A few weeks ago, I visited Peru again. I try to go at least once a year as part of my shamanic development. This time, though, I went with friends mostly just to enjoy the country as a tourist. It was a very different experience. It demonstrated that having a spiritual experience takes effort and intention. The scenes and flavors were the same, but the deeper aspects of the experience were based on enjoying the trip from a perspective identified as “Flavio, the person,” not the shaman.

On other occasions, when I visit purely with the intention of connecting spiritually, the trip is filled with synchronicities and a pleasant mental haze. It feels as if I am slightly disconnected from what is going on externally and more attuned to my inner perceptions. This feeling is even stronger when I return home to Miami. I always have this deep longing, as if I had left someone behind whom I love immensely. Places truly have a unique vibration to them, and when every cell in your body attunes to it, a sense of deep inner peace and well-being occurs.

Long ago, I understood that Miami is where I am needed as a healer. At this point in human development, just like the internet, we are also actively creating a grid of people who are voluntarily dedicating themselves to the perfection of the more subtle human gifts we possess. This has happened before, but it has never been so externally (i.e., global communication) connected and complemented as it is today to facilitate a network of people helping with the internal aspects of humanity. If you are one of us, welcome. I am very optimistic about the infinite possibilities of human consciousness. External life will happen, and it will have its cycles, and we will also happen, and the expansion will reach miraculous new manifestations.