A very diverse crowd produced texts that ranged from the backyard of a shaman-granny and her magical crocodile, to an exhilarated brit selling heroin in Hanoi

The spiritual condition generates awareness and a sense of place that overrides all fears, real or imaginary.

Spirituality is rather the absence, the space around it, not the object itself.

What did I know about Tacumbú? All that I knew were the typical frivolities inherent to the conceptual structure of the privileged. The task of deconstruction never ends.

"I gave you science and wisdom, and what have you made of it? All work and no joy"

"Are you here because of the medicine?”

"You can't even imagine all that you will learn."

Most of the tenets of modern capitalist society are questioned after spending a few months in a system that does not work solely for profit.

For an entire month, an erotic poet, a feminist photographer, a Trotskyist advocate and a sensitive soccer player read and wrote, in rapture, at sessions that started at the time of shifting from *tereré* to beer, and that lasted until they ran out of cigarettes.

Tattooing for fashion, for love or revenge. For a promise. Drunk tattoos. Tattooing for pain, for pleasure. Incapable of stopping tattooing. Tattoos that are thousands of years old.