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Published: January 29th 2007
cooking ayahuasca
all the ingredients where freshly collected in the jungle...After my friends went back home to Switzerland I decided to stay in the world of the Shipibos and to explore a little more. Together with curandero Daniel Arevalo, who had been with us during the last 12 days in San Francisco, I took a 17 hours boatride to the community where he lives with his huge family - Hunin Pablo.
Unlike San Francisco the community Hunin Pablo is a pure rivercommunity, only accessable per boat. His family welcomed me openly and soon I lived in midst of them. In a house without walls, only a wooden floor and palmtree-roof, I had my sleeping place in a hammock sourrounded by the family-members sleeping around me under their mosquito-nets... No fluent water, no electricity... Bathing everyday in the river...
I continued the special diet without sugar, fat and salt and taking various plants given to me by Daniel. In 4 weeks Daniel conducted 14 nightly ayahuasca-ceremonies, in some of them I could witness how he was making healingwork on family-members or people of the community that came with various physical problems... Amazingly interesting for me!
Apart from this profound ceremonial experiences it was a great gift to live in midst of this
daniel collecting chacruna
the vision-giving part of the sacred ayahuasca-brew people far away from civilization and western luxury, experiencing the communal- and familylife of the Shipibo-people so close. And last but not least I learned a big deal of Spanish there, as this was the only way to communicate!
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