Guillermo Arévalo

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Guillermo Arévalo
Nationality Peruvian
Other names Kestenbetsa
Occupation
  • ayahuasquero
  • owner of Anaconda Cosmica
Website
www.anacondacosmica.net

Guillermo Arévalo Valera is a Shipibo shaman of the Peruvian Amazon. His Shipibo name is Kestenbetsa.[1]

In 1982 he cofounded a Shipibo organization called Aplicación de Medicina Tradicional (AMETRA), which promoted the study and application of the traditional medicine practiced by the peoples of the Ucayali River. The organisation was active in the city of Pucallpa until 2000.[2]

Arévalo Valera moved from Pucallpa to Iquitos, and founded a healing center nearby. The center, called Espíritu de Anaconda (Spanish: "Anaconda Spirit"), has become one of the largest in the area. On 26 November 2011, a 39-year-old French acrobat named Fabrice Champion was found dead in a maloca there.[3] Arévalo Valera subsequently renamed the center to Anaconda Cosmica ("Cosmic Anaconda").[1][4][5] In an interview with journalist Roger Rumrill in 2005, Arévalo Valera had lamented the state of drug tourism in Peru.[6]

He was filmed for the ayahuasca documentary films D'autres mondes (2004) and Vine of the Soul: Encounters with Ayahuasca (2010). He and his healing center were featured in "Jungle Trip" (2001), an episode of the Channel 4 documentary series To the Ends of the Earth.[7] Jan Kounen, director of D'autres mondes, also gave him a minor role in his 2004 Western, Blueberry (aka Renagade).[8]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Our History". AnacondaCosmica.com. Retrieved 20 January 2014. 
  2. ↑ Hansson, A.; Arévalo, G. (1985). "Algunos aspectos de medicina tradicional en Ucayali." Proyecto AMETRA. Lima: Instituto Indigenista Peruano. Serie Amazonía: Shipibo-Conibo No. 2
  3. ↑ Fleury, Adeline (18 December 2011). "Quand le chamanisme emporte ses adeptes". Le Journal du Dimanche (in French). Hachette Filipacchi Médias. Retrieved 20 January 2014. 
  4. ↑ Hearn, Kelly (March 2013). "The Dark Side of Ayahuasca". Men's Journal. New York: Wenner Media. Retrieved 20 January 2014. 
  5. ↑ "Friends – Maestro Guillermo Arévalo ('Kestembetsa')". Traditional Plant Medicine. Retrieved 24 May 2012. 
  6. ↑ Arrévalo, G. (2005). "Interview with Guillermo Arrévalo, a Shipibo urban shaman, by Roger Rumrrill. Interview by Roger Rumrrill". Journal of psychoactive drugs 37 (2): 203–207. PMID 16149334. 
  7. ↑ To the Ends of the Earth: Jungle Trip at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
  8. ↑ Renegade at the Internet Movie Database

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