Ayni, or Reciprocity and Right Relationship with All

In Joan Parisi Wilcox's book, The Masters of the Living Energy, she writes that Andean shaman (paqo) Juan Nunez del Prado says, "Our work as humans is to have a complete life, to have a real relationship with the Pachamama, with Mother Earth, to have a real relationship with everything in the world, with everything. We can have a "real" relationship with everything because everything, including ourselves, has kawsay-the vital, animating energy of existence." According to Juan, not only the trees, rivers, and mountains have kawsay, but even the Empire State Building has its own power. The problem is how to establish a good relationship with that person, place, or object.

Power is only power according to Juan. You can do good things or you can do bad things with power. But if you want to do good things in your life and in the lives of those around you, you must have power. He says that you must decide how to use it not based on your ability to use it, but because you follow a moral rule that tells you not do it. There are some people who are prevented from acting not because of their morals but because they do not have the power to do it. The thing is to have the power to do everything! Then the next thing is to have the personal morals to know how to use or not use your power. We are looking for power when we try to make a connection with the living energy.

According to Fredy "Puma" Quispe Singona, words are spirits with energy also. Every word you speak or write becomes a being, with action and energy. According to how you choose to speak, you are choosing how you will be surrounded by these beings. Also, not all of our intentions are manifested in our words. Some are beyond our words and are resonated energy beings.

Please be respectful and mindful of the spirit beings you invite into our universe and into this blog.

In Munay

Mesa Bundle

Mesa Bundle

According to Joan Parisi Wilcox, a mesa is a Peruvian Q'ero paqo's primary tool. A mesa is a bundle of power objects that connects Andean paqo's to their ancestors, the sacred sites, and their helping spirits, especially the apus, or the spirits of the sacred mountains of Peru The mesa is not the shaman's, or paqo's, power, but it symbolizes his/her power.

In Joan's book, Fredy "Puma" Quispe Singona explains many Q'ero teachings. He states that the mesa is the fire burning in our hearts. The mesa carrier is connected to other mesa carriers. This path is about respect and integrity. The mesa is connected to your ancestors and your lineage. In Peru, the apus, the spirits of the land, are the sacred mountains. Your apu is the spirit of the land near where you were born and came into this world.

Fredy "Puma" Quispe Singona says, "Now why is it called "mesa?" Mesa means table is Spanish. Serious decisions are made around a table. Important things take place around a table. It is very important that your mesa become a powerful circle of stones, crystals, and other symbols of your power. All of your power objects are wrapped in a beautiful cloth to make a bundle. Whatever you put in your mesa, only put it in if you have a strong "Yes!" about it.

We connect to the ley lines of energy through the mesa. Through these ley lines, or seques, we activate our mesa and get connected to all the other mesas. Remember that you are always working with a network-between communities, families members, countries, continents. Fredy "Puma" says to remember that you are never alone as a paqo.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Soul Retrieval - Survival and Healing


 
I just returned from a Soul Retrieval course in Sante Fe taught by José Luis Herrera, a wonderful Andean shamanic teacher. What follows are some of his teachings, my understandings of them, and my experiences.

Our life journeys are similar to waterfalls that start small and pure at the source, separate and split apart when obstacles appear in order to follow the path of least resistance, meet and join again after by passing the obstacle, and end as a source of accumulated wealth or poverty depending on how fast and how well it recovers its parts.

When we are faced with traumatic events or unsafe situations, we may lose part of our soul. The soul part that leaves us goes to a safe haven until we can cope again.  It is a part of our soul that is essential to our well-being. When we are strong and safe again, we can call that soul part back to us and it can be reintegrated. The sooner we recover and recall that soul part back, the easier it is to reintegrate it back with the whole and the faster we feel well again. The longer one waits to recall it, the more time has changed you and the soul part has to get to know you again. It may not stay and it may not elect to come back at all.
What you are afraid of is also what you can use to help heal yourself.  You may have to go into your own battlegrounds, find what is feeding off of your resources, and mend it with light and love. You learn from your fears and dislikes, and you can use them as fuel to propel you to fulfillment.

In my soul retrievals for the past year, the underlying theme was a fear of conversing with people and a dislike of conflicts that take a large amount of energy and time to resolve.  For years, my response to new people has been avoidance.  In the soul retrieval sessions, it became evident that this resulted from my moving from a protected neighbor and school to an isolated highway home and a rather hostile school environment.  I simply thought that I had managed that as best as I could, but it has been managing me since I was 7!

I went from a neighborhood where my family, my grandmother, several aunts and uncles and their children, and many close family friends lived along 3 streets.  I rode my bicycle to the church that my father built and most of my relatives and friends attended.  I don't recall having disagreements greater than what we wanted to do that day and who we wanted to be with that particular day.  I have known these people since I was born and making friends with them was easy. It was free-flowing for the most part and all helped each other.

When I moved, I had to meet new people and make new friends.  Many of the children that I met at the new schools were very hostile and verbally mean until you got to know them well.  There was very little opportunity for a new person to help any of the people I met because they were very closed and distrusted very much.  After trying and getting very bad reactions, I finally gave up and had only a few close friends throughout the following school years.

This pattern has continued until now.  But now that I have identified it, I am changing my perspective and trying to associate with others once again.  I am trying to not take anything personally and to judge as little as possible.  I am trying to just "go with the flow like zydeco" and  if relations change for the better, they change for the better.  So far, they have been changing for the better and I am much happier.
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