Feeling better…..ha! Yesterday during the cacao ceremony with maestro Gilberto I felt nausea coming on and even threw up a little bit. After the ceremony I was feeling nauseous, even after eating food. So, I ended up going to the toilet all night long with a diarrhea, my tambo being a bit of a distance from the bathrooms added to the discomfort of having to get up every 20 minutes.
Maestra Estella just gave me some plant juice, around 10am, that I think she said is called mañon, she said they take it here whenever they have diarrhea. I asked her why I’m having this stomach issue, she said it’s “limpieza” – cleaning. She also mentioned that it’s because cacao is connecting me to Ayahuasca, when I taked to her about my nausea last night. That resonated with me, cacao is known for being a connector medicine, so it makes sense that it connected me to Ayahuasca which is known for deep cleansing by purging, I even received a new Ayahuasca song at the end of that ceremony.
Well…..I think I’m starting to feel better after all, that plant juice seems to be working. Mother nature is known to throw challenges on the path of Truth, I have already been through many such challenges here – flu with high fever and sweating profusely at night, followed by throat inflammation and constant coughing, and now an all night diarrhea. In addition to all the obstacles that I have dealt with in the shamanic realm. I have contemplated if I really want to stay here for a year.
Maestra Estela’s son Roland, who is also an apprentice curandero here, said that on the medicine path there will be obstacles, but these obstacles are designed to test one’s commitment and ultimately make one stronger, so they are actually lessons and allies in disguise. That is how I look at it, there have been many such lessons on my super hero’s journey for the last 7 years.
My body also needs time to acclimate to the radical shift in climate, it rains heavily here about every other day and gets very hot 25C – 35C during the day, that is how it is here all year round. It’s very humid and things quickly get covered with mold in my tambo, mostly because of the leaf roofs that leak. I got an email from AyaMadre newsletter a few days ago saying that they are doing a fund raiser for $3,800 to replace the roofs of all tambos.
“This project includes purchasing calamine corrogated sheets a projected cost of $3,800 with salary for labor & transporting material goods included. Each tambo requires 25 sheets at a cost of $7.30 each. This incentive will afford guests greater ease and comfort as it will reduce insect visitors and moisture (retained from leaking leaf roof). Less moisture also translates into reduced termite invasion”
That would be a nice upgrade for AyaMadre, anyone want to donate?
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