Hermit1yoga:
I was in Iquitos, Peru. Iquitos is the remotest part of Peru, pure jungle and the only way to go there is by plane from Lima Peru or by boat from Yurimaguas (it took me 7 days to reach Iquitos by boat. It took more time because the river was too low and we got stuck for one or two days in the sand of the river) or Pucallpa (takes much more time). Thus I went to Iquitos and from there I went some 2 hours by another small boat that is not so easy to get to one not much known community by the river and from the community walk 2-3 hours (if you walk fast). The road can be dangerous because you are in the jungle and you can meet snakes and scorpions and tigers but usually everything is all right. There lives another community (some 8 houses) and there lives the Abuelo (the shaman). He's like 96 years old now. Almost cannot see because he got malaria one time when he was a shaman already and while he was not conscious people treated him with antibiotics or something and that chemistry in the product took Abuelo's sight away. So he almost cannot see. And the Abuela (the wife of the Abuelo) is also very very old and she cannot hear. Shaman cannot see and his wife cannot hear. It's interesting because they understand each other very well.
There I stayed for some time. I think, in overall I stayed there for some 2 weeks. It's not so much but I had my strong experiences with the shaman because we turned to be like father and his son. Or grandfather and his grandson. Instantly I realized the Abuelo is enlightened being. His peace is undestructable and his love neither. I felt so much love from him that we became very close, soon. He asked me to help him when treating the patients and thus both of us were working together. Waking many times in the night when Joel (the sick almost dying man that had 50 years and had his legs swollen and hurting so much that he would be wailing, crying in the night and then he would moan "ABUELO! ABUELO!" trying to wake him with his moans. I would wake up and Abuelo would wake up. Searching for a matches and lighting the kerosene-lamp (here I helped a lot with my torch). We would both start healing the patient, I would be assisting the Abuelo.