Speaking with Shamans

I have been traveling to the Yucatan every year since the mid 90's to take in the beauty of nature and work with the local shamans and curenderos (healers) there. On my last visit in March of 2008 , I took about and hour and half of video footage at Dos Palmas, which is a ceremonial center near Tulum. Dos Palmas features an amazing cenote (jungle pool in a cave) as well as a stone temazcal (sweat lodge.) This place is run by a family of ancestral shamans. This video below is the first in a series of interviews I did with Freddy (one of the youngest of the shamans in the family) Maurito, a Guerrero de Fuego (warrior of fire)and their cousin Claudio, who is knowledgeable about the Mayan traditional ways. In this interview, I ask them how a person can become a shaman, and what kind of shamanic work does Freddy do?

Protect Tibetan Culture and Religion

In October of 2007 I spend some time in Dharamsala, India. Dharamsala is the seat of the Tibetan people in exile, and the home of his holiness, the Dalai Lama. While I was there, I shot some video so I could share some of what I experienced there. In particular, I did an interview with Yung Sum, a Member of the Tibetan Youth Congress. We discussed China's interference in Tibetan spiritual issues, such as the succession of Tibetan Lamas through reincarnation. We also discussed how non-Tibetan people might support the religious and cultural freedom of the Tibetan people. This includes the boycotting of the Beijing Olympic games.