ganymedes.” He actually said that he worked with beings from Ganymades, just like dona Othelia. I couldn’t believe my ears and asked him to repeat what he’d said. Sure enough, it was Ganymedes. I still didn’t know what or where that was, but either way, it was some sort of strange confirmation for dona Othelia’s statement. Here were two Peruvian curanderos that lived hundreds of miles from each other and knew nothing of each other saying they were both in contact with beings from Ganymedes. I was so enthusiastic to find out more about this, but how could I find out more?
In a bizarre coincidence, a few days after the don Pedro interview I ran into a stranger on the Boulevard, walking along the edge of the Amazon River. He came up and talked to me, which seemed nice enough, but I was definitely skeptical. Many people come up to me because I’m a gringo and almost always they want something from me. This man simply wanted to talk. He seemed excited to talk to me for some reason and then, in Spanish, asked me a very unusual question.
“Do you know that there is alien life in this solar system?”
I said that I knew there were intelligent beings out there.
He quickly responded by asking, “Do you know where?”
“Where?” I replied.
“Ganymades!”
I couldn’t believe me ears. Had he really just said that?
Then, he solved the riddle that had caused me so much enthusiasm in the last few days.
He said, “The moon of Jupiter!”
The man then went on to tell me that he was a member of an astronomical club founded by a man who could channel an extraterrestrial. It was through this man, named Sexto Paz, that the knowledge of life on Ganymedes had come to be. He gave me a website for more information and I thanked him profusely. I still could not believe that out of the blue this man approached me to tell me such unbelievable information.
I had now heard about life on Ganymedes from three different people in less than two weeks. Two of the people were curanderos and the other was a member of an astrological club. Thanks to the third man, I was now able to connect the curanderos to my maestro, don Juan, who had simply called the alien’s home the moon of Jupiter. I felt like I was truly on to something, some sort of irrefutable discovery that would blow the minds of many people, as it had blown mine.
I went on the internet and read more about Ganymedes, which was actually the name of the moon of Jupiter. Well, it was Ganymede, but it was close enough. I looked at pictures of the moon, which is actually larger than the planet mercury, and the largest moon in our solar system. The pictures resembled pictures of earth in some ways. It really did look like it could sustain life. I was amazed.
I wrote to my father and told him about what had happened. He had many friends at NASA, so I asked him to ask around about life on Ganymede. He wrote back to tell me that a scientist from NASA believed strongly in life on this moon of Jupiter, as it had oceans of water and magnetic poles. Apparently, NASA has been keeping a lot of information from the public, information that the curanderos of the Amazon Rainforest all seem to know already.
Is there life out there? I would have to say, unequivocally, yes. And it’s not far away…
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On Sunday, February 22nd, at 8pm, the Ayahuasca Foundation will be hosting an online interview with the curandero don Lucho. The interview is free to attend and allows participants to write in their questions and I will then read the questions to the curandero who will answer them. It is a marvelous way to find out a great deal of insightful information regarding shamanism, or curanderismo, as it is called here in Peru. The shaman, or curandero, will answer the questions and I will translate them and add anything else that I think might help. In the last online interview, with don Enrique, some amazing information was revealed, thanks to wonderful questions from the participants.
If you would like to attend this online event, the information is below. If you would like to be kept up to date about other events such as this one, simply visit the Ayahuasca Foundation website and sign up to our mailing list. We will keep you up to date on events like this one as well as the special offers we have on other events like the Amazon Curandero Seminar taking place in April, the Ayahuasca Initiation Course taking place in May and again in October, and the Healing Retreats we offer throughout the year. You may also want to become a member of the Ayahuasca Foundation, which gives you a 10% discount on all events, courses, and retreats, as well as on all purchases of gifts and other items which we have for sale.
EVENT: Interview with curandero don Lucho
DATE & TIME: Sunday, February 22nd at 8:00pm Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)
TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, CLICK THIS LINK NOW…
http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=6202821
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Using some wonderful technology, we at the Ayahuasca Foundation will be hosting a series of online teleseminars talking about Amazon shamanism and the use of the sacred medicine ayahuasca. On sunday, we have invited a shipibo curandero named don Enrique, who will be taking part in the Amazon Curandero Seminar in April, to come and speak for an hour about his life and adventures with ayahuasca and healing. In this interview, participants will be able to listen through their computers and write in questions which we will receive and ask on your behalf. I will be leading the interview and my friend and partner in the Curandero Seminar, Justin, will be doing the translations.
EVENT: Interview with Shipibo Curandero Don Enrique
DATE & TIME: Sunday, February 22nd at 8:00pm Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)
TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, CLICK THIS LINK NOW…
http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=6156705
If you would like to receive information regarding our upcoming events, both online and here in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru, please visit our website: www.ayahuascafoundation.org and sign up to our mailing list. Thanks!
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The Ayahuasca Foundation will be hosting a series of online teleseminars in the upcoming weeks. These special events will offer participants the opportunity to ask questions live to our guests and myself regarding the various topics we will be covering, primarily dealing with ayahuasca and the traditional healing practices of the Amazon Rainforest. The first teleseminar will simply be myself and my partner in the Curandero Seminar, Justin, answering questions about the upcoming event, The Amazon Curandero Seminar, and discussing current and future projects for the Ayahuasca Foundation. Teleseminars later in the month will be featuring authentic curanderos, or shamans, from the Amazon Rainforest who we will be interviewing.
Participants will have the opportunity to type in questions on their computer which we will receive and then ask directly to the curandero on your behalf. The participants will then listen for their questions to be asked and answered. If desired, teleseminar participants may also call in on a telephone and actually speak with us directly, and have their voices heard by everyone else listening to the online seminars. It is wonderful technology, and we are hoping to utilize it in order to make important information and knowledge available to a wider audience. I invite you to attend these incredible events. To do so, please visit this link: February 8th Online Teleseminar – 8pm
I will be posting the dates and times of future teleseminars here, but to receive email reminders, please visit the Ayahuasca Foundation’s main website: AYAHUASCA FOUNDATION or the Amazon Curandero Seminar website: CURANDERO SEMINAR and sign up to our mailing list. It is free to sign up, and you will receive updates on the Foundation, as well as information regarding upcoming retreats, courses, and events.
