In the Declaration of Yarinacocha, Shipibo Healers Organize to Resist Spiritual Extractivism
September 6, 2018Reality Sandwich
Last April, a Canadian ayahuasca tourist rode a motorbike into the Amazonian township of Victoria Gracia, sought out the venerated 81-year-old Shipibo healer Maestra Olivia Arévalo Lomas, pulled out a gun and shot her dead. The fallout from the murder is emblematic of a common problem, what we are framing as spiritual extractivism.