All of the participants felt unsafe around Bryce Draper who has been taking Iboga while attempting to train us. If you don't know what Iboga is, then Google it. You will understand then what we mean. Bryce was forcing participants to take more Kambo then they felt was right for their body. Boa Cowee did not take any of us aside and give us weird medicine, we don't know where you got that information but none of the participants of the training did any of that. Bryce was requiring that the participants of the training program take medicine that we had never heard of and we did not plan on taking as part of this training.
Bryce was threatening to have participants kicked off of la Primavera land for speaking up for ourselves. 5 of the training participants have been sent to the hospital with parasites and bacterial infection and we have the medical documents and bills to prove this. All of the participants have hired a lawyer to get our money back from Bryce. The participants of the training program have filed a complaint with the local police and they are now investigating Bryce Draper for posing as a doctor and promising to heal people's illnesses. Bryce was supposed to look out for us with our food and water supply.
From the beginning, the training had red flags and very little structure. Bryce informed us he was funding property in the jungle to build a shamanic academy. The shaman he has currently residing there is named Don Guido Rimachi. A good friend of mine had gone out to Peru before me to assist Bryce Draper and Guido in building casitas. During this period I was in the States receiving phone calls from Will who informed me that they were feeding him a lot of sugar, asking for more money from him than was initially agreed upon, and he was having nightmares.
This was concerning to me because Bryce was encouraging everyone in our group to attend a month long dieta with this 'shaman’ Guido - I personally signed up to pay him 3,600.00 for the training and the dieta at his new "shamanic academy”. I questioned the integrity behind what he was doing when I heard Bryce’s shaman Guido was feeding my friend sugar and Ayahuasca in the same period of time, a well known avoidance for working with the medicine. And asking for more money than agreed upon. But he assures me he is okay, and I decide to fly to Peru in faith anyways.
When I arrived in Iquitos Bryce asks the entire group for all of the money to be given to him immediately in full, and in cash. He asks that everyone sign a behavior agreement, saying we won’t "gossip, complain about the food the 'natives prepare’, or express any discontentment” the repercussions for doing any of these things would be expulsion from the training without return of money paid. This was also concerning to me, as I knew he was supplying the food being cooked, not the natives. We were present for him buying pounds of white rice.
He also introduced us to a videographer he had hired to record the entire training. This made me uncomfortable. The day we left, I was engaging in a conversation with Bryce and I specifically asked about his plan for water, he assured me we would have an abundance of clean water with us. We asked Bryce how he has been and Bryce expressed he has been "wanting to blow his brains out over the last three months” This alarmed me and I began to ask questions amongst the group about his mental health. We left Iquitos as the sun went down, the four hour boat ride turned into a fourteen hour boat ride, the boat driver became less coordinated as it became darker, we shoveled water out of the boat. Eventually we ran into a fallen tree and had to ditch the boat we were in, half of us hiked to an abandoned house off the river and waited there while four men from our group hiked to the village to bring back a different boat.
I have been working with and receiving medicine from Bryce Draper since February 2018 after being introduced to him through a mutual friend and now ex client of his. He and I connected deeply and I’ve even taken my mother to ceremony. There were multiple occasions thought the year that I caught some weird vibrations/feelings about Bryce’s intentions as he would constantly speak of his image , acting career and movie projects he had going on in the Amazon.
Despite these red flags of his character and where his intentions lied I had decided to travel to Peru to partake in his Kambo Practitioner Training Program with the Matsés people of the Amazon. Upon arrival in early November 2018 my plans of attending the November training shifted into myself trading work building an Ayahuasca center with Bryce’s Shaman Guido. I did come back to town and met with everyone who was heading out on the first training group to say hi and wish them safe travels for the next two weeks in the jungle.
After one week I received a message from someone on the training saying that things had gone terribly wrong and they were on a boat headed back to Iquitos , without Bryce or Kate. The following day I met with the group and listened to what people were saying , there were many accounts of his lack of responsibility and organization , lack of clean water and adequate food for people in the jungle . I was in shock , and after speaking with a sister whom is from the same circle I sit with back home we decided to leave and remove ourselves from the drama and energy.
There was a lot of misconception and confusion going on in my head because I still trusted Bryce as I do not always take other peoples accounts as factual especially if it is against someone's character.. I like to SEE for myself. So I made the mistake of going back to meet with Bryce and after hearing his side of the story decided would go to the Jan training despite a gut feeling not to go. After making back to Iquitos and meeting with the group , I Had felt better about my decision to attend and there seemed to be a group of knowledgeable and sharp minded people attending, what could go wrong.
I would spend the following two weeks listening to Bryce do nothing but what I could only perceive as attempting damage control , by denouncing peoples accounts and characters that were in the first group all the while displaying no sign of personal accountability or empathy for the injuries , illness and traumatic experiences people had undergone the first training. It all became very very very clear to me the absolute truth of the matter and I knew that this was bigger than what my mind had lead me to believe. There were very many mishaps and miscalculations on Bryce's part as far as food and safety went…
One of the fellow trainees was the only person to bring MMS to clean the water for us to drink , there were also scary moments between Bryce and the Matses I witnessed that had me questioning whether or not we would have help getting our belongings out of the jungle (something we as the group would not have been able to do alone ). The last and final blow for me was when I heard about the DEATH of Bailey Provencher, a sweet woman who was on the first training .. be it she came out here with AIDS and knew it would be risky , but she contracted the parasite Girardia ... the same parasite many people on the last group had contracted from not being provided clean drinking water in primavera the same way that we were.
