Interview with the Shaman: Don Ricardo on Peruvian Vegetalismo and the Icaro

“Songs are a shaman’s most highly prized possessions, the vehicles of his powers and the repositories of his knowledge. They are usually sung under the influence of a hallucinogenic brew (shori) made from lianas of the banisteriopsis family and a shrub, psychotria viridis. Learning to be a shaman is learning to sing, to intone the … Continue reading →