5700 x 3800 px | 48,3 x 32,2 cm | 19 x 12,7 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
2. April 2016
Ort:
Amazon Rainforest, Iquitos, Nauta, Maynas, Loreto, Peru, South America
Weitere Informationen:
An Ayahuasca Healing center in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest at night. Inkan Kena Spiritual Center is made up of a collection of Tambos, small palm thatched houses on stilts, and a central Maloca (Maloka) used for traditional ayahuasca medicine ceremonies in the Shipibo Conibo Amazonian tradition. Patients come to Peru for treatment of mental physical and spiritual diseases that western medicine cannot treat, but the indigenous vegetalistas and shamans use their ancestral plant medicine practices based around the hallucinogenic and visionary brew also known as yage, made from two plants; the ayahuasca vine banisteriopsis Caapi and a bush called chacruna or psychotria viridis. Shipibo medicine and culture is growing in international popularity as something of a phenomenon, where healing miracles are commonplace, as well as the notions of sorcery and brujeria. Inkan Kena is a healing center in the jungle between Iquitos and Nauta, and is run by a family of curanderos with an extensive lineage of plant based shamanism.
