How Shipibo Healers Cured My Brain Tumor

I came to South America early in 2009, in search of a cure.  I was acting on a gut feeling, that the legendary visionary plant, ayahuasca, would help me.  I had a brain tumor, caused by a chronic degenerative condition, called "acromegaly" which had dogged me for 20 years.  I had spent many years searching and trying a plethora of complementary and alternative approaches to restoring my health, continually postponing major brain surgery and radiation therapy, despite the progressive degeneration and deformation of my body.  I wanted to avoid the conventional treatments, because in my case, they would have meant severe physical trauma, the destruction of a vital organ, and ultimately destined a life monitored by a hospital and dependent on heavy medications.  I was so determined that I could never lead this life that I was, quite literally, prepared to die instead of give in to it.  And this conviction was never so stark as when my doctors landed the final bombshell late in 2008; I was definitively out of time.   web link