The savia de Oni transmits the curative power, the keys to the adaptation. The master plants that join you together with the chacruna, together with the leaf of oniric visions open windows towards different magic environments, calling their auxiliary spirits that emerge from their incantations, from the weaving of visible voices, powerfully indecipherable.

In the ceremonies, the person gains access to the world of his subconscious. It is about a living world. It is the world that one must penetrate so that he can recover normal life. At the production of the separation between the conscious world and the unconscious world the separation allows us to analyze from one conscience mode all our unconscious history that was kept in some hidden place. This is always the continuing source of our wrongs and problems. Because of this the shaman guides the self- analysis of each person.

The act of bringing to the consciousness what is unconscious allows us to confront ourselves. This brings us to observe the things that we are doing, to see the negative and allow us to accept it, then we will realize that we are capable of doing more than what we had thought possible. The best way to make our unconscious wishes appear is to become conscience of them, realizing them. All the negative forces have an exit and they try to find it. In the ceremonies one tries the time dimension in such a way that it is convoked in the ceremony the continuous space and time of four dimensions.
In order to cure yourself physically and spiritually, one should discover how his past is producing the sickness. The shamans work in a sensation of great power and this power finds itself in the same land and sees itself strengthened by sacred plants, plants that were utilized from ancient times like 3000 B.C.

The Ayahuasca, San Pedro and other holy plants are utilized to explore this world as well as the parallels that are normally out of our ordinary perception. At its consumption, it frees one from the normal limits of space and time of this world moving one freely from one world to the next.

The sacred plants contain powerful spirits. Through the years it has been possible to capture the knowledge and power.
These plants are tools for exploring the natural and supernatural kingdoms which only can be utilized in the presence of an experienced shaman.

These holy plants were not discovered on accident. They were necessary for our evolution as a species, it allows us to communicate with our planet. It provides us with spiritual and mystical introspection about our own nature.

AYAHUASCA
There exists a traditional knowledge, fairly elaborate, in all that concerns the mental sphere which is achieved through the employment of certain psychoactive plants. Here there exists other medicinal uses, as well as other type of problems generated by the expansion of urbanism and modernity.

The coca plant is sacred plant and the same time diabolic, depending on how it is used. Its essence also includes a little of that duality.
There is a great confusion in the Western world in understanding the meaning of altering a state of consciousness, it is said to be a sin, dangerous, a drug… it´s a grave mistake, since there are addictive and non-addictive substance. It depends greatly on the way they are used and the type of approach we give them. It´s a matter of daring to experience them in order to get to know them well, or to stay away in order to take a more theorical approach. There are a lot of studies about the ayahuasca of that kind, carried out by anthropologists and many scholars that did not try them or only tried them a couple of time. But the use of ayahuasca involves processes that take years to understand, like sexual abstinence, certain energetic movements, etc., which if one does not experience personally, one will never know what it is all about
The Jungle contains the origin of the sin as well as the cure.

“The plant will teach you, is the inmediatly Shaman´ answer. You will not understand until you try it.”
The contact with ayahuasca turned out to be transcendental, since it constituted a significant breakthrough that there was, indeed, a source of knowledge hidden in this plant.
And not only in ayahuasca, but also many other plants with a tremendous curative potential,which I tried through a process of purges, dreams and chants. The psychoactive elements in these plants were a path to an unkown interior world, to some sort of secret wisdom that we all possess, wich even allows to direct our own lives.

According to traditional shamanic understanding there is no separation of body, mind and spirit. The idea of spirituality is something that has been distorted too much in the West. Nowadays the connection between organic illnesses and the mind is accepted, but without paying any attention what so ever to the spiritual dimension, which has nothing to do with the mind. They are treated as “psychological traumas” That is to say, instinct does not exist for the psychiatrist either, there only exists the mind.
In the traditional shamanic context, there is one more dimension that is immaterial and constitutes the essence of a human being: when one dies, it is the body that stops working, the spirit remains. And they explore that spiritual world that penetrates not only human beings, but all of nature, ,rites, places, caves, rivers the fauna… what they suggest doesn´t necessarily mean to believe in reality as a part of a divine entity, but just to try it, which I find to be reasonable. They tell you to try for yourself, “you are going to see for yourself, you alone will have access to it if you sincerely want to” It is, then, an experience of revelation”, a perception of reality different from the regular one that allows to have access to other levels of consciousness, leading you into other dimensions of life that are not distinguishable with the naked eye, simply because they are present in other ways.

