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The Magical Earth Journeys to the Magic Places of Peru Mission Statement - Informal Statement Francesco Sammarco before a giant Lupuna blanca (Ceiba sp.) tree in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest
Photo Credit: Ignazia Posadinu El Mundo Magico: The Magical Earth Mission Statement • To support, promote and raise awareness of sustainable, earth-honouring shamanic traditions, through journeys, seminars and workshops, aimed at the preservation of the natural habitat of the Amazon Rainforest of Peru and its traditional cultural and religious lore, with special regard to indigenous and mestizo shamanic practices. • To offer international participants the opportunity of first-hand exploration of the rainforest heritage, through transformative journeys and expeditions focused on traditional cultural, shamanic and healing practices accompanied by the direct investigation of the ethnobotany of the area. • To develop creative projects aimed at the protection and conservation of indigenous cultural, religious and ethno musical traditions and practices, in the Andes, the Coast and - especially - the Amazon Rainforest of Peru.
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To deepen the understanding
of medicinal and healing practices of the indigenous and mestizo communities of
the Peruvian Amazon, with emphasis on the need of preserving their traditional
plant lore, so intimately linked with their pharmacopoeia and cultural-religious
traditions. Indigenous and mestizo rural healers in the Amazon are the
depositary of a wide-range knowledge of the rainforest environment and their
cultural and physical survival is crucial in the maintenance of an equilibrium
within the rainforest fragile ecosystem itself. In lieu of this rooted, ancient,
mutual relationship between shamanic healers and the rainforest, we actively
seek to promote the immediate protection and conservation of wilderness and
natural areas. • To sustain indigenous communities of the Amazon, in particular the Shipibos, through the facilitation of special-interest journeys, investigating their rich shamanic and ethno-cultural lore.
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To strengthen
links of association and cooperation with local organizations devoted to the
conservation, protection and dissemination of Traditional Amazonian Medicine and
cultural heritage. • To purchase rainforest land to guarantee its long-term preservation and conservation and to develop alternative strategies for the safeguard of endangered plant and animal species. Well...that's the formal part, up to here. Informally, though we do not have yet a charitable status...we do everything in our realm of possibilities to sustain and support the native and local people we work with in Peru. This happens often outside the mere link of the working relationship and cooperation we have with them. Our vision is, however, that the best way to help local and indigenous people is to offer them rewarding, varied and constant ethical and sustainable working opportunities, according to everybody's skills, vision and knowledge. By booking your trip or retreat with us, you are reassured that what you pay - on top of being re-invested in the constant amelioration of our services, to offer you an experience that will often exceed your expectations - goes towards new ethical and sustainable projects aimed at the valorisation of the immense Amazonian plant medicine lore, at the preservation and investigation of the native indigenous cultures of Peru, with special emphasis to researching their ethnobotanical and shamanic heritage.
Puma Sacha
In line with this spirit and initiative, in September 2009 we have ultimately managed to source ''Puma Sacha'' a private natural reserve of 40 hectares of beautiful pristine rainforest in the Northern Peruvian Amazon (off the - only - road linking Iquitos with Nauta). Home to wild cats (Jaguarundi have been spotted there!), birds, small mammals, reptiles, rodents and lots of amphibians, this area of the jungle has lots of native plants and trees of medicinal and shamanic interest, including - among countless others - Remocaspi, Chullachaki caspi, Alcanfor Moena, and Copal trees.
Ashi Meraya
In 2005 we have co-funded - along with our native Shipibo friends Don Leoncio Garcia Sampaya, Heberto Hiran Garcia Ramirez, Jose' Garcia Ventura and Ines Ramirez Cairuna - the creation of "Ashi Meraya", a unique Shipibo shamanic retreat centre with a great ethnobotanical garden, in the Amazon jungle.
In Ashi Meraya, guests may experience in the context of deeply transformative and life changing retreats:
. Healing . A very intense schedule of Ayahuasca ceremonies (up to four times a week!!) . Amazonian Sweat Lodge rituals - Unique to Ashi Meraya . Cleansing ritual herbal baths (baños de limpie) . Purifying rainforest clay baths (baños de barro) . Luck-changing ritual flower baths (baños de florecimiento), to attract prosperity and good fortune in business, love and friendship . Shamanic rituals, among which the ancestral Shipibo Ritual of Spiritual Purification . The traditional Shamanic Plant Teachers Diet, for those interested in the initiation into Amazonian shamanism, in the Shipibo tradition, and wish to enter into a more rigorous shamanic apprenticeship.
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