SACRED TOBACCO | ASHENINKA MINO & BERNADETTE TORRES
July 28, 2022
On-Location Long Beach, California Traditional tobacco is a medicine, which can be used in a prescribed way to promote physical, spiritual, emotional, and community well-being. It may be used as an offering to the Creator or to another person, place, or being. A gift of traditional tobacco is a sign of respect and may be offered when asking for help, guidance, or protection and is sometimes used directly for healing in traditional medicine. It may be burned in a fire or smoked in a pipe, yet the smoke is generally not inhaled. On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel talks with Ashéninka Mino. Mino was born and raised in the Amazon jungle of Peru. He comes from a family of healers and was taught by his grandfather how to use Natural Tobacco to eliminate accumulated negative, and harmful energy which is causing disharmony for the person and their space. He is joined by his partner, who is an herbalist and healer of many years, Bernadette Torres, and together they run Shabeta’s Healing Garden. Mino states that his full task is to create harmony and equilibrium in the person being healed and to reconnect the person to their spirit. Part of bringing harmony to a person is to bring back their joy, their passion, their strength. Everything that creates harmony and equilibrium.