LIVING IN TWO WORLDS: A PHYSICIAN & A CURANDERO

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1 UNM 2018 LIVING IN TWO WORLDS: A PHYSICIAN & A CURANDERO Joe Tafur MD modernspirit.org

2 UCSD SOM/UCLA Family Medicine 2006 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, UCSD Dept. of Psychiatry, Traditional Apprenticeship in Shipibo Shamanism, 2007-present Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual,

3 NIHUE RAO CENTRO ESPIRITUAL Traditional Shipibo Medicine (SCNM 2013)

4 Chamanismo Shipibo (TAPM) Ricardo Amaringo

5 Ayahuasca Ceremony

6 NIHUE RAO CENTRO ESPIRITUAL IQUITOS, PERU (NATURALEZA-COMUNIDAD-CEREMONIA)

7 THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RIVER A M e d i c a l D o c t o r s E x p l o r a t i o n I n t o Tr a d i t i o n a l Amazonian Plant Medicine Joseph Tafur, MD Foreword by Gabor Maté, MD Living in Two Worlds

8 THE ART OF HEALING Sky Ladder about Cai Guo Qiang Art is very important, and addresses the invisible world. Feng Shui indicates and addresses the invisible world.

9 Shipibo Kene, observed in ayahuasca visions, embroidered in cloth.

10 Kene on Human Face

11 Feng Shui indicates and addresses the invisible worlds. In Chinese mythology, Feng Shui is a system of spiritual energies, both good and evil, present in the natural features of landscapes. (Wiki) Wind and Water An ancient Chinese system of designing buildings and space arrangement according to special rules about the flow of energy, aimed at achieving harmony with the environment.

12 Electromagnetic Field, Invisible Forces in the Scientific World

13 Heart Math Institute the heart s EMF can be detected several feet away from the human body.

14 Using Electrostatically Charged Silk, Some Spiders Can Fly, Balloon Spiders

15 Art is very important and addresses the invisible world, that which we can feel and experience, but not always measure. Shamanism and Curanderismo also address invisible worlds, invisible causes, invisible sources of aid; aimed at achieving harmony.

16 Scientists struggle with the mysteries of life, sometimes discouraging us to acknowledge our feelings, our subjective experience. Limiting the discussion to our experience to the mental and physical. Traditional Healers are artists, they do not distinguish themselves from the mysteries of life. Art by El Mac (It s just one world )

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18 Pablo Amaringo, ayahuascquero and painter bridging worlds.

19 Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine (TAPM) Dieta Vegalista Plantas Maestras Ceremonia de Ayahuasca* Icaros de los Chamanes Achieved both mental and physical healing, through spiritual techniques. Pintado por Markus Drassl

20 PTSD Unexplainable chronic cough Crohn s disease Psoriasis Anxiety Depression Addiction Migraine Among other psychosomatic conditions.., Treating the Emotional Body within a Spiritual Context, Including invisible elements of our experience, and related physiology.

21 I have watched people spend years in frustration and thousands of dollars consulting an army of specialists, without getting real relief from their problem. Because these and others are diseases deeply connected with the state of our emotional bodies. Too often, the Western medical approach fails to address the emotional dimension of illness. This is where traditional plant medicines, with their ability to alter consciousness and open channels of communication to our emotions, offer so much promise. (overcoming the neglect of the emotional and spiritual dimensions of illness)

22 Spiritual healing is spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is spiritual healing. Darryl Slim Diné modernspirit.org

23 THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RIVER A M e d i c a l D o c t o r s E x p l o r a t i o n I n t o Tr a d i t i o n a l Amazonian Plant Medicine The patient is the bridge. Mind-Body Emotion-Energy (Invisible) Joseph Tafur, MD Foreword by Gabor Maté, MD

24 Emotional Healing in a Spiritual Context Tom is 35 year old male with a chronic history of neck and back pain, as well as chronic asthma. 5 weeks of TAPM, led to dramatic improvement in pain, spontaneous resolution of asthma, and significant mental health improvements.

25 Tension myositis syndrome (TMS), also known as tension myoneural syndrome or mind-body syndrome is a name given by John E. Sarno to a condition he described as characterized by psychogenic musculoskeletal and nerve symptoms, most notably back pain. (Wikipedia)

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27 Treating invisible forces and their associated physiology. Energies associated with emotional trauma, for example. How do such energies and traumatic imprints affect the physical body?

28 Emotional Back Pain, initial improvement with Sarno method.

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30 The Emotional Body Psychoneuroendocrine immunologic (PNEI network)

31 PNEI Network

32 PNEI Network Mind-Body Relationship Stress and Illness Stress and Hypertension Depression and Immune Function Emotional Trauma and the Stress Response System (PTSD)

33 Mystical Access (TAPM Context) (art by Luis Tamani)

34 CEREMONIES

35 LIMPIANDO ENERGÍAS SOA SOA Cleaning the energies of our traumas, our strong experiences, strong emotional experiences: From our ancestors and families In Utero Infancy/Childhood Adolescence and adult Life Our environment Our relationships

36 Art by Ruysen Flores

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38 Epigenetics and Healing the Energy Body Emotional Trauma is stored in the body, the Emotional Body which extends beyond the brain. Ancestral Trauma The epigenome responds to antidepressants, parental love (or the lack thereof), meditation (altered states of consciousness) and psychotherapy. And probably emotional and energetic healing techniques, including shamanic icaros.

39 GRACIAS