This video explains the elaborate Shipibo song patterns and icaros.
Q’ero – Masters of Ceremony – The Despacho Ceremony
Valuing and Understanding Shamanic Elders – Perennial Wisdom
By Kevin Johnson I read this article recently posted by Mayan’s about properly interpreting the wisdom cultivated over centuries from their elders; shamans hidden from the world, often ascetic keepers of great mystery
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How People Become Shamans
In this video, Sandra Ingerman does a nice job of explaining how in indigenous cultures, people are “selected” to enter into a life of serving their communities by becoming shamans. Typically, there
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Herlinda
by Kevin Johnson I first met Herlinda at an intensive shamanic healing. Herlinda is the matriarch of her Shipibo tribe in the Peruvian Amazon Basin. The Shipibos believe that everything was sung into existence
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