Flower I’ve become – Gustav, Sweden

Flower I’ve become – Gustav, Sweden

Crawling out of the comfortable womb of Swedish society, I was looking to fragment and disperse the clouds of negativity and expectations I felt trapped by, and to tear down the ethnocentric mentality I could feel was separating me from others – I came to Tarapoto and this beautiful garden as my last destination on a six month journey to find who really is “us” and “me”… It took me no time at all to fall in love with this wonderful place and all it can offer you. The spirit medicine, the planning and effort given by the hosts, the shaman and all the other lovely people there giving space, taking space, in a perfectly balanced jungle salsa.

I arrived excited and vibrating yet full of anxiety regarding all these existential matters, I found, through the ceremonies and dieta, a process where I myself was crawling out of the dirt, through fears, toxins and many blockages then exposed to the sunlight for the first time in a long while. I rested, snoozing on the cover of the earth in harmony with everything for a short while, before finally cracking the bud open and breathing fresh air again! I blossomed, became a flower.