Asháninka

In Peru there's over 50 tribal languages and they all speak different languages and live in different regions and they're very isolated.

And so we met a tribe called the Ashaninka

tribe

and I like wrote about it as like an eight-year-old I was like this was like my experience like you were a kid I was a kid when I wrote it and then what we did is during the pandemic when I was really like bored at home my mom and I were like wait let's make this a project And my aunt is like a designer publisher in Peru.

in general, how they live, what they eat, like the things they do for fun.

What's the

title? Life as an Ashaninka, what an adventure.

The primary focus is the tribe.

Amazonid subtype, the most frequent type in the Western Amazon rainforest, common among Arawakan speakers.

Typical groups are Yawanapati, Ashaninka, Mashco-Piro, Piaroa, all these names.

Possibly originated in Colombian savannas and expanded to the Caribbean and Amazonia.

So yeah, these are even the natives that were in the Caribbean before, uh, African slaves became the, became the main inhabitants there.

And, um, all of these communities have different needs.

You know, some of these communities are very private about their use of ayahuasca and others like most famously the Shipibo, the Ashaninka, the Huniquin, uh, the, some of these communities have, uh, you know, opened up to foreigners coming and visiting or partnering with retreat centers or opening their own retreat centers or traveling to the United States to serve medicine underground.

So really the only way of knowing what any particular community needs is again to ask and to take the time to build those relationships and realistically You know, that takes a long time and it takes a lot of patience and a lot of care and a lot of reverence.

And there are some amazing organizations that have already done the hard work of beginning to build those relationships over a long time.

have you felt any kind of sensation have you had any experience that even comes close to what you experienced that day

so the first person that i told about it this is why i had that experience so to me oh that sounds exactly like my last lsd trip you know i was out of body and i was seeing these colors and and i never took lsd at that point and i was like this i okay this makes me curious now because i really want to go back there and um so i've tried lsd after that once and it nice experience but it's not not the same and but this curiosity stayed with me because a lot of times then people spoke about ayahuasca for example that oh with ayahuasca you have a near-death experience and it's the closest thing you can have so recently actually after 10 years of contemplating whether i should do it or not i went to peru and i managed to meet a swiss man who worked with the unicef and They worked with this shaman family from the Ashaninka tribe.

So it was a very authentic experience.

I was the only foreigner there and not speaking the language.