its so interesting because the deita is based on specific amazonian tribes ( which later turned into meztiso cultures that kept the deita) and not all tribes do the deita. but their dieta is mostly based on food taboos that have very little to do with what we think... it has nothing to do with MAOI for instance... but more with eating foods that are in relationship with a very complex cosmology of animist relationship dynamics. food is people to animists of the amazon, and food is powerful and has an effect on people beyond our concept of nurtitional ideas...

but the premise of having a diet that makes one feel cleansed and open may be just a very intuitive thing that we can gain inspiration from. a macro biotic diet for example may be what some one is guided too... with local foods who knows what that could look like.

the important thing i think is not to imitate the deita from the amazonian perspective but to find inspiration as to how the deita works in relationship to the central concepts of vegetalismo so that we can see how vegetalismo and curanderismo practices can be either adapted or a source of inspiration for our own ways of establishing relationships with the plant teachers.

In my experience vegetalistas and curanderos in peru are ill equiped to help with this, but they could lend some inspiration and insight... but it kinda like asking a catholic how one could be a catholic but not a catholic... " so how could i be a catholic with out the euchirist or maybe neverr getting baptised or having confesion?" my point being that the vegetalista practices of amazonian meztiso peoples are verry unique to them and their relationship with the amazon. we have to find our own way to have that relationship where we are with what we have to work with.

and that i think is the big work ahead...