What is most convincing from experiencing ayahuasca is the idea of reconciliation with oneself, accepting what you are, your good or bad things, a reconciliation whit your past, with all the bitternes you might feel about your parents, your family, your society…in a few words, it is to accept yourself, to acknowledge the fact that you are part of what you are rejecting, and if it´s not perfecto, it is because you also are implicated in the wrongdoings. Finally, it is a reconciliation with God, within the concept of what God is according to each of us, since it offers a transcendental vision of something that is more important than you, just a every “revelation” does. This offers certain levels of endless and wonderful relief, although it is a process in which you never stop making discoveries, which is at the same time hard because it could involve some suffering.

It is also a reconciliation which a works on both the exterior and interior natural worlds, a kind of humanist ecology that goes beyond mere politics. It´s not only about protecting nature, but more about recreating a sacredness in the relationship of all living beings: between man and his interior world, between both these and the exterior world, and between this whole and nature´s cosmic dimension.
The rite is fundamental. This spiritual dimension must also be accepted, one finds out how to make contact with that world by means of ayahuasca. Most important is showing respect for the experience in which you are about to engage, because when the flow of visions becomes too strong, some cannot avoid reacting cowardly, since there is a moment when one realizes how daring it is to face sensation of both unknown and powerful natures.

And that fear is good because it returns you to your condition of creatura( creation), until you find out there is something that can detect your presence, though at the same time it protects you, it nurtures you… The ritual is the way one manifests oneself and asks for permission, because one cannot just steal the fire of the Gods as in the Prometheus myth. It is possible that one might have the right to do so, but it does not mean one can do it just to satisfy a childish whim or to “plunge” into a purely evasive journey. Rituals are the gate through which we enter the sacred. For example, when one uses the coca plant for, let´s say an infusion for an upset stomach, one does not require a twenty-minute ritual. What one is expecting from the coca plant at that moment is to cure some kind of organic aliment. On the other hand, if the coca plant is used for clairvoyance or to pray to the Gods, as it is done in the Andes, then a ritual is required, since at that moment you are using the coca plant at a different level. Your attitude needs to be different, in this instance you must bow before the coca plant.

SAN PEDRO
The night arrives and underneath the stars, the patients await the shaman, who is meditation preparing himself to engage in combat against the forces and entities that will present themselves in the ceremony of the mesada or mesa, on which the life and health of the visitors will enter in sets, during the course of the ceremony, not only will illnesses of the body and soul be cured, but, furthermore luck will be changed and will “flourish” and alleviate the emotional weights of the participants. In some cases, revenge will be exacted and returned to their source.
Standing in a circle, in the open air and in the middle of the silence surrounding the siento or mesa, the master will serve them one by one, from left to right, a dosage of Sampedro that corresponds to each patient.

He will determine the quantity necessary according to the illness, size and weight of each patient. Then the chants will mark the moments through which the ceremony or the voyage proceeds to the other side of the visible world.
The shaman, with his Icaros, energy and power-giving objects, starts evaluating, curing and attending to the sick, as well as giving advice and reading their futures in alter ego.

Diverse movements, spins and dances can also accompany the ceremony, which will end with the first the rooster´s first crow, before the first light of day, since Sampedro and the Sun are opposing entities.

The participation in this rite is an absolutely personal experience that has little to do with rationality. It is an individual experience, unique and not transferable, nevertheless, in order to achieve this altered state of consciousness, the group interaction and the shaman´s leadership are fundamental, since they give this interior and solitary voyage an intense collective personality. During the trance, deep bonds are formed between the participants, since this alone frees the capacity to share in forming a truly vital experience.

The difference between Shaman and Spiritualists.
In the trance of the medium of the Spiritualists, they comes to them; they voluntarily give the control of the body and mind, allowing them to work through them.

Out of body experiences: shaman flight towards delicate worlds
At the moment when the consciousness separates from the body, the patient or traveler perceives a black hole like the mouth of a tunnel and a series of manifestations or luminous points like an energetic field moving around him. Arriving at this point, the patient usually changes his angle of vision and is able to see his body from the outside as if he were looming over himself. He feels weightless and capable of transporting solid objects. This condition is called “astral body.”

After passing through the tunnel, the traveler sees a brilliant light. He baths in the light, experiencing a sensation of euphoria and of love and all his feelings of hate, rancor, envy disappear, unchaining profound spiritual transformations.

This spiritual field is produced due to the purge of noxious energies in the aura, facilitated by the temporary liberation of the physical body. As a consequence of this, one produces a revision of one’s own life, which almost always presents itself when encountering other beings. In general, the familiar spirits usually show the traveler the effects that his actions provoke in others.

The states of conscience are modified by implementing a graduation of alternative states of conscience so that the traveler can adopt to the appropriate level in the necessary moment. One of the most important characteristics in realizing these mystical experiences in sacred places such as Machu Picchu lies in that many times the spiritual and physical aspects of the life of the protagonist are modified profoundly.