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Chinchilejo e.i.r.l. (Dragonfly in Quechua) is sponsoring the 4th Amazonian Shamanism Conference in Iquitos, Peru. They are hosts to Soga Del Alma (Vine of the Soul) and invited guest Presenters and healers. The very experienced Presenters and Healers (shamans-curanderos) will be presenting lectures on various Amazonian healing techniques as well as alternative types of natural medicines. These curanderos (male and female) are those that typically use Ayahuasca or San Pedro in order to heal people, reguraly drink these medicinas and carry this knowledge with them in order to help other people make contact with the Vine and cactus and thereby get the knowledge they need to rebalance their beings, their lives and keep on living wisely, with open eyes on the World.

In it's core, this meeting will allow participants to make contact with Ayahuasca through curanderos who dedicate their lives to introduce people to it, in the setting they have always been working: the largest forest of the world. This meeting is therefore mainly a meeting with the teacher and healer Ayahuasca in her homeland. There will also be Curanderos who heal with other plants or by other means. Ayahuasca is not going to be the only aspect of this conference; Shamanism will.

Last but not least, apart from the curanderos who will share with us a plant knowledge that is a priori very foreign to us brought up in the western culture, there will also be talks by western intellectuals who share a true interest in the plant wisdom and do their best to translate it in our western words, thereby working to single out the Vine and its use from the western vision that puts it on the same level as drugs.

I'm hoping to attend this conference. To that end, the conference organizers have offered to give me a portion of the registration fee of anyone who signs up for the conference as a result of having learned about it through the C-Realm Podcast or the C-Realm website. This will help defray my travel expenses and allow me to join you for this event.

This year, we don't have any automatic tracking system set up, so if you learned about the conference through C-Realm, please indicate on the registration form that you were referred by KMO.

Conference site is here.

For 5 days prior to the conference, KMO and a small groupl of C-Realm listeners will be convening at a jungle retreat about two hours from Iquitos. You can learn more about this pre-conference event here.