Hi guys, and welcome back to this video. As many of you know, I'm a sponsored FlexPass student at Capella University and I'm excited to announce that I have finished my MSN in nursing education. I'm gonna do a whole kind of wrap-up video on that, but I wanted to talk a little bit about my practicum. If you saw my last Capella video, I was doing a practicum at my workplace and I was focusing on early mobility and increasing early mobility practices on the unit that I was doing my practicum on and I was doing different kind of educational bits with the nurses. I did a little raffle and did a bunch of different techniques to try and boost the morale to really increase early mobility on patients and I'm happy to say that my project was successful. I had a ton of people participate in all of my different early mobility techniques and initially on the unit that I was doing my educational bit on, they were only mobilizing about 60% of their patients every 24 hours and when I finished my practicum, they're mobilizing about 75%. So I increased in just like the couple weeks I was there, I increased early mobility by 15% which is pretty big. It was pretty easy to schedule my practicum around my life because I didn't have to do like set clinical days. Kind of like when you're in nursing school sometimes you have to like you have your set clinical hours, set clinical days. Well for this, I just scheduled my own practicum shifts. I arranged it with my preceptor and it was super easy, convenient and if I have any tips for you guys on doing your practicum, I recommend start the process of getting your facility accepted and plan it out prior to you finishing getting into those last few classes for your masters. I made the mistake of I did all my classes and then I applied for my practicum. If I had done it through that planning process sooner in the in my classes, I would have been able to finish my practicum a little bit sooner. I definitely recommend take a look at the practicum planning process. They lay it out super nicely on Capella's website and start that when you are like in the middle of your practicum or if not in the beginning so that way once you get to your practicum you're ready to go. Your facility's been accepted, your preceptor's been accepted and it's all good. If you're nervous about starting your practicum, I'd like to encourage you to not be super nervous.  It's going to be flexible with your schedule because you're scheduling yourself and honestly once you're there and once you're doing it it's like it's not that bad. I was a little out of my comfort zone because I was on a telemetry floor and I work in ICU and so I had to get to know a whole different set of nurses but honestly I really appreciated that. I got to know them super well and now when I see them like when I'm working my regular shifts in the ICU it's kind of cool. We have that like little bond and I felt like I gained their trust and their respect and we had like a really good student-nurse relationship if that makes sense. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. That's my little update. Look forward to my next fellow video. I'm going to do a whole recap on my MSN journey so thank you for watching this video. Give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel. I'll compel his information down below and I'll see you in my next video.


Welcome, welcome, welcome to Dear to Dream. This is Debbie Daschinger, and such a pleasure as always to be here with you today. I'm gonna be speaking with somebody, I'm so excited for this conversation. As you've heard from me and all the changes I've made in my life, I've got this very strange, inexplicable calling to shamanism. It feels so ancient and strange at times to me, but I have learned enough to get out of the way and honor the call. And so today, a little bit later on, I'm bringing on Oscar Miroquisada Solevo, and he's here to talk about a shamanic portal into the universe. Boy, do we need that right now. This is Dear to Dream, thank you for joining today. 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And the third piece of what I do is the ultimate visibility formula where I show you how to be interviewed on radio and podcast and get massive results. If you would like a free gift to learn how to do this and use visibility to get your beautiful message out into the world, go to Debbie Daschinger.com slash gift. It's D-E-B-B-I-D-A-C-H-I-N-G-E-R.com slash gift. So today I am speaking with the originator of the Pachikuri Mesa, transmitter of wisdom traditions, vision keeper of the heart of the Healer Shamanic Mystery School. Oscar, Miroquizada, Sulevo. Oscar is a respected, Kamasqua, Corndero, and Altamiziai. God bless for me to say these, but they're beautiful words, alto, misayoc, adept from Peru, founder of the heart of the Healer, originator of the Pachikuri Mesa tradition cross-cultural shamanism and internationally acclaimed shamanic teacher and healer. Earth honoring ceremonialist and author, Don Oscar is OAS fellow in ethnosychology and member of the evolutionary leaders circle and birth 2012 welcoming committee. He's been guiding ethno spiritual pilgrimage to sacred sites of the world since 1986 with special emphasis on Peru and Bolivia. His work has been featured on CNN, Univision, C&E, A&E, Discovery Channel and Ancient Aliens with several books already published. Oscar is now the author of the new book, Shamanism, Personal Quests of Communion with Nature and Creation. You can learn more about him at his website and go to heartofthehealer.org. And with that, I welcome Oscar to the Dare to Dream show. It's wonderful to have you here today. Diayukuy, Khatum, Warmi, Chahampimayokuna. Welcome into my heart, my dear sister and all of your listening and viewing audience. It's an honor to be with you sharing this pivotal moment in our human evolutionary potential. And your show, Dare to Dream, is something that is urgently needed as so many other visionary offerings that catalysts such as yourself are able to provide those new as well as those seasoned to the great work, capital G, capital W. So thanks for having me, Diayukuy. It's such a pleasure. It's absolutely a pleasure. I'm fascinated by what you do.  But what I wanna say first off is I feel like you're very brave, very brave to take that on because you must be ingesting things and allowing things to happen for you to let go at that level and go to those places that are unknown, right? Can you describe that a little, what this is like and are you ever afraid? Well, fear is an interesting phenomena that I experienced as a choice rather than a human necessity to begin with. And over the many moons I've been walking this path I've had encounters with non-ordinary quotes, unquote, realities that most people would have considered foreign, unmanageable, and even sometimes debilitating of one's psychic health and emotional wellbeing. Yet in the shamanic path, what is non-ordinary is really the path to the extraordinary. And therefore it's no sweat on my part to welcome any type of experience that the great cosmic mother decides to dream into my reality. In other words, I'm open to dying and being reborn and dying and being reborn again and again and again as a hollow bone, as a conduit, as an instrument of creation and the will of the source. That's the best way I can put it. Simply I may pass her by on this good earth, a friendly holographic projection that some people know as Don Oscar. Does doing that always necessitate ingesting something? And I can use the words Ayahuasca and Yahweh and San Pedro, you know, Hochuma and there's so much more out there, peyote. Does it always include something like that or can it be done just by virtue of some of the rituals that you do? I see, that's what you were referring to by ingesting. No, our plant sacraments are an integral part of the shamanic phenomenon around the world, yet many cultures do not use any plant sacraments or any type of catalysts to expand consciousness on the contrary, just through ascetic practices and drumming and shamanic journeys and fastings and pilgrimages to sacred sites and isolated periods of dreaming of inner work. You can attain the same type of contact not only with alternative realities, but with the denizens, with the inhabitants, with the spirit helpers and animal allies that are part of these worlds, these inner worlds, the imaginal, the archetypal worlds. In my actual situation, I was initiated into the Camasca curandero tradition that involves the ingestion of San Pedro Cactus or Ticucelios Pachanoi. And I see all plant sacraments such as that, ayahuasca, peyote, psilocybin, any entheogen that is now popular and even clinically being approved to treat a whole variety of psychopathological issues to be keys to a door, not the door itself, and that when you use them, they must be used with reverence and in a manner that has a foundation that is traditional that has been sanctioned since ancestral times by a tribal nation or representatives of an indigenous people that understand that these are not things to play with that are not recreational. They truly are sacraments, that they are spiritual food, as they say, food for the gods. Therefore, it does not require ingesting any type of plant to enter into a shamanic state of consciousness. We are born in a shamanic state of consciousness. If we just think of what it's like to be floating in the amniotic universe in our mother's womb, what more expanded state of consciousness, shamanically speaking, is that? So therefore, we have come in as amplified shamanic adepts. We just forget it over time because of social conditioning. Yeah, that's amazing that you say that. I worked for six months last year until the end of December with a Peruvian shaman. Who happens to live in my town? You can't write this stuff. I'm an indigenous woman, incredible. And the experience was amazing. And one of our very last experiences together, she had me do a journey that she guided me on. There was nothing ingested at all. And something very inexplicable happened when she had me in a cave and I was supposed to see certain things and certain things were supposed to be presented to me. All of a sudden, there was an animal that she hadn't brought up the word, that there would be an animal there, but this animal had one of the most incredible presences. And I will just go ahead and say it was a huge, enormous brown bear. Probably the furthest thing I would consider for myself or a connection with a spirit animal. And I don't know what it's called when they open their mouth. As though somebody was going after one of the young, ah, you know, this yell right in my face, but I knew that it loved me and was protecting me and had me. And to have something that fierce as an ally, I was so comfortable with it. I felt so loved. And when we came out, you know, she asked me about the experience and I said, wow, this was wild and real, absolutely real. And I have since then, I have now a little brown bear in my altar. I have this yearning actually sometimes for that reconnection with this animal. And this just happened from a journey that was led by somebody through me. Exactly, it's within us all. We are children of the dream as we understand it. And therefore, what is imaginal or archetypal, what is visionary is not something outside of ourselves. It's everything that exists, including our bodies, really are an extension of our soul, which is not bound by any three-dimensional view. So in a sense what you're saying is that you had an opportunity to meet your tutelary, your animal teacher, and without having to be dismembered by the bear. Because there's in shamanism, the shamanic initiatory call often involves, at least in a classic sense, often involves a death. And that can happen as a result of many things. Yet usually it's a psychic death, first of all. And that psychic death takes place through a dismemberment, through an encounter with a fierce, ferocious, frightening being animal or otherwise that tears the flesh off your bones, pulverizes your bones, and afterwards blows you back together because it blows its spirit into your heart space or into your crown and restores the integrity of your physical body and raises it to a spiritual body.  