Shamans and Healers

The Untold Ayahuasca Story from a Shaman's Apprentice

• Author(s): Andrew Osta,
• Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Pages: 275
• ISBN_10: 1078223092
  ISBN_13: 9781078223096
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Body, Mind & Spirit / Healing / Prayer & Spiritual , Body, Mind & Spirit / Supernatural (incl. Ghosts) , Body, Mind & Spirit / Shamanism , Body, Mind & Spirit / Entheogens & Visionary Substances , Travel / Special Interest / Religious ,

Description:... A unique book based on diary entries made by the author during a period of shamanic apprenticeship in Peru and spiritual seeking in Mexico. Written simply, it's a book one can read from cover to cover and later open on any page and read again. Shamans and Healers takes you on a journey into the jungles of Peru and the mountains of Oaxaca Mexico. You will meet shamans and spiritual seekers, you will learn with them, laugh out loud, and understand things from a different point of view. Shamans and Healers evolves as a vivid and unpredictable trip, with real names and real people! **********************************" It had been raining for days - long bursts of torrential rains lasting hours. It rained many times during each day, and the jungle road was so muddy that a group of men had to pull in entire freshly cut tree trunks for making walkways. I watched them pulling those trees with ropes, puffing and huffing, yelling, and laughing. Their lives were surely difficult - nothing like mine. Yet unlike me, they were genuinely happy and not seeking extraordinary experiences in order to bring in a deeper sense of meaning. On some level I admired them, perhaps even envied them, but I knew that for me, their simplicity was forever out of reach."**********************************When I asked Don Juan about my stomach, he became thoughtful."You can have an entity living in your stomach, or in any other part of your body," he said. "These spirits are always hungry and want you to always keep eating. If you want to weaken them, you need to fast. They also do not like ayahuasca. Ayahuasca will clean them out.""How can a spirit entity enter into the body of a person?" I asked."When a person forgets God, evil spirits can enter. If you always pray and remember God, you will be safe," said Don Juan.**********************************"My teacher was a very powerful brujo," said Ron. "He had the ability to kill a human or an animal almost instantly. He killed a young boy in our village for stealing his radio. The boy just got thinner and thinner, and no doctor or healer could diagnose the disease or treat him. "At times, when there was no food, my teacher would go out into the forest without any weapon and come back with all kinds of animals, which he had killed with magic darts. He said that I could easily get that ability if I dieted for one year. But for me, it's just not practical."For a while, my teacher was angry with me for something. So we had this battle, this power struggle, but he never stopped being my teacher. Even though I defended against him and fought against him, I never stopped respecting him. One time, I found him almost dead. He had trouble breathing and looked like he was going to die. He was already 95 years old then. I asked my wife to take him to the hospital, but the hospital would not admit him. They could see that he was dying and did not want to deal with that complication. So I held a ceremony for him. Before starting, I asked him if he believed in God and he said that he did. I then asked him why he did all of those ungodly things, why he killed people and caused harm. I told him that I forgave him for everything he did to me, and that I respected him because he was my teacher, but that he would have to stop doing evil."After the ceremony, my wife took him to another hospital. Again, they came back together. This time, the hospital refused to admit him because he was completely healthy.