San Pedro, the â? Healerâ miracle?

San Pedro (Trichocereus pachanoi), the sacred cactus and visionary teacher plant of South America, especially associated with healers and shamans (healers) of the Peruvian Andes. It has other names, and among these healers, including a? The Remedioâ ????: The Remedy, which refers to its powers of healing and visionary who, they say, we can help you quit â? ? the illusions of the world ????.

Even its name after Hispanics, San Pedro, embodies those qualities that Saint Peter is the holder of the keys to heaven and the name of the cactus, therefore, about his ability to â? Open the gates? in another world where people who drink can be cured, to discover his divinity, and find their purpose on Earth.

It is also known as Huachuma and this is the most frequently mentioned by the shamans who use it, they call themselves huachumeros (men) or huachumeras (female). Its use as a sacrament and ritual healing is as old as history itself. The first archaeological evidence discovered so far is a stone carving of a huachumero found in the Temple of the Jaguar Chavan Huantar in northern Peru, which is almost 3500 years. Textiles from the same region and period of history represented by the cactus with jaguars and hummingbirds, their spirits of two guards, and with stylized spirals representing the visionary experience.Â

Another image, a woman with an owl face cactus, comes from a ceramic pot of culture Chima º, which dates back to 1200 AD. According to native beliefs, the owl is a tutelary spirit and guardian of the herbalists and shamans, the woman is most likely a healer (healer) and huachumera.

Cactus ceremonies held today for the same reasons than ever to treat diseases of a spiritual, emotional, mental, or physical nature, namely the future through the prophetic and divinatory qualities of the plant to overcome or magic salt (an inexplicable run â? bad Lucka ????); to ensure success in ONEA? s business, to rekindle the love and enthusiasm for life and experience the world as divine.

The ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, St. Peter wrote in the book Plants of the Gods it is one? Always in tune with the powers of animals and supernatural beings that have powers? | Partners [ceremonies] are one? Mattera free? and participate in the cosmic flight across regions? | Transported through time and distance in a fast and secure fashion ????. Andean shaman an appointment, describing some of the effects of the plant: â? First, a dream stateâ? | So great visions, a clear all facultiesâ? | Release, and then a kind of visual, including the sixth sense, the state of telepathic transmission oneself through time and matter as a removal of thoughts at a distance dimension ????.

Lesley Myburgh (known in the Andes as La Gringa: â? ????) Woman abroad is another of the shamans. She led ceremonies with San Pedro for nearly 20 years.

â? Is a master teacherâ ????, said. â? It helps us heal, grow, learn and wake up, and helps us to achieve higher states of consciousness. I've been very blessed to have experienced many miracles: people are cured of any diseases just by drinking this sacred plant. We use it to return to Earth and realize that there is no separation between you, me, the Earth and Heaven. We are all one. Ita? S something to read, but this experience really is the unit most beautiful gifts you can receive.

â? St. Peter teaches us to live in balance and harmony, that teaches us compassion and understanding, and shows us how to love, respect, honor and all things. It shows that we are children of light - beautiful and special? and to see the light within us.

â? each person? s experience is unique in that we are all unique, and San Pedro is drinkable, therefore, a journey of discovery, of himself and the universe. There is one thing in common however: The day that you meet St. Peter is one you will never forget - a day filled with light and love that can change your life foreverâ? | And if the betterâ ????.

In 2008, during one of my visits to Peru to work with San Pedro, La Gringa, I talked about her life and experiences with Huachuma, the cactus of vision. Their responses show not only the potential cure of this plant, but also shed light on the traditions that surround it and its evolution in the modern world. For those who work as shamanic healers, which has learned from La Gringa Huachuma is also interesting because it suggests that the disease can come from and how, therefore, can be cured, even by those who do not work with them San Pedro.

How did you get to participate in shamanic practice?

The first time you drank from San Pedro in the 1990s and annulled all that experience I thought I knew about reality. In my view, in the mountains, I saw a ladder of light on a nearby hill and called my shaman to explain.

â? There is nothing to explain that ????, shrugged. â? It is a ladder of light ????.

â? You mean you see it too? â? I asked.

â? From courseâ ????, said. â? Take a picture if you dona? believe thereâ is ????. I thought I was crazy. How to photograph a vision: something that was just in my head? But I didnâ? I do not want to be disrespectful, so I took the picture anyway.

Later I got it developed, and there it was: a ladder of light, like I? Seen that, although I had never seen there before and in the mountains is likely to be seen now. I called my shaman and came to see the image, but didnâ? It does not seem so surprised, like me.

