In the Amazon forests of Peru, Stroud learns the plant medicine of the Huacharia Tribe. Traveling by plane, bus, boat and finally on foot, Stroud reaches the home of the deeply spiritual Huacharia ...

“The forest is alive. It can only die if the whites continue destroying it. If they do, rivers will disappear under the earth, the soil will crumble, the trees will wither, and the stones will melt in ...

Sabino Gualinga was a yachak, or shaman, from the Kichwa nation of Sarayaku in Ecuador’s Amazon Rainforest, best known for his testimony before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, where he ...

A person who is thought to have healing powers that come from the supernatural, often through dreams and visions. A shaman is believed to be able to cast out evil spirits as well as cure sick people.

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

A group of Shamans from Peru on Monday performed a ritual to plead for good relations between Colombia and Peru, after a diplomatic spat over the ownership of a recently surfaced island in the Amazon.

Faced with dwindling fish numbers, Indigenous Ecuadorans look to the spirit world for help - Copyright AFP/File OLIVIER MORIN Faced with dwindling fish numbers ...

When fish numbers diminished in the Ecuadoran Amazon, the Siona Indigenous people blamed envious, rival shamans for blocking the animals' passage through the rivers of Cuyabeno, a biodiverse wetland.