don Oscar Miro-Quesada – The Path of the Universal Shaman

In this first virtual gathering, we’ll explore the relevance of a shamanic worldview as a global catalyst for human spiritualization. We’ll explore various forms of shamanic initiation, including illness and crisis. Classic perspectives on dismemberment and ritualized death for the attainment of soul vision and healing power will also be presented.

Additionally, don Oscar will introduce you to the cosmovision of Pachakuti Mesa Tradition and ritual healing arts that will serve as the foundation — through which to progressively awaken the universal shaman within.

You’ll discover:

• Releasing the Past — moving beyond the illusion of victimhood and embracing the choice of sacred volunteerism
• The Art of Communion: Quietude, Stillness, and Presence — befriending the great originating mystery
• Ukhu Pacha Ch’usay: An Immersion Within (“lower world” journey) — guided practice for accessing inner dimensions of being and the archetypal realms of shadow

The shamanic universe is replete with magical, unexpected, and non-ordinary possibilities when compared to our conscious waking reality. In order to benefit from this unlimited panorama of opportunities for growing your soul, we must learn to engage the powers, forces, and visionary guidance in this vast sea of human possibility with balance and discernment. In this second apprenticeship gathering, we will share time-proven tools and techniques for harmoniously harnessing such non-ordinary potentials and living in a balanced way.

You’ll discover:

• Transforming the Present — the disciplined use of imagination, sacred word, and ritual gesture
• The Art of Consecration — ceremonial expressions of gratitude for evoking sacred reciprocity in our lives
• Kay Pacha Ch’usay: The Sojourn of Here-and-Now (“middle world” journey) — guided practice for making “this world” a reflection of one’s wholeness, beauty, and reverence

It’s a well-known fact that true healing is a labor of love. Having learned to say “YES” to the call — having heeded the great dreaming to embrace a transformational vocation of relationship with oneself, others, and the universe as a whole — we must now learn to lovingly establish trustworthy spiritual alliances with unseen helpers and guides who inhabit the inner and outer dimensions of our being. From an open-hearted place of appreciation for the beauty and grace contained within our Pachakuti Mesa Tradition shamanic altar ground, we will call upon the love which is our essence, in service to personal and planetary renewal.

You’ll discover:

• Creating the Future — invoking alliances of transformational opportunity in partnership with seen and unseen shamanic realms
• The Art of Composition — tools for ritual patterning and visionary configuration of a sacred shamanic altar ground for personal and planetary healing transformation
• Hanaq Pacha Ch’usay: A Celestial Embrace (“upper world” journey) — guided practice in shamanic flight to access superior realms of universal wisdom and spiritual guidance

Building upon our accrued wisdom and the shamanic tools learned thus far, we are prepared to embark on the journey of transforming mind. By trusting soul, we re-member; in honoring spirit, vision is bestowed; and through the opening of our hearts, the healing power of love is granted.

Our next step is to apprentice the art of making manifest our thoughts, insights, and divine imaginings in a manner that positively transforms current reality. The power of intention and disciplined imagination known to Pachakuti Mesa Tradition adepts shall be thoroughly apprenticed and mastered in this fourth gathering of our series.

You’ll discover:

• Living the Mystery — consciously embracing the wonderfully unpredictable nature of life and finding sustenance in the cosmic order behind the illusion of separateness
• The Art of Connection — shamanic techniques for maximizing our human evolution as luminous strands within the “great sacred web of creation”
• T’eqsimuyu Ch’usay: Returning to One (“cosmic seeding” journey) — guided practice for the shamanic dreaming of a “New Earth”

The journey of initiation into perennial shamanic wisdom teachings and ritual practices gives us an embodied understanding of the primacy of consciousness behind all things. This in turn deepens our ability to effect healing influence within our physical bodies.

Participants in this fifth apprenticeship module will be introduced to the workings of “kawsay” — vital life force — for the strengthening and evolution of our human neurophysiology. Awakened in the heart by the experience of inextricable solidarity with our living Earth, we will learn shamanic techniques for harnessing Gaia’s sacred medicine, allowing us to deepen and sustain our attainment of vitality and balanced living.

You’ll discover:

• Serving the Earth — teaching love by the way we live
• The Art of Cooperation — right action, borne of compassionate spiritual wisdom, unites
• Ch’aska Runa Ch’usay: A Starlight Re-membering (“contact” journey) — guided practice for the realization of Self as Creation

We are all native children of Mother Earth, all Indigenous participants of her tribal dreaming — blessed by a shared experience of common unity with Pachamama and consciously dedicated to her sustainability.

As a global family, our sense of belongingness is a true re-membering, by which each thought, word, and action finds radiant reflection in communion with All Our Relations. Based on our shared willingness to stand together, in deep reverence for the Great Sacred Hoop of Life, we realize our earth walk is a path of sacred activism.

You’ll discover:

• Sustaining the Tribe — evolving our human destiny
• The Art of Compatibility — exercises in resonance, reverence, and revelation
• Munayniyoq Ch’usay: Reflections of the Beloved (“blessing” journey) — guided practice in the sanctification of love as our essence

In the memorable words of T. S. Eliot, “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.” Although this noble sojourn throughout virtual shamanic dimensions of healing must come to “an end,” in reality, it remains an eternal beginning, a return to the One Source.

We are now fully prepared to carry forth the magic, mystery, and medicine of Universal Shamanism to the Four Directions. In doing so, we forever help crystallize The Shift in the form of a spiritually regenerative Pachakuti — a prophesied Great Turning — for we have learned to embrace a lifeway that leads from victimhood to volunteerism, from separation to wholeness, and from fear to love. This is our consciously decreed destiny as Pachamama-Gaia’s children, our shamanic soul’s dharma path as Pachakuti Mesa Tradition initiates in service to the Great Work. Infinite gratitude for your evolutionary participation in transforming our world through sacred living!

You’ll discover:

• Birthing the Cosmos — initiation into the immortality of Self
• The Art of Correspondence: as above, so below — a synergy of the One and the Many
• Tiyayakuy Ch’usay (“welcoming” journey) — guided practice in the evolution of universal sentience

When we surrender the need to figure it all out, and cultivate the ability to let it all in, then our earth walk becomes a sacred dance of healing service on the planet. More than the world needs saving, it needs loving.
— don Oscar Miro-Quesada