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Mario Danzer

Mario Danzer is a plant-medicine practitioner and writer on Shipibo dietas and ayahuasca, publishing with the Metsa Nete retreat community and guesting on The Inner Practice podcast.

Oct 14, 2026

41:46
I did not know that.
41:46
Because the shaman has, has the opportunity to actually perform healing.
41:51
A- and it's not done to travel and to see all the different things.
41:53
It's done...
41:54
It's, it's consumed to do the healing work, to have the visions, to see deeper into the energetic body of a person.
42:02
And a dieta is helping a shaman, a curandero.
42:09
Shipibos don't like the word shaman, or my teacher doesn't like that.

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56:44
And can you kinda talk a little bit about how they're all intermeshed or perhaps they all should be separated?
0:00
diets in order to see more in order to expand their sort of medicine bundle so there's a difference between sort of like a healing diet where you consume a plant in order to heal yourself you see more within yourself and then there is a diet that is more done in order to learn a learning diet and so you want to learn the medicine you want to learn how to work with people And so those are the two main categories.
0:33
And again, someone might listen and might disagree, but that's just how I've learned.
0:39
That's the perspective of my teacher.
0:40
So we have a healing and a learning diet.
0:43
And it also depends on the time, like how long a diet actually is and how strict it is.
0:48
The stricter it is, the more you could say it tends to be more of a learning diet.

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