â? which one? s the AI? I have been trying to say! â? He said. â? These things are not only in your mind. They exist. St. Peter opens his eyes to what already exists! Â?

San Pedro has shown me the reality, because it really was, but has also changed what I thought of the real. He understood that the great power that human beings, and that can manifest anything you choose, just have to believe we can. St. Peter teaches us to believe.

It teaches us that we are part of all that we are brothers and sisters, and that nature in its true form is beautiful. We wake up and shows us how to be aware of the Earth. Prior to San Pedro I used to walk around the world and not notice it. Now I realize I have a whole new respect for her.

That wasnâ? Not the only â? Miracleâ? But I saw that day. My shaman was a kind man and I felt calm and protected as it was in the sun. So, when I opened my eyes and saw two children staring at me, they were so beautiful that I thought they were angels. I was impressed by them and it took me several minutes to realize that they were real and were crying and asking for help.

They said that his father was sick at home and had no mother to that didnâ? I know what to do. Were scared that he was dying.

I went to her house with my shaman and when I saw that man thought he was dying too. But the shaman walked calmly to him and began to blow at the top of his head through some coca leaves he had with him. Then use a pen, running along the sick mana? S head and body, and then said a prayer.

As soon as it was Saturday that man bolt upright and began to vomit as Good? Never stop. Immediately looked better. The shaman said Good? D be well after that and when we leave the house and was out of bed and care for their children.

That was my first experience of a shamanic healing, shaman, and all had used a pen and some paper and, of course, knowledge that gave the San Pedro. After that I knew I wanted to work more with this plant.

You also training with other shamans. Tell us about your current teacher.

His name is Ruben. I met him ten years ago in a church in the Valley, quite by chance. I learned a lot from him from the beginning. He is a famous anthropologist who for years headed the Machu Picchu, the sacred place, but it is also a shaman so he knows why and how things work from a historical and a spiritual perspective.

Their training was very hard. He was not my first shamanic teachers, were much smoother. He made me drink from San Pedro twice a week for several years. Sometimes I would ask you not to drink! IA? D sob and say that was too sick to drink, because I just couldn? Not face another session. But he would say, â? Good! Youâ? Re sick! - And the fact that you cana? No face healing that needs - that is exactly why you need to drink! Get your coat and leta? S go! Â?

At the time of his death, but now I know I was right and drink all that San Pedro was the best thing that happened to me. I've seen all the bad things in my life in a new light and was able to let go. I deleted all the life in those years, and I learned a lot about San Pedro and healing well.

I'm still working with Ruben and I always hope. But he has softened a bit and now no longer required to drink every week.

He is a â? Old School? shaman, however, Isna? not him, with many of the rituals as part of their ceremonies - Singer and contrachisa, etc. Can you teach that too?

Oh yes. But I never felt comfortable with the rituals and Ruben agreed that should work differently, especially since I am healing many Western didnâ? I really do not understand the rituals anyway. San Pedro and told me I should keep things simple. So now I say a prayer to open the ceremony and then to the greatest extent possible to allow St. Peter to do their job without me get in your way.

I sometimes use snuff in the ceremonies, however, not the singer [leaf snuff soaked in honey and alcohol that many shamans snort ask the participants in their nostrils to clear negative energies], only smoke snuff. It is good to blow smoke on people if they are going through a difficult time or are stuck somewhere in the energy within them. The smoke is freed up.

I also use water florida [herbal scent with healing properties] to balance the People? S energies. I ask most of them to smell the bottle or your hands and helps to ground, but sometimes I spray on them.

And, of course, I also use a table [altar cloth exposed in a ritual], although mine is much simpler than many others. In Peru, shamans working with different designs for table, but when you have your own learning to use it in a way that suits you best. It is a living thing so develop a relationship with her. Peter also teaches you how to use it.

The objects in the center of my table shells and stones that have meaning for me and power. Arrange in a straight line, as a backbone with rocks as the vertebrae. This follows the idea in Peru spiritual energy that takes place in the small of the back and as we advance in our paths and plants which we begin to climb up the spine to the head, where, when fully conscious.

In the Andes there are three sacred animals: the snake, puma and the condor, and sometimes see the statues of the three, one above the other. The snake represents the divine energy that we have on our backs, the puma is the body, and the condor is the awakening same mind which rises above the world. Thus, these statues are also a representation of the energy that flows through us and in us new awareness. The table that I use it.

Some shamans use chonta [wood sometimes used to beat the participants to move around their spiritual] and swords on their tables, and as protection and to change the energies of the patients and cure them. I dona? No, because I've always known that San Pedro protects me and my participants anyway, and no more protection or more powerful healer of the plant! So why do I have to beat with sticks the participants - and interrupt their healing to do?

