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.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Questions We All Ponder: Who am I? Why am I here?


In a workshop facilitated by José Luis Herrera, the answer to the questions "Who am I?" and "Why am I here?" was completely resolved for me.  They have been getting answered and resolved little by little all my life, but events of the past two years, and how something he described fit in with my perceptions and feelings of those events, really sealed the answer for me.

In the last 5 years, many of my most beloved and closest family members have moved into the spirit world and onto their next lives, including my precious and much loved daughter.  I never really enjoyed living because of all the constraints placed upon my creativity and spontaneity.  After their moving on and leaving me here without them, I really didn't care if I was here or there. I only stayed because of my beloved family members that are still with me and so want me here with them.

I have spent much time in meditation and have experienced the spirit world of light, comfort, well-being, and love.  This is the place I have always wanted to go back to, the wonderful place of the beginning and home, where all of our spirits are.

I have also spent much time in the cemetaries.  It is very difficult to know that the cemetary is always a have-to-visit place on any holiday and is very difficult to only be able to physically give flowers to my daughter for her birthdays and holidays. 

A few days before Halloween and All Saints' Day, I was visiting her grave and a van came.  A woman with at least 8 children of various ages and gender got out.  I watched them from a distance.  While she placed flowers on an infant's grave, the children ran about in the infant gravesite area.  It was very surreal and spiritual.  I could also see the buried infants dancing as their feet ran with the live children's feet above them.  They were all so happy to be sharing spirit with each other! 

I thought, "The woman and I should have not allowed them to run on top of the little ones' graves." But I don't think either of us were allowed to interfer because the little buried ones so badly wanted to experience running and screaming and playing, and the little live ones knew it and gave it gladly.

José Luis Herrera talked about the Peruvian culture's ritual on All Saint's Day and how they regularly visit the cemetaries and bring the favorite foods and drink and flowers to their loved ones.  They have a picnic at the gravesites so that their loved ones can experience the tastes, the smells, the sights, and the sounds of the Earthly things they loved and can no longer experience.  For those few hours, they can enjoy those again because we love, honor, and cherish them enough to never forget them and share with them.

Yes, the spirit world is a world of love, comfort, and peace. The earthly world is one experienced by the five senses and many things happen in it.  I will experience the sights, sounds, textures, smells, and tastes of the many things that earth offers for as long as I have the energy to do so.  When I am weary, I will return to the spirit world for a rest until the next life.  I know I am home on earth and home in the spirit world.

With all my love and happiness,
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