The Bakish Mai Multiversity is a non-profit foundation in accordance with article 99 of the Peruvian Civil Code, whose mission is to promote and perpetuate the creative ways of life of the Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo People of the Peruvian Amazon, around three interconnected areas of teaching and development: ecology and plant medicine; art; and Indigenous territorial sovereignty.​
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The Multiversity was born with the support of the Shipibo Conibo Center of NY thanks to a donation of land that housed the lodge formerly known as Ani Nii Shobo, along a 35-hectare ecological reserve in front of the Shanshococha lagoon, in proximity from the community of San Francisco de Yarinacocha.
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Instead of another site dedicated to spiritual tourism, the Bakish Mai Multiversity is oriented to serve the community, the health its people and the territory. It offers an intergenerational space for exploration and experimentation to save, reinvent and transmit the knowledges, ethics and practices of the Shipibo People, making itself available to Indigenous organizations to facilitate meetings.
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The concept of multiversity, instead of university, evokes the idea of ​​a multilayered reality, characteristic of the Shipibo worldview and its spiritual understanding of ecology.
The term bakish, which in Shipibo refers to both “yesterday” and “tomorrow,” alludes to ancestral values ​​as a necessary inspiration for the Indigenous future. A collective, free, autonomous, healthy, and sustainable future; driven by values ​​of reciprocity, guided by an ecological policy of regeneration and coexistence with nature and all the living beings who inhabit it, and the creative and free development of the Amazonian-indigenous imagination.
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The Bakish Mai Multiversity is directed by an expandable council of Shipibo leaders that currently includes Cecilia Brito, Sara Flores, Carla Lopez, Elisa Vargas, Wihtner Fago, Lener Guimaraes, Walter Lopez, Daniel Maynas and Marina Luna.
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The activities of the Bakish Mai Multiversity are financed through international funds and scholarships, in addition to a collaboration, unique in its nature, between the Shipibo Conibo Center and its represented artists: Sara Flores, Celia Vásquez Yui, Diana Ruiz, Deysi and Pilar Ramirez. To them and the founders of Ani Nii Shobo, Roger López, Andres Selame and Santiago Correa, the teams of the Bakish Mai Multiversity and the Shipibo Conibo Center express infinite gratitude.