I am Alan Shoemaker living in Iquitos, Peru for the last 16 years. this is my first post here as I just discovered this website. Sorry it's a post about the annual Shamansim Conference.... but it's an important event and perhaps many of you would like to know about it.
"In a world of ultimate mystery, we create boredom. In a Universe of overwhelming abundance, we create lack. In a long life of safety, despite thousands of demonstrations of peace, we still create disquiet. In a life with but one guarantee, death, we create being afraid of it. And, finally, with a consciousness that is able to so powerfully create these things, it is also a Truth that we can as well create their opposites, at any time, in any place, for no reason, other than we can." -TB Wright
The 5th International Amazonian Shamanism Conference: "the Art and the Heart of Healing" will be held again in Iquitos, Peru this coming July 11th - 18th, 2009.
For the fifth year in a row, Gracia Ethnobotanicals is happy to have Soga Del Alma (Spanish for Vine of the Soul) hosting the Shamanism Conference, which will allow people from all over the World to meet in the Peruvian Amazon, meet different types of curanderos (shamans) and learn more about how Shamanism is practiced and plants revered there. The Conference begins with registration at 9am, July 11th. Many "illustrious Presenters" will begin making their Presentations at 3pm until 11pm. Dinner is catered. There will be many invited Shamans from the Upper Amazon and they too will be speaking of their healing modalities, including the ceremonial and healing and healing use of the Sacred Power Plants: Ayahuasca, San Pedro and others. There will be three days/evenings during the Conference when everyone is free to explore in and around Iquitos as well as to be Ceremony with the Shamans that you feel most aligned too.
be with the 200+ other like-minded individuals from all over the globe and around 15+ of the finest hand-picked Shamans from the Upper Amazon.
We hope to see many of you here. "Spread the Word, Find the Others."
thankyou for your time.
alan shoemaker
Iquitos, Peru
"In a world of ultimate mystery, we create boredom. In a Universe of overwhelming abundance, we create lack. In a long life of safety, despite thousands of demonstrations of peace, we still create disquiet. In a life with but one guarantee, death, we create being afraid of it. And, finally, with a consciousness that is able to so powerfully create these things, it is also a Truth that we can as well create their opposites, at any time, in any place, for no reason, other than we can." -TB Wright
The 5th International Amazonian Shamanism Conference: "the Art and the Heart of Healing" will be held again in Iquitos, Peru this coming July 11th - 18th, 2009.
For the fifth year in a row, Gracia Ethnobotanicals is happy to have Soga Del Alma (Spanish for Vine of the Soul) hosting the Shamanism Conference, which will allow people from all over the World to meet in the Peruvian Amazon, meet different types of curanderos (shamans) and learn more about how Shamanism is practiced and plants revered there. The Conference begins with registration at 9am, July 11th. Many "illustrious Presenters" will begin making their Presentations at 3pm until 11pm. Dinner is catered. There will be many invited Shamans from the Upper Amazon and they too will be speaking of their healing modalities, including the ceremonial and healing and healing use of the Sacred Power Plants: Ayahuasca, San Pedro and others. There will be three days/evenings during the Conference when everyone is free to explore in and around Iquitos as well as to be Ceremony with the Shamans that you feel most aligned too.
be with the 200+ other like-minded individuals from all over the globe and around 15+ of the finest hand-picked Shamans from the Upper Amazon.
We hope to see many of you here. "Spread the Word, Find the Others."
thankyou for your time.
alan shoemaker
Iquitos, Peru