Héctor Benton
Comcaac Master Shaman · Guardian of Bufo Alvarius
A Comcaac Pericú tribal member with an MSc in Psychology, weaving twenty-five years of indigenous healing and the sacred temazcal with modern psychological insight.
The Comcaac
Keepers of Otac
The Comcaac, known to the outside world as the Seri, are an indigenous people of the Sonoran coast in Mexico. They live along the Gulf of California in the communities of Punta Chueca and El Desemboque, with Tiburón Island at the heart of their ancestral territory. "Comcaac" means simply "the people," and they are among the few nations in Mexico to have kept their language, a language unlike any other on earth, and their traditions almost wholly intact since first contact.
For generations they have lived in deep relationship with the desert and the sea as seafarers, fishers, gatherers, artists, and keepers of song and ceremony. Among the medicines they carry is the secretion of the Sonoran Desert toad, what the wider world calls Bufo (5-MeO-DMT) and what the Comcaac know as Otac. They are among the first peoples to have worked with this medicine in ceremony, and Ancestral Encounters walks in alliance with them, honoring and helping preserve the lineage this knowledge comes from.
