Let me start off by saying that I want to, given our current fire activity that we've been experiencing here, our hearts go out to the folks that have already been impacted by the fires that existed here. And many of them thought that it would never happen to them. But these types of situations do. It's a real situation. And in California, you can find yourself affected by wildfires at any minute. So I want to acknowledge those folks who are struggling to rebuild their lives as we speak here today. And second, that we learn from these tragedies by understanding that these fires can grow and spread very rapidly, and by preparing ourselves, our families, and our homes through self-awareness, reducing the threat of wildfire, and having emergency plans should they occur. At Cali and May, our responsibility is looking at the big picture for any disaster or emergency that may impact the state. And we ensure that when fast-moving fires grow beyond the ability of state and local fire agencies to get it under control, we coordinate intelligence and dispatch help from around the state, sometimes from other states, and at times from other countries. We've been a leader as a state because we have had a lot of disasters here in California. So the team is knowledgeable in our ability to pull together a wide range of personnel and resources from everything from dealing with terrorist attacks to floods to wildfires. One key way that we do this, and that we've already been engaged with doing in this fire season, is fostering strong partnerships. We work closely with our local and state and emergency counterparts and at the federal level throughout the state to ensure our mutual aid system is robust, and it is the most robust mutual aid system that exists in the country. And we really truly appreciate the willingness of our local partnerships to be able to help all of Californians when this occurs. In addition, we foster relationships with private industry and nonprofit groups to give us access to specialized equipment, supplies, food, and other resources that will help streamline efforts to save lives and protect property. And our governor is committed to being prepared as well. Despite tough budget times over the past few years, we have been able to procure and strategically place over 114 type 1 and 15 type 3 mutual aid all risk fire engines throughout the state that bolster our state's response capability much like you see here today, this yellow engine. And the state agencies that we work with stand ready to play their role in the overall state disaster response system. Just a couple of pieces of a larger system that is designed to do our best to serve the public when disaster strikes. But at the end of the day, you are our best offense. I'll close by reminding what Chief Pemlock said during his remarks. Approximately 94% of wildfires in California are human caused, which means that they could be prevented. Help your friends, your family, and community by taking steps to prepare and prevent these fires from starting in the first place.  And so are they.  It's already here. So you've got some professionals committed. They know their business, they're going to do everything they can. But we also want to recognize that our climate is changing. The weather is becoming more intense. It's going to cost a lot of money and a lot of lives. It's not something in the adversarial way that we can look at this. You over there, we're over here. It's kind of us them, you them. No, it's all us together in California, in America, coping with increasing challenges. It's business of fire. It's devastating to those who are in effects of them. And we know that the fire season has grown over the last 40 years. It's gotten longer and longer. We have our intermittent wet years. But here it is. And we have to be ready for it. And I'm going to do everything I can to deal with forest fires, but also with the whole problem of climate change. And then the big issue, how do we adapt? Because it doesn't look like the people who are in charge are going to do what it takes to really slow down this climate change. So we're going to have to adapt. And adapting is going to be very, very expensive. That's another reason why we have to maintain some budget discipline because whatever we need to spend today, it's going to be more tomorrow when it comes to dealing with fires and other unpredictable crises that we're going to have to face. So to all the men behind us, thanks a lot. We got a big job ahead. And you got my back.


