Dark Cactus

San Pedro, the cactus of the Vision and the shamanic tradition of northern Peru

Author: Howard G Charing

The hallucinogenic San Pedro cactus has been used since ancient times, and Peru, the tradition has been interrupted for more than 3000 years. The oldest representation of the cactus is a carving showing a mythological being holding a San Pedro, and dates from around 1300 BC. This is the culture Chavin (c. 1400-400 BC) and was found in a temple of Chavin in the mountains of northern Peru. Later, the Mochica culture (C.500 CE) uses the cactus in their iconography. Even in the mythology of today, we say that God hid the keys to heaven in a secret place and San Pedro used the magical powers of a cactus discover this place, later the cactus was named after him.

La Mesa Norteña
Juan Navarro was born in the mountain village of the department somatic Piura. He is descended from a long line of healers and shamans working with the magical powers of the sacred lakes known as Las Huaringa rise to 4,000 meters and has been venerated since the earliest civilization Peru. At the age of eight, Juan made his first pilgrimage to Las Huaringa and took San Pedro for the first time. Every month or two, it is necessary to return here to accumulate energy and protection to heal his people. While residents and Lima (people of Lima), the Pilgrims also come from many parts of South America.

During the sessions Juan worked tirelessly with the assistance of her two - as is common in this tradition - in a tangle of network processes, including invocation, diagnosis, divination and healing with natural objects, or gear. The arts are initially placed on the altar of the teacher or the Bureau, and picked up when required during the ceremony. These arts are an amazing and beautiful shells, swords, magnets, quartz, objects resembling sexual organs, flints, which when struck, and stones in the stomach animals that have ingested to aid digestion! The arts are collected pre-Columbian tombs, sacred sites and energy, in particular, League Huaringas.They bring magical qualities to the ceremony in which, under the visionary influence of San Pedro, their invisible powers may be experienced. Table Maestro - the fabric placed on the floor on which are placed all the arts, (Mesa also means "table" in Spanish) - Is a representation of the forces of nature and the cosmos. Across the table the shaman is able to work with these forces and the influence to diagnose and cure diseases. of light "(righteous means justice), and the center is the midfield or" neutral ", where the balance between the forces of light and darkness. It is important for us not to look at these forces as positive or negative - that is what human beings do with these forces is important. Although the content and form of art ranging from tradition to tradition, mesa rituals serve to remind us that the use and power of symbols extends throughout all cultures.

SAN PEDRO
San Pedro (Trichocereus pachanoi) grows on dry slopes of the eastern Andes, between 2000 and 3000 meters above sea level and is usually six feet or taller. Also grown by local shamans in their gardens. As you can imagine, the first European missionaries native practices in considerable contempt and were very negative in the reports use in San Pedro. However, a Spanish missionary, cited by Christian Rätsch, grudgingly admitted the cactus' medicinal value in the center of an insulting her diatribe: "A plant with which the devil is able to strengthen the Indians in their idolatry, those who drink its juice lose their meaning and are the dead which were almost washed for drink and the dream of thousands of unusual things and believe are true. The juice is good against burning of the kidneys and in small quantities, is also good against high fever, hepatitis, and burning in the bladder. "Having a shaman cactus is in radical contrast:
"First, ... ... drowsy or condition dream and a feeling of lethargy ... a slight dizziness ... then a great vision, a clearing of all the powers ... it produces a light numbness in the body and after calm. And then comes detachment, a type of visual force ... including all the senses ... included the sixth sense, the direction of the free flow of telepathy across time and matter ... as a kind of movement of his thought to a distant dimension.

St. Peter, considered the "master of masters ', Allows the shaman to make a bridge between the visible and invisible, for his people.The Quechua name for it is Punku, which means "door". The portal connects the patient's body for his spirit to heal the body must heal the spirit. San Pedro can show us the psychic causes of illness intuitively or in mythical dream language. The effects of San Pedro work through various stages, beginning with the wider consciousness in the physical body. It was soon followed by feelings of euphoria and then, after several hours, the psychological impact and vision become more visible.

talk to John Navarro

What is the relationship of master
with San Pedro?
In northern Peru the power of San Pedro works in conjunction with the snuff. Also The Huaringa sacred lakes are very important. That's where we're going to find herbs to cure the most powerful of which we use to energize our people. For example, we use domain [binding intention to launder the spirit of power plants] to give strength and protection from supernatural forces such as witchcraft and thoughts negative. Also used in Insurance - Sales amulet bottles filled with perfumes, plants and seeds gathered from Las Huaringa. You keep on protecting your home and make your life goes well. These plants have no adverse effects on the nervous system, or induce hallucinations. San Pedro has a strength and a little amazing, but can not become addicted. It does not hurt the body, but gives the teacher to see what the problem is with his patient. Of course, some people have this gift born in them - as our ancestors used to say, is in the blood of a shaman.