She was not the only one to contract the parasite but that is what eventually lead to her death last week. Previous to her death she had written a review on google reviews about the training , you can go read it yourself ... a few nights ago Bryce told me about the review and said that he was trying to use his lawyer ( his father ) to get the review taken down but the woman who wrote it had died , he then proceeded to ask me to write a review and say my opinion and even to say that I had no idea what that woman was talking about .. I was actually in shock that someone was able to so casually ask me to discredit the personal account of someone who had died as a result of her time under Bryce’s guidance and supervision while here in Peru.
From my eyes and ears he displayed a complete lack of empathy for the death of Bailey, a mother of 3 and then proceeded to tell me all these things about how it was all her fault. I stayed awake the entire night , I felt scared and shaken to the core . The next morning I packed my belongings and left , but not before he spent some time at that point attempting to sympathize for her death which was a complete flip from his words and actions the night before. I did write a review that night as he would not stop asking me ( 4-5 times he asked and it was making me feel uneasy).
I love Bryce , he has done a lot for me and my own mother as I’ve shared with many of you here. I am also the only person other than Bryce who has met every single person on both trainings and can honestly tell you from my perspective and what it’s worth that I am done with him.. this was not an easy decision and now I can see more clearly the work that he needs to do. We are all actually pretty blessed that we had the supportive group that we had and nobody was injured or got really sick.
Bryce Draper (here after BD) was introduced to me along with the many medicines that he serves back in April 2018 personally. I am healthy and have done other more meditative healing works without medicine but I was curious about this direction and wanted to know more. It ended up becoming a longer journey that took me to Peru with BD and his team. Here I came to see that BD is a very different person in reality than what he presents in guided ceremony and on social media. (he is a trained actor by trade) In reality he, as a teacher is completely flawed and has no intention of doing real teachings about healing.
I think that he really does not know that much about what he pretends to know. BD is about money and how to capitalize on an ancient medicine and synthesize it, for the purpose of mass production. DB himself was at his retreat taking Iboga and smoking cannabis too. Not a very sacred approach. He also did not care for the participants well being and pocketed the money received from participants ($2700 per person) under the false pretense that it was being used to preserve the Matsés Culture and Land. BD. did spend some money on plastic toys and fireworks for the native kids so he could gain Popularity.
We saw how this action generated jealousy and thievery among the local children. Bryce is a psychologically sick man and is not fit to serve medicine. He is continuously slandering people who have worked for him now that they have also realized the truth. He made sexist and inflammatory remarks to the women present in the group. He is manipulating the tribes people and their medicine for personal gain and is outright lying about what he is doing for the Tribe in return.
At the retreat I was there as a documentarist and had to quit on the 5th day due to what I clearly saw and personally experienced. When the other participants realized that they had been tricked by a con man, they demanded a refund. When I personally relayed this request to Bryce from the group, he threatened me with future repercussions and that I would immediately be escorted off the Land by the Matsés men. He went and demanded them to walk me out of the village like a fascistic general. Luckily they did not take any action. It has been a very unpleasant experience, to say the least, to see a person that manipulates a following (including myself) into believing that he has the knowledge, rightful conduct and integrity.
He is endangering people he serves the medicine to and is endangering the tribes he claims to be helping. He is doing his best to destroy other teachers with defamation and vilification that has no foundation in reality. By this statement urge the community to organize and take necessary action in order to keep the Kambo Medicine community, as a whole, safe.
When we were in Peru I witnessed the lack of structure and the lack of support for the trainees and their health. I saw Bryce Draper act very pushy to a few women and threaten to kick off a few for being late to gatherings that were not scheduled beforehand. He insisted that it was a requirement to partake in 2 unknown medicines or they would not receive their certificate. I noticed that he was not very present and when someone had a concern he did not listen to them about their feelings.
When we discovered that we were all drinking unboiled river water Bryce decided to go to Iquitos to purchase more supplies, food and water. When he later returned without water but with fireworks and cake, the group became even more frustrated with him. During the day he was gone many from the group came to me with concerns. I agreed to address these issues with Bryce the following day. When I approached Bryce he seemed to listen and we all tried our best to move forward. I was hopeful that a meeting with the entire group would fix everything so we could continue with the training.
During the meeting I witnessed that Bryce did not take any responsibility for anything nor did he even listen. He continued to turn the conversation back on each individual that spoke up often divulging confidential information to the entire group. After this meeting I took a vote from everyone of the trainees and they all decided to leave Prima Vera to walk to a boat 2 ½ hours away at night to return to Iquitos. In the end a majority of the trainees felt unsafe around Bryce and at Prima Vera due to his actions, words and energy. I spoke to a few upon my arrival back home for guidance about what to do to move forward. I never intended to destroy Kambo Healing Me or Bryce’s reputation.
I was only trying to figure out a way for him to see some blind spots and to try to ensure that no one else would be hurt. Whether he truly believes this "did or did not” happen or whether he believes other "energies” were at fault doesn't matter in my opinion. The group left and it is only right for Bryce to refund the trainees their money without an NDA and take responsibility for what happened. As the Trainer and the head of Kambo Healing Me it is his duty. This can all be a learning experience and an important lesson that contributed to growth.
