Introduction
... 3
The Call Of Machu Picchu ... 8
Origins, Fate, and Future of the Inka ... 13
Pachacuti: Andean Cycles Of Time ... 18
We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For ... 22
Attuning Consciousness ... 25
Lake Titicaca Attunement ... 26
Stones Of Unknown Origins ... 29
Consciousness And Intention ... 36
Intentional Design In The Electromagnetic Spectrum ... 38
Energy Key... 41
The Twelve Energy Bands Of Machu Picchu ... 47
Summary Of The Twelve Bands... 48
Band 1 – Black... 49
The Faces On Wayna Picchu... 54
Band 2 – Infrared... 56 Band 3 – Red... 59 Band 4 – Orange... 63 Band 5 – Yellow... 67 Band 6 – Green... 69 Band 7 – Blue... 71 Band 8 – Indigo... 74 Band 9 – Violet... 77 Band 10 – Ultraviolet... 80 Band 11 – White... 86
The Sound Room... 88
The Garden Of The Gods... 88
Band 12 – Negative Green... 96
The Great Puma Carved In Stone ... 99
Light, Form, And Shadows ... 102
The Temple Of The Moon ... 118
The Chakana ... 120
The Symbolism Of Tumi ... 129
Healing Through Resonance... 131
Personal Symbols ... 133
Machu Picchu Global Transformation ... 134
Bibliography ... 137
Introduction
The unveiling of Machu Picchu began on July 24th 1911 through the efforts of a young explorer named Hiram
Bingham. Mr. Bingham was searching through remote parts of Peru for the legendary Inka stronghold of Vilacomba. Under the thick vegetation was a cultural and spiritual timecapsule. Since 1911 Machu Picchu has unfolded like a delicate flower as though guided by some unknown force. There is certainly an aire of romance around this exotic desination. But what lies below the tourist trappings of Peru’s most famous archeological site is more like a spiritual library.
Pachamama is the Quecha word for Mother Earth. Today on Pachamama we are struggling to find our true identity. We are in a race to realize what it means to be human and to live sustainably before we pave the planet under our feet. Into our groping for higher consciousness Machu Picchu beams the wisdom of a forgotten people and almost forgotten planet.
As a technological civilization we have at our disposal numerous innovations and conveniences. The pace of our inventions has gone from a crawl over hundreds of years to a very rapid rate since the early Twentieth Century. We have the Internet and virtual worlds of facts and figures at our disposal. The one resource we are short of is not to be found amoung the artificial electronic networks. We are tremendously short of spiritual wisdom. If all the world is a stage then into our current drama appears a surprise player in the form of the ancient Inka site of Machu Picchu. We have only begun to understand Machu Picchu from perspectives beyond the
conventional views of history and archeology. Every year we begin to understand a little bit more about this special place. Each year brings not just scientific discoveries about ancient peoples but metaphysical realizations as well. We are just beginning to learn about the true sophistication of the peoples who existed long before the current Common Era.
Machu Picchu stands out like a dusty old book in a neglected corner of a large library. The code is written in the text of sacred architectural and energetic languages that we have almost completely forgotten how to read. Yet within Machu Picchu’s pages stands some of the greatest sacred science that has ever existed anywhere on the planet.
As we cannot solve our existing problems with old solutions we cannot gain new insights into Machu Picchu using conventional tools. This book presents you with keys that you can use to begin to unlock the spiritual design and function of Machu Picchu. These same keys were used in the creation of Machu Picchu, Ancient Egypt, and many sacred sites around the world. Some of these keys exist within the discipline of Sacred Geometry. Still more of these keys are threads within the great mystic traditions including shamanism and Sufism. What is presented for your use is a combination of keys assembled into a useful form to delve into why Machu Picchu is designed the way it is.
Without the keys presented in this book it may have been possible to eventually reverse engineer the designs of the Inka. But it is better for us and for the needs of our time to have these original keys and templates and begin to recover the wisdom of the Inka here and now. We are perhaps the civilization most in need of the sacred knowledge that Machu Picchu possesses. It seems Machu Picchu has decided that the messages it holds now be read and passed along as spiritual food to the earth’s inhabitants and to our children. Our very survival as an intelligent, viable, and free civilization may depend on it.
