Anscestal

I am sorry that I wasn't able to write after the last ceremony to let every one know what had happened. This has been my first chance. The processing of this last ceremony has been huge and the idea of facing a computer screen for a long period of time has just not been appropriate or conducive to where I have been at.

I will tell you about it now however.

As I had mentioned in the last email Dan, Simon and Liz have arrived. They have definitely stirred up the little nest we had been grooming for the past month. In a conducive way might I add. Wow! Three big energies finding their footing in this crazy little country Peru and connecting into the tight group dynamic like we have formed has been interesting. Simon was pretty well straight to work cleansing and clearing the space and all of us.

We were scheduled to have our final ceremony the day after their arrival but due to unforeseen circumstances with Olinda's family the Ceremony was put back a few days to the Tuesday. This suited everybody as their long trip had definitely taken it out of them. This gave us all a few more days to spend together and clear any mis or preconception of what was to take place.
This time proved to be very valuable, enabling us all to sit together, ground and connect.


Like Purdie, Mum and myself, the rest of the tribe were welcomed with open arms by Ysabel and her family. Liz and Simon have been given the freedom to film and interview it seems any part of this process they feel . It has been intimidating being in-front of a camera again. For Purdie, (Spanish name Mia), this is the first time watching herself on screen. A nerve racking experience in any ones book. I assure her she is doing a fantastic job and with this encouragement she seems to be getting more comfortable with the filming process and also more excepting of her biological downfalls like and I quote “Her fat knees.” Liz’s interviewing style has been most confronting, raising a lot of issues and emotions with her style of questioning. In some way it sux, but in another way it is bringing up stuff for us all that needs to be cleared. It appears that this is the way it has to be done. On film potentially viewed by the world. So be it.

Ceremony 4
The ceremony itself was very interesting. Again held at Ysabel’s house after a late location change. The six of us drank Huachuma sitting at the Mesa in her back court yard. Now with the extra three people the space became quite active, with all dimensions and Artes (staffs and ornaments) of the Mesa being used with vigor. Again, this is a my perspective of the event. This being my 5th Ceremony, 4 times with the group and once on my own. This ceremony was a much stronger and deeper experience. I could feel so much more, it was as though a veil had been lifted. The veil that has been suppressing my potential in this life time.
After a series of cleansing rituals (with the help of Olinda) Mum, Dan and Myself were asked to lay on mats on the concrete floor in the center of the Mesa. Mum in the middle, my head touching her head and Dan's feet to her feet. The three of us were like a conduit ready to conduct a current. This was an ancestral healing through the blood line of my Mother.

A photograph of my Grand mother, Margaret was placed under both my and Lakshmi's head.
To my right and sitting in front of the Mesa on the bench seat was Simon, Purdie and Liz. I was in quite a trance by the beautiful sounds coming from Purdie as both she and Simon sang Icaros (Shamananic songs) through out our three way healing process. I talked to Purdie about these sounds later and she was said to me that she couldn't even hear her own voice in those moments as she was going through some process herself in that now. What ever it was that she was channeling helped me to clear the last of what I had in me. A large gasp of air expelled out of my lungs and into the night sky never to return. As this entity or energy inside me was not welcome anymore. After the three of us had our healing we were ordered to sit up and Ysabel then commenced with some more of her loving and nurturing healing that we have so come to endear. As she whispered in our ears and rubbed our brows and hearts, all defenses faded away and a super high way was formed a long the family line.

The only vehicles allowed on this road were love SUV’s and honesty wagons as we journeyed through the night of two worlds.

Olinda then bathed us individually with holy water from the Mesa, in the bath to the rear of where we were sitting. We returned to the center and sat back to back with our heads touching and in that moment we cleared. This was what we had set out to do.
No more cancer spirit will be carried down that maternal line. Our kids and kid’s, kid's are now safe from these spirits.

Believe it or not!

Then it was our time to to sit on the bench. I sat in the middle of Mum and Dan and was handed a little rattle to shake by Olinda. We sat in the darkness witnessing the clearing for Purdie , Simon and Liz. A masterful thing to watch, Ysabel’s and Olinda’s craft.
An experience I shall never forget.

I was feeling the effects of the Huachuma for hours after. We had pre ordered some taxi's to pick us up at 11:30pm when the ceremony was over. They were fancy executive style cabs. So under the cover of darkness we left the Chiclayo ghetto’s in convoy. It had a very Mafia eske vibe.
One of the things you can do to help bring you back down to the physical plane after taking Huachuma is eat sugar. (recommended by Ysabel of course) Lucky for us there was and ice-cream shop open at that time of night, so the kids (Purdie, Dan and Rob) ordered the taxis to make an emergency detour to get some ice-cream. It is interesting that eating salt after ceremony increases the effects of Huachuma as Liz found out after her own personal ceremony this week.