I first met him when he served me kambo multiple times. He referred me to an iboga treatment center for heroin addiction and codepency, worked really well. he was talking to me nearly every day, checking in. I thought it was sweet at first. When I just got back he stayed with me for a few days to look out for me, but he drinking everyday and pouring me drinks.
We ended up sleeping together. He kept encouraging me to do ceremonies he was hosting, even if i didn't have money I could pay him back later. He used these ceremonies as a way to put a hex on me, to make me obedient and subservient. He pushed me to do an iboga ceremony with him.
I called him the day of, I was exhuasted I hadnt slept or eaten much I was stuck at the mexico boarder for 8 hours the night before and didn't get home until 4 am. My intuition told me it wasn't a good time for the ceremony but he still pushed me to go it was terrible I had a horrible trip.
Durring the trip I had a vision when I walked up to go to the bathroom. An orb took over my vision, talked to me in a bunch of different voices saying he can't be trusted, his intentions aren't pure. when I had my vision back, Bryce was looking right at me, like he saw that happen, and came towards me to do some shamanic movements on me. I panicked.
The next day he wanted me to take more, and do more work on me. He took me upstairs, looked me in the eyes, said all these things to me like he was hypnotizing me. things like "we're going to be friends for life. whatever this turns into, friendship, more whatever, we're always going to be friends for life." after the ceremony things got weird.
whatever entities he has rubbed off on me, I started getting possessed and moved around like a puppet, the entities moved my body in a wierd way and even opened my mouth and talked through it. I tried calling him because I felt scared and in danger. He couldnt be reached. hours later he sent a text saying he can't call he had a friend over and would call tomorrow. He never did.
Later I explained I was upset he wasn't there for me when I was in trouble. He took no responsibility even for that, saying all the entities were my fault, i brought them on myself when I did drugs in the past and now they're coming for me. He said he was trying to remove them durring the ceremony but since i didn't follow all his instructions he didn't get to finish.
He encouraged me to do more ceremonies with him, I told him i wanted to start working with women. He said I was being manipulative and playing games, talked down to me. said no one else would have been able to help or be there for me like he has. said i can go ahead and work with other providers but he can't recommend anyone.
I spoke with a medium about the entities, she said they came from him, he made deals with them and works with them, and that's how they got access to me. As i started backing away he insisted i do more ceremonies with him. Wanted me to come do ayahuasca, he said he wasn't serving, there were women facilitators, he was coming to drink for himself but would be there to assist me if I needed it.
I said no, didn't say why but I didn't want him to continue hexing me. I finally broke free of the spell but the demons are still messing with me. He has dark energies around him, should not be serving any medicine at all. And he doesn't know much about iboga which is extremely dangerous to be served wrong, and serves it anyway.
he's very manipulative, can't take responsibility for any mistakes, and has narcisistic personality disorder. You'll always hear him brag. Don't trust him he's scary!
I was not planning to bring my issues to the public, but due to the recent actions of Bryce Draper publicly calling these confessions all lies I feel I must speak my truth. The things that one of the other reports filed by Bailey said in her review are all true, as well as Ray. I was on the training with them and sadly soon after what Bailey posted she lost her life. It was due to a combination of past illness, as well as the consequences of conditions due to Bryce Drapers KamboHealingMe practitioners training giving her (as well as myself) a parasite called Giardia. We were served unclean water that was promised upon signing up.
Please be cautious when trusting your life in Bryce Drapers hands. I personally have been financially and spiritually raped by this man. He owes me and many others money, and sadly someone’s life was lost as well. This is no joke. Please do not go to the jungle with him, and I also advise from doing medicine with him because it is not healthy energy you will absorb from him.
My experience with Kambo Healing Me turned into Kambo Killing Me, figuratively for myself and quite literally for one.
I signed up with eleven other people for Kambo Healing Me’s level 1 November 2018 Kambo Practitioner training program.
It was supposed to be a 2-week training in Peru which would cost between $2,400-2,600 (depending on when you signed up) and another $900 for a recommended dieta at a retreat center the owner was building with a shaman named Maestro Don Guido Nolberto Rimachi Vilchez.
I initially paid a $600 deposit through PayPal. The owner requested in writing to send it “Family and Friends” so he didn’t have to pay taxes to PayPal.
Then he sent out an e-mail that we had to pay $900 through Western Union to the shaman, which I did.
Finally, he wanted us to bring the rest in cash. I did so and paid an additional $1,800 that way.
The first night in the city of Iquitos went all right but then things took a sharp turn for the worse.
The next morning – Bryce Draper (the owner of the company and head trainer) – made a comment during the morning meeting that he wanted to kill himself. A lady in our group questioned him about this; he responded that he was taking on too much lately and admitted he shouldn’t have said it.
Then when it came time to go to the Matses village, we took motorcars to our guide’s old apartment. While waiting there someone suggested they get something to eat. Bryce agreed but said they had to make it back quickly and told them the place to go to. I was the only one who stayed behind.
A short while later, Bryce and his wife came back and said no one showed up to the restaurant. We waited and waited and waited. About a couple hours later, people started to trickle back. Then a random person showed up and introduced himself to everyone. No one knew him, but he joined our group anyway.
