"We are here not for just getting answers but for understanding our questioning."

Some things I've learned :

There is Medicine everywhere. 

It is embedded in all the elements and creatures of Nature.

Nature is visible and invisible, the invisible part is larger.

The Divine is real, we call it the Great Spirit as it is beyond the visible and the invisible.

The same way Nature is immensely rich, Medicine comes in multiple forms and purposes.

All humans have Medicine, it is a component of the Soul.

The Suffering Consciousness blocks Medicine.

Trying to avoid or alleviate pain the Suffering Consciousness creates more pain.

Some humans have the calling of following their Medicine.

Nature can enrich their Medicine if they look deeply into themselves and aspire to help others.

Training and patience are required.

The Medicine person needs to learn how to overcome fear and disgust.

If the flow of Medicine is strong it can dissolve and wash portions of the Suffering Consciousness.

There are only two kinds of things the Medicine person can do to stay on the honorable side.

One is to clean and unblock in the Suffering Consciousness.

The other one is to nourish and reconnect in the Soul Consciousness.

When the above two happen it is called Healing.

It is futile to pretend we can understand all the secrets of Nature.

The learning never ends.

Several years ago I coined the expression "Spiritual Minimalism" to propose a special way to relate to the spiritual and invisible world by an individual.

The concept of Spiritual Minimalism is about focusing on the real bridges that a human being can use to connect and actuate with the invisible, such as the force of life, the capacity of projecting the internal medicine forces, the dialogue with the spirits of plants, animals and others, the ability to roam through the stretched time and space of the invisible, without the accessory and excessive use of props and ritualistic wrapping. 

So we don’t try to wear attire and accessories that will identify us as professionals of traditional healing, nor do we try to impress the mind of the clients into blind trust or induced respect or fear.

Our covenants are deep personal, with our dignity, with life, our lineages and the Great Spirit. For the outside world our engagements are about accomplishments, about getting results in our work against suffering and about protecting the beauty of creation.

It’s about being and not looking alike, there is an immense power in discretion.

We are the children of our land and our history. Most of Peruvian population is mestizo and in popular culture, as well as in discreet chains of transmission, powerful fragments have survived. That's why in natural medicine we speak of Lineages instead of Traditions.

Traditions are related to ethnical communities and should be preserved by them, they are their identity and cultural treasures. 

Lineages happen when an individual with a fair level of proficiency and knowledge recognizes another individual with aspirations and talents, and through training and moral testing transmits experiences, technique, shares a portion of his own medicine force, and gives clues and keys for the pursuit of deeper knowledge by the apprentice.

Because what we have today after the historical and cultural filters are mainly fragments, it is somehow useless to embark in claims of purity or to force mythologies and beliefs into the minds of the participants. As Medicine men we want people to become spiritual adults and wake up to the reality of the invisible aspect of creation, not to give them new forms of mental constructs to keep them asleep.