The Flight of the Eagle & Condor
Where A Course in Miracles meets the ancient Amazonian healing tradition. Meet the healers, study the lineage of Chaiconi Bari, and see what makes our particular expression different.
Healers & Sacred Teachings
Masters of the Shipibo-Conibo tradition and the Plants & Miracles teaching — the Eagle and the Condor united.
Pillars of Chaiconi Bari
The lineage of Chaiconi Bari unfolds in levels of mastery — not as a hierarchy to climb, but as the natural unveiling of a mind that has remembered its power. What follows is a DRAFT sketch of these pillars, offered so the shape of the teaching can be seen. Kenney will shape the final wording. (DRAFT — pending Kenney's review.)
Banco Runa — The Bench of Wisdom
A Banco Runa is one who has earned a "bench" of wisdom — a powerful Curandero whose healing carries the weight of the lineage. The bench is not a seat of pride but of service: the healer who has sat long enough with the plants, the fasting, and the silence that the spirits now work through them as a matter of course. This is the foundation of the Chaiconi Bari path — the disciplined healer whose mastery is given, not taken. (DRAFT.)
Sumeruhna — Entering the Water and Spirit World
Sumeruhna is the capability to enter the Water — the Spirit World — at will. Where the Curandero calls the spirits, the Sumeruhna walks among them. This is the threshold where healing becomes communion: the one who can cross into the unseen and return with what is needed. In A Course in Miracles terms, it is the beginning of the recognition that the physical is not the boundary of the real. (DRAFT.)
Mariah — Regained Control Over Physical Reality
Mariah is the level at which an individual has regained control over physical reality. Here the mind recognizes no limits — shape-shifting, walking through walls, walking on water become possible, not as spectacle, but as the simple evidence that the world was always a projection of the mind. Jesus demonstrated this level in A Course in Miracles. The Mariah is the embodied proof of the teaching: that you are the cause, not the effect. (DRAFT.)
These pillars are not rungs on a ladder to climb alone. They are the natural landmarks of a mind returning home — the undoing of the belief that you are powerless. (DRAFT — pending Kenney's review.)
our particular expression
What makes us different
We are sometimes asked what makes our teaching different — and it is a fair question, asked in the spirit of clarity rather than competition. We do not bad-mouth other retreats; we are not here to criticize. We are here to set the record straight, because there is real malpractice in this field and a person deserves to know the difference before they entrust their mind and body to a container. So we say plainly what our particular expression is.
It comes down to this: Love holds no grievances. The victim mindset must go. The whole of A Course in Miracles — the 76 Miracle Principles — is the unwinding of the belief that you are powerless, that attack is real, that someone else did this to you. The sacred brew, the dieta, the icaros, the lineage — all of it serves one thing: the return of the mind to its own power. A retreat that leaves you still believing you are the effect of the world rather than its cause has not finished its work.
We hold this as a fact in the case, not a competitive claim. You are welcome at any retreat that calls to you. We simply want you to arrive at ours knowing what we are actually doing here: joining the Western mind of Medicine (the Eagle — A Course in Miracles) with the Indigenous mind of Plant Wisdom (the Condor) so that you leave no longer a victim of the world you see, but its joyful cause. That is what makes us different.
If this is the particular expression you have been looking for, we would love to walk with you. The retreat is where the teaching becomes the experience.