When the last person came back, we made our way through a muddy road to a boat with a tiny motor that seemed to be in disrepair. What we were told was going to be a 6-hour boat ride turned into a 14-hour one (we left around 5pm and got there around 7am). The boat driver was awful and kept hitting the river banks. A tree was downed across the river at one point and due to the height of the boat we were stuck. So we stayed in someone’s open hut who wasn’t home at the time -- without permission -- while a few group members walked to the village then came back with a smaller boat hours later.
On this trip Bryce had revealed he did Iboga (the world’s strongest psychedelic) twice recently and was currently microdosing it, which would explain why he seemed so out of it.
Once at the village we did Kambo with little-to-no sleep and it was rough. Then we did Kambo four more mornings in a row.
The only trainings we had were unorganized classes where we’d learn half-a-notebook’s page worth of Matses and Spanish (some of which I couldn’t hear or went too quickly).
On the website we were promised 14 sessions of Kambo (8 receiving and 6 applying), Huito body painting, jungle walks, nunu preparation, cassava preparation, clay pot making, weaving, discussions, Kambo medicine extraction, hunting, closing ceremony, a completion kit, a starter kit, website promotion on kambohealingme.com, access to a private forum on the KamboHealingMe website and ceremony assistance.
Out of all of those, we received 5 Kambo sessions, were able to participate in the Huito body painting and the men were allowed to extract the Kambo medicine one night after the excursion was cancelled the previous one where we ended up doing nothing instead. This was after around 6 days. We didn’t get anything else.
Even the Matses tribe were complaining to Bryce about how unorganized everything was and said they needed a schedule.
The website listing turned out to be a scam as Bryce revealed we would have to pay $100 a month for it, which still isn’t listed under its description and we could buy Kambo and rapé medicine from him for basically full price at his online store but if we referred people we’d get a $10-15 credit. So those were essentially pyramid schemes.
We never received any training on how to apply Kambo and the second day we had to take 3-4 hits of rapé (a tobacco snuff) up each nostril without notice. We were also informed we’d have to get repeatedly whacked with a spikey branch which would give us a fever along with flu-like symptoms and pain on the spots of contact for at least two days but we’d feel great afterwards. A woman in our group pointed out that this was not listed as part of the program and asked what were we supposed to do for that time we were laid up as we were supposed to be on a tight schedule. No real answer was ever provided to this.
Bryce also stated that we wouldn’t complete the program if we didn’t do 9 dots of Kambo in one session (which also was never listed on the site).
Everyone looked very ill because we weren’t getting any nutrition and the food was prepared using South American river water. If that wasn’t bad enough, during dinner one night, we were served uncooked river water to drink without being told what it was.
Because of this, most -- if not all -- of the group got sick. Since we ran out of bottled water, Bryce went back to town to get more. But he had diarrhea for over half a day and was held up. Instead of bringing back more jugs, he brought back more Iboga for himself, plastic toys for the kids and firecrackers.
The following day most of the trainees in my group wanted to leave. They got everyone together and had a meeting. Then we had a meeting with Bryce. Instead of listening, he proceeded to blame most people who spoke up for their personal problems instead of addressing the issues.
Bryce had agreed to step down from leading the group but by then it was too late as it was clear he lost control and everything had gotten out of hand. All the instructors had decided to leave so the whole group besides his wife who would stay for one more night decided to leave as well. Before we did so, Bryce agreed to refund half our training money and a full refund of the dieta money if we would sign an NDA.
We left and for the next approximately half week I attended a makeshift training that was quickly thrown together by his former instructors. While attending this, everyone’s emotions were flaring up because of what happened. After finishing, I went back and told Bryce this, in hopes of him realizing how cheated everyone felt and that he would do the right thing by calming everyone down by making things right, which would ultimately salvage his business.
It looked promising, because he called a meeting. But once at the meeting, he didn’t even attempt a conciliatory tone. He talked down to the attendees, put blame on everyone else but him, lambasted his former associate for what should have been a private conversation and topped it off with telling a sexual assault victim that she was to blame for what happened to her and if she listened to him it wouldn’t have happened.
A day later, I went to the retreat center, but it was still under construction (Bryce told me not to tell anyone that it wouldn’t have been ready for everyone anyway since only two huts were built and one had a toilet whose plumbing went right into the ground behind it which stunk up the place), another person handed the shaman Maestro Don Guido Nolberto Rimachi Vilchez there a sack full of money that he said was from Bryce, there wasn’t an English translator there as promised and they were doing construction while I was supposed to have a quiet area. So I left after a couple of days. Bryce confirmed I’d still get my refund.
Well, he dragged his feet and in January 2019 I reached out to him and he had changed. By this point he had reduced the amount of the refunds and kept pushing them back until he told me I wouldn’t get any money back at all because he didn’t like my attitude.
He then forwarded me by e-mail a cease & desist letter from his criminal defense attorney father in Utah which was dated 8-9 months earlier (April 2018) and told me I couldn’t talk about what happened at all. By the date, it would appear that this is a recurring problem with him and he’s also trying to illegally trample my 1st Amendment rights.
Oh, and a young mother of 3 who was in my group wrote a letter to Bryce's former associate attributing her parasite infection which turned into sepsis and then pneumonia solely to the uncooked river water she drank (which sent 5 people to the hospital). When she reached out to him, she stated that instead of taking the high road and helping an AIDS patient, he taunted her. I was told she died the day after writing that letter.
