Tata Mundo

With 20 years on a long and winding path of exploration, I have delved into magic, primordial beliefs, traditional cultures, shamanism, and the spirituality of the world. From Rastafarian camps in Jamaica to voodoo practices in Haiti and Africa, desert healing traditions with trance in the Maghreb, Ethiopia, and Pakistan, shamanism in Mongolia, Africa, and Pakistan, to mysticism in the Indian subcontinent, transformative Sufi rites on three continents, and Bwiti initiation in Cameroon—my journey has finally culminated in the Amazon and Andes. I have spent years learning traditional medicine, sampling various sources of global knowledge and inspiration, and deepening my understanding of self. Along the way, I have guided others safely through paths I have scouted before, working with shamans in Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, as well as with gringos, mestizos, and tribes like Shipibo, Siona, Cofan, Tsachilas, Kamsa, Achuar, Kichwa, and Witoto. As a traveler, photographer, writer, guide, and practitioner, I am the founder of the Psychonauta Foundation headquarters—a medicinal camp in the jungle of northern Peru—and a growing collective focused on the therapeutic use of psychoactive plants. I work in the fringe area where medicine and art converge, reconnecting with primal, ancient shamanism, reinterpreted through body, breath, and unique, momentary experience. Through improvisation, trance techniques, syncretism, and song, my work is deeply rooted in the ancient past and the various cultures from which it draws, tailored to each individual’s case.