plant.
“We also use it to reconnect and to realise that there is no separation between us, the Earth, and the Sky. We are all one. It therefore teaches us to live in balance and harmony, compassion and understanding, and how to love, respect, and honour all things. The day you meet San Pedro your life is changed forever… always for the better.”
In La Gringa’s view San Pedro heals by fundamentally changing our perception of reality – our belief in what is real and possible for us – so we understand our true power and the healing abilities we have. “It shows us reality as it actually is, not how we think it is”, she says. “It changes what we think of as real so we see the power we humans have: we can manifest whatever we choose – if we believe we can.”
With new beliefs we can heal ourselves of anything since all illness, shamanically-speaking, arises from self-perception. Illness is, in this sense, psychosomatic: we create ill-health because of how we think and feel about ourselves and the world around us – which means we can un-create it too by simply “changing our minds” as a result of our San Pedro experiences.
There is another sense though in which San Pedro gives us a new perspective on what is real. La Gringa offers an example from when she was first working with San Pedro and had an experience which “overturned everything I thought I knew”.
In her visions, out in the mountains, a stairway of light appeared on a nearby hill. Assuming it was a hallucination – a trick of her mind – she called her shaman to help interpret its meaning.
“There is nothing to interpret”, he shrugged. “It is a stairway of light.”
“You mean you see