About Us

I could beat anyone in a race. I was the strongest kid in school. In wrestling, I became California state runner up as well as a 2x All-American in high school and college. This was my Identity... until a psychedelic experience (with no guidance or understanding of what I was doing) shook something loose within my psyche at age 19, leaving me feeling all the pain I had been suppressing all my life. Then, a neck injury that shifted my life away from wrestling. Without my identity I felt lost and was searching for who I was for years. The search led me trying all kinds of things... Eventually I started schooling to become a gunsmith…

After moving to Texas from California in 2016 for my first job as a gunsmith, I soon happened upon  a plant medicine church, and began attending ceremonies in my search for healing. After 1 year of this, I organized and hosted my first ceremony for some Colombian curanderos I had become close friends with. Up to this point, despite always believing in a higher power, I didn't fully believe all the spiritual stuff. I honestly thought some of these people were crazy, but I understood the scientific evidence for how these medicines can heal the brain, heal trauma, etc... and internally... in my spirit... I was still searching, so I stayed the course. On that Cold Saturday night/Sunday morning of December 2017 however, sitting under the stars in ceremony, I experienced the near instant manifestation of all of my prayers while under the medicine.  In the moment of this realization my body pulsed and vibrated with surges of energy as I saw through the veil. For the first time in my life, I KNEW with all of my being, that there is so much more than we see. "All of this is real! All of this is f****** real!" I said aloud, as I rushed back to the ceremony circle. Juan, one of the Colombian curanderos I would apprentice under, tilted his head back and laughed at the sky, in response to my epiphany of the spirit worlds' existence. Then looking back at me to say "of course it's real, what do you think we are doing here." Then another surge of energy filled with an undeniable understanding, an all pervading knowing, that this is what I am meant to do with my life! I knew then that I must learn how to work with these plant medicines and become a healer. I now knew my purpose! The next day, I quit my job as a gunsmith,  and I began selling my belongings to get the funds for my journey. By February, I moved to Colombia, not knowing a word of Spanish outside of "hola." Within 1 week, I sat in ceremonies with different Taitas, Including Taita Rodolfo and Mama Fareka of the Uitot tribe, and Taita Querubin of the Cofán tribe (the eldest of all living Taitas at the time). Then, on the 7th day, I met my teacher Taita Bernardo, and shortly after, he accepted me as his student. I moved into his home and I began the Journey of a lifetime... Drinking ayahuasca 4 -5x a week by night, hard physical labor and study of healing plants and traditions by day (sometimes while drinking ayahuasca). This was meant to be a 3 month trip, but after receiving a clear sign from spirit, I continued in the jungle for some months more, before that first intensive initiation was complete. This was the hardest thing I had ever done in my life! As an elite level athlete, I could handle the pain and hard work... but as someone who had suppressed all feelings and emotions for the first 30 year of life... this feeling everything, and confronting my demons, and illuminating the lies I believe of myself, was a whole new challenge. But I can say it with all my heart, that I am who am I and I am blessed beyond measure, because of what I went through during that time. The truth is, It is like my friend Smer said to me, on a day in the jungle when it was too much to bear... "Dios repage por tu trabajo." which means: God repays (will repay) you for your work. 

In total, Since 2016, I have sat in many hundreds of sacred ceremony circles to do my inner work. I lived in the Amazon Jungle of Colombia for 6 months During my intensive & continuing apprenticeship under Taita Bernado Chindoy of the Kamëntsá tribe. Afterward, another 6 week intensive training with other master plants in the jungle of Mexico. I also apprenticed and learned under 2 Colombian ayahuasceros (long time students under my maestro, Taita Bernardo) during my role as a ceremony organizer for 5 years. In the years since, I have been connecting and training with the Noke Koî, commonly known as the Katakana tribe of Brazil, and eventually made connections and relationships with many other tribes. 

During the time since my Initiation in the Amazon, I organized, co-facilitated, and played a supporting role, in around 1000 combined Ayahuasca ceremonies, and another 1000 Kambo or Bufo ceremonies, as well as apprenticing with Kambo, Bufo medicines. In more recent years I began traveling to other countries and creating relationships with other tribes of Brazil, Colombia & Peru. In all these years I have participated in, and seen the expansion and emotional healing of thousands of individuals. I have been lucky to see the power of plant medicines! Throughout all of this, since 2017, I have been working with, apprenticing with, and serving Hapé, Sananga, Ambil, and other medicines. Working with them, learning from them, and growing my understand of these medicines, so that I have the proper knowledge to use them for the good of all. 

Following my path and my mission, and With the Blessing of Taita Bernardo Chindoy, as well as my other teachers, I began to share these remedies through Spirit Visions in 2020, and began creating SpiritVisions.us in 2021, to continue the mission: to spread the medicines, and these traditions that change lives, far and wide!! 

Through all of this, I have come to realize the most important work you can do is inside yourself, by looking at your own shadows with honesty and without dogma. Each of us is Beautifully flawed... and what matters most is doing the work to become the best version of ourselves, while being conscious of how we affect others and the impact that can have. I have had some adventures, taken some leaps of faith, and learned a lot along the way... and we all have something to teach one another. There is no guru or healer that can heal you, except yourself... But if you find yourself on this path, plants can be the greatest teacher, they can show you the way. 

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