I just got to work and you know I'm doing that never stop never stop always on the tap Locked in the path never getting off track whatever I lack added my prices right I never change But I don't get it done get it done right and that's every quick recap first thing I don't miss second thing is this week I jumped a lot last week so a week and a half ago. I played three pickup games Exhausted after that rested try to jump with these guys Did it do it Sunday dunked with Mike the last vlog you saw after that hip thrust and a mini plyo day last night And then if I do well do well if not done tomorrow again, probably status update Thank each week. I keep climbing Your boys coming back. Whoo. That's all get three dunks consistent today Crown behind the back over someone three sixty two legs Objective is warm up slow listen to my body Cuidado got a bang some today one yam today, please like this You have so much time still hesitating off the right foot, but definitely better So I'm just making sure every jump is making progress so I don't go over the bad patterns What you do Relax your body relax your body. I'm telling you Like the reason why I feel like I have bad days is because I tried too hard I walk into the gym and I feel a little sluggish and I'm just like, you know what since I'm feeling sluggish I got to go a hundred percent and it got me trying to go a hundred percent. I'm really going like 60 So just relax your body. You'll be going 90 a hundred. Whoa.  What's that? De-loading doesn't really do much for my body. I'm like so low on energy It was a test. It's okay. Everybody's different. Tell them everybody is different If I if I would have deadlift yesterday, I probably would have been like But I'm like here comes a stomach ache. He missed my Nothing God's right jumping but I'll take it made progress today on the aggression and planting solid I'm thinking tomorrow, right? See, I don't know. I am I'm going to a baby room So I could just get this technique and have some fun because I'm not having fun right now because I'm so in my head But I pushed through it today. That was good


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers Blue Plan. Today it is my monthly favorite for the month of April. I had quite a few WW food low calorie favorites this month. A few household items and some beauty. So I'm so excited to share with you some of the things that I've absolutely been loving over the last month. So if you're excited for today's video, don't forget to give it a big huge thumbs up. And if you're new or you're having a subscribe to my channel, I'd love to have you join our community. Hit your subscribe button and the bell next to it so you never miss a single video. I do these favorites every single month. So I'm always giving you new fun and exciting favorite WW foods, home fitness beauty, you name it. It's all covered in my favorites video. Check out the description box down below for links for everything that I shared for you today that you can't pick up at your local grocery store. You'll also find nutrition coaching where I offer personalized to you macros and calories. Let me help you reach your goals by letting you know where you should fall every day as far as macros and calories go. This is a very personalized to you and very, very accurate. So take advantage of that service along with 30 or 60 minute one-on-one coaching sessions. If you're looking for just a little bit more individualized support links, discounts to all of my other favorite things. And of course my Facebook group are also in the description box. We'd love to have you come over and join us there as well. So let's jump in to April's favorites. Like I mentioned, I have quite a few WW or low calorie food favorites this month. I've tried lots of new things and I've fallen in love with a lot of new food favorites. The first one I want to share with you are these quest protein chips and loaded taco. Now I know these aren't new, but these are kind of new to me. I've never been a fan of quest chips. I don't like the texture. I don't like the taste. I feel like they have a lot of protein aftertaste and I just have stayed away from them, but I saw these on Netrician's website. So I went ahead and ordered a case of them, an entire case. I think it was eight or 10 bags of the chips and I'm so happy I did. These are delicious. They legit taste like a taco. I like to put these on a taco salad. I like to have these as a side with lunch because this little bag right here has 19 grams of protein. They don't have that weird traditional quest texture or aftertaste. I love these. So I want to share them with you. If you're like me and you've just never been a fan of quest chips, give the loaded taco a try. Total game changer. Speaking of tacos, I want to share with you the newest Dax seasoning. Now if you follow my channel, you know that I have been obsessed with Dax for several years now. They are no salt seasonings, no MSG and completely clean ingredients. So nothing weird, no fillers, no weird sugar or sugar alcohols. They are so delicious and a nice clean spice option. I literally