The Curandero’s Apprentice

KMO interviews Chip "Carlos" Tanner, a gringo apprenticing under a Peruvian curandero and explores the spirit realm with Wendy Luckey, with whom he participated in a San Pedro ceremony in Iquitos in July of 2007. Ever wondered why KMO bleeps out the profanity? KMO explains all and provides audio glimpses into two very different ayahuasca ceremonies.

To introduce Wendy Luckey on the program, I read from the first paragraph of her Amazonian Shamanism Conference bio. You can find the rest of that bio here:

http://www.soga-del-alma.org/ConferenceSite/curanderos_wendy.html

and here:

http://www.wendyluckey.com/

And Carlos Tanner, who also spoke at the conference, has a bio here:

http://www.soga-del-alma.org/ConferenceSite/guests_carlos.html

and here:

http://www.ayahuayra.org/WSC/MainWSC.htm

In connection with bleeping profanity, I mentioned an episode of Fresh Air with Terry Gross that I heard "a few months ago." Well, I just tracked it down, and it turns out that the show is four years old! Wow. Anyway, here it is:

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=20-Nov-2003