Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon

Being helpful, working to heal others and the planet, and being gentle with oneself are good places to start aligning oneself with a universal way of life.

a life in which spirit upholds matter, where spirit guides and matter follows.

And once the acceptance and support of immortal spirits are achieved, one finds it easier not to sway into the temptations of greed and selfishness. Then the winding narrow path no longer seems thin or precarious; it reveals itself right here and now as the only path, and it is as wide as the universe and as glorious as the celestial realms.

The discipline of the science and its spiritual guidance extend to the governing of the self and contributing to the protection of family and community. Through enacting a highly civilized and humane way of life, essentially aligning with and becoming the cosmological order itself, we are able to recognize that we are not separate from it.

Pai’joyowatí appears and looks at you in the eye, at which moment you need to look right back at it without blinking. Most suddenly it reaches out, grabbing for your heart. In that same moment you need to reach out and grab for its heart, which can be seen hanging in his chest. Both of you are there looking at each other, holding each other’s throb

and this then sets the tone for life in the human world.

accomplish the refinement and concentration of energy until it becomes piercing and pure, enabling the students to see the truth of the nature of life.

forevermore help you to heal the people.

to prove to oneself the unity of all existence, visible and unseen. By obtaining a calm and poised disposition and a generous and round character, one secured and served—embodied and lived—this unity. This approach to every moment was seen as the most transcendental of life motives—it was life’s meaning and truest purpose!