own every single one of their spices, but this is brand new. This is the Street Taco. So don't get this confused with the taco night, which is another one of their taco types of seasonings. This has a little bit more of an adobo vibe. There's turmeric and cumin and garlic and onion. It's so good. If you like that authentic Street Taco flavor, this seasoning will give it to you without any added salt. So I really liked Dax because you don't have to worry about consuming too much salt or getting that bloated sodium feeling. So definitely pick this up. I will also link some of my other favorite Dax seasonings down below with this one so that you can add a few others to your cart. I shared these apple and caramel packs in a grocery haul video and I really like these. Like I mentioned in that video, if you're following WW, I believe these are five points. I personally would not spend five points on this. However, if you're tracking calories, this is only a hundred calories. It's a great, great sweet treat or dessert because the apples have that little bit of sweetness and tart and then you dip it in the caramel sauce and it's so incredibly good. And I think a hundred calories is perfect for a sweet treat. Again, if you're on WW, I don't know if you want to spend five points, but this is a great treat either way. Speaking of sweet treats, I have to share with you my favorite cookie of all time. Now, I picked these up from Imperfect Foods. I'll make sure I link Imperfect Foods down below for you as well with $20 worth of free groceries. It's a delivery service where you can help prevent food waste. By food that would generally be thrown away or discarded, you can buy at an affordable price and have it sent to your doorstep. I will say that I've never had rotten food. I've never had food that I wouldn't eat. So I don't know where the imperfectness comes from, but it's just a really affordable, easy way to try new things and have it delivered to your doorstep. So again, I'll link it down below with $20 off your first order. I picked up these Tate's Ginger Cookies from them. Now I love ginger. If you don't like ginger, you won't like these, but I love crystallized ginger. These are a nice thin, crispy cookie. They are gluten-free and you can have two cookies for 130 calories, which is not bad at all for two cookies. And they're pretty good-sized cookies. I've never seen these at the grocery store. I've seen Tate's, just not this particular flavor. You guys, I'm obsessed with this. Every time I put it in Imperfect Foods ordering, I add it back to my cart. I'm so excited about these Wyman little fruit cups that I found at Walmart. These are 40 calories and two points. And there are two different kinds. I will put the flavors of these two cups here on the screen for you, the yellow and the red. But these are little bits of frozen fruit with yogurt balls, like frozen yogurt balls. So it's kind of a dupe for a dip and dot. And it gives you that nice creamy ice cream from the yogurt and that tartness and sweetness from the fruit. I love these. And this is a good-sized cup for 40 calories or two points. As we move into summer in the warmer months, this would be such a great sweet treat. Another WW5 I've been loving are these flat outs. Now I picked these up for a breakfast meal prep. I used to eat these a long time ago when I first started my weight loss journey. And then I kind of forgot about them and they are so incredibly delicious. It's 90 calories for this entire flatbread. It makes excellent pizza. You could roll it up, make it into a wrap. They are really, really good. You also know that I'm obsessed with verb energy bars. I found these on a whim and I have been buying them ever since. I shared them in a previous favorites video with you. But you guys, I have to share this flavor with you. This is the cookie butter.  They're 90 calories, three points on WW. And not to mention the amazing flavor. They also have 65 milligrams of caffeine, which is the amount that's in a shot of espresso. They are so, so delicious.  They're a great pre or post workout snack and you can't beat them for 90 calories and three points. They're good size. They're soft. They're chewy. And I'm telling you this cookie butter one is one of the best things I have ever, ever tasted. I will put verb down below. I do have a discount off of their trial pack and you can actually pick your own flavor. So you could pick the cookie butter and try it out. And what I love about them is they actually give you some free bars with your order of other flavors. So you have the option to try a few of their different flavors of bars. So when you reorder, you kind of know what you like or don't like, but the cookie butter is a gazillion out of 10. Another thing that I threw in my car in imperfect foods on a whim were these Gouda cheese bites. I love these. If you love Gouda cheese, these are an exceptional quality of cheese. They're very creamy and milky. They're 70 calories for the little Gouda cheese round. So it's a replacement for a string cheese. Delicious. This is the Roth brand. I've never seen this in