New Rising Son: A Perseverance of Lineage
This is the new cure stream video. I shot Vegetalista Orlando Chujandama in a little village in Peru. He’s a humble guy and powerful healer with a new center in the upper Amazon. Shot in the upper Peruvian Amazon, Vegetalista Orlando Chujandama discusses with journalist Sam Slovick his shamanic lineage and new healing center, the [...]
Welcome to the Jungle
Welcome to the Jungle is a cover story I did for L A Yoga Magazine about Amanozinan Shamanism… more specifically about the Shipibo Master Plant healing tradition called Vegitalismo. The video is a combination of footage I shot at Espiritu de Anaconda in Iquitos, Peru along with filmmaker Ryan Wylie’s footage. –– Shamanic Chants of [...]
2009 IMAGES
These are some of my favorite images from 2009. Most all of these photos were captured by me though there are a couple that I rediscovered in the same time frame. The locations include; France, Belgium, the Grenadine Islands, West Indies, Kuwait, Peru, L.A. and New York mostly… Some are published in magazines or newspapers, [...]
Shipibo Shop
The Shipibo Shop is on a ruddy sand road about a half hour’s walk from Espiritu De Anaconda near Iquitos, Peru. Bastian is from Belgium. He and and his wife Vanessa, the daughter of Kestenbetsa, are the proprietors. They buy the stuff from Shipibos in Pucallupa.
Jan Kounen
Jan Kounen‘s Ayahuasca documentary Other Worlds is an epic document. It features Shipibo Shaman Guillermo Arévalo Valera aka Kestenbesta, a Shipibo curandero descended from a long generation of healers of the Shipibo Conibo indigenous Amazonian people. In the realm of shamanic documentaries, there isn’t one that is better for several reasons. Jan Kounen is an [...]