Through places like Machu Picchu we realize that Pachamama is telling us to learn the wisdom of living in harmony. Machu Picchu conveys an immense vision of the workings of life, energy, form, light, and shadow. The bulder’s of Machu Picchu knew how to build sacred architecture that harnessed divine spiritual energies and
energetic hologram anchored in stone. It is within the sacred zone of information just beyond normal
perception that Machu Picchu requires we send our focus and intention. Walking down this sacred path a short way we realize that this alchemical path that Machu Picchu is speaking to us about is the path of the heart. Part of our attraction to Machu Picchu is the scope and immensity of the wisdom we sense it holds. Our attraction to places like Machu Picchu is confirmation that there is something they have that we need. Machu Picchu stands as a beacon of spiritual wisdom to a civilization in great need.
Ultimately this book will show you a new way to view Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu is an energetic Rosetta stone showing us how to design sacred sites according to energetic design principles. The energy keys and overall approach used in this book may be applicable to hundreds of other sacred sites. Only time and more research will answer that question with certainty. There are many other sacred sites that show clear evidence of engineering according to similar energetic principles.
My work within these pages builds upon years of cross-disciplinary study. For the past few decades I have ventured into many areas of study such as native and mystic cultures and the use of energy in healing and design. I can now view the twists and turns in my own spiritual journey as having been a journey through a spiritual bazzar adding all the pieces into the story that can now be presented here. Machu Picchu represents a marvelous starting point for my writing as it too embodies a unique combination of many of these disciplines I have been studying into a compact and compelling story.
This current writing would not be possible if not for some groundbreaking work by the people of Peru. In the past few years many groundbreaking writings have sought to understand the wisdom of native peoples beyond the standard archaeological framework. Carlos Milla Villena in his book Genesis de la Cultura Andina opened up a flood of deeper thought into the history of the Andean culture. Fernando Elorrieta Salazar and Edgar Elorrieta Salazar in Cusco And The Sacred Valley pioneered an ability to read the landscape of the Inka Sacred Valley. As you will see it is this book and it's ability to read the sacred landscape that seeded many of my own ideas. It was the writing of the Salazar brothers that assisted me in questioning whether a rock is really just a rock. And one of the big keys is that at Machu Picchu no rock is placed accidently.
The crystalization of the vision for this book occurred in December 2005 when I took a class on BioGeometryTM
taught by Dr. Robert Gilbert. In seven days Dr. Gilbert presented a wide range of topics from sacred geometry and architecture through the French Radiethesiests to the current BioGeometryTM work of Dr. Ibrahim Karim of
Egypt. It was during a presentation from Dr. Gilber of energy keys and how the flow of energy changes by passing through an object that I instantly understood the application of the energy key concept to the design of Machu Picchu. It was in that class that I knew I had a key to decipher and understand how the sacred
architects of Machu Picchu designed every aspect of the city with its own specific function. It was sitting during that class and looking at the drawing of the energy key that the fertilization for this book occurred.
Now I can say that I have measured the energies at Machu Picchu and found them matching the theoretical correspondences of the French Radiesthesists and of a Russian Radiethesist named Enel. The ideas here will challenge many of the assumptions made by researchers and writers from the West who are versed in the traditional archeological and scientific methods. My conclusions refute the view that the Inka were by any measure a primitive people. The energetic evidence makes it difficult, if not impossible, to believe that Machu
of relationships. If we try to use only our rational minds to figure things out we will never be able to interact with the deeper mysteries that the Inka voyaged. But if we use our hearts to enter deeply into relationships with the Great Mystery of the universe then the secrets unfold before us and indeed within us.
This book is not just an energetic analysis of the layout of Machu Picchu. The presentation here is to explain enough of the engineering involved to provide an intellectual context that supports the experiential part of this exploration. My intention is to present the information in a way that supports you in your own orientation to the ways of the Inka. If this book is successful you will not only see what the Inka were doing; you will experience it.
The responsibility to the reader is to also seek first the human experience of Machu Picchu. If you take these words as just information or some method then you will miss the majority of the message. But if you first try to be in alignment, attunement, resonance, and harmony with the Inka through this information then you will see something. Your heart will be active in your approach. This way of the heart is the way of the mystic. This is the way of the Inka.