Yet at the same time, when you do, for instance, plant medicine in the case of ayahuasca, it's common that the great sacchamama or boa or anaconda, the mother's peak, shows up and swallows you whole and takes it into your body, takes her into your body and to her body. And after a while births you into being an ally of all of the great amarus, all of the great serpent deities that abound in shamanic consciousness. So what your experience was is a classic encounter with a very trusted ally of the shamanic path. Thank you so much for that. It absolutely felt like that. And typically it would have been terrifying, but it wasn't at all.  And I felt so seen, so gotten. And it's amazing because about two years prior on a camping trip, a really hot area that we were in in California in the mountains, I just wanted to take a dip in the water and we scrambled down some rocks. I went to, actually I started taking off my clothes.  When I heard a noise and I turned around and there was a bear, a brown bear. And he felt like a he, but he was a teenager for sure. Not a full adult, definitely not a baby. Right there yards away from me. It was really scary because I didn't know if a mama was gonna be close by and what that might entail. But it turned out great. This little bear couldn't have cared less. He was also hot. He wanted to go in the river. He was like, you know, see ya. And he went in there, this huge hulking thing, just swimming so beautifully and gracefully.   I think it's a surprise. It always is. All good things that lead to a breakthrough to an expanded state of awareness that in turn one can internalize and make a path of selfless service in life is going to be unexpected. It's gonna be spontaneous. And it's going to be something that does not have boundaries or nor wants to be controlled or managed or directed in any manner. It needs to be like a river and flow on its own. So shamanic initiation rarely can be organized in any way. It happens spontaneously. I wanna talk a little bit about the etymology of shaman, shamanism, because as you know, it has this incredible renaissance right now on the planet. Everybody's into it and some people call themselves that and aren't really, there's no lineage there. There's really not been the tutelage and the passing down of the proper, I think, information to claim that, but a real shaman, shamanism, what's the etymology of that? Well, the term shaman is derivative of the Tungusic Siberian area. And Samang means he or she who is a master of fire. That's what it means literally Tungusic language of Siberia or Mongolia. And it also means he or she who speaks with the spirits. And therefore it's been adopted worldwide to represent many things, to represent the leading spiritual path of the times, just like Zen Buddhism and yoga was the trend in the 50s, 60s and 70s and Eastern spirituality continued to anchor itself within our Western consciousness. The earth honoring shamanic traditions, especially of the Americas, now are doing the same thing. Was once considered a very exotic and unfamiliar experience is now something sought after by even the most mainstream people. You see shamans being represented on television shows and everywhere. So in a way to be a shaman, it really requires that you are sanctioned by your indigenous community as a person that's been chosen by spirit to serve as a healer and as a mediator between seen and unseen worlds. Yet one cannot call themselves a shaman traditionally. One needs to be recognized as a shamanic emissary by their people, by their community. Anybody who says they are a shaman and does not have a social network, a cultural foundation that has sanctioned them or validated them as such has no right calling themselves a shaman. They can be shamanic practitioners, but not samang. Mm-hmm, absolutely. And regarding ancestral star wisdom and interventional journeying, how is it possible to heal our soul and heal our planet? How can we successfully make contact with the healing energies of the cosmos and the other unseen allies? The greatest gift we have as two-legged as human beings on this planet is our disciplined imaginative faculty. Imagination well-developed is the portal to an infinitude of worlds, to the great Shangri-la's and Shambhala's and Yaksim's that are spoken about in the spiritual epics of the past to the great worlds that our star relatives have inhabited since time immemorial. They're all there, yet ultimately they are within our own soul. So it's all about growing a soul in my humble opinion. We must develop the humility and the ability to let go of our craving for control and approval and open up to a dance that is one of love and of service to a reality greater than one's individual self. And that's a process that takes a lot of inner work and taking your own inventory and deep transformation and change to enter into communion with star relatives, with beings and intelligences from non-ordinary earthly realities. First of all, requires knowing that they exist, number one, and making sure that you ask permission to enter into their realm, not the other way around. As a matter of fact, in the Peruvian shamanic traditions, we understand our star relatives to be part and parcel of our three-dimensional middle-world life. And we understand that what we witness in the skies are ourselves in the future.  It means that everything that we're experiencing is more advanced than us and beings from these celestial realms is a witnessing of ourselves way, way into the future. I'm sure you get my drift. I concur a thousand percent. And I find that's so exciting, right? Well, there's no time anyway. The now is the everything, which means that, yes, some of these advanced civilizations are us coming back and reconnecting our families of us. I find all of that incredibly exciting. And the fact that you can, can you tell some stories about that? Maybe something extraordinary that you experienced where you have made that cosmos kind of connection, that star family connection. Gladly, although they may seem incredulous and I may be subject to ridicule, it's my truth. So I shall speak it. Now, there are techniques, tools, psychospiritual disciplines that have been known for millennia that are able to enhance, raise and amplify one's vibrational frequency as a being of light. And so these practices are important to prepare oneself as well as fasting and cleansings and making sure that your physical vehicle is something that will be able to withstand contact with that higher level of consciousness that is embodied in that star being that is ready to open themselves to receive you. And may I ask you, so I assume when you say that, you mean Oscar, because they vibrate at a much higher frequency that we do that want us to prepare their body and their psyche to meet that? From my personal experience, any entity or being that claims to be from a dimension that is of a extra planetary origin is an embodiment of pure unadulterated universal love. And love is the high capital L love is the highest form of vibrate. That's why there's so much Christ consciousness infused in all these UFO contactee groups. Because as a human example of that or Krishna as a human example of that elevated Bhakti or Agape, the miracles that occurred in their presence are historical, right, are well known. So every being that inhabits those more rarefied higher ethereal realms is coming from a place of cosmic love cosmic love, if I may say so. So in terms of my own personal experience, I've had numerous encounters. And the important thing with all of them is that I realized that it was once again having contact with myself, capital S, that this is not about becoming fixated with the physical phenomena of a craft or a sighting or some sort of manifestation of a shining being in one's life, yet to use them as catalysts for your own apotheosis, which means a transforming of one's own self into a divine being. And I had that experience in two occasions that were very pivotal in my own evolution as a soul on planet. The first was when I first became involved with a UFO contactee group known as the Rama mission in Peru that founded by Sixthopas Wells. And I was on my first outing with him and in a group of other six individuals. And we were the contact group. There was a support group. We were out in the desert south of Lima. These three craft appeared in the sky. We're totally sober. As a matter of fact, the Rama mission demands that you're vegetarian and abstain from a lot of activities that make you a little more sluggish. And so we were out there very purified. Three crafts show up, seeks to indicates, close your eyes, go within and do not become fixated on the outside phenomena and wait till I tell you to open your eyes. And so long story short, he asked us to open our eyes. In front of us, there were these three beings that looked very much like the biblical angels that you see depicted, you know? But they were very tall robes, long hair, blue scintillating eyes that had been the aetheric projection of their true form, which were very different. Their true form were also tall, but brown skin, no hair, you know, very smooth features, very long fingers, very elongated arms. But we would be shocked if we saw them in their true form. So they allowed themselves to show themselves in their aetheric bodies. Upon that, they started to transmit telepathically certain insights into us. And then they asked us to close our eyes and we all just passed out, we went out. Six hours after, we all woke up at the same time. What happened is something I never was able to recall. All I know is that I felt like I had rejuvenated 10 years and I felt like a mountain goat jumping up and down all of, it was like I was a child again, it was very interesting. So that was an extraordinary experience. Related to that was another experience in the same area of Chilka in which three crafts show up. This was with a large group of people and they manifested what's called a Zendra, which is an interdimensional portal. It's like a semi-circle of light. It's about 30 feet in length and about 10 feet in height, like a half-circle and scintillating and seeks to walk through it and disappeared. If you look to the side of the Zendra, it's like maybe two inches in width. He disappeared and we didn't know what was going on. All we knew is that there were still three craft out there beaming these lights, creating this semi-circle. And after maybe two hours, he walks back out of that semi-circle with a beard growth as if he had been out in the wilderness for about two weeks, right? All discombobulated, his eyes spitting and he had been taken, believe it or not, to Ganymede, which is Jupiter's largest moon, which is where the Ramagais have a crystal city that they call Mordlem. And in that crystal city, he was exposed to the Akashic Library, brought back all this information for us, et cetera, et cetera. This was a few decades ago, this was in 1978. Those are two of many experiences that I've had in my flesh and bone that I tried initially to figure out and give a scientific, reductionistic understanding to it, yet I realized that that's not the approach. The approach is to just celebrate the fact that there is much more to be experienced as a human being than what our social, cultural conditioning expects of us. Wow, what an honor that you, amongst these other people were chosen to have an experience like this. It sounds so extraordinary. And you're interested in the book, The Invitation by C. Stalpas-Wells, The Invitation, it describes the experience in that book. Oh, beautiful. It's translated into English. I'm sorry for interrupting you, Mike. Yeah, noted, thank you, The Invitation, I appreciate that. And so when you say you just accepted it, you didn't do any hypnotherapy to try to understand what happened in those six hours that you lost. You just went on with your life rejuvenated. Yeah, in those days, Bud Hopkins or John Mack or, you know, Wittley-Streiber weren't the thing. In those days, it was just, yeah.  