Issue 13 September/October 2011
Quantum
FPM: Well, before I answer I want to congratulate you for your fi rst two books, the ones before the body-fi eld book. Before people discovered you in regard to energy medicine, your other two books [about Peruvian shamanism and visionary/ healing plants] were already in my library and quite fundamental to me. I live in Peru because it has an ancient shamanic tradition. It is different from China or India, which are countries with systematised knowledge which sprung from Source, from nature, into a discipline. But what you have in Peru, it’s still in its original state.
I have learned, dealing with these healers, to accept. . . . You know, we grow and forget—we often say children see imaginary beings but we stifl e that with education. Here [in Peru] we can delve back into a world of infi nite possibilities. When we are talking about cures and medicine, we are talking about the ability to wake up something which is intrinsic within us to be able to transform ourselves both physically and in our wider essence. What I have learned from my experiences here is that this is possible. People have come here with serious diseases—cancer and so on—to see some of the people [shamans] I have been studying with, and just because of the experience [with the shamans] they have been able to somehow shift the way their life has been going. Who knows how really? When we read about Jesus doing miracles—maybe he was such a powerful ‘guru’ that he was able to convince people to do something and to cure them in this way? Certainly we know about how with some people—for example, with a very powerful doctor—just the presence of the doctor makes them feel better, makes them feel safe. I think there is a lot to be learned there.
Ferdinando Pisani Massamormile is the son of a diplomat and lived in many different countries as he grew up. This unsettled life allowed him to develop a sensitivity for understanding diverse and sometimes opposing points of view. After studying economics in Italy, he worked for a series of foundations pursuing sustainable economic development. Finding the issues of the unfairness of modern conventional medical system more pressing, Ferdinando moved to the French NGO Barefoot Doctors. After initiating medical projects in South America to treat diseases with local and natural resources, he started a two-year internship with Amazonian shamans in Peru. Ferdinando now works for the Foundation for Alternative and Integrative Medicine. He can be reached at
nando@faim.org. You can visit FAIM at
www.FAIM.org and general email enquiries can be made at
info@faim.org.
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Photographs on pages 8 and 9 by Daniella Flores. All other photographs of Ferdinando Pisani Massamormile by Magnus Bischofberger.
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