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All of the participants felt unsafe around Bryce Draper who has been taking Iboga while attempting to train us. If you don't know what Iboga is, then Google it. You will understand then what we mean. Bryce was forcing participants to take more Kambo then they felt was right for their body. Boa Cowee did not take any of us aside and give us weird medicine, we don't know where you got that information but none of the participants of the training did any of that. Bryce was requiring that the participants of the training program take medicine that we had never heard of and we did not plan on taking as part of this training.
Bryce was threatening to have participants kicked off of la Primavera land for speaking up for ourselves. 5 of the training participants have been sent to the hospital with parasites and bacterial infection and we have the medical documents and bills to prove this. All of the participants have hired a lawyer to get our money back from Bryce. The participants of the training program have filed a complaint with the local police and they are now investigating Bryce Draper for posing as a doctor and promising to heal people's illnesses. Bryce was supposed to look out for us with our food and water supply.
From the beginning, the training had red flags and very little structure. Bryce informed us he was funding property in the jungle to build a shamanic academy. The shaman he has currently residing there is named Don Guido Rimachi. A good friend of mine had gone out to Peru before me to assist Bryce Draper and Guido in building casitas. During this period I was in the States receiving phone calls from Will who informed me that they were feeding him a lot of sugar, asking for more money from him than was initially agreed upon, and he was having nightmares.
This was concerning to me because Bryce was encouraging everyone in our group to attend a month long dieta with this 'shaman’ Guido - I personally signed up to pay him 3,600.00 for the training and the dieta at his new "shamanic academy”. I questioned the integrity behind what he was doing when I heard Bryce’s shaman Guido was feeding my friend sugar and Ayahuasca in the same period of time, a well known avoidance for working with the medicine. And asking for more money than agreed upon. But he assures me he is okay, and I decide to fly to Peru in faith anyways.
When I arrived in Iquitos Bryce asks the entire group for all of the money to be given to him immediately in full, and in cash. He asks that everyone sign a behavior agreement, saying we won’t "gossip, complain about the food the 'natives prepare’, or express any discontentment” the repercussions for doing any of these things would be expulsion from the training without return of money paid. This was also concerning to me, as I knew he was supplying the food being cooked, not the natives. We were present for him buying pounds of white rice.
He also introduced us to a videographer he had hired to record the entire training. This made me uncomfortable. The day we left, I was engaging in a conversation with Bryce and I specifically asked about his plan for water, he assured me we would have an abundance of clean water with us. We asked Bryce how he has been and Bryce expressed he has been "wanting to blow his brains out over the last three months” This alarmed me and I began to ask questions amongst the group about his mental health. We left Iquitos as the sun went down, the four hour boat ride turned into a fourteen hour boat ride, the boat driver became less coordinated as it became darker, we shoveled water out of the boat. Eventually we ran into a fallen tree and had to ditch the boat we were in, half of us hiked to an abandoned house off the river and waited there while four men from our group hiked to the village to bring back a different boat.
I have been working with and receiving medicine from Bryce Draper since February 2018 after being introduced to him through a mutual friend and now ex client of his. He and I connected deeply and I’ve even taken my mother to ceremony. There were multiple occasions thought the year that I caught some weird vibrations/feelings about Bryce’s intentions as he would constantly speak of his image , acting career and movie projects he had going on in the Amazon.
Despite these red flags of his character and where his intentions lied I had decided to travel to Peru to partake in his Kambo Practitioner Training Program with the Matsés people of the Amazon. Upon arrival in early November 2018 my plans of attending the November training shifted into myself trading work building an Ayahuasca center with Bryce’s Shaman Guido. I did come back to town and met with everyone who was heading out on the first training group to say hi and wish them safe travels for the next two weeks in the jungle.
After one week I received a message from someone on the training saying that things had gone terribly wrong and they were on a boat headed back to Iquitos , without Bryce or Kate. The following day I met with the group and listened to what people were saying , there were many accounts of his lack of responsibility and organization , lack of clean water and adequate food for people in the jungle . I was in shock , and after speaking with a sister whom is from the same circle I sit with back home we decided to leave and remove ourselves from the drama and energy.
There was a lot of misconception and confusion going on in my head because I still trusted Bryce as I do not always take other peoples accounts as factual especially if it is against someone's character.. I like to SEE for myself. So I made the mistake of going back to meet with Bryce and after hearing his side of the story decided would go to the Jan training despite a gut feeling not to go. After making back to Iquitos and meeting with the group , I Had felt better about my decision to attend and there seemed to be a group of knowledgeable and sharp minded people attending, what could go wrong.
I would spend the following two weeks listening to Bryce do nothing but what I could only perceive as attempting damage control , by denouncing peoples accounts and characters that were in the first group all the while displaying no sign of personal accountability or empathy for the injuries , illness and traumatic experiences people had undergone the first training. It all became very very very clear to me the absolute truth of the matter and I knew that this was bigger than what my mind had lead me to believe. There were very many mishaps and miscalculations on Bryce's part as far as food and safety went…
One of the fellow trainees was the only person to bring MMS to clean the water for us to drink , there were also scary moments between Bryce and the Matses I witnessed that had me questioning whether or not we would have help getting our belongings out of the jungle (something we as the group would not have been able to do alone ). The last and final blow for me was when I heard about the DEATH of Bailey Provencher, a sweet woman who was on the first training .. be it she came out here with AIDS and knew it would be risky , but she contracted the parasite Girardia ... the same parasite many people on the last group had contracted from not being provided clean drinking water in primavera the same way that we were.