San Pedro is a factory of "professor"?
Of course, but has a mystery.You must be compatible with everybody.The shaman him because he has no special relationship with it. Circulating in the body of the patient and, if found anomalies that allows the shaman to detect it. It allows the pain they feel and where it is. So is the relationship between patient and Maestro. It also purifies the blood of the person who drinks it. This balance of system nervous to have people lose their fears, fears and traumas, and it charges people with positive energy. Everyone should take up Professor may contact them. Only dose may vary from person to person because not everyone is so strong.

What singer? (snuff juice inhalation through the nose), leaf of snuff is allowed two to three months in contact with honey, and when necessary for the Singer is soaked with liquor, or alcohol. How it works depends on the nostril that is used, when the Left support for us is the negative free energy, including psychosomatic disorders, pain in the body, bad influences of other people - Or "envy" as we call it here. As you take you must focus on the situation that goes wrong or the person giving a negative energy.

When is taken through the right nostril is to rehabilitate and revitalize so that their projects are going well. These are not drugs. Then you can snuff spitting or swallowing, It does matter. It has a correlation with the body of St. Peter, and intensifies the visionary effects.

The snuff is an important plant in the ceremonies - can be smoking session? No, no, no. It may be the same plant, but here another element comes into play, which is fire. Since the session in the dark, fire in the dark can unsettle, create a negative reflection or vision. May cause injury.

It uses a chungana (Rattle) during the sessions of San Pedro and I "see" sound as a beam of light that penetrates the darkness. Yes, the sound and light are intimately linked. Chungana are used to invoke the spirits of the dead, whether family or great healers, so you can feel comfortable with us. chungana are here to give us 'enchantment' (protection and positive energy) and has a relaxing effect on the taking of San Pedro.

What is the power of the Arts - the objects on the table?
They come from Las Huaringa where there is a special power everything, including healing herbs which grow there and nowhere else. If you swim in lakes, which eliminates all your problems. You bathe intended to leave behind any negative. People are leaving their enemies behind so it can not hurt them. After the bath, cleaned with Master these arts, swords, bars, Chonta (bamboo sticks), the saints, and even figurines (powers of the ancient sacred sites). They bloom 'You - spray florida water
(perfume) and the maceration of herbs, and give you sweet things like honey and lemon to make your life flourishes. We teachers also have to go to Las Huaringa regularly because the enemies of the people take care, because we have to protect us. The reason for this is that there are two forces: good and evil. Negative forces are covenants that witches (wizards in negative
intentions) are made with the devil. The sorcerer is the rival of the curandero or healer. So when the curandero heals, which makes an enemy the witch. Not so much because it sends bad magic again, because he did something in front of him, and they want supremacy in the battle. Not far from The Huaringa is a place called Sondor, which has its own lakes. This is where black magic is practiced and where harm in several ways. I know this because as a curandero I must know how it is practiced witchcraft, to defend myself and my patients.

People go there secretly?
Of course, nobody admits to not go, but they pass by Huancabamba, like others who go to Las Huaringa. I know different people have the magic of malpractice distance.They do so using a physical means of concentration, focusing on the soul of a person, knowing their characteristics etc. and can cause an accident, or make an organ ill or whatever, or make their work go badly wrong.They have the power to make your mind. And people can even hurt themselves. For example, if a person has bad intentions towards another person and is well protected with charm (amulet) then will turn evil.

Tracking How (diagnosis through psychic means) work? If you are in a trance? No, I am completely normal and lucid. What allows the reading of a person, past, present or future, is the fortress of St. Peter and snuff. It's an innate ability, not everyone has the gift, you can not learn from someone, is inherited. Perceptions through one of the senses - sound, sight, smell, or an inner sense of that person feels, weakness, pain or anything. Sometimes, for example, a bad taste in the mouth may indicate a bad liver. All things on the table are perfectly normal, natural things: Chonta, swords, stones etc. They come to be treated - as a radio at a certain frequency - so it can heal particular things, weaknesses or whatever. But yet, it is need to focus on the sacred lakes of Las Huaringa.

Is it necessary for the teacher to take San Pedro to have vision? Of course, must take San Pedro and snuff. But it is to protect the person's negativity and illness, not because it needs vision.

In conclusion, we recognize that human beings have realized from the earliest times that knowledge goes beyond sensory awareness or rational way of understanding the world. San Pedro we can lead directly to a telepathic communion and show us that there is no such thing as an inanimate object. Everything in the universe is alive and has a spirit. Such is the gift of plants that offer us an opening to infinity.

Juan Navarro was born in the mountain village of somatic Piura. He is descended from a long line of healers and shamans working with the magical powers The Huaringa.

About the author:

Howard G. Charing, is an accomplished international workshop leader on shamanism. He worked some of the most respected extraordinary shamans and healers in the Andes, the Amazon and the Philippines. He organized with Peter Cloudsley, specialized retreats for the rainforest located in the center in the natural reserve Mishana. He is the author of the bestseller, Plant Spirit Shamanism (Destiny Books USA).
For more information: http://www.shamanism.co.uk

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