It's like the Dalai Lama said when he was asked, so what about star beings? He said, oh, they're fine, thank you. That's great. Yeah, and how beautiful about this man coming back with the beard and the growth, like he'd been gone for two weeks, because, you know, often people, they look at the Akash, right, as a very earthbound experience, but the truth is the Akash is universes of information, libraries upon libraries, like when somebody really can do that type of reading or understanding comprehension of the material, it's infantismal, what is contained in there. Exactly, and there's layers upon layers and dimensions upon dimensions, and it's revealed to those souls, at least in my experience, that are willing to walk between worlds, to not claim a particular sense of identity, that are more open to being fluid in their experience of self and their relationship with others and not to be bound by any fear, doubt or insecurity. Wow, that's like right now, you just put down a gauntlet for me, because, you know, I'm very called to this, so I have a little bit of work to do there, but I can't even explain why I find this all so like food, so important, and thank you for sharing all of this. You are known as an altomisa yok, and that is the name given to the highest level of Andean priest, one who communicates with other dimensions, and that's what you're called, that's what your abilities are. What did it take for you to be able to have that moniker, if you will? What kind of initiations did you have to go through? Well, in fact, the altomisa yok is one level, it's not the highest, the highest is the kurakakuyak, which my teacher, Don Benito Coriwaman Vargas, from Mwasao in Cusco, the famed kurakakuyak, had attained. Kurakakuyak gets the coca leaf quintus, the leaves, and they blow over them, and they speak out the names of the apus, of the mountain deities, and they work the weather like magicians, and they are so connected, and they usually live in a very isolated Spartan area up high in the Andes, and have very little encounter with their IU, with their extended spiritual family down in the villages. They're dedicated to just blowing their prayers through the leaves, creating saminchai, bringing the renewal of animating essence to the world. And I was fortunate to apprentice with Don Benito Coriwaman Vargas from 1982 to 1986. He passed over in June of 1986. I was doing my field work in ethno-psychology with the Organization of American States, then creating satellite programs to mainstream folk healers into the public health delivery system in Peru. And so I was interviewing all these maestros and maestros, all these famed healers, and Don Benito was one of them, and the minute I met him, like what happened to me with my first mentor, Don Cesso, I was mesmerized, we recognized each other, and little by little he trusted me, and he let me into his home in Hwasao, and taught me the arts of haiwes, of offerings, of haiwarikui konoes, of despachos, or ritual feedings to the earth mother, and to all of the denizens, the watchers, the nature spirits, the tree spirits, the mountain spirits, and the departed ancestors. And over time he thought that I had the right heart to go ahead and share this with people from the northern regions of more developed nations. So he initiated me in my musok chawariki, which is a transmission of lineage of the Alto Misayok level. There are, that's not the highest though. So I'm honored to be able to teach others also, these arts, these ritual feedings, these pilgrimages, these ritual practices for the building of stone cairns known as apachetas that serve as acupuncture needles on the meridian system of our earth to keep things in balance so that kausai, life force, flows unhindered throughout her body. There's many levels to being an Alto Misayok, but it's all nature based, all in honor of nature. Now, when you were a child in your book, this shamanism book that's just out, you tell a story that you were healed from very acute asthma. Will you share that story? Certainly. Yes, that's one of two stories that I have in the book because aside from most of the book that I write, there's a middle section that has 25 riveting stories by other people, some that are my students and others that I've never met but that have had encounters with shamanic realities that have transformed their lives in very beneficent manner and they're fascinating. The stories you're referring to are the first and the last of that group. Now, the first one is my encounter with the three shining ones when I was 10 years old. And that is also in my first book, Lessons Encourage, for those interested in going to depth into that. But to summarize, I was, on dexamethasone, cortisone, intravenously to be able to breathe. I was very, very sickly as a child growing up in Lima. And in Lima it was very polluted and it's on the sea level and I could not breathe. I have these attacks of hypoxia to the point of almost passing out. So my father, who was a physician working for public health institutes, decided to take me to Chosica, which is 11,000 feet above sea level in the central Andes of Peru, where I'd spent a whole year at age 10 with my mother living there primarily by ourselves. One of those evenings, and my attacks were much less than they were in Lima but they still occurred. And one of those evenings, I had a severe suffocation episode and I just decided, I don't wanna struggle anymore and I decided to just let go and whatever happens happens and if I go to the other side, I go to the other side. So classic near-death experience, but in the background, I started hearing my nickname being called softly and I come out of my almost death slumber and menace opened my eyes and in my dark room, I see these three beings scintillating beings of light. Similar to the ones that I saw afterward in this encounter that I had in the Chiluca Desert with the Rama mission that I spoke about a little earlier, but not exactly. These were not extraterrestrial beings. These were trans-dimensional shining ones. They were beings of the most inordinate loving light that one can imagine. They communicated telepathically and they told me a bunch of things about what my life would be from that moment on in the future. And one of them bent over, placed their lips to my heart area, to my torso, and began a classic shamanic suction and extraction. It was like interminable and just pulled, I could feel all of this disease and hooch and all these years of struggle to more than just physical struggle, emotional struggle being pulled out of me. And he just placed it in his lungs and then released it into the above. And this vortex of light just carried all this stuff out through the ceiling beyond. This is a, I'm summarizing, it was a very detailed experience of transformation that occurred. But anyway, at the end, they told me to go back to close my eyes, go back to sleep, woke up the next day totally free of the asthma. My mother didn't believe it. She said, don't prove it to me. So I said, come and I took her outside. There's the river, there's a river remark, the talking river right next to big boulders. I was jumping up and down the boulders, not without any getting winded at all. Managed to go back to Lima. The doctors didn't believe it. My father didn't believe it. Began to play normally, began to play soccer and became very proficient at that and was able to get a full ride to a very prestigious university in the United States because of playing soccer. And so it was restored to optimum physical health as a result of that. That's extraordinary. So you were clearly brought here for good. Your soul knew its mission and because you would think that being sick at that level, you would have scarred lungs. You would have a lot of residual issues but it sounds very much in the curandera how they, I've heard and seen a lot of these, I've seen movies of people like this, like their incredible skills to be able to pull out of someone's body. These kinds of sicknesses, emotional and physical and so forth and restore people completely. But yours was not earthly. Yours was of another faction, these luminous beings. Do you ever have encounters with them since your childhood? Well, yes. And as a result of that, I forgot all about that experience. I must comment on this. After that, I was amnesic. I didn't remember anything. I just knew that I felt great. When I began my formal apprenticeship with my first shamanic mentor, Don Celsor Rojas Paromino, I was almost turning 18 at the time. So from 10 to 18, almost eight years had passed. I hadn't remembered anything. But when I met my first teacher in the first ceremony that he had me participate in, out of his central altar, these three luminous beings or shining ones, like I call, just started to levitate and emerge out of. And I was, and I started to remember everything. But the fascinating thing is that in that moment, Don Celsor, who he was sitting next to me, he elbows me and he says, do you remember them? He was seeing them himself. That, of course, turned my life upside down. I realized, man, this shamanic shamanism stuff is something I really wanna learn more about, right? So that shows you that these beings of light are out there all the time behind the veil, ready to assist us in our own souls, maturation and growth. So it's not that you have to be special or chosen or anything like that to have these experiences, just simply that you may have in past lives done some decent work. And at this time, there's an opportunity to cross the veil, to be of further service. And it requires some sort of encounter with a very transformational encounter with beings that are not normally accustomed to be recognized as valid partners in our earthly dance. God, I love that. That's so beautiful. So beautiful. You know, I've got this gorgeous quote from you, Oscar, which is, the first shamans were all women. They were all drummers, rattlers, the trans-inducers, the wild ones, the witches, the sorceress, the kick-ass mamas. They were the women of power. Can you talk about that quote in relation to today and what we can expect going forward? That's a quote of mine in the book. Not from the book, but something you said. Oh, yeah. So I've said that often. Well, yes, because that's the truth. In the Paleolithic era, upper Paleolithic era, where shamanism really took root across the world, the medicine was always carried by the women. The women knew about the herbs. The women knew about midwifing. The women knew about bone setting. Anything that had to do with a healing intervention was the domain of our goddesses, of our women. And they were the first oracles and the first ones that were able to enter into the dreaming and invoke through trance states, information that was beyond the five senses that served to guide their community. So yes, they were the kick-ass mamas that were the primordial shamanic emissaries of our planet. After that, the men started to practice other means of altering their consciousness through trance states and similarly, it started to do what women were doing for millennia. That's why so many male shamans, especially in Siberia, are dressed like women. They have skirts on and they put makeup on and they're bisexual in many ways. All tricksters are of dual gender sex nature in many ways because they realize the origins down deep inside that it's the ones who give birth to the human life, that the only ones truly qualified to restore wholeness where fragmentation has occurred.  