She was not the only one to contract the parasite but that is what eventually lead to her death last week. Previous to her death she had written a review on google reviews about the training , you can go read it yourself ... a few nights ago Bryce told me about the review and said that he was trying to use his lawyer ( his father ) to get the review taken down but the woman who wrote it had died , he then proceeded to ask me to write a review and say my opinion and even to say that I had no idea what that woman was talking about .. I was actually in shock that someone was able to so casually ask me to discredit the personal account of someone who had died as a result of her time under Bryce’s guidance and supervision while here in Peru.
From my eyes and ears he displayed a complete lack of empathy for the death of Bailey, a mother of 3 and then proceeded to tell me all these things about how it was all her fault. I stayed awake the entire night , I felt scared and shaken to the core . The next morning I packed my belongings and left , but not before he spent some time at that point attempting to sympathize for her death which was a complete flip from his words and actions the night before. I did write a review that night as he would not stop asking me ( 4-5 times he asked and it was making me feel uneasy).
I love Bryce , he has done a lot for me and my own mother as I’ve shared with many of you here. I am also the only person other than Bryce who has met every single person on both trainings and can honestly tell you from my perspective and what it’s worth that I am done with him.. this was not an easy decision and now I can see more clearly the work that he needs to do. We are all actually pretty blessed that we had the supportive group that we had and nobody was injured or got really sick.
Bryce Draper (here after BD) was introduced to me along with the many medicines that he serves back in April 2018 personally. I am healthy and have done other more meditative healing works without medicine but I was curious about this direction and wanted to know more. It ended up becoming a longer journey that took me to Peru with BD and his team. Here I came to see that BD is a very different person in reality than what he presents in guided ceremony and on social media. (he is a trained actor by trade) In reality he, as a teacher is completely flawed and has no intention of doing real teachings about healing.
I think that he really does not know that much about what he pretends to know. BD is about money and how to capitalize on an ancient medicine and synthesize it, for the purpose of mass production. DB himself was at his retreat taking Iboga and smoking cannabis too. Not a very sacred approach. He also did not care for the participants well being and pocketed the money received from participants ($2700 per person) under the false pretense that it was being used to preserve the Matsés Culture and Land. BD. did spend some money on plastic toys and fireworks for the native kids so he could gain Popularity.
We saw how this action generated jealousy and thievery among the local children. Bryce is a psychologically sick man and is not fit to serve medicine. He is continuously slandering people who have worked for him now that they have also realized the truth. He made sexist and inflammatory remarks to the women present in the group. He is manipulating the tribes people and their medicine for personal gain and is outright lying about what he is doing for the Tribe in return.
At the retreat I was there as a documentarist and had to quit on the 5th day due to what I clearly saw and personally experienced. When the other participants realized that they had been tricked by a con man, they demanded a refund. When I personally relayed this request to Bryce from the group, he threatened me with future repercussions and that I would immediately be escorted off the Land by the Matsés men. He went and demanded them to walk me out of the village like a fascistic general. Luckily they did not take any action. It has been a very unpleasant experience, to say the least, to see a person that manipulates a following (including myself) into believing that he has the knowledge, rightful conduct and integrity.
He is endangering people he serves the medicine to and is endangering the tribes he claims to be helping. He is doing his best to destroy other teachers with defamation and vilification that has no foundation in reality. By this statement urge the community to organize and take necessary action in order to keep the Kambo Medicine community, as a whole, safe.
When we were in Peru I witnessed the lack of structure and the lack of support for the trainees and their health. I saw Bryce Draper act very pushy to a few women and threaten to kick off a few for being late to gatherings that were not scheduled beforehand. He insisted that it was a requirement to partake in 2 unknown medicines or they would not receive their certificate. I noticed that he was not very present and when someone had a concern he did not listen to them about their feelings.
When we discovered that we were all drinking unboiled river water Bryce decided to go to Iquitos to purchase more supplies, food and water. When he later returned without water but with fireworks and cake, the group became even more frustrated with him. During the day he was gone many from the group came to me with concerns. I agreed to address these issues with Bryce the following day. When I approached Bryce he seemed to listen and we all tried our best to move forward. I was hopeful that a meeting with the entire group would fix everything so we could continue with the training.
During the meeting I witnessed that Bryce did not take any responsibility for anything nor did he even listen. He continued to turn the conversation back on each individual that spoke up often divulging confidential information to the entire group. After this meeting I took a vote from everyone of the trainees and they all decided to leave Prima Vera to walk to a boat 2 ½ hours away at night to return to Iquitos. In the end a majority of the trainees felt unsafe around Bryce and at Prima Vera due to his actions, words and energy. I spoke to a few upon my arrival back home for guidance about what to do to move forward. I never intended to destroy Kambo Healing Me or Bryce’s reputation.
I was only trying to figure out a way for him to see some blind spots and to try to ensure that no one else would be hurt. Whether he truly believes this "did or did not” happen or whether he believes other "energies” were at fault doesn't matter in my opinion. The group left and it is only right for Bryce to refund the trainees their money without an NDA and take responsibility for what happened. As the Trainer and the head of Kambo Healing Me it is his duty. This can all be a learning experience and an important lesson that contributed to growth.
