Learn the living science of the Amazon from the Shipibo-Konibo scholars
A 3-part live series with Samuel Cauper Pinedo, Policarpo Sánchez Rodríguez (Wexá Bari), and Omar S. Mori Barbarán: Indigenous leaders, researchers, and forest defenders, speaking in their own voices.
3 live online sessions, one week apart, late November. [Dates and times] · [Ticket price]
The forest speaks.
There are people who speaks its language
The Shipibo-Konibo people of the Peruvian Amazon have studied the forest, its waters, and its skies for thousands of years, and carry that knowledge through diets, songs, dreams, and the geometry of kené.
Deforestation, pollution, and agribusiness monocultures now threaten master plants and the territories that sustain them, while global interest in ayahuasca grows faster than our understanding of its roots.
Modern Spirit is honored to host this series in a spirit of mutual respect and allyship, so these scholars can speak for themselves.
What concept will be explored?
The deep, invisible connections between the spirits of the water, earth, and sky in the jungle.
The guiding principles and values (Non esébo) of the Shipibo-Konibo people and how they acquire wisdom.
The complexities of plant medicine globalization, spiritual tourism, and environmental threats.
The traditional botanical science behind Amazonian Master Plants, traditional diets, and energetic healing.
Three sessions, one series
Session 1 · [Date]
The Eco-Cosmology Trinity of Shipibo-Konibo Spirituality
Samuel opens the series by guiding us through the Shipibo-Konibo worldview, structured as a trinity of water, earth, and sky, and connected through the sacred kené design.
Samuel Cauper Pinedo
Session 2· [Date]
Ancestral Shipibo Cosmovision and Its Relevance Today
Policarpo shares the guiding dimensions of the ancestral Shipibo-Konibo cosmovision, a body of knowledge passed on orally and expressed through kené, through the vision of ayahuasca (Oni), and through other master plants.
Omar S. Mori Barbarán
Session 3 · [Date]
Policarpo Sánchez Rodríguez
Ethnobotany, Knowledge Systems, and Traditional Indigenous Medicine
Omar closes the series with insights from his forthcoming ethnobotanical work on the master plants of the Peruvian Amazon, a major interdisciplinary effort to document, analyze, and honor this knowledge with rigor and respect.