my area. Again, I did find this on imperfect foods. I'm hoping it sticks around for a while. They do rotate in and out products. So I'm hoping this sticks around because these are some of the best string cheese cheese bites I've ever had. I have to share with you my favorite creamer. Now you guys know that I made the decision a long time ago to not stress about ingredients, calories, points, and creamer. I just want to enjoy my cup of coffee every morning without guilt. So I just use regular, not good ingredient, not good for you creamer in my coffee. And this Funfetti is my favorite. This is the Easter packaging. But if you like that birthday cake, vanilla, sweet creamer, definitely get your hands on the Funfetti. It's hands down my very, very favorite. I find this at Walmart and Fred Meyer, which is a Kroger store. I've never seen this flavor anywhere else. So let us know down in the comments if you find this and what stores you can find this at, but highly, highly recommend. Next up is another bar. So you guys know that I love Julian Bakery Granola. I have three or four flavors in my pantry right now, but I've never tried their bars. And I, when I was ordering my granola, I noticed that they had these primal thin whey protein bars on their website. I went ahead and picked up the sweet cream. These are USDA organic 20 grams of protein, one gram of sugar, one gram of net carbs, and there are 130 calories. And I believe three points. I'll put that here on the screen for you. But these are really good. Now I will say that the texture and consistency of these bars is very much like the OG power bars. They're that same kind of thick dense texture and consistency, but they have really good flavor. And if you're looking for a low calorie, low sugar, low point bar to have on hand, the primal things are really good. Like I said, they have several flavors on their website. I did get the sweet cream and I would say my honest rating for this bar would be a seven out of 10. I really like it, but I don't love it enough that I would give it a 10 out of 10. But if you want a new bar to try, head on over to Julian Bakery and you can pick up some of the primal thin bars along with your granola. And my last WW food favorites is this beauty right here. And this is the sweet baby rays, no sugar added barbecue sauce.  However, I have a hard time with all the sugar in a very little amount of barbecue sauce. I'm not a big fan of the G Hughes. I think it has a weird aftertaste, but one of you actually recommended the sweet baby rays and I tried it and I love it. I don't taste any difference between this and the full sugar calorie dense version of their regular barbecue sauce. You can have two tablespoons of this for 15 calories and it only has one gram of added sugar. It is sweetened with allulose, which I love. It's a naturally derived sweetener from figs and raisins and that is pretty high on the ingredient list. So that is the main sweetener in this barbecue sauce, but at the very bottom is sucralose, aka Splenda, which I don't love. But because allulose is at the top, that means that that is the primary sweetener. Sucralose at the bottom means that there hopefully isn't that much sucralose in this barbecue sauce, but nonetheless, it is delicious. So if you don't like that weird fake sugar aftertaste of G Hughes or some of the other brands, recommend the sweet baby rays no sugar added. Now I want to share with you three home favorites. Two are from the online store or brick and mortar store, I think in some areas called Anthropology. The first is these set of knives. I've been using these for a while and I have gotten so many of you that have reached out and asked where I picked these knives up. So it's a set of three knives. You do have like the butcher style of knife, small paring knife and the butcher, but it is serrated. So it's great to cut bread or vegetables. And again, I bought these off of online Anthropology. These are some of the best knives I've ever used. They are very sharp. They cut through anything. I could not believe how it glided through chicken breast and tomatoes, which are the two things I struggle cutting if you don't have a really, really sharp knife. My recommendation would be not to wash these in your dishwasher, but hand wash them, especially because they have a wood handle and you should never put wood in the dishwasher. Not to mention it really dulls your knives rather quickly. I love the floral pattern on these. And again, these are the best knives I have ever, ever used. And also from Anthropology, when I picked up the knives, I went ahead and bought a set of measuring spoons. I wanted to reach the free shipping threshold and you guys know, I love my fun measuring spoons. I absolutely love the pattern of these measuring spoons. I think they are so pretty. And let's be honest, having fun cooking utensils makes preparing meals more enjoyable. So I love these. They're very, very good quality. They are ceramic. They have the floral pattern on the inside and the solid color on the outside. And the last household item I want to share with you, I've