I first met him when he served me kambo multiple times. He referred me to an iboga treatment center for heroin addiction and codepency, worked really well. he was talking to me nearly every day, checking in. I thought it was sweet at first. When I just got back he stayed with me for a few days to look out for me, but he drinking everyday and pouring me drinks.
We ended up sleeping together. He kept encouraging me to do ceremonies he was hosting, even if i didn't have money I could pay him back later. He used these ceremonies as a way to put a hex on me, to make me obedient and subservient. He pushed me to do an iboga ceremony with him.
I called him the day of, I was exhuasted I hadnt slept or eaten much I was stuck at the mexico boarder for 8 hours the night before and didn't get home until 4 am. My intuition told me it wasn't a good time for the ceremony but he still pushed me to go it was terrible I had a horrible trip.
Durring the trip I had a vision when I walked up to go to the bathroom. An orb took over my vision, talked to me in a bunch of different voices saying he can't be trusted, his intentions aren't pure. when I had my vision back, Bryce was looking right at me, like he saw that happen, and came towards me to do some shamanic movements on me. I panicked.
The next day he wanted me to take more, and do more work on me. He took me upstairs, looked me in the eyes, said all these things to me like he was hypnotizing me. things like "we're going to be friends for life. whatever this turns into, friendship, more whatever, we're always going to be friends for life." after the ceremony things got weird.
whatever entities he has rubbed off on me, I started getting possessed and moved around like a puppet, the entities moved my body in a wierd way and even opened my mouth and talked through it. I tried calling him because I felt scared and in danger. He couldnt be reached. hours later he sent a text saying he can't call he had a friend over and would call tomorrow. He never did.
Later I explained I was upset he wasn't there for me when I was in trouble. He took no responsibility even for that, saying all the entities were my fault, i brought them on myself when I did drugs in the past and now they're coming for me. He said he was trying to remove them durring the ceremony but since i didn't follow all his instructions he didn't get to finish.
He encouraged me to do more ceremonies with him, I told him i wanted to start working with women. He said I was being manipulative and playing games, talked down to me. said no one else would have been able to help or be there for me like he has. said i can go ahead and work with other providers but he can't recommend anyone.
I spoke with a medium about the entities, she said they came from him, he made deals with them and works with them, and that's how they got access to me. As i started backing away he insisted i do more ceremonies with him. Wanted me to come do ayahuasca, he said he wasn't serving, there were women facilitators, he was coming to drink for himself but would be there to assist me if I needed it.
I said no, didn't say why but I didn't want him to continue hexing me. I finally broke free of the spell but the demons are still messing with me. He has dark energies around him, should not be serving any medicine at all. And he doesn't know much about iboga which is extremely dangerous to be served wrong, and serves it anyway.
he's very manipulative, can't take responsibility for any mistakes, and has narcisistic personality disorder. You'll always hear him brag. Don't trust him he's scary!
I was not planning to bring my issues to the public, but due to the recent actions of Bryce Draper publicly calling these confessions all lies I feel I must speak my truth. The things that one of the other reports filed by Bailey said in her review are all true, as well as Ray. I was on the training with them and sadly soon after what Bailey posted she lost her life. It was due to a combination of past illness, as well as the consequences of conditions due to Bryce Drapers KamboHealingMe practitioners training giving her (as well as myself) a parasite called Giardia. We were served unclean water that was promised upon signing up.
Please be cautious when trusting your life in Bryce Drapers hands. I personally have been financially and spiritually raped by this man. He owes me and many others money, and sadly someone’s life was lost as well. This is no joke. Please do not go to the jungle with him, and I also advise from doing medicine with him because it is not healthy energy you will absorb from him.
My experience with Kambo Healing Me turned into Kambo Killing Me, figuratively for myself and quite literally for one.
I signed up with eleven other people for Kambo Healing Me’s level 1 November 2018 Kambo Practitioner training program.
It was supposed to be a 2-week training in Peru which would cost between $2,400-2,600 (depending on when you signed up) and another $900 for a recommended dieta at a retreat center the owner was building with a shaman named Maestro Don Guido Nolberto Rimachi Vilchez.
I initially paid a $600 deposit through PayPal. The owner requested in writing to send it “Family and Friends” so he didn’t have to pay taxes to PayPal.
Then he sent out an e-mail that we had to pay $900 through Western Union to the shaman, which I did.
Finally, he wanted us to bring the rest in cash. I did so and paid an additional $1,800 that way.
The first night in the city of Iquitos went all right but then things took a sharp turn for the worse.
The next morning – Bryce Draper (the owner of the company and head trainer) – made a comment during the morning meeting that he wanted to kill himself. A lady in our group questioned him about this; he responded that he was taking on too much lately and admitted he shouldn’t have said it.
Then when it came time to go to the Matses village, we took motorcars to our guide’s old apartment. While waiting there someone suggested they get something to eat. Bryce agreed but said they had to make it back quickly and told them the place to go to. I was the only one who stayed behind.
A short while later, Bryce and his wife came back and said no one showed up to the restaurant. We waited and waited and waited. About a couple hours later, people started to trickle back. Then a random person showed up and introduced himself to everyone. No one knew him, but he joined our group anyway.
