The haunting, plaintive music of Peruvian shamans was recorded at ceremonies in the Peruvian Andes and the Amazon rainforest. The chants and icaros have an organic relationship to the medicine plants, and are primarily intended as devotional music for a ceremony. It is equally possible…
An article published in Canary Wharf Magazine (July 2012), titled ‘The Ancient Peruvian Charm’ by Katie Charing…… and posted by a proud father (yours truly). ‘Katie Charing revisits Peru, the land of deadly and delicious Pisco Sours, nonplussed Llamas and awe-inspiring Inca remains, finding it…
Presentation on Pablo Amaringo at Canning House Wednesday 12th September at 2 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PJ 18:30 – 20:00 – FREE EVENT A drinks reception will follow the talk with Peruvian speciality Pisco Sour being served courtesy of the Peruvian Embassy. Pablo Amaringo (1938-2009)…
The Ayahuasca article with an interview of the shaman Javier Arevalo by Howard G Charing & Peter Cloudsley appeared in ‘Healing Today’ Magazine August 2001. The article was published with its original title and without the girls in bikinis and serenading guitar players!
The Living Inca Heritage by Peter Cloudsley: Published in Geographical Magazine. INCA and pre-Inca cultures are generally assigned to the realms of history,incarnate only in Machu Picchu and other famous sites. Yet the Peruvian Indians have doggedly preserved some of the ritual beliefs of their…
This magnificent book by W. Golden Mortimer, published in 1901 and long out of print, has been digitized by Microsoft for the University of California and now available in the Open Internet Archive. The book contains nearly 200 hundred illustrations.
Medicinal and Shamanic Plants of Peru, a set on Flickr. I’ve been adding more photos from the archives.
Various Artists | Shamans of Peru | CD Baby. The haunting, plaintive music of Peruvian shamans was recorded at ceremonies in the Peruvian Andes and the Amazon rainforest. The chants and icaros have an organic relationship to the medicine plants, and are primarily intended as…
Machu Picchu, a set on Flickr. Machu Picchu -World Heritage Site Machu Picchu stands 2,430 m above sea-level, in the middle of a tropical mountain forest, in an extraordinarily beautiful setting. It was probably the most amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire at its…
