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 [...]
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 [...]
Valley of Dawn
I was at Valley of the Dawn in Brazil a few years ago. It’s hard to describe. You kind of have to see it with your own eyes. It’s a community of mediums about 50 kilometers from Brasília. This is the kind of stuff you only see in Brazil. The mediums are reincarnations of extraterrestrials. [...]
Goddess on the Dub
I met Yatra in Alto Paraiso, a small town in Brazil. She’s a shamaness with a temple in the jungle. Her kids have big dub label that she records on. Alto Paraiso is magic & so is Yatra. I did a story about her for LA Yoga magazine. Alto Paraiso is that place that you [...]
