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The Medicine of Forgiveness

Jan 1, 2001
0h 22m
★ 0.0

Overview

Benito Arévalo is an onaya: a traditional healer in a Shipibo-Konibo community in Peruvian Amazonia. He explains something of the onaya tradition, and how he came to drink the plant medicine ayahuasca under his father's tutelage. Arévalo leads an ayahuasca ceremony for Westerners, and shares with us something of his understanding of the plants and the onaya tradition.

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Documentary

Production Companies

Soqta Estudio
Hidrógeno Producciones

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Cast

Benito Arévalo

Himself

Benito Arévalo