Curandero

I'm supposed to heal the lineage of women that came to be curanderas.

Y se llaman different words.

Curanderas, moras, different names, different time frames.

So That happened.

It closed the door.

So he is what is known as a curandero, which would have been somebody who Who's not necessarily a witch doctor, that's not the proper term, but he specialized in herbs and medicines and people would come from everywhere all over to get his remedies.

My grandmother actually has an old letter that he wrote to her mom when she was sick.

um yeah there's a shrine for him down there close to where i live so i grew up outside of the city limits a little bit of the ways out in the sticks so we would pass by his shrine every day going home from school or from from town or anything like that but he was pretty popular in the early 1900s late 1800s i believe but yeah people would come from hundreds of miles to to seek his help and guidance it's kind of a crazy story he was a Yeah, Curandero is, like I said, not a witch doctor.

He was more of a godly religious type of figure that people believed in his healing powers.

They describe him as a folk saint.

That sounds familiar.

Every boy, girl and child must also fit the same mold, following the same approved shape of what a man or woman of God should be.

And that most certainly does not include being queer.

When you're raised in church, you're raised to follow this exact path of a righteous life.

Of course, the church competitor is telling him he should be with the mother of his child and repair that relationship.

But him waiting for the universe to give him a sign is almost like he's rolling the dice, keeping his subconscious fingers crossed for an out.

he gets one but not the way he thinks the episode is stacked with small miracles the whole way through a guy falls off a building and walks away a woman survives a birth she shouldn't have the whole thing is setting eddie up to believe in and expect a

miracle Instead, what he gets is Shannon saying, sake, I'm not pregnant and would like one divorce, please.

I think the reason why...

Very often tobacco could be referred to as a grandfather plant, as more of this Christianized worldview, which many of these people also are, which maybe a lot of your audience isn't familiar with, but a lot of these indigenous healers of the Amazon are also Christian.

They've kind of bridged these two worlds.

But I think it comes from more of that Christianized sense of the creator being a father or God, and that tobacco being the primordial plant, the plant of God, it's often in viewed with this grandfather quality.

Someone can have a heart attack at 105.

What's, what's the difference between those two people? There's so many variables.

Um, You know, also with all of these things, with this idea that everything has a cost, much like ayahuasca, for example, It was many years before I was speaking to one of the Shipibo healers who I worked with, and they were saying, you know, if you don't purge after drinking ayahuasca, you should drink lemongrass tea.

And I was like, huh, why is that? And they said, well, the ayahuasca is very difficult on your liver, and so if you're not purging, you're not purging it all out, so you need to drink lemongrass tea to cleanse your liver.

Okay.

And she used a term yesterday where she made reference to, it's a term for, a Spanish term, curandado, Curandero.

Curandero.

Okay.

Curandero.

And they are shamanic healers that use folk medicine.

Oh.

But I can't remember this word.

Curandero.

Curandero.

Curandero.

Yeah.

Like, you think of the word

cure, right? Curar resolves the whole thing.

Is to heal.