Excerpt from forthcoming publication, “Lessons of the Inca Shamans, Part 2: Beyond the Veil”

Friday, September 13th, 2013

We have forgotten our roots and don’t know who we are becoming. The moment is who you are. It is what we are right now that matters.  Even if beliefs are forgotten, the primordial identity is remembered. We’ve forgotten our primeval identity.  We have the tendency to hoard.  Every ten years we go into massive warfare, to deal with the “inflamed hoarding” we tend toward.  In that process of metaphorically hoarding life, sometimes we wake up and feel empty, not knowing who we are, beyond the hoarding.  We need to re-find the primordial identity.  Who are we? This has to do with the primordial identity we have forgotten. The bottom line is that everyone should have the authority, power, & responsibility to create pathways to joy.  But our cultural paradigm isolates us.  We do not know what fulfillment – the healed state – means for us.  Our identity resides in reawakening our lineage.

Finding a medicine coordinate gives us medicine names (not personal identity names) that have to do with vision. Through this process, we become stewards, feeders, proposing a new, happening, collective order to belong. In the material world, they are linked to career/profession. In Inca times, a blood lineage connected brothers and grandchildren. Outside the “doing” identities, historical identities of fear, etc… We are history-makers, story makers.  There is no power in re-enacting old stories.  Stories of creativity and love can be given to our grandchildren, to propel them into a healed state. New stories must be made, such that our grandchildren will tell them as their legacy of returning to the land.  In this journey we are on, we all have the responsibility to leave behind a legacy, big or small.  If it is going to be a big legacy, we must go through big rites of passage.  Power is a big responsibility.  Power has to do with what we leave behind.  To acquire power, there are rituals, initiations, rites of passage. You invest in reciprocal effects. The process of preparation is reciprocal. One must embody a spiritual search – one denominator, common evolution. This entails a shift in own creative awareness.  For life, there needs to be this process of reciprocation.  The spiritual search is parallel – both are exemplars of growth. In bigger rites of passage, one is selected to become a leader.  If the gift of power is given, one needs to embody it.

(Dona Alahandrina, 2011,  from Lessons of the Inca Shamans Part 2: Beyond the Veil, Publication forthcoming)

 

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