Do you feel that the women, the females, are going to play a really large part going forward during this ascension and during this healing of humanity in the planet? They already are. Look at you. You're one of them, sister, right?  You heeded the call.  One day you said, this is something I've got passion for. I'm going to step up to the plate and make it happen. You didn't know what was going to happen, right? Just little by little started to unfold. You just knew that you had juice. You had love for what you did. I find in the circles that I serve, 85% are all women, you know, 15% are men. And within that 50%, they are men that have developed a deep sensitivity, a feminine-like awareness and respect of relatedness and belongingness and family and being caretakers, you know, not just domineering patriarchal, you know, types. And we are entering into an era right now known as the Tari Pai Pacha, or the era of re-encounter according to our prophecies in the Andes, which requires that everybody who comes to the table of the world creator, which is none other than oneself, of course, break bread together. And without any difference of gender or without any difference of social status, economic position or cultural origin. And so we become one, one, not many. When we sit down at the table that is going to nourish the seven generations and the spiritualization of humankind that is prophesied to occur. That's how we understand it. And do you think that that is why shamanism is so prevalent right now? Why medicine, plant medicine is so prevalent? I mean, it used to be, this was something in the very sacred areas of the world that was practiced and used and has been forever, right? But it's now become very public, very much known about, used people, seek it for healing. And I think it's fascinating that it's making such a resurgence in such a large global public way. Do you think that's part of our healing going forward? Most definitely, it's no surprise that our planet is going through a rite of passage, a major global initiation. And there's no better venue, no better means of assisting one's initiation or one's rite of passage than the shamanic arts. Shamanism is a rite of passage, an initiation because it's inherently self-transformational. So yes, for us to make it on this good earth as humankind, we need to get over ourselves as separate from the rest of the web of life.  That path from head to heart is the longest journey we'll ever walk. And that's what's happening, that's what's being required right now of humankind and the shamanic tools, techniques, and practices that are out there, especially those that are freely shared by the people of Heart Island of South America are just the same that TM and Zen Buddhism were in the early days, yet they bring the earth element to it. This is not about transcending the body, this is about embodying oneself as an earth walker and healer of all things planetary. And what is the medicine of, and tell me if I'm saying this right, weiraw, W-A-Y-R-A, the medicine of weiraw, what is that exactly? W-A-Y-R-A, W-A-Y-R-A in Runasimi Riketo means wind. So the medicine of weiraw is the medicine of the upper celestial realms, of the Hanakpacha, of the superior realm. And it takes the form of this invisible movement or flow that at times wakes you up and makes you realize, oh, there's something around me that I can't see, but it's really working in my life right now. And it is accompanied usually by a visionary state that you can either have through lucid dreamings or even in your daydreams, but you start to have an enhanced creativity and you start to develop what's known as vista or psychic sight, clairvoyance. All that is associated, at least in our tradition, with weiraw, the medicine of weiraw. And this is something that you practice? It's a tool, yes, it's a tool. We have aipa, we have unu, we have weiraw, we have nina and we have teksikaipa. So we have the medicine for the body, for the heart, for the spirit, for mind and for soul. And they are derivative of the alto misayuk lineage, as a matter of fact. And do you do actual healings on people? I mean, you're rather big, like large on the global platform to do this, but ostensibly could somebody come to you and you could do a complete healing on them? When the time is, I used to offer any in-person event that I was part of, always involved healings, especially in the early days. And I studied, I did my formal training in clinical psychology. So I had a psychotherapy practice and I always combined that with shamanic healing techniques in the early days. Now I don't do that, yet I have a cadre of sanctioned teachers in the Pachakuti Mesa tradition that are well, well qualified to do healings of that nature. When I teach my in-person seminars, of course, if I see that somebody is in need or they tell me with anticipation, I'll make sure to open up the space to be of service to them. Wow. It depends on where I'm at and the moment I'm in. I'm never gonna, we consider it a sin not to offer healing if healing is necessary if you find yourself in that situation. And do you receive medicine from the stars? Is there some kind of dialogue or download or a telephone, if you will, back and forth between the cosmos and you? I wouldn't say I receive it, but I'm, how could I say this? I am bound forever to respond to the power that is available and use it in a way to help people wake up to their own wholeness. So my response to that, my good sister would be that I'm always in contact with as much elevated wisdom and mystery as possible. That was moving. That should be a mantra, really. There's four people who are spiritual messengers and come in with past life trauma about being visible. That's one of the things I teach is spiritual messengers to be visible. And I feel like I know I'm gonna go back and write that down and share that with people as your quote because to be bound to serve because of the power given to you, I think is exactly why we're here. Doesn't matter really whatever what comes up because we can transmute all of that but to really show up and serve those in need as we can is tremendous. It's our piece of the puzzle of what we're doing on heaven, on earth. They call it a, in the East, in Tibet, they call it a bodhisattva path, right? Yeah. That's our dharma. How can you say no to your dharma? How can you say no to your dharma? Wow, I hope, really hope people are hearing this. It's so beautiful. In your book, and where can people get your book? Let's start there. I already know it's on Amazon but where else can people get the book shamanism? At their preferred bookseller, you know, go wherever you like to buy a book, you can find it there. If you do go to Amazon, the advantage if you wanna help expand this wisdom tradition in the world, if you leave a review, that helps. I'm not too good at marketing myself but I promised my beloved wife that I would say that. And as somebody who works in books, I can tell you he speaks the truth because book reviews are everything. So yes, absolutely leave a glowing review but you have to buy the book, by the way. That's a thing on Amazon. Good reads, a lot of people buy the good reads or you know, you know the bookseller is better than I do. Yeah, well everything's accessible. Sacred stories, sacred stories also. Sacred stories, yes, that's their website, your publisher, yeah, and they're amazing. They're incredible. Friends of mine and I support them and I support you in this book. There's something you said in the book and I wanna unpack this idea a little bit. Shamanism is the medicine our world needs for seven generations and beyond, seven generations. So we're gonna last at least that long. Talk about that. It's a saying among shamanic practitioners and especially the tribal nations of Turtle Island or North America that every thought, word or action that one engages in should be considered in terms of its impact, seven generations from now. That it's not something to just be a contribution to one's survival in this incarnation but a passing forward, a gift that people could use in the future. So therefore it demands of a heartfelt shamanic practitioner to be very responsible and conscious with the types of thoughts they have and the types of words that they use and how they, the example that they exhibit as they walk this earth. I feel it's a very powerful wisdom teaching because if more people thought about, I mean, of course, when you're in your early adolescent and teenage years and young adulthood, usually you're pretty narcissistic and self-absorb and don't care much about how people are going to think about you when you die. But when you get a little older, of course, you wanna leave your, you know, some, something valuable, something that is of worth that someone can adopt in the future and improve their lives with. That's the seven generation piece there. Everything we do through the heart of the Healer Shamanic Mystery School is a gift to the seven generations. There's not one teaching in that, in our outreach groups and in our apprenticeship programs that is not developed with that purpose in heart. And how do you know when enough is enough? So what I mean specifically, when I was called to plant medicine, I was called. It was as much a surprise to me as anybody else, but I was very much called and I knew it was gonna, it must occur. And now here I am, however many years later, I've drunk 25 times, which you and I know that's really not a lot, but there is a part of me that's like, I feels okay for today. But there are also people who keep drinking. They keep going back to ceremony and they keep drinking plant medicine. Do you keep planting? Do you still do aya? Do you still do psilocybin, et cetera? And how does somebody really know when enough is enough? What are they looking for? I personally, very discerningly, still commune with our plant sacrament in a handful of times a year. Part of my own formal apprenticeship included vast amounts of communion, of course, over many moons, especially when I was living with Onsenso up in the northern coast of Peru. And yet, there's not one answer for everybody. It's really based on one's own subjective experience. Yet in my own case, I came to a point where I realized that there wasn't anything else I needed to look for that demanded amplifying my consciousness through the plant spirit that I was already awake enough. And so therefore, the only reason I use it now is basically just for my own personal development for deepening my presence as a soul that is able to exist autonomously, free of my physical vehicle. So I use it to transcend the world nowadays and go hang out with realms of awareness that feed my soul, not necessarily amplify my ability to serve my people. That's beautiful. I do that already, if you understand what I'm saying. Absolutely. I think that's the break point for me. Am I gonna continue to take ayahuasca because it's going to, because I need it to be a better healer or express more love and teach more love by the way I live or not? And my answer has been, no, I can teach as much love by the way I live right now. That's the main medicine in the world, love. Yes, 