THAT WHAT IS .com Niels Radtke

When the student is ready the teacher appears goes the saying, and yet everything is a source of teaching, a true accomplished teacher is really a rare gem.  

Maestro Rono Lopez has made it his mission to share his Shipibo Curandero tradition within his centre and school in the Amazon jungle near Nauta in the Loreto region in Peru, where I have committed to a Curandero apprenticeship.  People come to his centre for healing Ayahuasca and Plant Medicine retreats, but his specialisation is guiding Dietas in his Curandero School with Master Plants or Teacher Plants. "Los Cinco Medicos" as he calls them in his lineage; the "Five Doctors" which are Noya Rao, Bobinsana, Marusa, Chullachaki and Ayuahuasca.  
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A dieta typically consists of spending time in isolation, in a jungle hut, fasting and drinking the extract of the Master Plant like Noya Rao, Bobinsana, Chullachaqui.
This can be from the roots, leaves, barks or the whole plant. A dieta takes between 1 week and 6 months or even 2 years depending on its purpose as either training or treatment for the apprentice or patient.
The most important part in the Dieta is the fast, the longer one works without food, as allowed for by the patients condition, the deeper the connection with the teachings of the Plant.
Often a dry fast is recommended to start the dieta. This can be one, two, three days, depending on each one's capabilities. Then water is taken but no food for as long is comfortable, then some food every now and then is taken  just to keep the body and mind functioning without too much depletion. Fasting is highly recommended by many spiritual traditions as part of the initiation, as (too much) food makes dull and lazy and demands energy and attention.
The curandero apprentice to connect deeply with masterplants in order to acquire its power that the plant grants to the Curandero for future healing of patients. This is a more precise and more in-depth training that the treatment purpose as the Curandero apprentice must go through  serious training in order to be fully fluent with the plant spirits and their healing powers. The plants come to the curanderos student and teach him or her Icaros, mystical songs that the Curandero will use during healing Ayahuasca ceremonies. One doesn’t sing Icaros for any aesthetic value but for its surgical precision to directly operate as a healing act using frequency and mental vision through the instrument of ayahuasca within the mareacion (the drunken state under effect of Ayahuasca). This what happens between patients and Shipibo Curandero in its purest form of cosmic reality repair. 

But please listen to the Maestro himself. 

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THAT WHAT IS. All of Us, All of it.

Aaron Meli, musician and facilitator from Wales, is one of the most direct and solid men I have encountered on my journey. He has been a friend, a brother and a teacher to me for 3 months in the Sacred Valley in Peru where we have been sharing many Ayahuasca ceremonies at Pacco Ayahuaskari within an intimate circle of friends and creative, artistic and musical geniuses. I have been so blessed beyond words to be part of this circle. Aaron has an intimate relationship with spirits of sacred trees and in this Talk he shares about this special relation. I am very grateful for the way he delivers this vulnerable sharing about his childhood dreams, the loss of his parents, about death, his travels and transformations, about his struggle with an auto-immune condition, his close connection with the sacred wood Iboga and Afrika, about drumming and singing Ikaros, the Chipibo tradition, Noya Rao the tree of light and Life as it is.  
This recording carries the name Part 1 as he has so much to share that we, hopefully, will record an other Talk further down the unknown future.  

Aaron Meli  
Music: https://aaronmeli1.bandcamp.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aaron.meli.3
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THAT WHAT IS. All of Us, All of it.

CASSANDRA is more than a human being, she is the embodiment of the spirit of the Noya Rao tree, she is a Goddess and a Singer of Life.
I fell in love with her the day I met her around the campfire at my house in Pisac, singing one of her songs called "Universe".
Cassandra and I have spent time together in Ausangate for my birthday and later in the Sacred Valley and I owe her so much gratitude for her teachings of being a true embodiment of the Human Purpose: to express That what is expressing us.  
Cassandra has travelled the planet on her own, surfing the razor edge of life and death many times, which has made her the remarkable Woman she is today.  She expresses Life and Love through her art and drawings, her music and her relationship with Master Plant Spirits and Plant Medicine in a very talented, refined yet humble and such generous manner which leaves you with awe and dropping jaws of admiration.  

Cassandra Hellberg  
Website: https://www.rainbowsage.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cassie.hellbergie

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Sacred Valley, San Salvador, Peru
November 2020
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THAT WHAT IS. All of Us, All of it.

PACCO SOTO, Maestro and founder of Pacco Ayahuaskari Retreat in the Sacred Valley, is a rare free bird when it comes to healing and serving humanity with his plant-medicines. What defines him is his true compassion, kindness and deep love for life and humans. Despite his young age, 32 at this time of writing, he has a profound acquired knowledge of healing with plants through various respected teachers but also a very sharp intuition on how and when to apply these techniques outside the book.
Pacco is young and wise at heart, has a passion for skateboarding and follows his dream of expanding and developing his centre nested in the wild nature of San Salvador in the Valley.
With 16 years of experience he is a reliable and trustworthy medicine man who embraces everyone who comes to his home with the same affectionate, unpretentious attention and humility.

I have been blessed to drink Ayahuasca with him during two months and the love that has grown for him, with him, within me has no words other than: Gracias Pacco, Gracias por tu Amor Hermano. 
The healing, the braking of patterns, the de-conditioning and purging of the separate sense of self has been a divine intervention facilitated by Pacco and his endless humanity.

Some people might feel that Ayahuasca is best lived and experienced down in the jungle, some of it might be true, but the incredible force of the Sacred Apus of the Valley, the truly blessed hearts from all over the world that come to live and learn here, the climate and the history of this Promised Land makes an incredibly powerful Portal for permanent awaking to our true condition, the Universe itself and its awakening as us and it.

Peace to the world, to all People and to all Inter-dimensional Beings, may we all live and thrive in Love throughout the entire Galaxy.

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Sacred Valley, San Salvador, Peru
October 2020
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LUCIFER RA came into my life during my birthday trip I organised last July at the most Holy Ausangate Mountain in the Peruvian Andes.  I remember him being very contained, stoic and monumental, smoking his pipe. He came along invited by my good friends Barin Sui, Lilly, Aaron and Cassandra.  We did not talk that much during these days but acknowledged each other’s divinity and bowed to each other when we crossed ways.  Some days after our return he invited me on a Huachuma hike to Koncha-Koncha near Huaran and that is where our true souls communicated. We walked barefoot, like shepherds, 10 km up the rocky trail and talked about Love, the Earth and the Promised Land, Krishna and the Sacred Valley. We drank from the river and ate fruits.  
Since that day we have spent more time together and I joined him at Pacco’s Ayahuaskari Healing Center in San Salvador, a village next to Pisac in the Valley. I took a room there and live with Lucifer, Adam, Cassandra, Aaron, Justin, Mary, Jewel and Pacco in this absolutely magical medicinal House of Ayahuasca within Pacha Mama. A few weeks ago we drank Lucifer’s very potent Ayahuasca from Pucallpa in Peru and we experimented with telepathy and shared consciousness or the We space. After our minds merged literary into one we opened up our awareness for inter-dimensional beings and interstellar sound-beings. It was a life changing night as from that moment on I understood that lifeforms beyond our planet are thriving and living within every dimension of reality.
Reality is a living Being and so is Lucifer Ra.  
I hope you enjoy his Words and Love.

Talks on www.thatwhatis.com/talks
Sacred Valley, San Salvador, Peru
September 2020
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