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IN HIS MID-20S, Alberto Villoldo, a psychologist and medical anthropologist, was the youngest clinical professor at San Francisco State University, where he founded and directed the Biological Self-Regulation Laboratory to decode the effects of energy medicine on the human brain. Villoldo eventually set aside the limitations of the microscope in search of a broader, more ancient perspective. His 10-year deep dive into the heart of shamanic culture in the Andes and the Amazon regions filled in the missing pieces of his research, but a dire health crisis decades later drove him to explore shamanic transformation. Today, Villoldo is in vibrant health and the author of bestselling books translated into several languages, including Grow a New Body: How Spirit and Power Plant Nutrients Can Transform Your Health. He is the founder of the Four Winds Society, which trains energy medicine practitioners in its Light Body School.
What is shamanism and the shaman’s role?
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Shamanism is a philosophy and a lifestyle similar to Buddhism in many ways. It includes healing practices for clearing the imprints of trauma from the luminous energy field (LEF) that surrounds the physical body, and that organizes the body in the same way that a magnet organizes iron filings on a piece of glass. Shamans mediate between the visible world of matter and the invisible world of energy and consciousness. The understanding of the shaman is that what we call reality is simply the projection of a map of the world we carry within us. To change the world, you need to change the map, but the map only changes through sacred ceremony.
Shamanism is making a comeback because we have exhausted our masculine, reductionistic and predatory Western paradigm. It offers a more feminine, participatory worldview that is founded on the notion of becoming Earth Keepers—stewards of the garden of nature.
Alberto Villoldo
on Shamanic Healing
by Marlaina Donato
How does shamanism address body, mind and spirit?
We need to think of the quaternity, including Gaia, the great mother. There is only one illness—disconnection from the great mother. There is only one cure, which is returning to Gaia. The luminous energy field is an information field. It contains all your genetic history—the story of the drama that runs in your family that you have programmed into the neural networks in your brain. Shamans discovered how to upgrade the quality of the information in the LEF.
Out of the 40 million different species on Earth, only humans, whales and dolphins don’t have death programmed into their DNA. There are no grandmothers in nature; menopause doesn’t exist. The minute you cannot make babies, you are eliminated. We have the opportunity to take part in an experiment to grow bodies that are diseaseproof, where our health span can equal our long lifespan.
What shamanic principle can we apply daily?
Our Western diet and antibiotic use have decimated our gut flora, and in the process, ruined our “gut instinct”—the basis of the shaman’s “second sight”, the ability to see the hidden nature of reality. You cannot meditate, heal yourself or others, forgive those who wronged you or stop feeling like a victim if your gut flora is compromised. If your gut is riddled with Candida, you will only perceive strife and be angry. Even if you live in a city, you can cultivate sprouts and make probiotic-rich foods.
How do you see our future?
I was trained as a medical anthropologist, yet what I do today is to train modern shamans; men and women versed in the ancient wisdom teachings and cutting-edge neuroscience. This is where the magic of science and shamanism meet. Western science and religion are very patriarchal and repressive of the feminine, confusing information for knowledge. We know how to diagnose, but do we know how to heal? I love science, but we must understand that most science, especially in medicine, is bogus. Studies are poorly designed; results are cherry-picked to support the authors’ beliefs. The greatest science is the one that explores the soul’s journey through infinity, which is what shamans are concerned with. This is where we discover true healing.
Marlaina Donato is an author and recording artist. Connect at AutumnEmbersMusic.com.
Overcoming the Pain of Genital and Oral Herpes and Shingles
From the Desk of Dr. Howard Robins at The Healing Center in New York City…
Have you ever had chickenpox or a cold sore?
Almost everyone answers yes to this question. If you answered yes, then you have a herpes infection. Both types of viral infections are easily transferred by contact with someone with a current outbreak. You may have both!
Herpes zoster (HZ), commonly known as shingles, is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters in a limited area on one side of the body, often in a stripe. The initial infection causes chickenpox, which usually occurs in children and young adults. After the chickenpox is gone, the virus remains in the body and can go on to cause shingles. HZ is not the same disease as herpes simplex types 1 or 2, despite the similar name, although both HZ and herpes simplex belong to the same viral family.
HZ becomes dormant in some of our nerve cells without causing symptoms. Many years after a chickenpox infection, the virus may break out of nerve cells and cause a viral infection of the skin in the area around the nerve. The virus may spread from one nerve to another, resulting in a painful rash. Although the rash usually heals within two to four weeks, most people experience nerve pain for months or years, a condition called postherpetic neuralgia. In the past, outbreaks usually occurred in the elderly, but now they are common for anyone at any age who is under great stress or has a compromised immune system.
Herpes simplex 1 and 2 cause the oral and genital forms of what we commonly simply call herpes. They also spread in a way that’s similar to the HZ virus. Herpes simplex is a viral disease caused by both herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2. Oral herpes, the visible symptoms of which are often called cold sores or fever blisters, is an infection of the face or mouth. Oral herpes is the most common form and genital herpes is the second-most common form of infection. However, both types can be found both orally and genitally! Outbreaks may recur from time to time, especially as a result of stress, alcohol use or eating foods high in a protein called L-arginine, which is found in nuts and chocolate, among other foods.
Herpes Can Be Eliminated!
Treatments with antivirals can reduce outbreaks and may alleviate the severity of symptomatic episodes but will not get rid of the infection. Medical ozone is the only medicine known to destroy and rid the body of this horrible infection.
Please don’t believe the commercials on television saying you can never get rid of herpes. Though with no promises or guarantees, medical ozone has been used all over the world to treat infections that normally cannot be fixed, including herpes in all its forms. Medical ozone is a gas that, when it enters the body intravenously, sticks to all viruses, bacteria, fungi, yeasts and molds and destroys or inactivates them so the body can remove them completely.
Most important, medical ozone acts without the harmful adverse reactions or side effects so typical of pharmaceuticals. In more than 50 countries for over 70 years, more than 45,000 physicians have used medical ozone to successfully and safely treat diseases such as herpes.
Dr. Howard Robins
So don’t give up hope, and don’t wait! It is absolutely possible to eliminate herpes from your body.
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