Posts on the Andean Cosmovision
For a context for these cryptic quotes please see the introduction to ‘The Flower of Experience’. For more information on munay please see the post ‘The Three Centers of Being‘…
Engage in an intuitive exploration of the munay. The love found in the munay is not an emotion, it is the underlying frequency of the Cosmos. The desire of the munay is not for a thing or for a person, it is a desire for being one with the Cosmos.
I have over the years created quite a collection of notes from my times with Americo; instructions for various ways of meditating and quotes that seemed particularly relevant at the time. As I prepare to teach a salka class I often review those notes to remind myself of the many and various meditations I have learned from him. Occasionally as I do I run across something he said that is particularly relevant to how I am right now, some quote that I’ve read dozens of times but this particular time seems especially relevant. I pause and then it is like my energy opens up, blossoms, from within. The next time I read through my notes the quote is again just like all the other quotes.
The particular relevance of any quote at any particular time is probably due to how I am at that moment in my life. It might, however, also reflect what we are all facing right now. In other words, it might be relevant to you as well, either now or in the future, so I would like to start sharing them with you. My invitation is to occasionally look over them as I do and see if any of them are exactly what you could use at that particular moment. They may only make sense to you at that time and at other times appear to be too cryptic. After all these years I don’t know if the crypticness of the quotes is due to how Americo said them or how I wrote them down, and I find myself hesitant to expand them in the same way I would be hesitant to expand someone else’s poem. I’ll post them all under the category of ‘Snippets’ to make it easier for you to gather them all together. You can view just one category of posts by selecting it from the list of categories on the right side of this page.
By the way, I know it has been quite a while since I’ve written a post. Nice to see you again.
Investigate life, the flower of experience. Amplify the consciousness and the ecstasy. Investigate the illumination that is energetic (not conceptual or religious). Connect with the internal movement of life, life without ego, a connection with the laws of the Cosmos. Do not be distracted by social and political things, they block the Being of yourself.
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I have just received an email from a waiki in Europe letting me know that people there will be participating in a ‘moment of pure intent‘ this Friday at 17:30 GMT (equivalent U.S. times provided below) and inviting us to join in. This is an opportunity for us all to be meditating and/or offering despachos at the same time; connecting with each other, with the Pachamama, with the Cosmos, to contribute our own personal intent (e.g. the freeing of salka in the world; healing for the planet, for the waters, for the people who are suffering; the blossoming into wisdom of our species) to the ever-present flow of the Cosmos.
December 21, 2012
2:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time (US)
12:30 pm Mountain Daylight Time (US)
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I would like to gently recommend the following:
Today, tomorrow, for the next few days. Sit down on the Pachamama, whether you can sit outside or on the floor of your house. Put your hands on the Pachamama. With your intent (sincere pretending) connect with her energy. Let your awareness flow into her. Connect with the flow of the change that is occurring. Become one with that flow.
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While I learned this unnamed meditation from don Americo it seems to fit the definition of a saiwachakuy as described in Joan Wilcox’s excellent book Masters of the Living Energy, so I am calling it that. On the whole, the meditations I have covered in this blog help us explore the full essence of who we are, or nourish the beauty and quality of our dance with Nature and the rest of the Cosmos, or both. This meditation to me feels more like a service to the Cosmos and the Pachamama. It returned to my meditative practice after hurricane Sandy and it feels like something well worth doing both as a response to that as well as for upcoming times of change.
I usually begin with the Touching Pachamama and Releasing Hucha meditations (the latter also fits Wilcox’s description of a saiwachakuy). The meditation then proceeds as described below. I do this while sitting on the Pachamama.
With intent (sincere pretending) open the energy center at the crown of your head and let the refined energy of the Cosmos flow down through your head and into your munay. When the energy enters your munay use your intent to transform the energy into love. Open up the energy center at the bottom of your spine and let the love flow into the Pachamama. For as long as you like sit there and serve as the conduit of energy from the Cosmos to the Pachamama, transforming the energy into love as it flows through your munay.
Joan Wilcox describes a saiwachakuy as a column of energy that connects the the three worlds of the janaq pacha, kay pacha, and uju pacha. In this meditation I frame it as being the Cosmos, our own body right here and now, and the Pachamama (which is how I learned it from Americo). Joan describes a saiwachakuy as being an important service we can provide at this time of necessary and inevitable change. When I do this meditation it feels like an act of love for the Pachamama and the Cosmos. I have an “I’m happy to exist just so I can do this” moment. If you play with it I would appreciate hearing your own experiences.
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