It is important to me to make a statement about the video “AYAHUASCA… THE WEDDING”

I will begin saying emphatically that this is not the traditional ceremony of the wedding consecrated by the Ayahuasca of our Amazon natives. We are just children of the western culture that we feel a deep respect for our mother nature, and in her to all their creatures, included ourselves; and we wanted to consecrate a relationship of love with the Ayahuasca.

In general, a wedding is a symbolic act. It is a public demonstration of the declaration of love of a couple that decides to take a great step forward and to be united, in body and soul, for a lifetime. Of course, a wedding is not the indispensable requirement for that declaration and to assume such a responsibility. Those ceremonies have been carried out since immemorial times under different customs and religions, all of them respectable and genuine if the main ingredient were present: The Love.

Our guests, Andrea and Alí, came to Peru along with my son's family Miguel Junior, his wife Crystal and his daughter AnaKalia, to visit Cuzco; impressed by so many histories that I told them about the Incas since we immigrate to California in the 80's.

Andrea and Alí were already in love when they arrived in Peru coming from Long Beach, California, the last May, 2008. Also, in theirs minds and heart were already the idea that their relationship could go beyond of being just lovers, although there was not yet the purpose of a marriage.

It was the magic of the Inca’s sacred sanctuary, Macchu Picchu and its energy vibrations, that bewitched the couple for a blessing on their lives; and when they returned to Lima they told me their desire to make it publish in a ceremony: The Wedding.

The arrangements were quick and simple, since what prevailed in them was assuming that level of responsibility and love to which they were desirous of committing their lives and their future.

My identification with the preservation of the nature and my deepest respect for the teachings of our ethnic roots made me proposed spontaneously to them a wedding consecrated with the Ayahuasca. Proposal that it was accepted, perhaps with some adventurous curiosity from them, but even so during the ceremony and the drink of some drops of Ayahuasca, they were able to let it out that torrent of emotions of love, fondness and happiness, that you all will be able to see it in the video.

Moreover, all those that we were present were not only mere witness of a formal ceremony, but rather we felt, shared and absorbed the energy of emotions that the couple emanated.

Yes, to carry out the Wedding was the consequence of many fortuitous facts. Alí is like a son for me since many years ago, they both met the perfect partner, Andrea and Alí, their coming to Peru, the spontaneous and abrupt desire of marrying, and also, my great friendship with the well-known Shamán ayahuasquero, Ronald Rivera, made possible this Wedding… Enjoy it.

Michaelangelo Barnez