![]() ![]() Stored as neural networks in the brain, these maps hold the unconscious programs that drive our experience of life and the state of our health. That’s where you will receive One Spirit Medicine.Īt the heart of the book is the idea that how we perceive the world “out there” is a projection of internal maps that shape our beliefs and guide how we think, feel, and behave. The message of One Spirit Medicine is that you don’t need to track down a shaman to find Spirit, or look outside yourself to find health. You will not have to beg your physician to write a prescription for it, or argue with your pharmacist over whether or not your prescription renewal has been approved. Unlike many pharmaceutical and over-the-counter remedies, the medicine of the shamans carries no side effects or warnings written in fine print. One Spirit Medicine is part of a new wellness model that doesn’t rely on medication to fix physical problems or mood imbalances. And the vision quest supports us in finding new guiding myths to help us heal body and mind, and recover our passion.Īlberto explains that the key to optimum health is to revise the unconscious programming and limited beliefs that have been driving us, thereby updating our neural networks to support healing and transformation. The spiritual teachings help us shed debilitating and disempowering stories from the past that keep us reliving old traumas and the health history of our ancestors. The super-nutrients in the organic foods they eat turn on the antioxidant mechanisms in every cell, quench free-radical activity in the brain, and switch on the longevity genes that prevent the illnesses associated with old age. The practices that are an everyday part of the ancient shamanic way all support a long and healthy life. Live a long and healthy life.’ I laughed and said he had not understood the question: I wanted to know how to avoid the diseases of old age. They called their practice One Spirit Medicine.Īlberto writes in his new book One Spirit Medicine: “Years ago I asked an old man in the Amazon rainforest what he did to avoid the diseases of old age. And unlike Western medicine that has over 14,000 different diagnoses, they recognized only one ailment, the disconnection from nature and from our own nature and purpose. They learned that if you could create the emotional, nutritional, and spiritual conditions for health, disease would resolve itself. ![]() They did not treat disease or diagnose illness, and did not have specialists that treated the brain and the gut and the heart separately. These sages were the first doctors in history, and they repaired the body, the mind, and the spirit to create health. My friend and colleague, Alberto Villoldo PhD, is a medical anthropologist who has spent the last 25 years studying and working with the medicine men of the Amazon and Andes. ![]()
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