actually had this for a couple of months now and I really wanted to put it to the test before I shared it with you guys because it's expensive. It's a little bit of an indulgent home purchase, but I have to say after using it now for a couple of months, it is well worth every penny. In fact, I would pay even more for this particular product because it is that exceptional. And this is the Timeco Wet Dry Vacuum for your floors. Now, I saw this on TikTok. It intrigued me. So I watched a million TikTok videos and decided to take the leap and order the Timeco Wet Dry Vacuum. This thing is incredible. It vacuums and mobs your floor at once, which I really appreciate because it's a huge time saver. Now I will tell you for me, I clean my house once a week. We do have three dogs, one of which diesel, that sheds a lot. So I generally will sweep and or vacuum my floor first before I go in with the Timeco only because it fills up the dirty water reservoir faster. It gets the hair built up on the brush system that actually vacuums, cleans and mobs your floor.  It has an app associated with it. So you can see the process of cleaning your floors. It will remind you to add more soap or to empty your dirty water reservoir, but I do love this. It literally vacuums up everything and it cleans your floors incredibly. My floors have never been cleaner. The first time I used the Timeco, the entire dial turned red. So when your floors are really, really dirty, it automatically will pick up speed and add a little bit more oomph to a mopping so that it can clean up whatever is really dirty, whether it be a spill or dirt tracks.  Now that I'm using this every single week, I very rarely have it turn completely red. If it's blue, it means that it's just cleaning in your floor is a normal amount of dirty. If it turns red or really red, that means that it's really, really dirty. So the Timeco senses that and will add some extra cleaning power. It is incredibly amazing. I use the Timeco cleaning solution. You literally need a cat full for the entire freshwater reservoir. It will talk to you and tell you when you need to fill up the cleaner, when you need to empty the dirty water tank, when you need to clean it, and when it's charging. My favorite part about it is it's cordless. So we have a rather large house. I generally have to plug my vacuum in several times. I generally have to swap my mop pad out midway through mopping and I can do my entire house in one charge of the Timeco. So I love it. It was about $400, but I'm telling you that it's worth every penny. My floors have never been cleaner. I will never use a traditional mop again because I feel like it just spreads the dirt and this actually cleans it up.  So highly, highly recommend if you want to save time and be able to vacuum and mop all in one. And the last category for April favorites is beauty. If you didn't know already, I recently started a beauty channel called budget beauty, where I show you how to look flawless for less. I share a lot of high end makeup dupes, skincare dupes.  We do makeup tutorials. Definitely check it out. I'd love to have you support my channel and subscribe. I'll make sure that that is linked down in the description box. So because I started a beauty channel, I've been testing out a lot of beauty products. So I have found quite a few favorites starting with the milk makeup hydro grip primer. This is the best makeup primer I have ever used. Your makeup does not move even under a mask, which that is the main reason I picked this up is I heard that it keeps your makeup flawless.  It's a little bit more expensive, but because you use so very little, it'll last you a very long time. Best primer I've ever used. Another product that isn't necessarily affordable drugstore is the glow recipe watermelon niacinamide dew drops. This is a complete complexion game changer. I put a little of this on my face before I start my makeup. So I moisturize in the morning, put a few drops of this on my face, apply my primer and my makeup for the day. And this gives your face such a flawless, gorgeous glow and niacinamide is really good for your skin. It hydrates your skin, plumps your skin, keeps it looking young, fills in those fine lines and wrinkles. And again, this is a little bit more pricey, but you use one or two drops. So this will last a very long time. And if you like that dewy look or you're someone who doesn't wear a lot of makeup, just apply this and you'll have that flawless dewy look without a ton of makeup. I'm obsessed with this NYX brow glue. So I've heard all about the soap brow trend, but I'm not really into that fluffy brushed up brow.  