The Medicine of Forgiveness [La medicina del perdón]

Release Year
2001
Runtime
22m
Genres
Documentary
Directed By
Alonso del Río
Delia Ackerman
The Medicine of Forgiveness

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

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