North Coast & Highlands Journey Sept 1-9, 2011 Star-Beings HuachumaWhat is our connection to the star nations?
When we open sacred space and turn our attention to the great sky above
we call in Inti Taita (Father Sun), Mama Quilla (Grandmother Moon)
and Chaska Kuna, the Star Beings. Who are the Star Beings and what do we
source from them? When: September 1-9, 2011
Does not include flight from you country to Lima. Join Jeffrey, Cielle and Puma Quispe scroll to bottom of page for a video with Puma Quispe 2011: Peru’s North Coast and Northern Highlands. This September we'll be visiting the rather fabled, less-touristed homelands of pre-Inca cultures. It's an area I kept hearing little references to: “The hummingbird medicine, being ‘in the North’, is a familiar helper here.” “Unlike Cusco, this is a place where all four of ‘the four winds’ are known to the locals.” “Stories of the ch'aska kuna, beings from the stars, teaching, settling, perhaps even intermarrying.” “An ayahuascero far south, in the jungle, who said everyone's visions and knowledge get mixed with their native culture, and that to really verify your cognitions, you must compare them to the Chavin de Huantar carvings.” “The Chimu, Moche, and Mochica.- makers of remarkable ceramics that seem to record remarkable visions.” “The original home of the huachuma (San Pedro cactus) curanderos.” “Connecting with sources of power, healing, illumination.” The journey to Chavin is a true pilgrimage. We begin at sea level, along the North Coast. The regions of Trujillo and Chiclayo, where rivers come down to the sea, were naturally also the sites of habitation centuries ago. We connect, at their sacred sites, with the energies of healing and transformation as they refined them. Each step, each day, is an opportunity for awakening. Much depends on your intention and attention. As we ascend into the Highlands, feasting on more useful knowledge at the “ancient medical school”, we draw closer and closer to our finale, the very early “Jaguar Temple” at Chavin de Huantar. Archeologists date this as the oldest developed culture in Peru, and among the medicine people we have worked with, it is widely acknowledged as “source” --- at least in this dimensional frame.... The trip will be nine days. There will be four days of "deep medicine" - work with the huachuma. Here the teacher plant is on his home ground. We’ll be traveling with Puma Quispe, the young elder from Chinchero, who appears with several Q’eros elders in Joan Wilcox’s “Masters of the Living Energy”. Here’s Puma from last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-qCwPnwNwo The second teacher who will accompany us is one of the seven recognized “plant teachers” - Grandfather Huachuma, the San Pedro cactus - the “hummingbird medicine”. We’ll be working with this medicine four times along the way. Together these two respected teachers will help us to connect with the huacas, or sacred sites, and to receive the messages they have for each of us. Each station of our journey carries a different energy; each constitutes a mesa itself, connecting, “calling in” specific forces. The climax of course is Chavin de Huantar, the earliest mystical site in the Peruvian tradition. To reduce travel time, we'll be flying from Lima to Chiclayo, and also between Chiclayo and Trujillo. Those airfares will be included in the cost, as will lodging, meals, entries, other transport. Cost is $2300 double occupancy if a $500 deposit is postmarked by June 4th, $2500 if deposit is received June 5th or later. Maximum 8 mature travelers, who have “done their work.”. You are welcome to pass this info on to such persons.
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