Peruvian “Shaman” Roger Bardales, alias Mukanranko and Mokan Ranko, accused of sexually assaulting a number of feminine college students whereas below the affect of ayahuasca in Peruvian and European “ceremonies”.

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Roger Bardales, additionally referred to as Mukanranko and Mokan Ranko, is a 39-year-old Shipibo shaman who presents himself as an “ambassador of the Shipibo-Conibo tribe”. He and his followers conduct ayahuasca ceremonies all through Europe, and invitations contributors to coach as shamans at his jungle camp close to Pucallpa in Peru. We interviewed 9 college students who labored with him over the previous 12 years, who say he sexually assaulted a number of feminine college students whereas below the affect of ayahuasca, each in Peru and at ceremonies in Europe.

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Bardales claims that his feminine followers could be initiated or healed by intercourse with him. This isn’t a reliable observe in Amazonian shamanism, in keeping with the natural medication NGO Chacruna.

However it’s the college students who work with him to study shamanism in Peru who say they’ve skilled essentially the most intense coercion, non-consensual advances and monetary extortion. In keeping with his accounts, he receives tens of hundreds of euros a month from college students, which he makes use of to finance his makes an attempt at a profession in pop music and his rising political and enterprise ambitions in Pucallpa.

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