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Puma is a revered spiritual teacher, healer, and mystic from Chinchero, Peru. A messenger of the Andean prophecies, he was trained since childhood by his grandfather, a powerful medicine man.
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The question arrives in our inbox almost weekly, and it is usually phrased as though the answer were obvious: is the private ceremony better? It costs...
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