100%. Oh my gosh. Do you do rituals or practices every day? How do you start your day? What is it that you surround yourself with? Would you like to see my medicine lodge here? Yes. Can I pick it up? Yes. It's not activated right now but this is, talk about rituals and ceremonies if you need a second. This is an honor. Hold on, I'm gonna have to put on the light. So I don't know if you can see it. Do you see this? Yes, sir. So this is my Banco Maestro. This is our ceremonial lodge. This is my wife's mesa. Do you see that? I do. What is all of that? These are crystals, these are shells. What is all of that? They're called artes, they're medicine pieces, ceremonial items, several that have been gifted to me by my teachers and ancestors and others by... These are my teachers here if I don't know if you can see their faces. No, I see some, just the bottom of some feathers. Oh. If you pick up the camera, a little bit more. Oh yeah, now we see. And then this is my Banco. Yeah, and so this is unusual. I've never done this in any interview before. So this gives you a little idea when you ask, do I do ritual? Yes, I do. This is my ritual lodge. That was extraordinary. And so you spend time, clearly there's power objects. There's a lot of energy in that room. Huge amounts, yes. And so do you start your day in front of that? Is that, talk about that a little bit, what that is for you? My day starts doing what I call interplane work, which is I lay, the minute I come to consciousness, out of my dream consciousness into waking consciousness, I lay in bed, close my eyes and basically open my heart to gratitude for whatever experiences are gonna come my way that day. And then I do the same, I do a life, a day review before going to sleep. So I start my day with an offering of gratitude to source and my day giving thanks for what I experienced and offering gratitude and source. So that's how I, but after that, I come to that lodge and I sit for a minimum of 20 minutes, half an hour and just communing, tuning in to all of the ancestral medicine pieces there, seeing if any one of them, because they each have a consciousness, they each have an awareness and a soul they've been used and held in the hands of extraordinary people for long, long time. So they have what we call in in Guaranderismo, Quinta of story. So I call upon their story if there's anything that I need to know.  And then of course we have specific times that we really rev up the power through our traditional rituals, the new and full moons, equinoxes, solstices and the like planetary alignments and Wednesday night link-ups that we do with our global community of Pachacuti Misa carriers that we do through Zoom even. So we do that in that lodge. That was so powerful to see. Thank you for pulling back that curtain and letting us in. And for those who are listening to the podcast, head over to youtube.com slash Debbie Dashinger so you can see that, that was moving. And also what is possible for anybody to do at whatever scale and whatever consciousness you're at right now, beautiful way to start and end your day and to open yourself up to the messages that are there in all of those objects that contain so much potency, you could feel it, the photos and the objects. And don't ask me to cause a slave. This is dear to dream. What are you next dear to dream? What are your future dreams and goals? When we let go of the need to figure it all out and cultivate the ability to let it all in, then our earth dance becomes a sacred gift of healing light for the world. More than saving our planet needs loving. That is my dream, to be an emissary of love every day more and more.  Thank you so much for coming on the show. I was so meant to meet you and have this conversation and my heart feels really full because of all the wisdom and stories and information and possibilities that you shared with us today. I'm truly grateful. Thank you, Debbie. Thank you so much. Keep up the great, great capital G, work, capital W. I will. And if you're interested in this book, Shamanism, now you know where to get it, you can go to Sacred Stories. You can go to Amazon, Goodreads or your favorite bookstore. And Oscar's website is partofthehealer.org. I end today's show with this quote from our guest today. The great work, and again, that's capital G and capital W, is to birth a state of trans dimensional awareness to allow the gods, goddesses, spirit helpers and animal allies to walk again on the earth. They will reveal themselves and all separation of spirit and matter will be gone. Subscribe to this number one transformation conversation Dare to Dream with Debbie Daschinger. Next week's show is gonna be featuring the amazing Maria Martinez. She's a wealth consciousness activator, multi-dimensional healer, energy alchemist, light language channel, medical intuitive, business success coach and speaker. She's honestly so much more. She's part of the Galactic Council and her purpose is to weave the galaxies together to keep the balance, protect humanity and empower them to evolve, ascend and assess the upper dimensions. She is going to be taking us through some healing and experiences. Thank you all so much for joining us today on Dare to Dream. And remember your calling that you were given the power and just salt and pepper it and put it out in the world, it is yours and you are so supported by those who are seen and unseen.


A couple of years ago, Arch Linux radically changed the way you could install Arch Linux as far as you now have a choice. Before about two years ago, you had to install Arch Linux via the command line. It was a command line installation. You read their installation guide. You entered about a dozen different commands in the terminal, and in about 10 minutes you were done. It's not a very lengthy process, but still, a lot of people solve that installation process as being hard, being difficult, because it involved typing in a terminal, and not everybody likes typing stuff in a terminal. It seems kind of scary, especially when you don't know what the commands are, you know, which new users don't know what they're really typing in the terminal. Is this going to damage my computer? What's really happening with this command? Well, the Arch Linux team kind of solved this problem because now there is a new automated way to install Arch Linux with the Arch install script. And I haven't run through a Arch install script installation since it was first introduced about two years ago. So I'm kind of interested in seeing in the last couple of years has it gotten even better? Is it still easy? Has it improved? Is there more features? I'm kind of curious. So today I'm going to run through a quick installation of Arch Linux using the Arch install script. So I'm going to do this installation using a virtual machine. The first thing you need to do to install Arch Linux, obviously, is to go grab the ISO. So go to archlinux.org, go to the download link and then grab either the magnet link or the torrent link, depending on how you want to grab that ISO. I have already downloaded the ISO. So I'm going to go ahead and launch Vert Manager. And we're going to go ahead and spin up a virtual machine here. So I'm going to create a new virtual machine and let me go forward. Choose the ISO or CD ROM. So let me go to my downloads directory. I have, oh, what do I have? Arch Linux right here. It did not automatically detect the operating system, but I can type Arch Linux and it appears in the menu here that I'm going to go forward. I'm going to give this thing about what we'll call it six gigs of RAM and two threads of my 24 thread threadripper and then go forward here. Twenty gigs of storage is plenty for this virtual machine. So that's fine. Naming the VM. It suggests Arch Linux that is fine and away we go. And now I've created this VM. Let me make it full screen and let's go ahead and launch Arch Linux. All right, and it finished booting. And of course, all we get is the TTY. We get the terminal and this is typically how you would install Arch Linux. You would go read the ArchWiki, the installation guide on the ArchWiki. And at the terminal here, you would just start entering commands. But with the Arch install script, all we have to do is type one command, Arch install, and it's checking version. And there we go. And now we get this menu system, this menu driven installation process where we just pick our selections and then at the end, it does all the configuring and installation for us without us having to enter any weird convoluted commands, we don't have to edit any config files, any of that. Let me see if I can zoom in here a little bit. The first selection here is the Arch install language. It defaults to English, and that is correct for me. So I don't need to do anything on that selection. So I'm just going to go down mirrors. Do I need to select mirrors, custom mirrors or back? I just use whatever the default mirrors are. Locals are defined. So let's see what it defined. Keyboard layout US is correct. English US for the language is correct. UTF-8, yeah, all that looks good. Bootloader, it defaults to grub. I'm going to use grub, so that's fine. Do I want to swap? It says true, so I'm assuming it's going to create a swap for us. That's fine. I did want to swap. Hostname, it defaults to Arch Linux, but if I wanted to change it, you know, I could do Arch dash invert for the hostname of the computer and root password. So this is very important. Let's set a root password. So I'm going to create a strong and complicated root password. Then we need to create a user account. So your home user name. So my user on this computer is going to be called DT. And then we need to create a strong and complicated password for the DT user. And then verify. And then should DT be a super user? Should he have sudo privileges? Yes. And do we need to add any other users? No, so I'm just going to confirm and exit. Next up is profile and profile type. And I'm going to choose desktop for the profile because I am going to install a desktop environment or window manager. But if you were doing a server, you could choose server. You were doing like a base Xorg where it installs Xorg, but it probably is not going to install any window managers or desktop environments. You could choose that, but I'll do desktop. I'm just going to ask what desktop I want. I'm going to choose the first in the list. Let's choose awesome. So let me go ahead and hit the space bar and then I just hit enter. Yeah, we go back. Do I want a graphics driver? It says all open source because I'm in a virtual machine. All open source drivers work. If I was on my home computer with my Nvidia card, I might need to go through the graphics driver menu and select the proper driver and then Greeter. That's going to be your login manager. So something like GDM or SDDM or whatever it happens to be. Light DM is an option here. I'm going to choose SDDM and now that I've selected all that. Let's go back and then audio. No audio server. So we need to choose audio server. Pipe wire is the default on Arch Linux these days. So I would suggest going with that kernels by default. It's going to use the Linux kernel. So that's your standard Linux kernel. But maybe you want something different. So I'm going to hit the space bar and turn that off. And I'm going to turn on with the space bar Linux LTS. I'm going to use the LTS kernel and I'm doing this just to verify that. You know, changing some of the defaults actually works. Additional packages. Let's see what additional packages would be. So it's going to install all the packages in base base to Ville Linux Linux firm where but if you desire anything else like a web browser and it specifies that when you're typing these, they need to be space separated.  