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About Me

The Amazon Rainforest holds in its jungles a pleathorea of known and unknown medicines for the body and soul. The native healers see each plant as unique,each species possessing its own spirit with curative powers. For centuries, healers have called upon these curative powers to cure the ailments of mankind. The songs that they sing, Icaros, are used to activate the spirit of the plants through ceremony and call forth their spirits along with their cures. However, with the all too rapid deforestation of the rainforest to feed the greed of man, we are loosing the cures and loosing the songs. JAMM is a fledgling non-profit created to help to protect, educate, and raise awareness about the current state within the Rainforest. We hope, through our joint efforts, to be able to educate children about the immense value of the plants that surround them. Today, with the drastic poverty in Latin America, some would do anything to make a dollar, including assisting with deforestation. Through cultivating and promoting the use of natural remedies, we hope to provide a way to make a dollar (or a few!) through conservation and respect. We would like to create a healing center where botanists, shamans, children, professionals, and people from all walks of life can converge to create healing in their lives and the lives of others. We hope to not only save the trees, but to save their songs so that respect for nature may live on for generations to come.

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My Blog

Join us on a sacred journey to Peru

Sacred Journey to Peru March 21st-April 1st, 2007 Join Manu Amaru, Peruvian/American shaman and healer, on a sacred journey through the jungles of the Tambopata National Rese...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:05:00 GMT

The Boras of Pevas

Last weekend we went for two days to visit the Bora tribe of Pevas. Pevas is a small pueblo of under 500 people just 5 hours north by fast boat from Iquitos. A con...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:33:00 GMT

Eco-Bootcamp.

We have just returned after 5 days in the bush. The small documentary crew of Manu and I, were integrated with an amazing group of 13 healers and scientists by our organizer/...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:13:00 GMT

We are in Iquitos....says manu!

Dear Friends We arrived in Peruvian Amazonian city of Iquitos this morning and so far we have gone on a plant walk with Jim duke, been to the herbal market and spoken with and filmed three sha...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:31:00 GMT

Departing Soon

I am Ryan Wylie, JAMM board member and resident documentarian. JAMM healer, Manu and I will be returning to the Amazon in 4 days. Our trip will span 3 weeks and has several objectives:1. To documen...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:35:00 GMT

Icaros the documentary

There is a gold rush in the Amazon Rainforest, over 100 pharmaceutical companies and several branches of the US government, including Merck and The National Cancer Institute, are engaged in plant rese...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:06:00 GMT

Who is JAMM?

Manu Manu was born in Brazil to an American mother and a Peruvian father, and he has spent many years traveling around the world. He has visited the Peruvian jungle for the past 16 years and feels as ...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:09:00 GMT