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Soul, Spirit and Right Relationship: A Conversation with Steve Beyer

By Morgan Maher • Jan 16th, 2010 • Category: Spirit & Healing

Morgan Maher
Steve Beyer’s Singing to the Plants, writes Morgan Maher, is “a wild ride out and across the jungles of mestizo shamanism. The book, and its wonderful cast of characters, curanderos, animals, plants, spirits and stories presents honest, accurate, respectful, levelheaded and, at times, outrageously marvelous descriptions of the environments and climates of mestizo shamanism in the Upper Amazon.” Morgan interviews the author.


Mestizo Shamanism and Vegetalistas

By Sachahambi • Jun 15th, 2008 • Category: Primordial Culture

What is mestizo shamanism?
The Loreto province of northeastern Peru (and to a lesser extent to Ucayali province south of it) is virtually unique in Latin America in that indigenous shamanic practices have been adopted and adapted by the mestizo population, and become a part of the mestizo culture.
While mestizo curanderismo is not unknown elsewhere in [...]