This works so well. So I add my brow pencil, shape my brows the way that I want them, and then I just brush this through my brows and it literally glues them in place all day long, even through a sweaty workout. This is very affordable. It's a NYX drugstore product. Very, very little of this goes a long way. So this little tube should last months and months. As you can see, I've lightened my hair quite a bit. The last time I got my hair done, we went with a lot more blonde versus the dark. And my hairdresser made a comment that my hair is the healthiest it's been since she's been doing my hair, which mind you was 1997 when she started doing my hair. And I attributed to using Olaplex products. I use their shampoo, their deep conditioner, their bond strengthening, and their oil. So I'm favoriting their oil this month. I'll share with you guys a little bit more about some of their other products and future videos, both here and on my beauty channel, but I'm obsessed with this oil. Now, Olaplex is not an inexpensive product, but it is very, very concentrated. So a little goes a very long way. This oil, I add one drop, one to my hands and I rub it through my hair, either wet, damp, or dry. And it adds an incredible shine and just bonds your hair together. So if you're someone that colors your hair, suffers from dry, frizzy hair, this is amazing. And literally one drop will do my hair and I have a lot of it. So well worth the money for the Olaplex products. I will be sharing more products that I've been using in future videos. If you're on TikTok, this was all the rage. It actually still is all the rage on TikTok. This is the KVD Vegan Beauty Good Apple Foundation. I've heard mixed reviews about this. I see some videos where people rave about this. I've seen other people who hate this. I love, love, love this foundation. All of the packaging is fully recyclable. It is a full coverage foundation. One swipe on my brush will do my entire face. It is, again, full coverage. And if you are oily, I wouldn't recommend this. This is much better suited for normal to dry skin. It stays all day. I don't find that it wears bad throughout the day. It doesn't settle into my vine lines and wrinkles. And it's so full coverage and a little goes a long way that this foundation, I've used this dozens of times and I've barely made a dent in it. So highly, highly recommend. I will be sharing a dupe to this on my beauty channel, but for the time being, pick up the Good Apple Foundation if you have normal to dry skin. You know I love my lashes and I'm always on the hunt for fun, affordable, different lashes. And again, I saw this on TikTok and this is actually the second one that I've purchased. This is the Kiss Fall Scarra. Now these are very different from traditional gluon lashes. You can see that they are little individual pieces and you actually tuck these under your natural lash, not on your lid. This kit comes with everything that you need. There's the lashes. This is the bond and the setting material as well as the tweezers to apply the false lashes. And like I mentioned, they actually sit under your lashes, not on top. There's no messy glue.  You brush on the bond side of the wand here. You apply the lash and then you set it with the setting side. This is about $20. I bought it at Ulta. You guys, if you like a more natural eyelash and you don't want to mess with the gluons or magnetic lashes, these are really, really affordable. You can use the lashes more than once and they are very, very natural. This is a volumizing type of lash. So it's just going to give your natural lashes more volume. These are my favorite on no makeup days or days that I don't really want to put on lashes or eyeliner. These really just bring a lot of life to your eyes. They're great for summer if you're camping or going to the beach. And again, they look very natural. They just add a lot of volume. And last but not least, my beauty favorites has to be rounded out with a new favorite eyeshadow palette. I picked this up on the Sephora sale. This is the Huda Beauty Caramel Palette. Look at these colors. It's very neutral. It is a nine-pan palette. There's mattes. There's shimmers. There's even this pretty swirled pressed shimmer. There's some pressed glitters. I love it because it's a very neutral, natural palette. Those browns, those rich chocolate browns with a little bit of shimmer. I've used this quite a few times. I've gotten lots of compliments from you guys, as well as people in my day-to-day life. It's $29 for this palette, but you can create endless looks with this. I picked it up from Sephora. I don't believe altar sells Huda Beauty, but I will link whatever cheapest option I can find down in the description box. But if you're into neutral, warm palettes, this one is phenomenal. So those are my April favorites. We have WW Foods, Home Beauty, a little bit of everything. Once again, I will link everything other than store-bought food items down in the description box for you.  And don't forget if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed. I'd love to have you here. Hit the subscribe button, ring the bell next to it, so you never miss a single video. I do these monthly favorites every month. So there's lots of new fresh ideas coming your way every single month. Check out the description box for links for everything I shared today, as well as all of my other favorite things, nutrition coaching and my Facebook group head on over and join us there as well. Thank you guys so much for watching. Happy May, and I'll see you in my next video. Bye.


