Section · Practitioners · 2 entries

Individual practitioners

Curanderos, maestras, padrinhos, and independent facilitators who have asked to be listed or whose public ceremonial work is well-documented. Many practitioners ask not to be indexed; we honour those requests. Listings here reflect the practitioner's public-facing identity only.

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No photograph on file
Minneapolis, United States

Dennis McKenna

Ethnopharmacologist and author. Speaks and writes about ayahuasca; does not run retreats. Listed as a reference figure for readers researching the literature.

IndependentResearch-affiliated
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No photograph on file
Iquitos, Peru

Maestro Ricardo Amaringo

Founder of Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual; Shipibo curandero working in the dietary tradition of the Pinedo and Mahua families.

ShipiboIndigenous-ledBy referral