Ancient Healing Arts for Your Modern Life – Shaman Jorge Hachumak : 968

<p><strong>IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE</strong>™<strong>...</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>… you’ll learn about shamanism, “spiritual minimalism” and how traditional healing arts connect so profoundly to the natural world. This conversation also explores distinct themes of consciousness, the soul, and deep respect for plant medicine and Ayahuasca ceremony.&nbsp;</p><p>The guest, Shaman Jorge Hachumak, is a Peruvian of Spanish descent who’s made a winding journey into shamanism as a healer. After receiving a European education, he became a practitioner of Chinese Qigong in old Lima’s (Peru) China Town. After a successful career in tai chi competition, he worked with elderly patients in hospitals in Northern Peru.&nbsp;</p><p>During this time, he was taken under the wing of native shamans, witches and herbalists who spent years teaching him the ancient healings. He learned ancient Peruvian medicine arts (not from the Incas, but from the North Coast and the Northern jungle of the Amazon).</p><p>He now moves seamlessly between perspectives, having one foot firmly in the rational, scientific world and another in the spirit world.</p><p>“The ancient healing arts are deep and expansive—you never stop learning, and what you learn in a lifetime will always be a small fraction of what is available to learn,” he says in his new book,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Journeying-Through-Invisible-Peruvian-Medicine/dp/0063014890" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Journeying Through the Invisible: The Craft of Healing With, and Beyond, Sacred Plants, as Told by a Peruvian Medicine Man.”</a>&nbsp;“I want to offer a larger picture of the Medicine Craft and to create appreciation for other important aspects that are endangered or still not well-known.”</p><p>This larger picture includes influences from science, history, religion and the natural environment.</p><p>Shaman Hachumak looks at consciousness as two states that lead to both deep understanding of the healing arts and deep self-reflection:</p><ul><li><s