Reuben is a historian and my view that approach as a form of evolution that gives people in need of healing through the proper ceremonies for our times. But it is also a de-evolution, and many rituals and objects that have been artificially added to tables and San Pedro ceremonies through the influence of Spanish Catholics.

Before the Spanish arrived in Peru, Andean believed Inti, the sun god, and Pachamama, the Earth, and its rituals are simpler and less needed symbols, appeasements to God, or how to keep evil streak. The idea of guilt and a need to appease God that came with the Catholics who were our ancestors who made them change their rituals, or be killed. Before that, they were more natural and fluid.

So what I do can be an evolution, as it is called Reuben, but also a return to what it always does. It is as if we evolved backwards instead of forward in time!

It is your decision to hold the ceremonies in the day instead of at night part of this â? Evolution backwards? too?

Ruben has its ceremonies in the evening and that is how they taught me, but as I grew in my understanding of San Pedro, ceremonies of the evening â? in spiritual practice, as well as reasons - became something else that does not really work for me.

Perhaps it has to do with his new Spanish and Catholic notions of guilt and â? Sinsa for our suffering? that most of the San Pedro ceremonies are held at night! I always seemed so cold and uncomfortable that I could never really relax enough to receive the healing of San Pedro. I mentioned this to Reuben and understands exactly what I meant, so they began to hold ceremonies for me during the day. Then he noticed a real difference. In the light of day is where all my progress has come.

On one hand, San Pedro, you can look around and see the beauty of the world and see how it connects to everything that is beautiful and a beautiful part of creation. You cana? Doing that in the dark.

What people need to understand is that San Pedro is like a hallucinogenic ayahuasca, so it will never see the images and photographs, and there is no point, therefore, which lie in the dark waiting for something to happen . San Pedroâ? S is the visionary education instead, the revelations produced by nature - not the spirit, â? world, and the light of day you can see more clearly. That is why we have our ceremonies sunlight: San Pedro, because he wants to and that is how it is done.

How to prepare your San Pedro?

Most shamans skin and cut the cactus then boil for four to eight hours. You can also add alcohol and sometimes other herbs or ingredients. I cook mine for twenty hours, however, it is much stronger and also means that people are less likely to vomit when they drink. Other San Pedro prepared to feel weak and rarely give me the same vision.

Some say that shamans dona? I really do not need a vision of healing to be held in San Pedro. They have a point, but I still think they are important, because as well as healing people need to know they have been healed. When the visions come to feel, then they understand what is real and pay attention to what is shown … about how to protect themselves and stay well, or their place in the world and the beauty of their lives. Without visions cana? I do not know.

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There are other things to consider when preparing San Pedro. I just work with cacti that have seven or nine spines because the majority of beers produced soft and beautiful. Those with six or eight spines are not as strong, while thirteens Elevens and can be very intense, but sometimes dark. Never use both patients.

Those with only four spines are used for exorcisms, and the patient and therapist should drink that much. You donate? Do not want to treat this as a San Pedro, though. It's horrible visions and leads straight to Hell.

While the cactus is the kitchen often sing songs that we offer our prayers, or that a good cure. Every time you shake it we offer a new sentence, so perhaps twenty sentences in each bottle.

Sometimes the spirit of San Pedro shows while cooking too, the patterns on the surface of the water that will tell us to drink and why. I have seen patterns in ovarian cancer, for example, complete in every detail, or the hearts of the closed circles. Then the next day, a woman has come looking for help with a fertility problem and brought it to a man whose heart is closed to your dreams. In this way, San Pedro can show us what people need before they arrive.

What have you seen San Pedro healing ceremonies?

That means a lot to me was a woman who has always said never to drink San Pedro, so its history is one way that you donate? Even need to believe in a plant to heal? but this is better if you do.

This woman? S husband had died some years ago. He was a strong man, but his illness meant they lost away to nothing. It took a year to die while the woman fed him. Then, just three months after her son was dead, murdered in South Africa, stoned to death and left to die. He was only 26.

The woman was shattered. It became like dead men walking. Soon after a stroke that had paralyzed the arm and, from the shock of everything that had been through, she also has diabetes.

Finally, despite all their reservations before, she asked if I could drink San Pedro. I gave him the amount, but is smaller than ideal for her, as if San Pedro is, and that was in my arms and cried her heart for five hours.

That is a good expression of what really happened, because I had drunk too much and San Pedro through his eyes I saw the chapters of energy from your heart and circle in the chest and arm as a tourniquet. I started to pull it and throw it away.

