Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon - Stephan Beyer "Brown" we can become excellent teachers

we can become excellent teachers under Krittika’s influence

The gourds grow in the warm central valleys of the Andes

a tied bunch of roots (the invisible part of the plant)

Slight pressure can be applied to adjust to your wrist size

Made by Shipibo women of Amazonia

Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon - Stephan Beyer "Brown" we can become excellent teachersIn the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanish speaking descendants of Hispanic colonizers and the indigenous peoples of the jungle. Some mestizos have migrated to Amazon towns and cities, such as Iquitos and Pucallpa; most remain in small villages, their houses perched on stilts on the shores of the rivers that are their primary means of travel. Here in the jungle, they have retained features of the Hispanic tradition, including a folk Catholicism and