You know, there's no commas or anything in between them is just a space. So I know I'm going to need a browser. So let's do Firefox. I know I'm going to need a text editor. Veeam, because Veeam is not installed out of the box. I know I'm going to need a file manager PC man FM. I know I'm going to need a run launcher. I don't know if awesome defaults to using the menu. But just in case we better install the menu just in case it expects the menu to be there. And honestly, I think just with those four extra packages plus awesome is the awesome window manager will be installed for us. I think we will be good. So I'm going to hit enter. Just verifying that additional packages exist. And apparently they do. So if you'd mistyped, it would tell you, hey, that package is not in the repo. Next up is network configuration. So let me go ahead and use network manager. And that's typically what I do on the command line arch installations. I just go ahead and install network manager and it kind of takes care of your networking for you. So let me go ahead and make my life easier and use network manager. Timezone UTC is not correct. Typically in this list, I need America, Chicago in the list. So I'm going to have to go down quite a bit. Oh, I went a little bit too far. America slash Chicago, that's the central timezone in the US. I'm not actually in Chicago, guys. I know you guys always get confused. I'm a long way away from being in Chicago. But that is the correct time zone for me. Automatic time sink NTP is set to true. I'll just leave that optional repositories. So you could turn on, for example, multi lib. You probably need that if you're going to do any kind of gaming and you need 32 bit libraries, so make sure turn that on, especially if you're going to be gaming on platforms like Steam or whatever it happens to be. And then we have the option to save configuration. So if I wanted to save all my choices to a configuration file so that I could use that configuration file later for reproducibility, right? Kind of mix OS like, right? You can save a config file and use that to reinstall later. I'm not going to do that. So I'll decline saving and then let's go ahead and choose install or abort. Obviously, I want to install it says missing disconfiguration. So we didn't actually do a disconfiguration. So how did I miss that in the list? I guess I skipped right over disconfiguration. Well, let's go ahead and run through that. And let's, you know what? This is interesting. It will automatically partition this for us. I thought we would have to do this. And then F disk or CF disk or something like that. It says use best effort default partition layout. You know what? I'm going to let it do an automatic partition just to see how it does. So it does give us a confirmation. Is this partition scheme OK? And it looks fine to me. It's going to create basically one big partition, right? Slash dev slash VDA, one partition. It says select one or more of these devices to actually install Arch Linux to. So I'll turn the one partition, the one big partition, because the other really small partition there, the 803 megabyte partition is just a loopback device. So we need to choose this one here. What file system do we want? Butter FS, it looks like is I don't know if it's the default, but it's the first in the list. Extend for is also here XFS and F2FS. I typically default to extend for. So I'll go with that. And now I should be able to go to install. Yeah, I'm not getting any warning messages. So let's go ahead install. And now let me zoom back out here. It says press enter to continue. So that first bit of output was the config file. It just printed out the config file to the terminal, right? So we could review that in case there were any mistakes. And now it's going ahead. It's partitioning the drive. Once it partitions the drive, it's going to run through all the package installations. Yeah. And this typically just takes a couple of minutes. Like the actual installation process is not very long because it's not installing very much, so that's a very easy and quick installation. The only thing we need to do now is as soon as this is done, we need to reboot, make sure we get grub and then make sure that we have our login manager, SDDM, and that we can log in to awesome window manager. And the installation process has finished. Now it's asking, would I like to cheroot into the newly created installation and perform any post installation configuration? So what this is asking here is, do we want to cheroot, change route over into our new Arch Linux installation and finish up anything before, you know, rebooting the machine? And I don't really need to do anything, but let's see if this works. I'll choose yes. And let's imagine, you know what? I forgot to install of an important package I need. So let's do a sudo pacman dash capital S for install. And maybe I forgot to install Emax and I really wanted Emax on the system. Let's go ahead and install that before we reboot. And now that that has completed, I'm going to go ahead and exit out of the cheroot and then reboot and it reboots just fine. We get a grub menu so it looks like the installation did work correctly. Now the next big hurdle is to make sure the login manager launches correctly. It did. This is SDDM, a default SDDM, very ugly, very plain looking. We do have our window manager installed. Awesome. So let's go ahead and log in and see. Yeah, awesome. Window manager launches almost immediately. It's a very lightweight window manager. Now we don't really have anything installed and there's no programs really to run. I have a link here, open terminal. I did not install a terminal. You know, that's when I would have installed a Lackrity had I thought about it in the cheroot earlier. But if I do a X prop, this is a Lackrity. Well, it installs a Lackrity by default. I wonder if that's a dependency with awesome or it's probably the desktop profile. I bet when I chose desktop profile for the Arch install script, I bet it knew. Hey, everybody needs a good terminal emulator. And they're probably defaulting to a Lackrity. So that is actually very cool. I don't remember a lot of the default awesome key bindings. But I think Super P for prompt. Yeah, Super P for prompt. And you can see, actually, if I go over, I have Firefox for our browser because I chose to install Firefox. Yeah, and that is working as well. So, you know, not much to see here. This is going to be a very plain looking awesome window manager with not a lot of programs installed. But from here, you know, I could build it into whatever I want at this point. But the point was the automated Arch install script, it works. That whole installation process literally took like 10 minutes. And it's such a breeze, right? That is seriously one of the easiest Linux installation processes you'll find. So when people say, Arch Linux is hard to install, not these days. Now, before I go, I need to think a few special people. I need to thank the producers of this show. 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Thanks for joining us everyone. As people continue to join, we'll go ahead and get started. I'd like to thank everyone for joining us. Welcome to today's CNCF live webinar, Introduction to API Clarity, a Wireshark for APIs. I'm Libby Schultz and I'll be moderating today's webinar. I'd like to introduce our speakers today. Zahar Kauffman, Principal Engineer at Cisco and Alexi Krapfsab, Technical Lead at Cisco as well. And please introduce yourself and say your name the right way, Alexi. I know I probably did not. A few housekeeping items before we get started during the webinar. You are not able to talk as an attendee, but there is a chat box on the right side of your screen. So please drop your questions there. Say hello and we'll get to as many as we can at the end. In addition, please drop, please join our CNCF public chat slack channel. Excuse me. Hashtag CNCF dash online dash programs to continue the conversation later and address any questions you have that we didn't get to today. This is an official webinar of the CNCF and as such a subject to the CNCF code of conduct. Please do not add anything to the chatter questions that would be in violation of the code of conduct and please be respectful of all of your fellow participants and presenters. Please also note that recordings and slides will be posted later today to the CNCF online programs page accessible via your registration link or on our online programs YouTube playlist. With that, I will hand it over to Zohar and Alexi to kick off today's presentation. I know everyone is eagerly awaiting, so we'll get started. Thank you very much, Liby. Hi, I'm Zohar Kaufman and together with me today is Alexey Kravtsov. A few words about myself. I was the co-founder of Citera Networks. This is active in the cloud storage and enterprise file services area. Later I've co-founded Portshift together with Randilani, a startup that focused on community security that was acquired a year ago by Cisco. Alexey, do you want to introduce yourself? Hey, my name is Alexey Kravtsov. I started as a data path acceleration of security solutions in Checkpoint, led a team of data path acceleration, then joined Portshift as the first team members there until the acquisition last year by Cisco and since then we're continuing working on our security cloud security products. Thank you, Alexey. So maybe you can get in order to kill the echo. In Cisco we joined an effort around API security in Kubernetes and stumbled upon the problem space that we will present today. This work was inspired by Peter Bosch and Alessandro Domenico, so I would like to thank them both. And let's go to the next slide. So what is on our agenda today? Why do we need API specification reconstruction? Possible open source packages survey that we did in order to solve this? We didn't find anything or at least something that will answer all our needs. So we will introduce API clarity, a new open source that we've developed. Then we will do a live demo. Hopefully the God of live demo will be with us today. And we'll close by talking all out road map, a few comments and of course answer any question that you may have during this webinar. So feel free to write any question you have in the chat window. So what is the challenge that we stumbled upon? Cloud services are becoming more and more popular. Many of them are using an open API specification to define a standard language agnostic interface which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of a service without access to source code or documentation. Not all application have their open API specification available. They can be either legacy ones or external applications. And we would like to get the open API spec of the applications without coding instrumentation or modifying existing workloads. We would also like to detect drifts between implementation and specification application that they still use the deprecated API's also called zombie API's and undocumented ones also called shadow API's. Gardner recently published the hype cycle for API's where they state that every connected mobile, modern web or cloud hosted application uses and exposes API's. These API's are used to access data and to call applications functionality. API are easy to expose but difficult to defend. This creates a large and growing attack surface leading to a growing number of publicized API attacks and breaches. We looked for a cloud native open source that will allow us to do all this, but didn't find the solution that will answer all our needs. In the next few slides we will highlight some useful sites and solutions we found during our survey and then we will of course describe API clarity. So the