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26/07/2022

Cesar Calvo Soriano 🇵🇪 (26JUL1940 - 18AUG2000) was a Peruvian poet, writer, and composer whose work reflects an interest in using images of contemporary culture and society in poetry; in addition to incorporating, on some occasions, others typical of the Amazon region where his father's family comes from.

“Las Tres Mitades de Ino Moxo y Otros Brujos de la Amazonia" (1981) earned him fame and his subsequent internationalization as a renowned poet.

Friend and colleague of Antonio Cisneros, Arturo Corcuera, Javier Heraud, and many writers, Calvo is a figure in Peruvian and Latin American poetry, considered a member of the generation of 1960. That year, he won the Peruvian Young Poet Prize (shared with Javier Heraud). Without a doubt, he was an important cultural authority in Peru.

With a fraternal and selfless spirit, many enjoyed his unmistakable friendship, regardless of age, class, race, and social or cultural position, including, great personalities of poetry, literature, science, arts, and national and international politics. He was a great friend of the poor, an irredeemable lover of women, and a gentle protector of children and animals.

His identification and great love for the Amazon and ecology led him to Director of the National Institute of Culture in Iquitos branch, and Director of the Pro Selva Foundation, dedicated to the protection and dissemination of the Amazon culture.

📷 Artist Unknown

13/07/2022

We have Deer Supermoon (Boreal) on Wednesday 13. The phenomenon occurs when the full moon appears at perigee (orbiting closest to Earth). Its increase in size and luminosity is remarkable.

In Yarinacocha - a fairly flat area in the Peruvian Amazon - it begins to appear during the day. At this time, its contemplation offers greater spectacularity and a sensation of great size by having nearby objects that serve as reference and comparison. When it gets dark, the moon is in a high enough position to allow safe walking and seeing details. At midnight it is directly overhead, like a powerful beacon, allowing to be able to watch quite a long distance away and creating dark shadows from high contrast; especially in areas with few clouds and low light pollution.

In 2022 there are only three full supermoons: June (Strawberry), July (Deer), and August (Sturgeon). The July one is so named because it occurs when male deer grow their large antlers for bellowing and mating in the northern hemisphere

📷 Most similar pic found. Artist unknown.

23/06/2022

The Precession of the Equinoxes is our 25,920-year orbit of the Solar system through the Milky Way rotating through the 12 Zodiac Ages. It’s impressive how many ancient cultures kept calendars that understood this larger cycle. This galactic cycle has been going on for millions, perhaps billions of years, far longer than known history. The journey is said to rule frequency changes on Earth that influence the rise and fall of consciousness and civilization on Earth. Ancient cultures (when spaceship earth was orbiting through the highest consciousness zones) could study this cycle, tracking celestial movement to measure calendars and time by building stone observatories on very special spots on the globe chosen by infinite wisdom, not by accident.

The photon belt is a high-energy area related to our binary star orbit with another star. The photon belt initiates our journey through more powerful energy areas in our galaxy. This period is important because it marks our freedom from regressive frequency control that blocked the expansion of consciousness for about 14,000 years. The coming new age will be full of wonder, health, freedom, and abundance like never before.

Deciding where one precessional age finishes and another begins - from an astronomical observation perspective – has no definitive date as there is a transitional period, where, unfortunately, appear to suffer from a high degree of conscious interference. Indeed in another context, they emphasize that it's not the alignments with other parts of the cosmos per se that matter at this time, it's more the gaps that are created between galactic core explosions’ that send out a massive and devastating burst of cosmic rays – the most recent one having ended the last ice age 12,850 years ago, almost half of a Yuga period lasting 26,000 years.

📷 Ancient observatories on summer and winter solstice (northern and southern hemispheres respectively) were shot on the same day.

04/06/2022

World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5 to encourage people to take action and protect the environment. The theme this year is focusing on "Living Sustainably in Harmony with Nature". The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the primary agency that is behind this celebration since 1974.

Our present moment is saturated with dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future. Fortunately, visions of a more beautiful, compassionate, regenerative future already exist. We've got to dedicate a little more energy towards broadcasting them ourselves. This is what this list of films is for. These films decided that the apocalypse is canceled. Climate change is canceled. Biodiversity loss is canceled. A comeback of this scale has never been attempted before, but that's why it's going to work. Ya dig? The people in these films aren't listening to the folks that say it's too late. They're imagining the future they want, not the future they're afraid of, and they're bringing that future into being.

Whether we're ultimately successful is not the point, and beyond anyone's ability to truly know. The point is that our true nature calls us to choose determination over defeat, and resilience over despair. We hope these films inspire the former - that place in your heart that knows a better world IS possible and is ready to make it happen.