I awoke the next morning pretty shaken after a late night and early rise. I sat deep within myself that day and quite honestly didn't feel like much of anything. Liz did some interviews in the morning but that was really all I could manage. The energy in the house was quite heavy and I think the strain of the past month was catching up with me. Luckily for me, my Brother had other plans. He coaxed me into doing a surf trip with him 2 hours South to a place called Pacasmayo. The worlds longest left hand wave.

I realized I had been doing so much protecting and and nurturing of Mum and this situation that I was becoming quite recluse not wanting to do much at all. Dan on the other hand was struggling with this energy and encouraged me to get out of the house persisting with this idea. I agreed in the end to let my self leave Mum with the rest of the tribe and travel a foreign country with my brother, something we have never done together. Anyway we have just returned from an amazing three day trip, where we scored perfect waves, had some great laughs and met up with some young American guys traveling 40,000km around South America in a F350 Bio Diesel Camper who are promoting energy efficient life styles.
If your interested in what we got up to with them check out their website www.feralgreen.com as we are sure to be on their blog as our time together was unforgettable.

We are three days away from leaving this place heading to..... It looks like now Iquitos in the Amazon. There have been many thoughts on where it is mum would like to go or should go. Yesterday morning a very interesting phone call came through for Simon and the decision was made that Simon and Liz travel to Iquitos to meet with a man who has some more information for us about the recommended Shaman to sit with for the next stage of her healing. This journey is far from over and really it feels like it has just begun.

Although the spirits of our Ancestors have been cleared the cancer is still present and Mums new regime will begin. She has been will be given seven month of herbs to take and more ceremonies this time with Ayahuasca as this has been recommended so that Mum can feel and see the cancer and her process clearly, in order to release any of her fears which may/are still there.

I have uploaded more You Tube movies for you guys to check out. I hope you enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k2z0dgDUZY&feature=related

Much love next email from the Jungle

Dan and the Gang

I am signing in to report the safe arrival of our comrades. Dan, Simon and Liz arrived Thursday afternoon. They were understandably weary but in great spirits after their long & arduous voyage. We also have been experiencing a similar feeling of exhaustion because for the past two days risen before the sun to meet them at Chiclayo aeropuerto. The first morning we were greeted by the announcement that a two metre hole had formed in the middle of the run way overnight and no flights would be landing today. Realizing the complications for the guys inbound, we attempted communication with them over the net. This failed so we contacted their plane company Lan Peru. The office told us their names where on the flight for the next morning. So it was day two at the airport at the crack of dawn. This time we discover they were never on the flight and they were no where to be seen. Ok this was not looking good. Two days no contact and all we knew was that they were somewhere stranded in Lima. Not the kind of place you want to go missing.

They arrived in a cab at our front door late in the afternoon with some classic tales of an epic 4 day travel adventure surrounded by broken planes, runways, Psycho gay Brazilians and 300 circling Argentine school girls on the way to Disneyland who thought Simon was Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean. Very funny stuff all captured on film I believe.

They are here now and that’s all that matters. The dynamics have shifted dramatically in the house. A new pulse of energy serge’s through us all. Mum now has both her boys by her side. So the 4th and final Ceremony can commence.

Ysabel’s house in Chiclayo is the setting for tonight's drinking of Huachuma. This ceremony is planned to commence round 8 pm our time I believe 1 pm your time. I awoke this morning with a very positive thoughts about what this is going to look like, also what it is going to look like when we are joined by more of you out there. I hear that some of you are heavily considering joining us when we make our way to the Sacred Valley near Cusco, in the Andes of Peru. I couldn't wish for more. This is the most amazing truthful and honest space I have ever been in, in my life. These medicines and the subtlety of their nature are having such a profound effect on my being. I see shifts in Lakshmi everyday, some are physical and some are expressed in the form of such vulnerability.

Whether we are talking about the life we have lived or the death we face, it is all on the table. Scary, I know, unbearably painful it may seem, but very real and rewarding for sure. A lot of the issues will probably never go away but there is just a sense of relief to know that they exist and are indeed real. as opposed to suppressed emotions you don’t even know you are feeling until crisis point. Lakshmi is at a crisis point and this is what she has to endure. I wish this on no one. Now I understand. This is what I believe to be Mum’s gift to us all .

A chance to get it!

