Qoyllur Riti “An Inca Festival Celebrating the Stars” re-posted by Shaman's Portal Continue reading

The Inca followed both solar and lunar cycles throughout the year. However, the cycle of the moon was of primary importance for both agricultural activities and the timing of festivals, which reflected in many cases celebrations surrounding animal husbandry, sowing seeds and harvesting of crops. Important festivals such as Qoyllor Riti (Resplendent Snow or Snow Star), perhaps the most important festival given its significance and meaning, are still celebrated on the full Moon. Continue reading

A despacho is an offering. It creates a “right” relationship between us and the spirit world on all three planes of existence through the practice of ayni. Don Manuel Quispe a Q'ero Elder and Altomesoyaq of the Q'ero Nation says of a Despacho ""The despacho is a gift--a giving back of what we receive everyday in our lives. We seek, through the despacho ceremony, to bridge the ordinary and non-ordinary realms; to establish new patterns of relationship and possibility. The despacho places us in right relationship, right ayni, with the Pachamama." Continue reading

The Q'eros believe they are the direct bloodline descendants of the Inka. It was in the late 1950's when a group of explorers headed by Anthropologist Oscar Nunez Del Prado went high up into the Andes to meet with the community for the first time. They found that many of the Q'ero lived at altitudes that exceeded 14,000 feet. Their homes were primitive stone huts, had dirt floors and grass thatched roofs. They claimed then and today that their shamanic ways are derived from the same practices of the Inka and tap into universal energy. Continue reading

The author does state correctly that many people are coming to Peru and other countries where the Ayahuasca "brew" is legal in search of the myriad benefits offered by the sacred plant medicine. However, Kelly Hearn unfortunately takes a wrong turn in concluding incorrectly that " what many of them (ayahuasca tourists) find is a nightmare. " The reality is that the overwhelming majority of travelers numbering in the tens of thousands each year find exactly what they are looking for, and that is answers to their personal issues, healing old emotional wounds, cures for their disease and addictions, confronting and overcoming fears, enhanced and broader spiritual beliefs, expansion of their consciousness and improved personal outlook and relationships with others. The medicine works! Continue reading

The Path of the sun is seeking $5,000 in financing through Kickstarter in order to raise funds for 100 film festival submissions. The purpose of this Kickstarter campaign is to secure funds for film festival entry fee submissions. Additional funding outside of Kickstarter is in place to purchase editing equipment,... Continue reading

On November 14th Seti Gershberg the filmmaker and creative force behind The Path of The Sun was interviewed on Planetary Consciousness Radio a program of Planeta 2013 Radio Web by Host Gerardo Said and Co-host Maria Clara Castaneda regarding the film and ideas and concepts pertaining to the shamanism of Q'eros and the Andean Cosmovision. Continue reading

Click here for The Path of The Sun project link. Just in time for the holiday season the Kickstarter campaign for the Path of the Sun has launched. If you are not familiar, Kickstarter is a crowd funding platform that has helped raise over $450 million dollars for creative projects.... Continue reading

I am happy to announce that I will be exhibiting 10 photos of Q'eros children at the Museo Del Arte Contemporaneo Del Cusco as part of a larger exhibit featuring paintings and digital prints by Peruvian artist Martha Morales Polar who's theme is children. My exhibit is called Q'eros -... Continue reading

The major premise of the documentary The Path of the Sun is that indigenous culture, shamanistic practice, wisdom and knowledge learned through 1,000's of years of human experience and observation as expressed through the ceremonial and ritualistic practices and belief has value to us in the 21st century. Continue reading

The blog for the Path of the Sun, a documentary film about shamanism and why the belief systems of indigenous people are important to the modern world, was selected as Blog of the Week on Typepad.com Continue reading

(c) Geremia Commetti Q’eros: A Study in Survival is a paper written by Photographer and Filmmaker John Cohen. In 1957 John spent seven months in Peru studying the people and taking photographs. When John went to Q'eros he discovered that some of the elders still used the quipu, a system... Continue reading

A curated "blog within a blog" of articles found around the web on Shamanism, Sacred Plants and Mysticism Continue reading

Ayahuasca is a ritual medicine used by Amazon healers for thousands of years. It has medicinal benefits for the body and the mind, it allows the awakening of the existential sense and the development of the mystic self. Ayahuasca is always drunk in the context of a ritual medicine, to reaffirm convictions, to contact the mythical world, to acquire valour, to cultivate personal wisdom and to shed light on the future. Continue reading

Ayni is a traditional form of mutual help practiced by the descendants of the Inca and the indigenous peoples of Andes. Continue reading

Hatun Q'eros "To remain calm when everyone else loses his nerve is the greatest contribution you can make to others: to be cool headed when a storm is raging is to act like the channel through which the "Intij Inti" will cast it's rays of light, clearing away the blackest... Continue reading