We’ve added the glossary from Lessons of the Inca Shamans, Part 2 to the website under the Basics tab. You can view it here.

  Serving the collective is not “collective” in terms of the culture, but rather the actual energy, the higher vibration that exists between all living things.“Collective” doesn’t necessarily mean your village or community, your family, or your country. Collective means living a life in which you’re no longer separate, you are collective.…

A reciprocal, or “right” relationship develops and is maintained between shamans and Pachamama, serving as a functional gateway between ordinary and nonordinary reality. Inca shamans connect with Pachamama, the collective expression of the land using the energy centers in their energetic,  luminous body, the conduit into experiencing energy. By connecting with the…

Pachamama is the word for “mother earth” or “the great mother” used in Peruvian shamanism. In Peru, everything in life begins, exists, and ends in direct dialogue and communion with Pachamama, the collective of the land itself. The land exists both inside and outside of time and space, as spirit…

Apus – referred to as “winged beings; the collective mountain spirits. despacho – an offering to Pachamama or the Great Earth Mother. It is a circular arrangement, or mandala, embellished with k’intus (prayer leaves), grains, candy, and other colorful symbolic objects representing the lower, middle, and upper worlds. energetic collective…

As I grow older, it becomes clearer to me that as human beings we have an inherent need to make meaning in our lives. Based upon my experience as a psychologist and a Jungian analyst in private practice, working with people are in the process of deep soul-searching, finding meaning…