We are humans and we are in these physical bodies in order to feel and release emotions. We are lucky to have this option. To bless a lifetime or another human being that has caused you so much pain can only be humbling and to express this is modest. These are our lessons learnt so far..

We welcome anyone who resonates with this journey work to join us. I thank you all for your beautiful messages of support and for the financial contributions to the Lakshmi fund I started when this all went down. This couldn’t of happen without it.

I would like to honor the process to date to both Purdie and Mumma Lakshmi. As Huachuma becomes our teacher we are reminded so much rest within the heart.
Open hearts become the Light and the world needs more Light.

PS: This is a special thank you to those people who made anonymous donations to the Lakshmi fund. I would have liked to thank you personally but I don’t know who you are. I hope you are reading these emails and getting the life juice that Mum is experiencing through your generosity.
From the bottom of my ever expanding heart thank you and love.

Mucho’s love

Roberto


PSS: I have just released the first 4 parts to the Lakshmi’s Healing Journey on You Tube. Sadly only part two has come up still working on the technical difficulties.
You can check it out on. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lakshmi%27+healing+journey&search_type=&search=Search

Pimentel Experience

This last week has been one of sickness and sadness. There has been a very strong sense of processing going on for all of us. Where there is the light there is also the darkness and between these two states we aim to find the middle ground.
We started the week by moving out of Ysabel’s house in the ghetto’s, to the coastal town of Pimentel, a quiet fishing and tourist village only 20 min drive from Chiclayo. This is more suited to the space required for Mum’s healing, that’s for sure!. Literally, this new setting is a breath of fresh air, as now we awake to the sea breeze clearing the dust of Chiclayo from our nasal passages and lungs.


Third Ceremony


Our new home is called Casa Mariha, Ysabel came to inspect our new place and to also bless and clear the energy of the house with holy water from the Mesa. Something we had not asked of her but simply another gesture from her nurturing heart which is becoming very familiar to us.

She was very happy for us and our decision to move here and even suggested she and Olinda set up their Mesa on the roof of our apartment to conduct our third ceremony. So this is what we did. Last Tuesday night,under the full moon, our third sitting with Huachuma took place. As the amount of Huachuma(San Pedro) increases, so does the healing experience. I felt and witnessed massive releases in all of us, as the medicine shed more layers of old stories away from our pasts.
I had a profound connection to the staffs(known as artes) on the Mesa this time as I was able to guess which staff Olinda would use next, prior to her picking it up. As the full moon shone, it was encased by clouds exploding with awe inspiring patterns. These patterns seemed to represent the sickness that was being cleared and as i watched Mum laying under this moon by the mesa, being worked on by Ysabel, I could see something big was happening. I saw this with Purdie also.
My healing occurred through sound. As I opened my mouth and released the air that was caught in my lungs i could feel a drawing sensation which then brought forth more releasing through my bodies song.

As the ceremony neared conclusion we discussed each persons experience , as we do every-time before the closing prayer. I feel for Purdie in these moments, as being a translator at the best of times is a task and a half. She seems to pull it off though. What was picked up this time in Mum’s healing, was that this entity/illness is ancestral that means passed down through her mother’s line and if not taken care of will be past through to my brother Daniel and I.
Ysabel felt and requested that we wait to have our last ceremony after Daniel arrives on the 7th of Feb, as he is the missing link to this ancestral entity that has been plaguing our family line for centuries. Wow! What a thing to become aware of and for one and to be able to rectify, so that it is not passed onto our children when ever that time comes. The term the buck stops here comes into mind. I feel truly BLESSED.


I know Mum is wanting to reach out to you all and give you a full run down on her healing thus far but she is just not quite up for computer time yet. What I can relay is that the cancer’s appear to be shrinking. It is definitely softening meaning it is not the rock hard form that it was and one of the lumps seems to be detaching itself from the wall lining of the breast. She has been experiencing pain and tears , this comes and goes. She understands fully this is part and parcel of the Medicines work. Ysabel has confidently reported that she sees the cancer eventually leaving her body . Much more work with the Medicines to be had yet.
She is in an amazing flow and continual strength. As I type this she and Purdie are down stairs moving in dance to the sounds of the five rhythms on the stereo. One of her passions. More than not though we are able to laugh and enjoy the experiences we are sharing together.

For me it has been a hard week. I was taken out by severe stomach cramps and a 24 hour fever. Whether this was something to do with the conditions of living in a new country or if it’s spirits trying to take me out I wont really know but it I tell you it wasn't much fun. It just seems strange as I’m not eating any meat and I am drinking the same water as everyone else.
Anyhow, I’m just glad it’s moved on now.

