by malabar on February 3, 2013 in Amazon, Ayahuasca, Brujeria, Housekeeping, Peru, Shamanism
Ceremony 301 included 3 new people, all foreign tourists. Two of them were traveling buddies from North Carolina who had never drunk ayahuasca before; the third was a British guy from Bristol (what are the odds?) who had been drinking with various people for years, trying to cure a stomach problem.
We’d originally planned to …
by malabar on February 3, 2013 in Amazon, Ayahuasca, Brujeria, Peru, Shamanism
We cooked up a new batch of ayahuasca on 19 Jan (Saturday). It was slightly frustrating in that my teacher had had trouble finding good, mature vine to include in the mix. This is happening all over Iquitos: so many centers have sprung up and so many people are drinking that good stuff is getting …
by malabar on January 12, 2013 in Amazon, Ayahuasca, Brujeria, Folk medicine, Peru, Shamanism
Hello there, it’s been a while, but I’m still here. Things have been fairly quiet with a few major exceptions:
- My room flooded for the first time this trip on Friday 4 Jan. It rained heavily for about three hours solid, and water came in both from the leaking roof and from the …
by malabar on December 31, 2012 in Amazon, Ayahuasca, Brujeria, Peru, Shamanism
It amuses me greatly to think of capybaras and giant anteaters in a Nativity scene…
The day passed here with the usual accoutrements: the kids flying on the hot chocolate given out for free by various shops and schools; the sparklers and small fireworks at the stroke of midnight; getting and giving hugs to everyone …
by malabar on December 24, 2012 in Amazon, Ayahuasca, Brujeria, Peru, Shamanism
Lest you think that I spend all of my time here in Peru visiting other dimensions, preparing for or recovering from same, I offer a little vignette of more normal pursuits here in Iquitos.
I had promised the family I’d take everyone out for ceviche for Christmas, and had originally planned it earlier in the …
by malabar on December 19, 2012 in Amazon, Ayahuasca, Brujeria, Folk medicine, Peru, Shamanism
Things have been pretty quiet since the last ceremony. I’ve been trying to help my teacher, to take the pressure off him as much as possible. We drank again on Monday night (17 Dec), in another small ceremony.
My tasks this time were to investigate further the case of the man who was nearly …
by malabar on December 15, 2012 in Amazon, Ayahuasca, Brujeria, Folk medicine, Peru, Shamanism
I’ve been taking on more and more responsibility as this trip has gone on, so I suppose it was only a matter of time before my teacher let me more or less take over a ceremony on my own. He’d been away earlier in the week, out at the jungle camp, seeing what needed doing …
by malabar on December 10, 2012 in Amazon, Ayahuasca, Brujeria, Peru, Shamanism
Hey there, I know it’s been a little while, but I’m making up for it with not one but two ceremony reports!
Ceremony 293, on 5/6 Nov, was relatively small and tranquil. There was a new Peruvian guy there, C, who said he wants to study with my teacher. He’s attending university here in Iquitos, …
by malabar on November 26, 2012 in Amazon, Ayahuasca, Brujeria, Peru, Shamanism
Been spending much of the past week working on the icaros – finally figured out how to study them more efficiently: listen to the recording, sing it on my own, listen again to correct mistakes, sing it again, repeat until it sounds more like the recording than not. This means sometimes spending an hour on …
by malabar on November 19, 2012 in Ayahuasca, Brujeria, Shamanism, Spirituality
PB didn’t come back for another ceremony; turns out he had to head for Chile to get there in time to make his flight home. A shame, as he’s good people. In any event, we didn’t drink again til Saturday. This turned out to be just as well, since several of us went down with …
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