Shipibo

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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