I would like to end this one with an opportunity for anyone who may be confused by my writing or language so far. Feel free to ask any questions. I will answer to hopefully clarify this. I write the way I do because I have experienced many phenomena in my life that has proven to me that life’s consciousness extends well past the limits of our physical being and deep into the quantum and outer space dimensions.

I’m not afraid of this anymore and am given guidance continuously to share and express this. I won’t take any queries personally. So inquire away. As I feel this will also assist me to articulate better my experiences and understanding.

Love to you all

Rob xxx



Streets of Pimentel

Chiclayo Peru

Chiclayo Peru (Huachuma Cerimonies)

I am sitting here at Ysabela's dining table in my ceremonial whites preparing for what is to be the second of our 4 ceremonies planned. This is turning out to be the adventure alright. On our arrival to Chiclayo a week ago we were thrown straight in the deep end so to speak. The day after arriving we arranged to meet with Ysabel and Olinda to discuss what would be the procedure for us. Ysabel replied with. "You are here so we will start right away." suggesting a ceremony that night. A bit taken back by this and still dealing with jet lag we arranged for ceremony the following night. We still didn't know where we were going to live as we were in a hotel at that point getting our bearings. That was easily fixed by Ysabel who proceeded to show us our bed rooms on the ground floor of her house. Their love and hospitality were evident from the start and it made sense to be close to the medicines, so we accepted their offer and are still here to date.


The first Ceremony


I can only explain it as a familiar environment. Not that I have experienced anything like it before yet it all just felt very natural to be doing this work. There was a form of light language going on that I could understand it seemed. I was not knowing if I was going to participate in the ceremonies due to the duty of care I was feeling for Mum. I was hesitant. This was a new bunch of people and my being was still being very cautious in not handing over it's power to this space. I decided to drink this night as I felt a safe nurturing feeling. Not a pure surrender but a group safety sensation. In this ceremony we were all told our ailments and given reference point to spirit entities that had attached themselves to these ailments causing the dis-ease in our bodies. I have decided to only discuss my own experience, as this is such a personal journey for each of us and It doesn't feel right to share Purdie and Mum's stories. They will communicate their experience to you as they feel I am sure. I will be giving an over view of our collective experience.


A bit of my journey


It seems the spirit entity that I have picked up entered my body when I was laying semi paralized at the bottom of Wallaman Falls in 2005 when I broke my back in a BASE jumping accident.
Wallaman Falls is Australia's highest Waterfall, a 1000 ft jump that nearly ended my life. I found out something not long after that experience from an aboriginal elder I met from the Dunghutti Tribe. The Kempsy Mob. He told me this was a very sacred place to the aboriginal people and they would never enter such a place with out the right permision from the spirit ancestors or if at all. This lead me to my own kind of wondering. In the past two years I decided to return to all my old BASE jumping sites I frequented, to conduct my own little ceremonies to ask for forgiveness for not asking or truly honoring my reason for being in these places. I felt a sense of respect straight away in these moments. Not so much from the ancestors or spirits but from myself and the earth. This quest now appears to have lead me to here where I keep getting answers to questions I haven't even asked yet. I realize I am here because of Mum's cancer entity but Spirit has it's own agenda going on and I now realize I am here to heal myself. What an honor it is to do it side by side these four staunch sisters.
It's itme for the next ceremony. I will finish this email probably tomorrow when we have rested. Let's see what unfolds.


The second Ceremony


Again, a very subtle affair. Although a very deep experience. Still more cleansing of unwanted spirits. After drinking the San Pedro about two shot glasses full. We are handed a stick similar to a Harry Potter wand. A beautiful black piece of hard wood. We are then directed to wave this wand up and down and across our bodies. (This wand waving doesn't stop for the whole ceremony.) This action helps with the cleansing and keeps you proactive in the ceremony. You spend time sitting, you spend time standing as Olinda conducts different procedures with swords and staffs and even an iron rod from the Mesa. The Mesa is the altar at which the ceremony is staged around. There is a rack of spirit tools that are in the space also which have many uses. (see photo attached) Olinda is guided by Ysabel on the next procedure as Ysabel is directed by the Spirit of Huachuma (San Pedro) on the course of action to take next. These protocols differ from ceremony to ceremony but there is an underlying theme. Over the past week we have been involved in many daily rituals such as herb baths and herb teas. Mum has been given a special kind of bra made with medicinal leaves and last night slithers of Huachuma cactus were introduced. We assist with buying these herbs at the local market and preparing them in the court yard with the family. All in all a very holistic experience.


