Contents (By Category)
An organization of the posts by topic.
The Book: The Andean Cosmovision
I created this blog as a place to publish rough drafts of the various chapters that would become my book: The Andean Cosmovision: A Path for Exploring Profound Aspects of Ourselves, Nature, and the Cosmos. When I had enough material I selected which posts to include in the book, rewrote them, added a few more chapters, and put them in an order that made (artistic) sense to me. The book is better but it is important to me that the material remain available for free in this blog. I would love it if you bought my book as it creates ayni (the Andean concept of reciprocity) into our relationship; anyi flowing back from you to me in reciprocity for my sharing what I know of the Andean Cosmovision, and also ayni between our culture and the Andes, for I have been sharing half the profits from the book with the people of the Andes.
- Book: The Andean Cosmovision. A description of the book, where to purchase it, and reviews.
- Introduction to the Andean Cosmovision. The introduction from the book, which provides a good sense of what the book is about.
Articles and Papers
These should, perhaps, be included in the “Integration with the Western Worldview” section below, but they are tied to the stories in the section above.
The Meditations
I lead you through a few of these meditations in the Podcasts.
- Andean Cosmovision: The Basics (not a meditation but essential to the meditations)
- Ayni (not a meditation but an inherent part of our dance with the Cosmos)
- Intent (an essential ingredient of the meditations)
- Connecting to the Cosmos.
- Hucha
- The Three Centers of Being
- Internal Dialog
- Internal Dialog (Described)
- Not Doing
- On Doing not Doing
- Pacha and the Three Worlds
- Pacha and the Three Worlds (Described)
- Three Worlds Meditation
- Right Side / Left Side
- Inside / Outside
- How to Begin
- Tai Tai Inti
- The Cross
- Saiwachakuy
- A Timely Meditation
- The Four Elements Meditation
- Peeling the Onion (About Process )
- Confessing to Nature
- Energy Shield
- Escaping the Bottle (About Process)
- Sharing Energy
- Back-to-Back
- Las Estrellas
- It is not about ‘us’ (About Process)
- Heart-to-Heart
- Sole to Sole
- The Spiral
- Impeccability (About Process)
- Sparkle with the River
- Cuti…cuti…cuti
Podcasts
- Podcast Episode 1: An Introduction to the Andean Cosmovision
- Podcast Episode 2: Touching Pachamama Meditation
- Podcast Episode 3: Releasing Hucha Meditation
- Podcast Episode 4: Love to Pachamama Meditation
- Podcast Episode 5: Delving More Deeply into Intent, Ayni, and Salka
- Podcast Episode 6: River Meditation
Integration with the Western Worldview
There are two aspects to our exploration of the Andean Cosmovision. The first aspect is actually entering that way of experiencing reality. The second aspect is how to then integrate what we find there with our lives back here in the West. In the following posts I share some of the thoughts have found useful in integrating the Cosmovision into my Western worldview.
- The Crazy Ape
- Why a Swan?
- Lesson of the Mask
- Fallacies
- Yin/Yang of the Andes
- Thoughts
- Filling in the Conceptual Corners
- Coming Home
- From Shaman’s Drum
- The ‘Biggish” Picture
- Therapeutic Metaphors in Andean Mysticism
- A Therapeutic Relationship Between People and Their Geography in the Andes
Feeding Our Intellectual Mode of Thought
- Paqos: Shamans or Mystics
- Andean Cosmovision: The Basics
- Don Americo Yabar
- Intent
- Hucha
- The Three Centers of Being (Part 1)
- The Three Centers of Being (Part 2)
- Internal Dialog
- Ayni
- Salka
- Pacha and the Three Worlds
- Ayni Revisited
- Yin/Yang of the Andes
- Warmi-Qhari (Woman-Man)
- Tinku-Confirming the Rules of Life
- Remember to Wave Your Warak’as
- Right Side / Left Side
- Deep Intent
- Being in Peru
- Alto Mesayoq
- It is not about ‘us’
- Handout on the Andean Cosmovision
- A Few Thoughts
- Impeccability
- Initiations
- New Threads
- Ollantaytambo
- The Creature and Its Creations
- The Invisible Embrace
- Stepping into the Same River Twice
- Like the Creek
- The Tale of the Sands
Caressing Our Intuitive Mode of Thought
- Barefoot in the Mountains
- Mama Tuta Danced
- Killarumi
- Phalluses
- Fate of the Machukuna
- All the World’s a Stage
- Children of Peru
- The Man with the Shining Eyes
- There I Am!
- The Flower of Experience (Introduction to the following snippets)
- Peeling the Onion
- Meditating at Salka Wasi
- Peru Trip: 2015
- Recover the Night
- Hampi Taki: A Salka Project
- Ccochamocco
- The Nature of Wisdom
- The Path of the Poet
- Its a Way of Being
- The Tale of the Sands
- On Being