What´s up?
This will only be a short update, since I need to get a move on. We´re leaving for the jungle again in about an hour & I have some small shopping to do. We went to the jungle last week and were there for 7 days, with a healer by the name of Doña Othelia. Check out Justin´s blog for pictures: dharmafarmer.blogspot.com. Yesterday he posted pictures from the jungle, and also pictures from a celebration we attended this weekend in the jungle, with a group of people called the Bora tribe. They were loud, fun, warm, caring, loving people, full of joy for life and each other. It was an awesome experience to be with them, sharing in their celebration with drink and food and dance. I came to the conclusion that no one needs to join a gym...simply come out here and dance in the jungle with the Boras a few times a year and you´ll stay in shape.
Back to my original point...we left Don Juan´s after about 3 weeks there, for many reasons. One being that we both felt like it wasn´t the place where we were supposed to do our deep healing, and there was also some separation occurring between him and his former apprentice, our dear friend, Carlos. We sensed that there was a lot of change occurring, and we felt like we were part of that. Synchronistically, at the time Carlos had been out to see Othelia for a week prior, and told us about how she works with all different kinds of plant medicines, not just ayahuasca, which sounded great to me. It´s nice to still have the option to drink ayahuasca, but I felt like being on a daily regimen of things that we´re aiming to detoxify & clean my body, not to mention help heal my physical ailments, was a better way to go.
So we came to town for a few days, resting and regrouping, and then headed to the jungle. After being there a week we both felt like it was the place to be, so we´re going back in today for another 16 days, and then we´ll be back in town, regrouping once again for the last leg of our trip here in Iquitos & traveling near Lima.
I´ve met incredible people, and feel very lucky to be here. It´s super challenging, asking a lot of me and requiring me to grow exponentially at all times, but I really wouldn´t want it any other way. Life is so sweet when the challenge is bigger. And I also want to mention that Justin has been incredible, dealing with me when I´m consumed by ego & fear and lash out at him, acting as the voice of reason and experience, serving to ground me once again. I couldn´t ask for a sweeter sibling, someone to be with me in my time of deep healing, all the while emanating love and compassion for me.
So I´ll be back in 16 days, probably with another post about my final time in the jungle. Please keep me in your thoughts & prayers and I will do the same for you.
Abrazos y besos mis amigos!
