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Good article to be found Here: http://nas.ucdavis.edu/Forbes/shamanism.html

Favorite part right here:

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"Shamanism" is a new European game. Shouldn't they play it by themselves, without stealing the symbols of indigenous cultures?

Still an article that is very good reading. It is now located at this URL:

http://www.weyanoke.org/reading/jdf-Shamanism-NewAndOld.html

His fake white fur added to the headdress is what makes it look Vegas style and inauthentic.

The beading on a number of headdresses he wears, that's North American, not South. Quechua beadwork worn on the head looks closer to this.
https://www.alamy.com/a-quechua-woman-wearing-the-dress-and-hat-typical-of-the-patacancha-region-spins-yarn-image215443977.html

There are at least two more Facebook Pages:

https://www.facebook.com/Ricardo-2299516903415816/ [Ricardo]

https://www.facebook.com/plantadivinahealing/ [Planta Divina Center]

58 seconds where "Ricardo the owner and main shaman of the healing center Planta Divina is talking about the life purpose":

https://www.facebook.com/plantadivinahealing/videos/393643358058743/

Halfway down is him and his partner in Vegas style faux Indian outfits. https://plantadivina.com/home

Portrait size there, at the bottom of this page is a whole body view of them: https://plantadivina.com/center

There you can see that it's just their head gear that's "Vegas style faux Indian".

Almost everything else on that site is about Peru, the Amazon, Amazonia. Their center is in Peru. So why do they need to show off with this fake North American stuff? Another gimmick to attract clueless New Agers?

Got a request about him. Ayahuasca seller pandering to Europeans, dressing up like a Hollywood Indian.

This links IDs him by his legal name Guillen.
https://awakenedsounds.com/ricardo-collection-special/

Halfway down is him and his partner in Vegas style faux Indian outfits.
https://plantadivina.com/home

Bio admits he lost touch with family at 12. Mostly Nuage elements he teaches to white Europeans.
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https://plantadivina.com/healers
Ricardo is the owner of the centre, a humble and very powerful shaman. His shamanic name is Ricardo Cheroke and he was born on September 30, 1982, in Cuzco, Peru. His parents are descendants of the Incas...left his family at the age of twelve....
 
He could also see his power animal, which is a black tiger or a puma.... After some time in the Amazon he met a seventy-year-old grandmother of Australian origin who lived many years in the rainforest. She felt the deep connection that Ricardo had with the Pachamama and his music. She decided to invite him to the Ayahuasca ceremony in her house in Padrecocha in Iquitos. After seventeen years of practice in an individual way Ricardo had his first group ceremony which was organized by her. After that he started to be in service to heal and help other people. He felt his inner calling deeply to serve and understood that he needed to have more initiations from other teachers as well to be fully prepared to share his shamanic wisdom all around the world. 

...In this month of preparation, they had ceremonies every day together with the intention of purifying the body and transmitting great power to Ricardo. The Maestro taught him how to heal with herbs, eggs, candles, fire [This is curanderismo, Catholic folk healing.]

In the Achuar tradition [On the other link Guillen claims to be Quechua] the Maestros transmit power directly to the initiate when the student is completely ready. This is called the Sinsac, which is the power of the Maestro to the initiate, so that the student in the future can be a Maestro as well. Luis Alberto Catan Shiqui could see already at the ceremony that Ricardo is going to travel to Thailand and many other countries in the world.

At the age of thirty Ricardo arrived in Thailand where a group of foreigners appeared who spoke with him that they were very interested in a Peruvian shaman that is working with Ayahuasca.

His first ceremony in Asia was with 25 participants. And then every 15 days he did at least two ceremonies with a lot of people. The participants could understand that Ricardo has a genuine connection with the plants, a great preparation and powerful initiations.

After a year Ricardo travelled to Amsterdam where he performed eight ceremonies. Then he returned to Thailand and decided to study English in order to communicate better with his patients. He was also in Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Austria, Russia, Mexico and many other countries in the world.

He follows this path with humility, with the single purpose to heal and to offer sacred rituals with music therapy, crystal therapy, sound healing and to work with traditional plants of the Amazon.