TUCSON, Ariz. - The event is billed as ”10,000 years of culture - 150 tribal nations - 10 days - all in one location”; and despite a full and busy agenda, organizer Fred Synder advises: ”Take your watch off and put it in your pocket,” because nothing starts until the medicine men and the Gourd […]
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by Howard G Charing
The ofrenda
An 'ofrenda' is the most important ceremony used by Andean Indians to relate with Mother Earth. The ofrenda is a symbol of reciprocity with nature and its purpose is to teach us to reproduce this attitude. Through it we speak back to nature saying we understand […]
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by Howard G Charing
Spirituality is at the centre of the Ayahuasca experience. Purification and cleansing of body, mind, and spirit in a shamanic ceremony can be the beginning of a process of profound personal and spiritual discovery. This process can continue indefinitely even if one never drinks Ayahuasca again. We believe that by seriously looking […]
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by Howard G Charing
We interviewed Shipibo maestro Leoncio Garcia, a man in his mid seventies but with the appearance of a man twenty years younger. Again a testimonial to the youth giving qualities of Ayahuasca and the plant medicines of the Amazon Rainforest.
Interviewed at Mishana Private Retreat Centre, Amazon Rainforest with Peter Cloudsley August 2005.
Leoncio […]
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Learning to Live Your Light
Original Memory by Maria Yracébûrû
When I touch the Stone People, when I touch the Standing Tall Ones, when I touch the marks of the world that are part of the land, I touch the face and heart of my ancestors. I touch the face and […]
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