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 Murroquizada 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. Dear to Dream has won the Coalition for Visionary Resources Award for Best Radio and Podcast Show, listed in Welp Magazine as one of the top 20 best podcasts to listen to this year, nominated for two People's Choice Podcasts Awards for a Webby Award, and listed as one of the top self-improvement podcasts on Apple Podcasts. Thank you all because of you, that's where the show is today. I know you're on this journey as well. And the show is sponsored by Dr. Dean here in Access Consciousness. They do beautiful energy work out into the world. And if you'd like to join them, become a facilitator, take one of their classes, go to Dr. Dean here, h-e-e-r.com or accessconsciousness.com. I am Debbie Daschinger. I'm a visibility media specialist. I help you to write a page-turner book. I'm a book writing coach. I also have a company that takes your book to a guaranteed international bestseller. And I do all the work for the author. 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 Alta Misiayi. God bless for me to say these, but they're beautiful words. Alta Misiayiouk, 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. Welcome to 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, you daddy. 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 phenomenon that I experience 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 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 yahe and sanpejo, you know, hachuma, 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 sanpero cactus or ticucelos 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 they're 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 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, I was gonna just run into this lake and wash off and enjoy the water. 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, see ya. And he went in there, this huge hulking thing just swimming so beautifully and gracefully.  I don't think you can predict what an animal ally or a spirit animal is going to be. 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 in 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 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 shaman. 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 Yakxings 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 contact D groups because as a human example of that, or Krishna as a human example of that elevated of Bakhti 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, 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 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 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 go 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 semicircle 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 semicircle. And after maybe two hours, he walks back out of that semicircle 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 Rama Guides have a crystal city that they call Mordalim. 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- If you're interested in the book, The Invitation, by Siegstor Passwells, 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, Whitley-Streiber weren't the thing. In those days, it was just, yeah. You were on your own. 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 Andy and Prist, 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 Corriwaman Vargas from Moasau, in Cusco, the famed Kurakakuyak had attained.  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 Corriwaman 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. The minute I met him, like what happened to me with my first mentor, Don Cesar, I was mesmerized. We recognized each other, and little by little he trusted me and he let me into his home in Wasau 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 in Courage, for those interested 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 spent a whole year at age 10 with my mother living there permanently 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 start hearing my nickname being called softly. And I come out of my almost near, almost death slumber and menace open 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 told that I could feel all of this disease in Chucha 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, no, prove it to me. So I said, come, I took her outside. There's the river, there's a river Remak, 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 into 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 César 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 are 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 César, who he was sitting next to me, he elbows me and he says, do you remember them? So he was seeing them himself. That, of course, turned my life upside down. I realized, man, this shamanism stuff is something I really want to 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 soul's 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. 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, yes. 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.  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. 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 heated the call, obviously like me, you just showed it, one day you said, this is something I've got passion for. I'm gonna step up to the plate and make it happen. You didn't know what was gonna happen, right? Just little by little started to unfold. I 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, 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, not just domineering patriarchal 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 in 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, Waira, W-A-Y-R-A, the medicine of Waira, what is that exactly? Waira, Waira in Runasimi Riketo means wind. So medicine of Waira 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 Waira, the medicine of Waira. And this is something that you practice. It's a tool, yes, it's a tool. We have Aipa, we have Unu, we have Waira, we have Nina, and we have Tekse Kaipa. 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 Misayo lineage as a matter of fact. And do you do actual healings on people? Can I, 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. But it depends on where I'm at and the moment I'm in. We consider it a sin not to offer healing if the 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 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 here, 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? 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 it, 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 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, the 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. Does it, 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, Lodge. 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. It's gonna be 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 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 our, my Ritual Lodge. That was extraordinary. And so you spend time, I'm 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 in the 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 y Cuenta, a 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 linkups that we do with our global community of Pachacuti miso 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 dare to dream. What do you next dare 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. And you are. You really are. 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 of 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 are your favorite bookstore. And Oscar's website is partofthehealer.org. I end today's show with this quote from our guest today. 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