Shamanism

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• Among the links in this blog you will find the explanations of Wikipedia and also links to other websites
• Shamanism - Wikipedia engl.
• Schamanismus - Wikipedia german

 

Shamanism comprises a range of traditional beliefs and practices concerned with communication with the spirit world. It is a prominent term in anthropological research. A practitioner of shamanism is known as a shaman.
There are many variations of shamanism throughout the world, but several common beliefs are shared by all forms of shamanism. Shamans are intermediaries between the human and spirit worlds. They can treat illness and are capable of entering supernatural realms to obtain answers to the problems of their community.
The Shamans act as "mediators" in their culture.
The way shamans get sustenance and take part in everyday life varies among cultures. In many Eskimo groups, they provide services for the community and get a "due payment" (some cultures believe the payment is given to the helping spirits), but these goods are only "welcome addenda."

  

On of the distinct types of shaman is Don Pedro Guerra Gonzales, he lives in the Peruvian Amazon jungle. Don Pedro is a descendent of an ancient healer family like his father before him (Don Jose Guerra). Pedro is a "Palero", a tree shaman. 

In this blog I wrote 2009 august 3 rd about a project to reforest mediacal plants. On his side you can read, that since old times the people of the Amazon have lived without western medicine. And even today the western medicine is only accessible to a minority. On his website you can read more about the fantastic amazon area and the project, this link will show you the different medical trees. The amazon rainforest - lungs of our planet.

Your help is welcome!

Waldwelt, Verein zum Erhalt der Wälder dieser Welt
Projekt "Medizinbäume des Amazonas"

IBAN AT811700000180067116,
BIC: BFKKAT2K


Have a great day
mustangconny

The moon wished to marry the sun

As she realized that she would never be able to unite with him, she shed huge, yellow tears. These tears are the origin of the Amazon River. (Ancient Amazon myth)

The element water is a determinating factor in the myths and legends of the people who live on the Amazon. Many curanderos tell tales of mysterious under water worlds that may be visited both in the visions an in real life. It is told that the ancient magicians of the Amazon could live under water as long as they pleased. They lived in the underwater world with their water-wives, the "sirenas" or the "yacu-warmis" (yacu = water, warmi=woman). When they would return, after weeks or months, they would leave the river with dry clothes.

So it is told that Don Pedro's uncle, Don Eleuthenio Guerra, had these special powers. He was a "sumi". This is the title of the Amazon shamans that have the capacity of remaining under Water as long as they whish. He was married to two women, one of whom was a Yacuwarmi, a sirena of the Amazon River. At the age of 107 he took his leave and went to live with his sirena for good. The water-spirits are called by the curanderos during the ceremonies, by means of the icaros.

   >> Hear an icaro against snake bites from Don Pedro



Informations about the world of the great mother of the water and more you will found on Don Pedro Guerra Gonzales. The shaman Don Pedro Guerra Gonzales lives in the Peruvian Amazon jungle. He is a descendent of an ancient healer family. Like his father before him (Don Jose Guerra), Pedro is a "Palero", a tree shaman.
Don Pedro Guerra Gonzales is one of the most renowned shamans of the Amazon.

The german text you will find here

Don't forget! 
Don Pedro will return to Europe from April 28th to May 8th, 2011
Ask for information

Next date for group travel to Camp Don Pedro:
Monday 28 February to Wednesday 16 March 2011 More

  
Best wishes!
Constanze Hoffmann

Reforest Amazon - medicalplants

 is a project supported by Arno Fischbacher


 

Andreas Stockinger (Unternehmerbund), Don Pedro Guerra Gonzales und Arno Fischbacher im Herbst 2008. 

Charity - this is very important project for me, here I want suggest it to you.

 

It is supported by Arno Fischbacher, who is an expert on voice coaching and rhetoric training for consumer services, sales services and management in the whole german speaking area.


 

Since five years Don Pedro Guerra Gonzales, one of the most renowned Amazonian shamans, is reforsting some of the most endangered medicalplants in the region of Iquitos (Loreto, Peru).
Currently, five parts of endangered medicinal plants, including powerful giant tree, afforested again: Copaiba, Oje, Sarza, Sangre de Grado and Huancaui Sacha.

See this YouTube video. Burning and plundering: valuable medicinal tree specieswill be lost forever. Don Pedro Guerra Gonzales will reforest important medicinalplant trees again. The german "Unternehmerbund" and Voicecoach Arno Fischbacherare helping him.

Your help is also welcome!
 
Waldwelt, Verein zum Erhalt der Wälder dieser Welt
Projekt "Medizinbäume des Amazonas"
IBAN AT811700000180067116, BIC: BFKKAT2K

Thank you 

and have a wonderful day 

mustangconny







About the amazon rainforest from Wikipedia



 
The Amazon rainforest (Brazilian Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica or Amazonia), also known as Amazonia, or the Amazon jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), of which five and a half million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres) are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, and with minor amounts in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. States or departments in four nations bear the name Amazonas after it. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests, and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world. The Amazon rainforest was short-listed in 2008 as a candidate to one of the New7Wonders of Nature by the New Seven Wonders of the World Foundation. As of February 2009 the Amazon was ranking first in Group E, the category for forests, national parks and nature reserves.  

See the following Yasuní ITT Documentary on YouTube: