The Call of the Path
A book on the plant medicine of the Amazon and the Andes. The Shipibo-Konibo-Shetibo tradition and the Andean Q'ero masters, told from the inside by a doctor who has been learning from maestros in the jungle and the mountains since 2013.
Without romance
This book is not for those looking for a beautiful spiritual experience. Plant Medicine is a hard school, and this book speaks about it as it is.
It gathers what Chonon Sany learned from Shipibo maestros and Q'ero masters over years of Dietas and ceremonies, and what he saw for himself working with people. In places he sets both traditions beside the Dzogchen teaching.
How the Call sounds and what keeps us from hearing it. Ayahuasca and tobacco as teacher plants. The Dieta as a pact with a plant. Icaros, spirits and powers, the ethics of the curandero. And the hardest part: bringing what you have lived back into ordinary life.
More than sixty practices of attention, breath and presence. None of them requires any substance. Photographs from the Amazon and the Andes.
El llamado no es una voz externa;
es la memoria del corazón.The Call is not an outer voice; it is the memory of the heart.
Eight chapters, eight sections each
Before you go any further · Introduction · About the Author
- Chapter IThe Call
- Chapter IIAyahuasca: The Teacher Plant and Its Lessons
- Chapter IIITobacco: Spirit of Protection and Truth
- Chapter IVSilence and the Dieta
- Chapter VIcaro: The Breath of Spirit
- Chapter VISpirits and Forces: The Nature of the One
- Chapter VIIThe Ethics and the Heart of the Curandero
- Chapter VIIIIntegration and the Path of Service
Before you go any further
Plant medicine is a hard school. One of the hardest I know. And I know neurosurgery.
To become a real curandero — someone who can actually help — takes years of austerity, of Dietas, of solitude, of the breaking apart of who you thought you were. There is no romance of the forest and drums around the fire here. There is work you don't get to go home from.
You can make an incision with a well-sharpened scalpel of alloy steel. Or with a crude machete. Both cut. But the mark they leave is different.
Chonon Sany
A medical doctor by training: he graduated from Pacific State Medical University and completed his residency in neurosurgery at the Burdenko Institute in Moscow.
Since 2013 he has practiced the traditional medicine of the Shipibo-Konibo-Shetibo people, and since 2015 he has lived in Peru. His teachers were Guillermo Arévalo, Don Pascual Mahua Ochavano and Melquíades Vela. The CoshiCox community recognizes him as a Maestro Onaya. Since 2023 he has walked the Andean path of the Q'ero people and holds the title of Pampa Misayoq.
E-book (PDF)
The book is sold on two platforms. Patreon takes cards from any country and PayPal. Boosty is easier for Russian cards. After payment, the post with the book file opens for you to download.
The Call of the Path
El Llamado del Camino
Buying the book
How do I get the book?
After paying on Patreon or Boosty, a post with the PDF file opens for you. Download it and read it on your phone, tablet or computer.
Which platform should I choose?
Patreon takes cards from any country and PayPal. Boosty takes Russian cards. The book is the same on both.
Can I print the book for myself?
Yes. The file can be printed for personal reading. Copying the text or passing the file on to others is not allowed.