Shamanism

New Rising Son: A Perseverance of Lineage

June 1, 2010

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 [...]

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Welcome to the Jungle

March 17, 2010

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 [...]

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Shipibo Shop

October 22, 2009

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 Shipibas in Pucallupa.

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Jan Kounen

July 2, 2009

  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 [...]

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Valley of Dawn

June 20, 2009

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. [...]

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