The next morning was like a miracle. His arm, which had been completely paralyzed, had regained full movement. When she came home she saw a specialist who tested his diabetes and had also gone as well. Now she has no problems at all.

I asked about her experience of San Pedro and later said it had felt much pain in his heart, where I had also seen the affliction of the energy that it is binding. Therefore, as the healing of physical problems, St. Pierre showed why he was the same: because of the emotional distress that he had been unable to put aside before.

What I learned from San Pedro is that the disease is never a â? Thing? that is within us, is not? diabetesâ? or â? a strokeâ ????. It is a belief that we have: we must mourn for those who have lost, for example, or for ourselves, through pain and disability that causes our suffering and visible â? Real ????. Therefore, it is a disease thoughtform a model that we have on negative and to reproduce. San Pedro not only cure but this shows thoughtform. So the next time it arises, and we know that can make a conscious choice to think and act differently.

The woman who sounds like he had described a â? Psychosomaticâ? problem, a term that has lost much of its power in the West today. Can you elaborate?

We all disease stems from our minds and souls. Another woman came to me after she was diagnosed with cancer and has been receiving chemotherapy. She looked so bad that I took and spent the next seven days with me, constantly vomiting. At the end of it he realized that his doctors were not helping her and decided to work with the plants instead.

She telephoned her doctor to cancel your appointments and he was very angry. He said it couldn? Doing that, it was stupid and dying as a result of its decision? which, incidentally, is a curse.

Still, she stuck to her decision and now, through San Pedro, which is cured. The plant once again showed why he had cancer? that Western medicine can not do? and said he had a choice in blunt terms that he might die or change their mind and live the life I wanted. I know it sounds too easy, but it really is that simple. She decided not to have cancer because they realized that his life was too precious, once they had seen through San Pedroâ? S eyes.

I have also worked with women victims of sexual abuse in girls and young women are carrying the energy of their bodies and that, generally, a sense of guilt or shame, and as if it were somehow his fault. This energy is also a thoughtform and what is sick and sometimes suicidal.

They need to drink three times in San Pedro. The first is terrible, even for me to see. Only found in a fetal position and scream. The second time is more relaxed, but there is still much to mourn. San Pedro usually drink with them so it can connect to what we are going through the plant and can teach me what it needs to heal.

The third time everything changes and that drink is an experience of complete joy. After they are so different that not even recognize your friends! St. Peter shows them another way, a new belief about themselves and helps them to reconnect with the love and beauty of life has been missing for so long on their own.

That sounds like the soul of recovery, but instead of the shaman, the intelligence of the plant does it all.

Which one? S right. Recovery is the soul, or rather the recovery of life. We maintain our negative beliefs about ourselves as tension in our bodies. If you dona? Not finally released, they become hard and appear as physical or emotional problems. At the same time, our best energies are blocked so that the fullness of our souls and not expressed to us to stay buried. San Pedro removes our negative beliefs and therefore the brightness through the positives. Therefore, it is a form of soul retrieval, in which a return ourselves from ourselves.

Can you tell us more about how we affect the negative beliefs?

In the Andes, shamans speak of â? Good? and â? bad ideas? and they are in a sense, what I mean by thoughtforms. When someone says, for example, has an? Good ideas that donates ????,? It does not mean that you are a creative genius! That means you have good ideas or spiritual or are at one with truth and goodness of the world.

Sometimes we speak of a â? Good? or â? bad wind? too. These â? Winds? are an accumulation of thoughts and energies attract each other and share an affinity. Good energies of many people who are uplifting and positive thoughts can create a good wind, but by the same token, negative thoughts can come together to create an evil wind. In both cases, it is a strength of feeling that circulates in the world.

Thoughts like these have physical effects. I recently had a horse with a friend, for example, to visit the quality control? Ber of the high Andes, and in some way on our trip, miles from anywhere and medical help, my friend swoon and fell from his horse. She lay on the floor shaking and not of this world at all.

Fortunately, we had a shaman with us knew what had happened and, taking their leaves of coca, which has in it and blew through them in his crown. Agitation was stopped immediately and then began to come.

When I asked him what had happened, he just shrugged and said â? A bad wind ????. She had been hit by a thoughtform that somehow, he had it. He had blown a different energy to remove and fill with your light.

However, imagine if stray thoughts can do that much damage, how much stronger are our own ideas? Our beliefs about ourselves, our diseases and our powers are weak or non-random, after all, that is personal to us and may have been with us for years. Therefore, it is literally true that our thoughts can kill or cure us. We must be careful, then, about what we think. San Pedro helps cure and for showing us how.