Our present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future. As the late Mark Fisher said, "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” We can...

14/04/2022

Life is beautiful, yet hard, and always been that way. Nevertheless, modern lifestyle and media are constantly triggering addictive behaviors and peddling toxic products and experiences to us, thus making it almost impossible not to feel the anxiety, and sooner or later we may fall into using stuff or behaving in a self-destructive fashion.

We need to shield ourselves to become immune from those attacks, by finding a way and a space to deal with the parts of us that can be affected by those triggers; by getting more integrated and more whole, so all the parts of us that are hard to be with: The sad parts, the scared parts, the helpless parts, the parts that feel lonely, the parts that we feel like we're not enough... If we start to feel those and be with them, and we can be fully accepting them, what happens then is that those things barely trigger us in the world out there, and we can be with so much more in the range of human experience and emotion.

Acknowledging these facts and learning to recognize the triggers, allow us to detect whenever we're at risk so we can block its effect on us. There's no other way as we cannot change society or the media, for now. A retreat in the jungle while dieting master plants along with Ayahuasca ceremonies provides a perfect to deal with relegated issues allowing us to finally break the addiction cycle.

30/12/2021

In this absurd fight against the expansion of consciousness - misnamed "Fight Against Drugs" - psychedelic substances and natural medicine have been demonized. Paradoxically, drugs such as alcohol, stimulants and sedatives are legal, socially accepted, recommended by doctors, and even sold with massive media campaigns. We must learn to recognize them, as there is a great difference between visions and hallucinations; healing diseases and alleviating symptoms; between being connected or high.

Master, medicinal and entheogenic plants (psychedelics in a shamanic or religious setting) are a gateway to the invisible world of medicine, where we can do introspective work to address unresolved issues from the past. When doing it, empathy, compassion and community bond naturally emerge, filling our being with humility and light; attracting the most positive of the universe; reconstructing the pathways of thought - feeling - action that allow ending addictions to substances or self-destructive behaviors. Its use is temporary and the results are usually for life: They are used only during the healing process, since once the origin of the problem has healed, it is not necessary to continue the treatment. Furthermore, the vibrational frequency and energy flows are so high that they allow you to enjoy the abundant beauty of life naturally and spontaneously.

On the contrary, drugs (recreational and pharmaceutical) are an escape door from reality, a way of disguising the problem. They fill the ego with destructive power, attracting the most negative in the universe; causing dependency and tolerance, making it necessary to consume them more frequently and in quantity; decreasing the vibrational frequency and interrupting the flow of energy, making it impossible to see the beauty of life.

10/12/2021

The climax of the tropical rainforest has the kind of complexity of single transfer, movement of nutritional materials, movement of electromagnetic radiation that we find in the modern city. It’s a cliché of modernity that “the city is a jungle”. The problem is it isn’t jungle enough. I think it is the task of the new shamans to take the metaphor of the jungle, which is a metaphor of tremendous wealth, variety, the outpouring of form, energy, and of potential fulfillment of various bifurcations of patterns of flow… to take that and enrich our lives with it. And the way this is done is by empowering the presence of experience.
Terence McKenna – Video excerpt

"As a society, we cannot seem to make peace with Nature, as human beings, as individuals, it's very hard for us to be at peace with ourselves." Terence McKen...

03/12/2021

Underripe plantains are incredibly healthy due to their high fiber and resistant starch: a type of carbohydrate that does not break down into sugar in the small intestine but passes into the large intestine where fermentation occurs promoting the growth of “good” gut bacteria. They also improve digestive health and regularity, preventing constipation and colon cancer. It is assumed to have an antacid-like effect on people suffering from stomach ulcers that helps to lessen pain and prevent further damage.

When doing a master plant diet, where you are eating small amounts of boiled whole food without any salt - to catalyze the cleansing of the blood and body by releasing toxins so the plant medicine can pe*****te - plantain is probably the best you can have. They are low in sodium (salt) and rich in iron, a mineral vital to the functioning of hemoglobin. Furthermore, they are gentle on the stomach and promote a feeling of fullness helping you to eat less. Some diets are done on plantain only, especially the ones for the treatment of diabetes.

Working with plant medicine or not, adding them to your daily diet could help lower cholesterol, prevent anemia, catalyze weight loss, enhance sexual health, among others. More detailed info and nerdy data at the comments section below.

26/11/2021

Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon, is a family-friendly animated feature film that will describe Peruvian legends and stories to a global audience. The script explores the life of Ainbo, an Amazonian girl living in Candamo, an uncharted rainforest civilization. The characters are derived from the Shipibo-Konibo ethnicity of the Ucayali River, exploring the effects of deforestation and extinction.