When the last person came back, we made our way through a muddy road to a boat with a tiny motor that seemed to be in disrepair. What we were told was going to be a 6-hour boat ride turned into a 14-hour one (we left around 5pm and got there around 7am). The boat driver was awful and kept hitting the river banks. A tree was downed across the river at one point and due to the height of the boat we were stuck. So we stayed in someone’s open hut who wasn’t home at the time -- without permission -- while a few group members walked to the village then came back with a smaller boat hours later.
On this trip Bryce had revealed he did Iboga (the world’s strongest psychedelic) twice recently and was currently microdosing it, which would explain why he seemed so out of it.
Once at the village we did Kambo with little-to-no sleep and it was rough. Then we did Kambo four more mornings in a row.
The only trainings we had were unorganized classes where we’d learn half-a-notebook’s page worth of Matses and Spanish (some of which I couldn’t hear or went too quickly).
On the website we were promised 14 sessions of Kambo (8 receiving and 6 applying), Huito body painting, jungle walks, nunu preparation, cassava preparation, clay pot making, weaving, discussions, Kambo medicine extraction, hunting, closing ceremony, a completion kit, a starter kit, website promotion on kambohealingme.com, access to a private forum on the KamboHealingMe website and ceremony assistance.
Out of all of those, we received 5 Kambo sessions, were able to participate in the Huito body painting and the men were allowed to extract the Kambo medicine one night after the excursion was cancelled the previous one where we ended up doing nothing instead. This was after around 6 days. We didn’t get anything else.
Even the Matses tribe were complaining to Bryce about how unorganized everything was and said they needed a schedule.
The website listing turned out to be a scam as Bryce revealed we would have to pay $100 a month for it, which still isn’t listed under its description and we could buy Kambo and rapé medicine from him for basically full price at his online store but if we referred people we’d get a $10-15 credit. So those were essentially pyramid schemes.
We never received any training on how to apply Kambo and the second day we had to take 3-4 hits of rapé (a tobacco snuff) up each nostril without notice. We were also informed we’d have to get repeatedly whacked with a spikey branch which would give us a fever along with flu-like symptoms and pain on the spots of contact for at least two days but we’d feel great afterwards. A woman in our group pointed out that this was not listed as part of the program and asked what were we supposed to do for that time we were laid up as we were supposed to be on a tight schedule. No real answer was ever provided to this.
Bryce also stated that we wouldn’t complete the program if we didn’t do 9 dots of Kambo in one session (which also was never listed on the site).
Everyone looked very ill because we weren’t getting any nutrition and the food was prepared using South American river water. If that wasn’t bad enough, during dinner one night, we were served uncooked river water to drink without being told what it was.
Because of this, most -- if not all -- of the group got sick. Since we ran out of bottled water, Bryce went back to town to get more. But he had diarrhea for over half a day and was held up. Instead of bringing back more jugs, he brought back more Iboga for himself, plastic toys for the kids and firecrackers.
The following day most of the trainees in my group wanted to leave. They got everyone together and had a meeting. Then we had a meeting with Bryce. Instead of listening, he proceeded to blame most people who spoke up for their personal problems instead of addressing the issues.
Bryce had agreed to step down from leading the group but by then it was too late as it was clear he lost control and everything had gotten out of hand. All the instructors had decided to leave so the whole group besides his wife who would stay for one more night decided to leave as well. Before we did so, Bryce agreed to refund half our training money and a full refund of the dieta money if we would sign an NDA.
We left and for the next approximately half week I attended a makeshift training that was quickly thrown together by his former instructors. While attending this, everyone’s emotions were flaring up because of what happened. After finishing, I went back and told Bryce this, in hopes of him realizing how cheated everyone felt and that he would do the right thing by calming everyone down by making things right, which would ultimately salvage his business.
It looked promising, because he called a meeting. But once at the meeting, he didn’t even attempt a conciliatory tone. He talked down to the attendees, put blame on everyone else but him, lambasted his former associate for what should have been a private conversation and topped it off with telling a sexual assault victim that she was to blame for what happened to her and if she listened to him it wouldn’t have happened.
A day later, I went to the retreat center, but it was still under construction (Bryce told me not to tell anyone that it wouldn’t have been ready for everyone anyway since only two huts were built and one had a toilet whose plumbing went right into the ground behind it which stunk up the place), another person handed the shaman Maestro Don Guido Nolberto Rimachi Vilchez there a sack full of money that he said was from Bryce, there wasn’t an English translator there as promised and they were doing construction while I was supposed to have a quiet area. So I left after a couple of days. Bryce confirmed I’d still get my refund.
Well, he dragged his feet and in January 2019 I reached out to him and he had changed. By this point he had reduced the amount of the refunds and kept pushing them back until he told me I wouldn’t get any money back at all because he didn’t like my attitude.
He then forwarded me by e-mail a cease & desist letter from his criminal defense attorney father in Utah which was dated 8-9 months earlier (April 2018) and told me I couldn’t talk about what happened at all. By the date, it would appear that this is a recurring problem with him and he’s also trying to illegally trample my 1st Amendment rights.
Oh, and a young mother of 3 who was in my group wrote a letter to Bryce's former associate attributing her parasite infection which turned into sepsis and then pneumonia solely to the uncooked river water she drank (which sent 5 people to the hospital). When she reached out to him, she stated that instead of taking the high road and helping an AIDS patient, he taunted her. I was told she died the day after writing that letter.