Mauricio Albanés

My name is Mauricio Albanés, and I was born in 1963 in Atiquizaya, El Salvador. I am a medical doctor from the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Mexico in 1986, and I have been in service since then. I post-graduated as a general surgeon from the Central University of Venezuela, at the Miguel Pérez Carreño Hospital, in 1999. I have experience in emergency surgery, shock trauma, and laparoscopic surgery.

My path in the spiritual world began with a near-death experience in 2017: a heart attack. That experience was wonderful, as it turned out to be very healing. Since then, I began to study thanatology, the study of death, and trauma, and I investigated and innovated in neuroscience, finding the best references on studying the soul in Jewish Kabbalah.

Shortly after, in 2018, the sacred medicines completely changed the lives of my family members and me. Since then, I have dedicated myself to observing and studying the effects, benefits, and contraindications of entheogenic substances, specifically Ayahuasca, Yopo, Jurema, Bufo Alvarius, Psilocybin (Magic Mushrooms), Iboga, and Kambó.

Today, after years of experience working with natural psychedelics or ancestral plants, I have observed meaningful improvement in many autoimmune, psychosomatic and chronic degenerative conditions, such as fibromyalgia, and in depression. It improves how we relate to each other in our family and work social environment. Currently, I advise a group of independent facilitators to reduce risks and achieve more benefits with the proper use of these substances, designing and reviewing safety and evaluation protocols, and guiding on contraindications, warning signs, and referral criteria. This advisory work is offered as evaluation, prevention, safety, and risk reduction, not as a universal therapeutic indication or a substitute for medical care. The only absolute contraindication is: “not wanting to change”. It seems incredible, but even some patients do not want to change; they do not want to stop being sick, and they get benefits from the disease.

I created the Kintsugi method and have travelled to many countries as a medical advisor, lecturer, teacher, and facilitation supervisor; today, I am based in Madrid, Spain. I have authored six books on integrative medicine, consciousness, and transformation, including Kambo, La Vacuna de la Selva and Medicina Multidimensional: Del cuerpo a la conciencia, in which I develop the M4–C5–V6–Ψ model.

I currently teach at the Escuela de Psicología Trascendente, and in 2026 I presented at the annual conference of the European Transpersonal Psychology Association, in Golden Sands, Bulgaria, on death, rebirth, and the transformation of consciousness. My humanistic and spiritual vision of health provides a transcendent approach to medicine that allows us to integrate multiple perspectives, such as shamanic, allopathic, and naturopathic.