"I understand that 'moontalk1 was prevalent?" Ecuadorean army? Air Force? Helicopters? Celebrities? That was long before the mines were planted. What a bunch of pussies! I went a good way up into the Cordillera del Condor with my caver girlfriend Ann Harman. Never got to the Cueva de los Tayos but did meet an interesting Indian who somehow managed to explain that the poison in poison darts comes from ants not frogs, most interesting considering that the frogs get their poison from ants. Shortly thereafter I acquired the services of Juan Uyunkar, a half Shuar shaman worthy of a grade B movie. He wore green and pink checked golf pants and carried a terribly out of tune violin. His backpack was filled with hallucinogens and an enema bag with which to administer them. Probably the smartest guy I have ever met anywhere, virtually telepathic. Saved my life several times. Caused angry soldiers with guns to beg his forgiveness, kept a drunken Shuar (nee Jivaro, the headshrinkers) from chopping me up, etc. We went up the Rio Mangosiza for the ostensible purpose of giving aid to a man with a brain tumor being kept in a cage in the jungle. It turned out to be true. We found him. As I watched Juan and Ann doing weird healing ceremonies over the poor deranged fellow I realized I wasn't in Kansas anymore. Juan told me all about the Cueva de los Tayos which is sacred to the Shuar. While discussing how particle physics relates to Taoist philosophy he mentioned the time he was in the Cueva de los Tayos taking huge amounts of hallucinogens and decided to visit the people who live inside the sun. All that heat stuff is on the outside, inside it is very nice. The people are too, very enlightened. This from a half Jivaro mongrel who lived in the jungle and somehow heard about the pyramids in Egypt so he visited them when he was only 17. He never mentioned the metal plates. Sleazeweazel
