He continues, “In researching Peruvian culture and their medicine wheel I became fascinated by it and achieving enlightenment – in indigenous populations all over the world – their spirituality is linked to these beliefs.”
“Firstly, I’m interested in what happens if we let nature be herself, without being controlled. I have been interested in this idea that when you are born, you have no name, no language, no identity, then the world starts telling you stuff. When you agree with things then it locks in. It’s programming. Imagine if you were a child born into a culture where the language has fewer words that lead to ideas of separation, like for example just one pronoun for all. I became fascinated by this.”
“In terms of feeling a part of nature, rather than apart from nature, which I think culturally we are in western civilisations, is the cause of climate change, so many problems we have is to do with this. Our health, mentally and physically... We are not connected anymore.”
“The people that still have this connection are indigenous people, so I wanted to go to Brazil for many years and only just managed to take the time this year.”
“To spend time with an indigenous tribe, who have passed down wisdom through elders and who have lived in western society but have since reconnected with their old way of life. They invite people in to discover their secrets, their sacred medicines, one of which is ayahuasca, a strong psychedelic, made by combining two separate plants. I read somewhere the chances of randomly finding these two plants and combining them is so unlikely there’s a belief and, I feel, likelihood that the forest showed them. When you take this medicine, you become aware of a programmed dream that is western thinking. These people have relearnt their old ways by being taught a download of knowledge they receive by taking these medicines.”
“My experience, limited as it is, I think and see that these people have little, if any anxiety, depression, they are incredibly happy and healthy and perhaps they are not getting diseases like diabetes and cancer that plague the western world. They play music, they dance, they hunt, all present-in-time stuff, they aren’t thinking about tomorrow or what someone thinks of them!”