Peruvian Amazon, traditional indigenous cultures, and mythological storytelling are highlighted in the film. Universal elements include the negative effects of deforestation and illegal mining as Ainbo is destined to defend Candamo from loggers and greed, reinforcing the themes of ecology and diversity. The writers represented the negative effects as a motif for the Amazon myth antagonist character known as the Yacuruna.

The script will also examine the legends of the animal spirits that civilizations and Native American groups of the Americas throughout history have described as a sort of guardians in their upbringing. Animal spirits described in the film include the skinny armadillo Dillo and the heavy-set tapir Vaca. They are introduced as comic-relief characters. One of the major spirit animals highlighted is the benevolent Mother spirit of the Amazon: Turtle Motelo Mama described in lore as a giant turtle that protects the Amazon biosphere.

19/11/2021

‘Las Tres Mitades de Ino Moxo y otros brujos de la Amazonía’ by Peruvian poet and writer Cesar Calvo was published in 1981, decades before the Ayahuasca boom in the western world. Narrates his trip far away into the Amazon jungle to interview Ino Moxo (Black Jaguar), who freed the Amazonian natives in the Gran Pajonal from extermination by the hands of the rubber industry genocidal barons. The story jumps constantly from his own reality, to his view when under mareación during Ayahuasca ceremonies. It's also kind of gonzo as a lot of it has to do with the trip itself, getting to the Amawaka community where the interview takes place.

An alluring way to learn the history, cosmovision and myths of the many Peruvian ethnicities (not only Amazonian indigenous), disclosing real life places in Pucallpa, Iquitos, Cuzco; with real people like Don Manuel Córdoba, probably one of the most respected Vegetalistas who worked for a U.S. pharmaceutical company to search, collect and catalog thousands of Amazon plant species for them. Don Manuel spent his last years as a curandero for the locals for free. Can't tell anything else to avoid a spoiler.

This is one many books we have for our guests, and probably one of the most wonderful books about Vegetalismo Amazonico's sacred traditions ever written.

11/11/2021

Fasting is strongly recommended before attending Ayahuasca ceremonies, to prepare the body and mind for this sacred ritual. It’s not only a powerful discipline and an effective cleansing tool but also proof of what mind over matter can achieve. It’s hard because our brains and stomachs are highly hardwired; and guts effectively affect our mood and vice versa, which may trigger irritable or hot-temper feelings.

Don’t perceive it only as a test of will or sacrifice before the ritual, as fasting might help cognition, memory, and our ability to learn; catalyze the intensity of our visions; the connection with the divine and most important: help the Curandero perform deep healing.

When eating 3 meals a day, our body relies on glucose for energy and all excess goes to the liver, as a sugar reserve to burn and release when not eating. When fasting, everything changes. After about 8 hours of not eating, there’s no more sugar to burn, so we tap to another resource: Fat, which is then broken down by the liver into acids called ketones which are a more efficient source of energy, something we need a lot during the ceremony. Remember we shouldn’t either have fat before ceremonies. This topic and no-salt reasons are explained further in the comments area below.

Our only intention here is to make people aware that Ayahuasca is not a substance to be used but rather an entity with whom we can engage in an intelligent relationship, the reason why we have to prepare ourselves in every way we can. Otherwise, we’ll end up drinking more than necessary to transcend the threshold… entering an abuse territory where no real healing can take place.

29/10/2021

Set and setting is a term which refers to the psychological, social, and cultural parameters which shape the response to psychedelics, referred to as entheogens in shamanic or religious rituals. This hypothesis basically holds that the effects are dependent first and foremost upon set (personality, preparation, expectation, and intention of the person having the experience) and setting (the physical, social, and cultural environment in which the experience takes place). Both popular and scholarly sources widely manifest that non-pharmacological effects are responsible for a major part, if not a majority, of therapeutic benefits in a variety of sanctioned treatments. With the recent resurgence of psychedelic research and therapies, the concept of set and setting has once again become relevant, showing a fundamental awareness to its issues and principles.

The Peruvian Amazon is home to the strongest extant entheogenic tradition (coupled with an animistic belief system) and continue to make this sacred medicine known by the name Ayahuasca. Amazonian healers (curanderos) take it in sacred ceremonies in order to induce a trance, enabling them to communicate with the spirit world to diagnose what is causing their patients' illnesses and prescribe the plants needed for the cure. Treatments are more effective during a medicinal and master plant diet where patients must have an honest intention and surrender to the plant medicine in isolation, with specific and restricted boiled whole food intake without salt, sugar, oil, meat nor spice.

🎥: Jaguar Suite with private bathroom, kitchen, art workshop and vegetable garden; beautifully surrounded by wildlife as well as medicinal and master plants… where you can surrender safely and comfortably to the plant spirits to heal and learn.