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Killarumi

This post was originally uploaded several years ago.  It is reappearing for technical reasons (to my befuddlement), but it is a nice post.

The Qero are lovely-hearted people who live in very isolated villages in the high Andes and who still live a life immersed in the Andean Cosmovision. I was in Peru as part of a small group participating in a trip organized by Carla Woody and sponsored in part by Kenosis Spirit Keepers (the non-profit organization of which Carla is the president and I am the vice-president). The purpose of the trip was to provide an opportunity for a Hopi spiritual leader to meet in ceremony with Qero paqos.  We arrived at sunset at an ancient site in the Andes of Peru known as ‘Killarumi’.

Killarumi (moonstone)

Killarumi

Mamma Killa is the Cosmic Being who is our moon, and ‘rumi’ is a Quechua word for ‘stone’, so the place is that of the Moonstone. Andeans would visit this ancient site to get in touch with feminine energy, which is deeply powerful and in tune with the Earth. Women would come to give offerings and to meditate if they were having difficulties conceiving or when they were nearing the time of giving birth.

Altar of Killarumi

Altar of Killarumi

In the moonlight this stone glows with a beautiful light.

Cave at Killarumi

Cave at Killarumi

This being a place of feminine energy there is a cave nearby. We meditated at the Moonstone and then we entered the cave. In the cave the Pachamama (the great mother who is the planet Earth) draws all of the hucha (heavy, discordant, energy) from your body.

Andes by Killarumi

Andes by Killarumi

After meditating we climbed a bit further up the mountain to where the Qero were waiting.

Qero waiting in a field.

Qero Await

The Qero were waiting for us in a field. As we entered the field the men began to play their quenas (flutes) and the women began to sing.

Carla hugging the Qero

Carla Woody and Qero Greeting

Americo and the Qero

Don Americo Yabar and the Qero

Women of Qero

Women of Qero

Child of Qero

Child of Qero

Moon over trees.

Moon at Killarumi

By the time the ceremony ended night (Mamma Tuta) had arrived.

Killarumi is a place of feminine energy. The Andean Cosmovision is based upon the complementarity of opposites, a place of decidedly masculine energy will be shown in a later post.

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Don Americo Yabar

Don Americo Yabar

Don Americo Yabar

Don Americo Yabar (don Américo Yábar) is a mystic from the Andes of Peru. Since childhood he has been studying under and working with some of the greatest paqos (mystics/shamans) of the Andes. Having also received a college education in Europe he serves as a chakaruna, a human bridge of energy that connects the energy of the Andes with that of the West.

I first met don Americo in 1994 at a workshop in the deserts of Southern Utah. I subsequently went to several more of his workshops and then began to travel to Peru to study with him there. While I have been in Peru he has also arranged for me to work with other paqos and healers of the area, and in general has provided the opportunity for me to connect with the Andean people at a very heart-felt level.

There are some things I would like to share about Americo that reflect not only upon him but also, and perhaps more importantly, upon the basic qualities of the path that he exemplifies, the path that attracted me, that I am attempting to nourish with the Salka Wind site, and that perhaps is attractive to you as well.

 

Don Americo Yabar and Q'ero Paqos

Don Americo Yabar & Q'ero Paqos

What has drawn me to associate with Americo is (among other things) his integrity, his love, and his joy of life. ‘Walking your talk’ is for me a minimum requirement for a path with a heart. Americo not only walks his talk, his walk is even more expressive and impressive than his talk (and as a mystic who is also a poet he talks very beautifully indeed). Anywhere I go with Americo in the Andes, from Cusco to the smallest village, people come running up with smiles, or lean out of a window and wave in delight to see Americo. Being with him is an instant ticket to having the opportunity to interact with the villagers at a heart-felt level, this is an opportunity I always embrace, and is an important part of the ineffable beauty and power of my experiences in Peru. While Americo is an impressive mystic in the traditional sense (whatever the hell that means) the path he walks shows up most profoundly in the way in which he interacts with the people of Peru, and does what he can to help them get by, and works to nourish their roots in their traditional culture.

For all of that, Americo is “just this guy, you know?” (description of Zaphod Beeblebrox, galatic president, in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy), not a Saint, not a guru, just a very human guy. I find this attractive about the path as well, as we travel it we don’t turn into Americo Yabar clones, we instead begin to blossom into who we uniquely are, we don’t rise above our humanity, we begin instead to express its true nature.

Don Americo and Oakley Gordon in Peru

Don Americo and me in Peru

 

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Barefoot in the Mountains

The High Andes

Photo by Oakley Gordon

There is a song sung in Quechua by the women of the high Andes.  It begins like this:

“I walk without shoes in the mountains.  My bare feet touch the mountain.  The mountain takes pleasure in knowing my body.”

This beautiful world-view is reflected in a quote from the book Masters of the Living Energy, by Joan Parisi Wilcox.  ‘Andeans are born into a world that they believe is as conscious of them as they are of it.’

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