Is there anyone who wouldn? Not to hold a ceremony?

I once thought so. A few years ago some young men who traveled South America seeks ceremony. When I told them what it is told not to worry, they? D made a large amount of drugs in the past and had heard of San Pedro and I wanted to try one? Experienceâ a new drug? ?. I must admit that I judged in a bad light, as it is trivialized and San Pedro saw one? Druga another? â? it is not. It is a powerful spiritual medicine.

San Pedro that was told me to relax. It reminds me that can handle things by themselves and make their own decisions about who can drink, and remember that I was the guide, not a healer! So after I didnâ? Judge and not San Pedro.

Then came talk to me about his â? Experienceâ drugs? and said that his meeting with San Pedro has been the most humiliating of her life. St. Peter told them directly, said that: â? I'm not LSD! SAN PEDRO SOY! Â? They learned from that and for some it has changed their lives. They no longer use drugs at all.

So now I am too humble because I know that San Pedro if the people you need one? although not what they thought they would receive. I like using the term: working with plants that should have intentions but no expectations. That seems a good approach. But in any case, I hope and I know that San Pedro will act with integrity at all, so now no longer discriminate.

There is a diet that goes with San Pedro, like those of the ayahuasca. But San Pedro is easier. Can you tell us something about this?

All plants require some teacher ritual precautions before and during the ceremony. This is what we call the diet. It refers not only to restrictions on food and beverages, as the name might suggest, but other behaviors and thus the approach with a pure intention. So when we speak of â? ????, Diet is really more like the ancient Greek, an understanding? Dietaâ ????: a change in lifestyle, not just what we eat.

Ayahuasca preparation requires a few days before, including food and behavioral taboos, sexual abstinence, fasting and meditation, San Pedro, but not to ask these important changes. However, for a day before it was drink, food and drink should be as smooth as possible and contain no alcohol, meat, fats or oils, spices, citrus fruits or juices, and must not have sex.

For twelve hours before the ceremony, there should be no food at all. This means a day of fasting if drinking San Pedro at night or not food from around 8 pm on the night before if you drink the following day. For a few hours before the ritual also suggest a period of quiet reflection so that you can think about what you would like to learn about yourself or heal.

This diet is really required, although there are specific conditions under which a consultation with your doctor and the shaman is recommended to drink before San Pedro. These include problems with the colon, hypertension, heart disease, diabetes or mental illness. None of these necessarily prevent him from drinking because the condition may be exactly what you want from San Pedro to heal, but the shaman and the physician should know.

A general rule is to work with plants: the purest of her body and spirit, the most powerful medicine, and his teachings. The diet helps with this.

IA? I hear that the â? Processesâ? (set and setting) that participate in the ceremonies may contribute to the effects, the shaman acts as a sort of hypnotherapist, for example, and offers suggestions to cure the patient, while the ritual includes practices such as meditation, which are relaxing and healing. What do you think of that?

Sometimes I have to question things, mostly by scientists and academics. They want to know the â? UPA do? San Pedro, ie what is their â? active ingredients? are, and â? how it works ????. I say that I donate? I and Queen? No matter! For me, it is not San Pedroâ? S â? Mescaline content? or â? propertiesâ? that are important, a spirit which produces the healing miracles that I have seen with my own eyes. So really donate? Know or care how it works. I cana? Explain more than a miracle that I can ask about that! But know this: if you need a miracle, because his life was that much pain, and if - by the grace of God and St. Peter - you have one, wouldn? Do not care how well it worked!

Part of the disease, it seems to me, is to want to understand the world in terms of their â? Mechanisms? when their nuts and bolts actually donate? Does not matter at all. It's the beauty of the world should attract, recruit, and inspire us! When we drink of San Pedro is one of the first things you learn - and then our questions are irrelevant anyway. Therefore, the real answer, for those who want to know how and why San Pedro is very simple: drink, then you'll see!

The â? What? San Pedro is healthy living. Let the sleepless nights of the whys and hows of academics for whom such things seem to matter. Â

The Author

Ross, the sky's the author of over 10 books on shamanism and shamanic healing, including Plant Spirit Shamanism, Plant Spirit Wisdom and The Sin Eater? S Last Confessions. He runs workshops on these topics, as well as travel to Peru to work with shamans, healers, and the plant spirit medicines (ayahuasca and San Pedro) in the Amazon and the Andes. For details of these events and a free information packet, visit www.thefourgates.com ross@thefourgates.com or email.

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