I met John Perkins in Ecuador on journey, with the Pachamama Alliance, into the jungles to meet with the Achuar, a dreaming tribe. They wake up each morning way before dawn to drink tea, purge and tell their dreams to each other. The messages from their dreams informs them of the actions to take that day.
More than 50 years ago, John was in Peace Corps in Ecuador. He was saved from dying by an Achuar shaman. In the process of his healing, he saw how his perception of reality, or his dream of truth, was what caused him to go the brink of death. In exchange for his return to health, he became an apprentice to the shaman.
Over the next years, while a chief economist for the world bank, he continued to study with shamans all over the world. His work as chief economist inspired his New York Times bestselling book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, a must read. Plus, numerous other books, including those on his experience as a shaman.
In this riveting interview, John invites you to explore what is your dream for you and the world? How do our individual and collective dreams create our reality? What is the dream of our western world? Are we unconsciously living that dream?
It was the dreams of the Achuar that inspired them to reach out from deep in the jungle to people in the West, inviting us to wake up from our dream. Will you wake up and choose the dream you want to be living and dream a new dream for humanity?
Join us to be inspired and filled with hope for a new reality on Reality Reimagined.
(The Pachamama Alliance is an organization founded by John, and Lynne and Bill Twist. It is dedicated to protecting the sacred head waters of the Amazon by empowering Indigenous people of the preserve their lands and culture, and inspiring a world that works for everyone: an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet. To learn more, go to Pachamama.org)  You can find John Perkins at JohnPerkins.org