Tepoztlán

And then I was at the, I guess it was the second Gita conference together.

in Tepoztlan in 2016.

And you were there.

And yeah, we were pushing this idea of producing ibogaine through the hairy root technology.

And then that just like set me off, but my OCD would happen in waves and it would go away and it would come back and it would go in and come back.

And then there was this point where I moved to Tepoztlan, which is like a little spiritual town south of Mexico City.

And one of my dear friends, Erica, that has a psychology degree from Harvard and is also a firekeeper and a Tibetan Buddhist for like 25 years.

I went to her and I was like, she's like so no bullshit.

And [clears throat] there's a lot of weird paranormal stuff happening in there all the time.

Um, there's also this place in, in Morelos called Tepoztlan, which has a pyramid right at the top of a mount that everybody visits, uh, constantly there.

And they call them magic towns there because there is this type of, um, mystique to them that, uh, speaks of paranormal events happening throughout history there.

So, um, and I'm just telling you about my country.

But this is where this stepped up to a higher level because fascinating.

I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but to me, one of the most amazing contactee cases in the world is with Carlos Diaz in Mexico, in Tepoztlan in Mexico.

Mm-hmm.

So from 1981 onwards, he was seeing and filming these amazing plasma UFOs.

We grew up in a, in a small town when it was still a very small town.

Now Tepoztlán is more of a...

And especially since the pandemic, it's become a place where more people have moved permanently, but Tepoztlán has always been, um, you know, it's been, it's 68 kilometers from Mexico City.

It's not very far away, but it has become a smaller town.

When I was living there were less than 10,000 inhabitants with all the crops around and everything in a very large area, and now it's, I believe, 60,000, or really, really, really grown.

Yeah, yeah.

But, but I, but I, but i- but this is what we are, and this is why we're so good at hospitality and why we're so good at feeding people.

And you know, and here in Mexico, I grew up in Tepoztlán, in this town where the...