first one is open API tools. It's a great aggregation of open of API specification tools and knowledge by categories. It also lists all the major companies in the field. Next site is API specification toolbox. It lists all the services around API specification. For example, a CNCF has a project called the micro rocks.io. It is listed here under the category of mock servers. One of the more interesting solutions we saw is from optic. Optic is an open source tool that helps developers to document, review and approve API changes prior to deploying them. It is lagmoo diagnostic, works with any REST API, observes development traffic and learns your API behavior and has a great mechanism to manually review and update the specification. However, brilliantly, Optic is gating API changes. It is not designed to monitor live multi service API traffic and deployed the clusters and seems better suited to sit on the developer's personal computer. Swaggerhub also has a great solution. You may generate API traffic from the web UI using their inspector tool, record it and create the open API spec using Swaggerhub. However, they lack integration with runtime environments and they don't have an open source available. Cloud Vector has also a nice solution called API shark. It has a live monitoring of multi services environment. It can automatically detect parameters and create the open API spec from the runtime traffic. However, it is not open sourced and it lacks the option to review the spec and detect deviations from it. I envision is another good solution. They do live monitoring of multi service environments, create open API specs from runtime traffic, support detecting deviations from spec and have a mechanism to manually review and update the generated traffic. So all this is great, but they don't have an open source that we may utilize. So we decided to produce a new open source called API clarity. No code changes are needed for any of your apps. When deployed in Kubernetes cluster, it observes all the API traffic and reconstruct all the relevant API specs. The user can then review the reconstructed specs and declare them as a baseline or alternatively provide official specifications to be compared to the reconstructed ones. Afterwards, we can note all the API events that are different from the approved spec and highlight zombie and shadow APIs. We also provide a UI dashboard where we can audit and monitor the API findings. You'll see that in a moment in live demo. So as a first integration, we achieved this by utilizing a service mesh running inside the cluster. We used Istio and EnvoyCycle Proxies and they both help us observe all the API traffic. And as a result, we can reconstruct specs, highlight API differences and other abnormalities while the user can review the spec and make changes as needed. So this was, you know, like a first implementation, we will see in the roadmap how we plan to evolve from here. So few spec reconstruction features it is important to highlight. We detect spec parameters, whether in the path of the query, in the parameters, in the query parameters, in the headers or cookies. We understand object references that might be included in the spec. We support file transfer APIs and for security definitions, we digest basic auth and auth too. So now I'll switch to Alexei to talk about the demo environment. Yes, thanks Zor. So in short, while I show you a demo of API clarity and my setup for the demo is Kubernetes cluster and Istio service mesh that is already deployed. I have API clarity installed, which I will show you in a second how we can do it too. And in order to generate traffic and try to learn the APIs, I have the stock shop demo app by web. And just to help me to generate some API traffic that I can show you how it looks in API clarity and reflected there. Okay, so in the demo flow, I'll show you, like I said, about the deployment. You can just clone, build if you want it by your own or deploy the YAMLs and the pre-builds images and binaries that we already provided you. Then we'll see in runtime all the API events and even non-API events captured by API clarity. And we'll show you also how to see the trends using the heat count graphs that are also provided. We'll show you how we do the open API spec learning from the generated traffic of the stock shop demo. And I will show you the review process to how can you give that human flavor to the automatically generated API. And once the guides are approved, we can try to see diffs against the actual traffic. And that also can be used, can be created using the provided spec, not on the generated spec. So, Zor, can you please unshare? Thank you. So, are you able to see my screen now? Yes, we can. Great, so that's the github of API clarity that we released just recently. It's API clarity, API clarity. Actually, it consists of three repos. We have the speculator engine repo and the WebAssembly filters that we created for you in order to integrate with the Istio service mesh. But that's definitely the main repo. The instructions are very, very simple. Of course, you can try and build it yourself. But like I said, we have our pre-compiled images. So, all you need to do is just to apply the YAML here, make sure that everything is up and running. And then in the WebAssembly github module, you just need to init this submodule. And you have a script that you can choose which namespaces you want to monitor and see the traffic from. So, you just run deploy with the namespace that you are interested in seeing the traffic. And that's it. Maybe a few words about the design here and the components that are running in the cluster. So, here you can see the applications and the pods actually in your Kubernetes cluster. Everything, all the traffic once the deploy, the WebAssembly filters are set in your deployments. All the traffic is mirrored using Istio. Two API clarity to its reconstruction engine. We also have a nice web UI in order to see it all and manage your APIs. So, that's all you need to do. Of course, there are more instructions on how you can build it and even run locally if you don't have a Kubernetes cluster or other applications. So, you can just run it with demo data to get the feel of it. So, I'll switch to the UI. So, the first page that you can see is the dashboard that shows you the trends that you can choose the timeline of your own. I currently didn't run any traffic in the past five minutes, but as you can see I tried it a bit before. We show you the new APIs that we never, the system never saw. We have existing APIs hit counts for APIs that the system already learned. And also, you can only select APIs that have some diff against the defined API specification.  As you can see here, we have the time and the method of the HTTP, the path and some other attributes that you can find also in the drill down of the event. We also set up with some filters in order to search all the events efficiently. So, for example, you can check that host is hard, for example. That's one of the hosts and the microservices in the with microservice demo. You can also do some filtering on the path, for example. As you can see, the filters are aggregated, so you can delete some filter, so it's really easy and convenient. We also have the filter here for non-API events, meaning all the images and the media of your web files that you are not interested. So, we hide it by default. But, for example, you can see that we detect images as non-APIs, for example. So, if in the path we see, for example, big peg image, so you see we filter that out. So, if I will hide this, none of these events will be shown. So, that's convenient in order not to be distracted for traffic that you are not interested in, only traffic that we learn the APIs of your application from. Also an important part, we monitor internal traffic in your cluster and external traffic towards destinations like HTTP bin here, for example. And each API, we create an automatic entry in our API inventory section. So, these are the APIs of the microservices. These are actually the microservices of the WebSockShop application demo. And here you can see that I already provided some open API specifications and I also reviewed some reconstructed specs, but just to show you how it is done in real time. So, the last thing that happened here, I think, is the call to the delay API of HTTP bin. So, that generates some traffic in the WebSockShop demo. So, yeah, better to generate as much traffic as possible to hit all these APIs there, because we generate the specification and learn only from the traffic. And the user, of course, can also provide the spec of its own. So, we can see what has been called, whether some APIs are not called as you expected, whether some undocumented APIs, shadow APIs have been disclosed. So, let's try and generate some traffic after I register to the SockShop. Let's try to buy some socks. Of course, all this should be reflected soon in our UI. So, I think that immediately this should generate new events. As you can see in the catalog, the cards. So, let's just complete this purchase to have as much traffic as possible. So, let's try to update the shipping, to hit the shipping, micro-service. Let's try to also edit some payment information to hit the payment information and sorry, the payment API. Let's complete it and make sure that we generated enough traffic here. So, now if you see in the last five minutes a good number of APIs have been created. All that we saw can be visualized in graphs views. So, also what I mentioned about the filters. So, if you search, for example, for the user API, that affects also the graph view that you see. And once you generated enough traffic and you want to check out what API is created from all that, so you can just go to the API that you want, that you are interested. You can also do it right here from the event section if you click on the specification. So, you go to the API inventory to the API orders right here. So, let's try to review some APIs that I didn't rebuild and created or constructed specs for. So, let's hit cards, for example. Also an important part, so here I can choose the actual API of it and I can drag and drop the files here. And the reconstructed spec will wait for you here once you review the specification that we learned. So, you see here that these are the APIs or the paths with the methods have been called during the learning phase. Here we detected the parameters and in order not, we couldn't guess it correctly because it's up to the user to decide what is the name of the parameter. So, we can select and think that this one is user ID, for example, and we will show you what this was merged from. So, these are the actual calls that happened and we learned them. So, if something is not right here, so you can just unmerge it and say that's not part of this API. Maybe I can show you an example of this also and one of these, but here it looks like it was pretty accurate. All these UUIDs are actually in the ID. So, I think that no misses happened here. So, here we just have a name also in a different name. This is the item ID and we can see what is combined from. So, it looks good as well. Here, if for some reason you say that the cards here undefined, that should be a parameter. So, you can also click on it and say, hey, this is my card ID. That's not undefined. And as you set it up, we'll say that this will be merged and you can also merge these two because they're from the same structure, but let's do it for only this one. And you see that it's immediately changed to card ID. Again, you can say, no, sorry, that's not correct. It's undefined. That's actually how it should be. And we restored all the merged entries. So, here I can do this one.  