What is next?


I have to admit it has been quite challenging living here at Ysabel's house, as there are many people constantly streaming through her doors. Lots of family as it is holiday time and patients in need of this famous healers advice. So we have had to put up with a LOT of noise that we are not used to. Purdie and my room is right on a busy dusty road as we are living in the garage at the front of the house. They have four dogs that seem to have the highest pitch barks you could imagine, two caged monkeys, Moreno and Moneca and a turtle named Princes Diana Carolina Oh! and a parrot called Wendy. Mix this in with Constant cleaning, cooking and blaring spanish TV from 6am and you have our lives spinning in a very surreal world. I am very proud of Mum's ability to handle thus far but the time has come for a more conducive healing environment and on Monday we are moving 15 mins away to the sea side town of Pimentel. Just the thought is already relaxing our shot nerves. Rest assure we have very much valued this process here with Ysabel and what an honor. The experience here has supported the healing journey thus far amazingly.

I have been making some home videos of what has been happening here and by next email I should have a You Tube address for you all to check out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoX7ytjpCxk&feature=related

Mucho Love

Robertito




This gift of Huachuma given to Lakshmi when she arrived

The Journey Begins

Heading to Chiclayo.

First stop Santiago (Chile) & Lima (Peru Capital)
We are here in Chiclayo and without too much drama. Thanks to Purdies (Mia's) Spanish speaking skills. So far we have spent an awesome couple of days in Santiago Chille. We stumbled upon a beautiful oasis and accommodation to recovery from the first part of our journey. We had an arranged meeting with a beautiful couple Alicia and Maguel. Such amazing heart space people. Alicia took us out into the country to meet her 87 year old mother and to pick fresh figs, eat water melon and play guitar under her favorite avocado tree. They conducted some very powerful Rekie on Mumma Reish back at the hotel room and really started off her healing journey on these lands.

Our first real adventure was staying a night in transit in one of the worlds most dangrous cities. Lima, Peru's capital. Hard core Bad lands that's for sure. You know it's a heavy zone when the taxi driver removes his watch and tells you to put all valubles on the floor. I was awakened that night at 4 am to the sound of a barking dog. I peered out the window of our 11 story room to witness three dudes rob some poor guy out the front of our hotel. An hour later we were out the front of the Hotel hoping into our taxi to return to the airport. We had to drive fast through all the back streets to avoid having to stop at traffic lights on the main road. That place deffinatly puts life into perspective.

All of that adrenaline aside we arrived here in Chiclayo. Quite a baron city reminds me of pictures I have seen of Iraq desert city scape except it is bustling with little yellow Dihatsu Charade cabs and Thailand style tuk tuks. Not many foreigners and you don't really get hassled out by anyone to buy anything. I think a nice place to do what we have come to do.

Today we meet with Ysabel and family. We have been invited to stay with them for the next 15 day while Mum goes through her healing process. At the moment she will be having 4 ceremonies in this time. Wow so many emotions running around my body. I am not sure personally if it is my time to participate with the medicines. Im sure this will become clearer as time goes on. What is clear is that this is divine intervention at work here for Mums process. One month ago Ysabel was traveling on a bus on a journey. As she slept a dream of her working on a person with cancer. So she was not surprised when Simon contacted her about Mum wanting to see her. Seeing them together today allowed me to surrender any sense of doubt and fear which I may have been carrying.

This is amazing, tiring and all so very new.

love and beyond

Roberto

Introducing Lakshmi

This is my Mum Lakshmi and this is a blog to enable her story to be told to people who are interested. This is an ongoing in real time story happening now. Lakshmi is living in the jungle (selva) outside of Iquitos, Peru. She is working on a curation for breast cancer. She is healing and living with a female shaman (Curandera) and is drinking, bathing and wearing the plant medicines of the Amazon.

That's what this blog is about.

Lakshmi's story goes alot deeper as a relationship with these sacred medicines. In 2005 Lakshmi and a small party traveled Venezuela to meet with a male shaman (curandero). This was to seek council with the pants after she received guidance that the medicine could help her with her debilitating disease of MS (Multiple Sclarocis) That story ended with a full curation.

No kidding!


This journey and blog is about her breast and the cancer that has formed and how it has formed. Her understanding leads her to the Peruvian desert of Chiclayo to under go a series of ceremonies drinking the sacred cactus plant, San Pedro (Huachuma), here the story unfolds as a tale of Ancestral sickness unfolds and of a Western families willingness to break the old stories of the past.

Please enjoy.