Here's
the amazing story of how an Amazon explorer traded his
search for lost cities of gold for new-found health treasures
in the jungles of the Amazon...
mazon John" Easterling
always knew he was going to be a treasure hunter. He remembers when and
how it all started.... It was one day during third grade at Merry Oaks
Elementary School. The latest issue of the Weekly Reader had arrived.
Each week the Reader would feature a story about a kid his age living
in some exotic part of the globe. This issue it was Sangrog and his llamas,
who lived a great adventure every day high up in the snowcapped Andes
Mountains. The story told of lost cities of untold wealth, advanced civilizations
which had vanished off the face of the earth... It captivated John immensely.
More than just
a boy's fancy, John knew in his heart he had found his destiny.
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After graduating from
college in 1976 with a degree in Environmental Studies, .John sold his
car and bought a ticket to Equador. For the next 25 years he traveled
through Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay to hunt for treasures.
He criss-crossed the Andes Mountains searching for lost cities and Pre-Colombian
civilizations. In 1978 John founded the Andes Fur Trading Co., Inc. (which
did business as Raiders of the Lost Art) and imported gemstones,
crystals, mineral specimens and Amazon Basin tribal artifacts into the
U.S., while continuing his quest for hidden fortunes.
In John's own words:
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"I'm
no stranger to traveling and trading in various outposts
of South America; since 1976 I've traveled there over
180 times. Certainly I had spent some time in Amazonia
during my treasure-seeking years and it had proven to
be a formidable foe. Fueled by a dream to discover lost
cities and armed so ineptly with a machete and some
survival provisions, the jungle was heavy and overwhelming.
Driven by the scent of treasure, I was constantly tortured
by heat, humidity, biting insects and the threat of
poisonous snakes. And, of course, I always knew that
the nebulous cache of unlimited fortune was just over
the next hill or across the river."
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It was on one of
these trips that John's life was changed forever. He was exploring
upriver on the Rio Ucayali, the main tributary of the Amazon. He knew
he was in rough shape, chilling and sweating with fever in the searing
afternoon heat. He turned the motorized dug-out to the river bank and
stumbled into a Shipibo village weak and exhausted. Once he lay down,
he couldn't get up.
Fortunately, the Shipibo
were sympathetic and took care of him. Their herbalist (curandero)
mixed some herbs and started feeding him. He was offered Uña
de Gato (Uncaria Tomentosa) and Chanca
Piedra (Phyllantius Niruri) teas. He drank about a liter of this combination,
and by morning the fever was broken. He was feeling better.
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"After
three days of resting and drinking these teas, my health
had improved significantly and I was ready to travel
again. I took some of the Gato vine and Chanca Piedra
shrub with me and, using them daily, I sensed noticeable
improvements in my health. After ten days of these Rainforest
herbs, I realized I was in better health than I had
been in years. I had a strong sense of connectedness,
clarity of thought had returned, I felt a renewed
sense of energetic power and internal chi. I was
breathing easier and my posture was more erect. In fact,
I was in better health than I had ever been. Yet as
dramatic as this rejuvenation was, it was only the beginning."
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Ten years earlier
John's experiences with hepatitis and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever had
culminated in a near-death experience in a hospital in North Carolina.
Ever since then he had been continually challenged by a compromised liver;
it had left him with a life of chronically low energy, fatigue, ungroundedness,
unclear thought processes and, all-in-all, for years he'd been operating
at about 60% of optimal efficiency. But nothing heI'd experienced during
those ten long years had given him reason to anticipate or prepare for
his awakening to the bio-energetic principles of the Rainforest.
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"Being
healed and newly recharged by the potions of the Shipibo
medicine man, I began to hear the call of those treasure
sirens once again. A couple of days further upriver,
I stepped out of a dugout canoe into a double canopy
forest and was immediately aware of something I had
never noticed before: I could sense a very powerful
energy coming from the forest. I felt that magical moment
that comes when you discover a treasure that you hadn't
been looking for. There was an awakening and a realization
that I was standing in the highest concentration of
life-energy on our planet. Incredible symbiotic
relationships were all around me. The sheer abundance
of it all was overwhelming."
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Amazon John started
studying the various plants and herbs in the rainforest and realized he'd
discovered the largest living 'pharmacy' in the world. Not long after,
in 1990, John sold Raiders of the Lost Art and founded Amazon Herb Company.
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"Those
who live in the Rainforest know that the living forest
maintains its ecological harmony. These people have
a clear understanding of the energetics of this environment
and its symbiotic balance. The Shipibo, the Machegunga,
the Campa, the Aguaruana and many other
groups call the forest their home. These people's lives
are renewed by Uña
de Gato and Chanca
Piedra, and from them I began to learn the true
value of the Rainforest botanicals. I was aware that
through our narrow model of scientific and clinical
methodology, studies showed the immune enhancing properties
of Uña de Gato and the liver rejuvenating characteristics
of Chanca Piedra, but what my experiences were showing
me was that the true value of these Amazonian botanicals
goes far beyond a "this for that" mentality.
"The
true value of the Rainforest botanicals lies not only in their rich
nutrient value, trace minerals and phyto-pharmacological properties,
but in the stored information of a thousand generations of ecological
harmony. When we consider the environmental chaos that seems
to be accelerating--as evidenced by dramatic changes in weather
patterns and seismic activity--perhaps the subtle energies of the
Rainforest are what will nourish our awareness to value symbiotic
balance at all levels of experience."
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These
same herbs are now available to you..
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