Each December, on a seaside in Lima’s Miraflores district, a gaggle of Peruvian shamans (curanderos) collect to do one thing that our Western tradition has forgotten tips on how to take critically: they sit with plant drugs, they pay attention, and so they communicate what they’ve seen.
Earlier than the cameras arrive the eleven shamans from numerous areas of Peru together with the Amazon meet to drink ayahuasca and San Pedro (wachuma). They work with coca leaves, yellow flowers, incense, and swords. They face the Pacific Ocean and open themselves to visions about world affairs, world leaders, and collective destiny.
After which they inform us what they noticed.
The 2026 Predictions
The shamans’ predictions this yr are politically charged which tracks, as a result of when has magic ever been separate from energy and the collective?
Trump: Shaman Juan de Dios Garcia proclaimed that “the United States ought to put together itself as a result of Donald Trump will fall critically in poor health” in 2026. No matter you are feeling about this prediction, it is price noting that the 79-year-old Cheeto’s well being has already been a topic of hypothesis from unexplained bruising to his “preventative MRI” in October. The White Home in fact insists he is in “glorious well being”. The shamans see one thing completely different, let’s hope they’re proper.
Maduro and Venezuela: A number of shamans predicted that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro shall be faraway from energy in 2026. Shaman Ana María Simeón acknowledged: “We now have requested for Maduro to go away, to retire, for President Donald Trump of the United States to have the ability to take away him, and we’ve visualized that subsequent yr this can occur.” One other shaman, Cleofé Sedano from Loreto, warned of “very severe issues between Maduro and Trump” and steered a 3rd world struggle may even get away though the U.S. would in the end prevail. He predicted Maduro would flee Venezuela relatively than be captured.
Russia and Ukraine: The shamans supplied conflicting visions which to me feels correct to the complexity of the state of affairs. Garcia predicted the struggle would finish, saying “I see that the battle will finish. They may elevate the flag of peace.” However different shamans noticed world conflicts persevering with with out decision. The group beforehand predicted the struggle would finish in 2023, which didn’t come to move.
Peru: The shamans predicted that Keiko Fujimori thedaughter of the late former President Alberto Fujimori will lastly win Peru’s presidential election after three earlier failed makes an attempt. Garcia noticed this via the wachuma: “The lady who desires of ruling Peru, I’ve been in a position to see via the wachuma that Keiko Fujimori shall be president in 2026.”
Pure Disasters: The shamans additionally predicted earthquakes and excessive local weather phenomena will proceed to characterize 2026 globally, although they specified that Peru itself would stay comparatively calm via the election interval.
What Does This Imply?
I do know a few of you might be questioning: ought to we take any of this critically?
The shamans have a blended monitor file, as all prophetic traditions do. In 2023, they accurately predicted that former President Alberto Fujimori would die inside twelve months and he handed from most cancers in September 2024. Additionally they predicted that very same yr the Russia-Ukraine struggle would finish. It did not. Final yr, they warned of a “nuclear struggle” between Israel and Gaza. As an alternative, we did get a ceasefire (though the violence continues).
prophecy has by no means been about batting averages. After we cut back sacred visionary practices to a scorecard of hits and misses, we miss the total level.
These shamans aren’t making an attempt to win a prediction pissing contest. They’re partaking in ancestral collective therapeutic and sitting with sacred drugs that has been used for divination throughout the Americas for hundreds of years. They’re performing ritual that asks for peace, that calls for higher decision-making from world leaders, that prays incense and flowers into the wind for collective therapeutic.
The ceremony itself is an act of magical intervention.
There’s one thing deeply radical about seeing indigenous practitioners from Peru standing on a seaside with images of Trump, Putin, Xi Jinping, and Zelenskyy, crossing swords over their photographs, burning incense, and declaring what the crops revealed about their fates.
In a world the place political evaluation comes from pundits with polling information and financial fashions, listed here are eleven individuals saying: we drank sacred drugs produced from PachaMama, and that is what we noticed.
Many westerners will reduce these rituals as “primitive” or simply dismiss it solely as a result of individuals worry what they don’t perceive or dismiss what doesn’t align to their non secular views. That is a wholly completely different epistemology a unique method of understanding that has sustained cultures for millennia. The shamans aren’t claiming to be infallible. They’re claiming to be in relationship with forces bigger than themselves. They’re claiming that the land, the crops, the ancestors have one thing to say about what’s coming.
Their predictions about ongoing world battle, pure disasters, and political instability aren’t precisely controversial. Local weather disaster is accelerating. Authoritarian leaders are getting old. Geopolitical tensions are at a fever pitch. You do not want ayahuasca to see that the world is in a state of disaster.
I would like everybody to keep in mind that disaster will not be future. Know that prayer is a expertise. That asking for peace is itself a type of making it attainable.
As we journey into 2026, contemplate what the Peruvian shamans modeled: collective ritual that acknowledges the political, that engages with energy instantly, that makes use of ancestral instruments to talk to current circumstances.
You do not want ayahuasca (please do not take that unsupervised). However you may have to keep in mind that your observe is not separate from what’s occurring in the world.
What will you ask for this yr? And what are you prepared to do to make that asking matter?
Need to go deeper?
This month on Patreon, I’m exploring tips on how to carry political intention into your private observe, as a result of your altar doesn’t exist in a vacuum and neither do you.
