FIRST BOOK IN SPANISH ABOUT RAPÉ · ANCESTRINA
VICTOR SILVA
El llamado del Rapé
A SACRED BREATH TO HEAL THE WOUNDS OF YOUR SOUL
WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
You hear the call.
But do you know what to do with it?
01
If you are curious about rapé
and you do not know where to begin, what it really is, what effects it has, or how to approach it consciously and responsibly.
02
If you already use rapé
but want to go deeper: understand its ancestral origins, lineages, the spiritual meaning of each blend, and how to integrate the experience.
03
If you are in a healing process
and are looking for tools that go beyond conventional therapy: something that works with what lies beneath, not only with outward forms.
04
If you accompany others with ancestral medicines
and want to understand ethics, responsibility, and what it truly means to hold someone through a sacred process.
05
If you feel the emptiness behind success
and something tells you the answer is not in more achievements, but in reconnecting with something more essential and true.
06
If the call arrived without you looking for it
and you want to understand what it means, how to discern it, and how to respond with respect and awareness.
“I felt a voice that I did not hear with my ears, but with my heart. The voice said to me: I need bridges.”
— VÍCTOR SILVA, CHAPTER 1
What you will find here is what can only come from thirty years of direct presence: in ceremonies, in Indigenous communities, beside elders in Peru, Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. Having been on both sides of the tepi: as the one who searched and as the one who held space.
It is also the first complete book in Spanish about rapé. A medicine that, because of its traditional context, is only beginning to become known outside the Indigenous territories that safeguard it.
WHAT THE BOOK CONTAINS
13 chapters.
One path.
Ch. 1
The Call
Víctor’s personal story: childhood, his first yagé ceremony, his first rapé, and how a voice in a pine forest in Mexico changed his life.
Ch. 2
Rapé and its spiritual meaning
What rapé is, how it acts, what distinguishes it from other medicines, and why it is much more than a blend of plants.
Ch. 3
The Elders – Spiritual Guardians
Taitas, elders, pajés and healers. Who they are, what they safeguard, and what it means to honor ancestral lineages.
Ch. 4
The alchemy of rapé
The three essential components: sacred tobacco, the alchemical element and intention. The most common plants and their specific purposes.
Ch. 5
The depth and the form
How to interpret inner experience. The difference between what appears to be happening and what truly transforms.
Ch. 6
The multiple bodies of being
How rapé acts on the physical body, the emotional body and the spiritual body. An integral understanding of the process.
Ch. 7
Guide to using rapé
Intention, set and setting, consecration. What you need to know before your first experience and to deepen your practice if you already use the medicine.
Ch. 8
Integration and the healing process
What happens afterward. How to sustain what opened and turn the experience into real transformation.
Ch. 9
Warnings and recommendations
What no one tells you. Real risks, contraindications, how to discern who accompanies you and what medicine you receive.
Ch. 10
Personal growth through rapé
How this medicine can become a sustained ally over time, not only a single experience.
Ch. 11
Rapé in the contemporary context
The global rise of ancestral medicines: opportunities, risks, and the responsibility of those approaching them from outside.
Ch. 12
Ethics and responsibility
What it means to honor lineages, protect the medicine and use it with integrity. What cannot be lost through globalization.
Ch. 13
Final reflection and the future of rapé
Rapé as a bridge between the ancestral past and the world we are building. A reflection on stewardship and collective legacy.
Prologue
A journey of wisdom, healing and transformation
The opening invitation to the path unfolded in these pages.
Víctor
Silva
FOUNDER OF ANCESTRINA · 2012 MORE THAN 30 YEARS WITH ANCESTRAL MEDICINES CERTIFIED KAMBÓ FACILITATOR SAT PROGRAM · CLAUDIO NARANJO COLOMBIA · BRAZIL · PERU · MEXICO
From then on he devoted decades to walking alongside the Indigenous communities that safeguard this medicine: Wixárika communities, Amazonian peoples, Seri people, and pajés in Brazil and Peru. He did not learn by accumulating techniques. He learned by being there. Being silent when silence was called for. Asking when he did not understand. Including his own process as part of the learning.
In 2012 he founded Ancestrina in Bogotá, the first space in Colombia dedicated exclusively to accompaniment with rapé. Today Ancestrina sends the medicine around the world and accompanies each person who receives it, because delivering the medicine without supporting the process is not, for Víctor, doing the work.
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IN CHAPTER 1 YOU WILL FIND
- The first time with rapé: pain, fear, and anger dissolving into sadness
- The story of an addicted father, a mother who endured, and the refuges that sustained him
- The pine forest in Mexico and the voice that changed the course of his life
- How Ancestrina was born and the philosophy that sustains it
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