And we say what will be included in your API. So, after a few seconds, you should get your API that you can immediately see in Swagger Editor. So, a very important thing to mention here, that no information leaves your cluster. So, what I did, I just forwarded to the API Clarity Service and also to the WebSockShop. Nothing is exposed to the outside world and no information leaks from your cluster. Everything is done locally and is not uploaded anywhere. And so, as I said, let's see what was created. It's because in the review process we reviewed only the pass, but we actually learned a bit more than that. So, as you can see here, we detect, like Zor said, we detect the structures here. So, we detect and use them in the APIs. Yes, so it's pretty much it. We detect it as if you uploaded the Swagger yourself. We keep improving to remove generated fields or headers that are not interesting, maybe like tracing headers. So, that's the work we are doing currently to minimize the diffs that you will see. And once the spec is in place, I can go back and you can see that now the reviewed API of cards now also have a reconstructed spec. So, and the same basically with external APIs. So, here I have HTTP Bean API. So, yeah, these are the last events that we saw. I can maybe generate some traffic using HTTP Bean. So, we're just calling the delay API for two seconds and just delaying my call. I executed it from a pod client of a simple curl. Maybe I can delay it for one second, not waste time. And, yeah, this should create several entries that we should see them immediately in the runtime events. So, you see that these were detected and if I click on them, I can go to the HTTP Bean spec right away. So, let's try to reconstruct this spec as well. So, you can see that we detected the parameter here. Let's give it a better name. That's seconds. And I can also see from which events that was created. So, one and two seconds that I ran. And these are the correct values. So, no need to modify here. Yeah, so, looks good. I can approve this spec. And again, as for the in cluster traffic, I also have my swagger and open API specification for the Bean, the HTTP Bean service, the external service. And this is actually not going to the swagger editor. We generate these files in API clarity service in your cluster. So, we generate these files and then we access it. So, no need to worry again that traffic leaves your environments. So, yeah, as you can see, we detect all the models and schemes. What else I think might be interesting for you. Yeah, so, once the specs are in place, I can see any deeps from the spec that I set to the actual APIs. So, let's try and create some traffic again in the web soft shop and see these deeps. Let's try to buy something again. Yeah, so it's better to invoke all the calls that you think you have to try to delete and add items to get as richer swagger output as possible. As richer specification as possible, sorry. I think this should do. And now if we go to API clarity, you can see that some of the APIs have deeps from the spec that we constructed. So, it can be something that, like in this case, that actually we see here tracing headers of envoy that shouldn't be here. So, we actually need still to ignore these. And you can visualize all this from the dashboard again.  And you can click on the latest deeps in your cluster. So, I hope that we have something more interested in this. Okay, that's pretty interesting. I think that it was defined as in 64 and all of a sudden it's a double. It's not actually that big of a deal. But as you see, things still catch and drift. And this is the method basically to detect shadow APIs. So, if the APIs completely doesn't exist, for example, this call doesn't exist in the constructed spec or in the provided spec. And now we see it in runtime. So, that's a shadow API that wasn't documented. Or we detected deprecated API that marked here is deprecated and still going on. So, we classified it as a zombie API. We should drop these updates in the upcoming days. So, worth waiting for. And we give nice icons to any type div. And yeah, I think that's a complete overview of the current capabilities in the UI. And I think it gives a general idea of how we capture traffic. How we learn from it and convert it to an open API specification using a user review that gives it that human flavor. Not always generated. You have the chance to give it some human names. And as you can see, once the specifications are in place, you can generate internal or external traffic and see whether as you expected in the open API specification. Okay. I think that's it, Zora. Thank you very much, Alexei, for the great live demo. Actually, the god of demo was with us today, so we're fortunate for that. So, let me share my screen again. So, hopefully you can see my screen now. And let's go now for a few more comments. So, a new report from IBM Security Exforce has found that the two thirds of cloud breaches can be traced to misconfigured APIs. In the report, APIs are fast becoming the technical basis for both B2B and B2C business models, such where when APIs are developed and deployed, there is no way to estimate all the possible places the APIs are going to get used. The APIs are silently but rapidly becoming one of the most critical pieces of software supply chain. Organization are now one vulnerable API call away from potential major breach. So, two thirds, according to IBM, of the breaches are related to APIs. So, after that, it should come as no surprise that Gartner predicts that within the next few years, API abuse will move from an infrequent to the most frequent attack vector, resulting in data breaches for enterprise web applications. So, we started all this in order to be able to use it in our secure CN offering for Kubernetes security that we are working on. And like said here in the slide, knowing the API spec is the first step to identifying your API risk. Given the API spec, one can also run fuzzing tests and automatically generate the client and server codes. The spec can also serve as a good documentation for future usage. So, it's like a basic building block that can serve for many purposes. We will utilize it for security reasons but others can do other things with it. So, going now into roadmap. So, the most important, I would say two roadmap items are listed here on the left. We support today OpenAPI spec version two. We can broaden the scope to OpenAPI spec version three, GraphQL and GRPC. Currently, we are integrated with Istio and Envoy. We should add more integration points like browsers, postman, API gateways and others. I want to use this opportunity and call out for the community to cooperate with us. 42 crunch that are also behind API Security.io and API metrics that are doing intelligent API monitoring already accepted this challenge and will join us in maintaining API clarity. We will be happy to see many more of you collaborating with us on GitHub. So, github.com slash API clarity, it's easy. And now I think that we are down for questions. So, I already saw a few questions in the chat window. So, the first questions was about HTTPS support. So, you know, HTTPS, it means that it's encrypted. So, it sounds like an easy question. So, it's expected that we will say that we are not supporting it, but we do support it in our Secure-CN offering. There we can actually inspect into HTTPS traffic and look into that and then actually see all the APIs also inside HTTPS. So, this is not in the open source, but it is in our product that we are developing. Another question was, do we support only Envoy? So, the answer here was given in the roadmap. We do plan to support many other integration points and we will be happy for the community to cooperate with us on that. Can I mention a few things? So, the first thing is about the encryption part. So, if you're running with Istio, so you can encrypt everything using Istio. And if everything is encrypted using Istio, you will still see that because Envoy sends the first traffic to API clarity. So, you can also do it with Istio. If the application encrypts the traffic and not Envoy, that's a bit harder. So, we are thinking about solutions that involve BPF, the registers on received and send maybe K-Probes, but yeah, it's much more complicated. And regarding the integrations, I think that if we just receive the HTTP trace in a certain format, so it's not only Envoy or anything that sends this trace in this format to us, to the backend of API clarity, we should be able to integrate with it. We just need to create the specific converter, whether it's API gateway or some plug-in to your browser or Postman or whatever. It's just a simple converter to get this in the format of API clarity. It should be no problem and we will add them down the road. Thank you, Alexei, for that. Another question that you may take is API clarity, will it work with HTTP2? Yes. So, Envoy treats them both as the same parser. So, it depends on what part in HTTP2. But basically, yeah, we still get the attributes that are relevant for the REST part and the JSON. So, that's maybe a bit of a way of transfer, but all the data that we need is still there and we can do it. Okay, another question I see in the chat is, can we access the data of API clarity via API and not via the UI? What do you say, Alexei? Of course. So, we have, it's also part of the open source, the swagger file that we built the UI around it. So, you can get everything that I clicked in the UI. You can get the API specification for it and create any tool that you want to query the information. Okay. Another question I see here is regarding the Kubernetes API server, whether we support also seeing this traffic. So, again, this was not our focus to look at the Kubernetes API server, but we were more after the APIs of applications. We do have other solutions for monitoring the insecure CN, the Kubernetes API, but this is maybe for another webinar, a subject for another webinar. Alexei, do you see more questions in the chat? I think not, maybe I missed something. I think we went through them. Very nice. Does anyone else have questions? We'll give them another minute and just see if I drum anything up. And then if there's anything else y'all want to cover before we wrap, you're welcome to. Yeah, maybe something that I can add. So, in the review, we saw that we give the user the ability to modify the parameters of the path. So, using APIs, that's what we support in the UI. But actually, if you're interested within the swagger integration, so we suggest your review that has the full content of it, and you can return us something that you want. So, we plan to extend the UI also to be able to review the inner schemas and then the objects and the types. So, not only the path, so if we missed anything, or like you saw, there was some headers, for example, generated trace of headers, so B3 headers for tracing. So that's, I think, is not relevant to the Open API specification. So, we will give the option, we will ignore it in the first place, but we will give the user option to ignore some more information if it was not intended to be part of the path. Excellent. I think we'll be shared post event. If y'all wouldn't mind resending that to me via email czar, that way I have the most current. And that will be posted with the reporting. Is there anything else? Right, if not, then thank you both so much. This was a great attendance. I think there were some great questions and if you were to hit anyone up on the Slack channel later, if you have any other questions, and all of this will be up on the website later on today. Thank you so much, so Aaron Alexi. Sure, thank you. And happy to come to us all. Yes, exactly. We'll see you all soon. Bye bye.