It is also important to realize that the information and exercises in this book can be of great value to you even if you never visit Machu Picchu. The human heart is able to make connections to people, places, and things regardless of our perceived distances of space or time. The domain of the heart allows us to make connections that are as well, and sometimes more real, than physical locality. If you are willing to approach Machu Picchu through this book with sincerity then you can receive many of the same energetic initiations as those who use this as a guidebook during a visit to Machu Piccu.
This book is a testament to the wisdom of the Inka and a salute of great thanks to their descendants. May we have the courage to join together to create a new world constructed of spiritual love and light. This time of transition is the genesis and appearance of a new species called ‘Homo Luminous’1.
It was with these perspectives in mind and accompanied by a great sense of purpose that this book was undertaken. I had taken my first trip to Peru and Machu Picchu with a group of energy healers in April 2005. Machu Picchu had been a kind of personal obsession for over a decade. When I finally had a chance to go it was a very simple decision. On this first trip we had two days at the site itself. Although to me this was a short visit it was long enough for to realize that I was experiencing something that had a very profound meaning for me. At this first visit to Machu Picchu half of my group of twelve made an early morning ascent to the top of Wayna Picchu. A life dream had been accomplished. And the views from Wayna Picchu were truly spectacular. During this same stay in Aguas Calientes, at the base of Machu Picchu, a local Andean priest, Adriel Garay Dales, gave me a coca leaf reading. I remember in great detail how we sat together at a square table with a green tablecloth in the mostly empty dining area of the hotel my group was staying at. Adriel had already worked with Andean high priest Adolfo in leading us through a despatcho offering in Tipon and at Machu Picchu. A despatcho is a beautiful offering to Pachamama (Mother Earth) and other Andean deities. A despatcho is also a spiritual and practical execution of art, devotion, and meditation, which when completed is literally folded up into a beautiful package and then usually burned as an offering.
Sitting with Adriel within this unassuming hotel at the base of Machu Picchu in Aguas Calientes town he proceeded to take a handful of carefully selected coca leaves. In the Andes coca leaves are amoung the most sacred plants that exist. They have so many uses both spiritual and practical that it is suprising how some countries outside the Andes view coca leafs through misinformed cultural glasses. Coca leaves are seen as gifts from the Creator and Pachamama. They provide beneficial nutrients and support the physical energy needed to live and work at the Andean high-altitudes.
Sitting at the table of my coca leaf reading Adriel said a few prayers and then asked me to blow on the coca leaves. Then he proceeded through a series of rounds of gently tossing the coca leaves onto the table. After a second he would speak about a certain area of my life and what to expect. The insights the coca leaves gave Adriel into my life, and my future, were amazing. One of the things that Adriel said that caught my attention was that the Andean gods wanted me to return to South America. He said that the message to me was that I would be a famous author and would be sponsored by others to travel and teach the knowledge I would be given. It was at this encounter that the seeds of this book were firmly planted in my being. I knew at that moment that the two days at Machu Picchu in that trip would not be enough. I had to return prepared to write the book. I was not really clear at that time what the content of my first book was to be. But this book you are
Illustration 2: The Author And Adriel During A ‘Chance’ Encounter At Machu Picchu In May 2006
The Call Of Machu Picchu
In what we call the ‘past’ hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Inka adepts created an energy field sustained by consciousness existing beyond time. One of the most profound places that this encoding was placed it at a site named Machu Picchu. Stepping out into the grounds of Machu Picchu is like awakening within a dream. The stone structures are so foreign and yet so familiar.
Shrouded by clouds and great mystery Machu Picchu stands as a mystical enigma. Millions of people around the planet are intrigued by the beauty and mystic aroma of this small set of buildings hidden away in the Andean mountains of Peru. Each year thousands of people visit the ruins 2000 feet above the Urabamba River and 9000 feet above sea level. The views at Machu Picchu are more spectacular than can be conveyed in photographs. No one who takes in the beauty and awe of this sanctuary leaves Machu Picchu disappointed. For most people a trip to Machu Picchu is the trip of a lifetime.
The site of Machu Picchu recalls the romance and adventure of a civilization more closely aligned to cycles of the Earth. The mountain ridge that Machu Picchu straddles is at once quaintly small and yet vast in its grandeur. You could easily walk through the main areas of the compound in a few hours as most people do. But you could also spend days communing with a resonance the Inka left behind. Truly when the cloud mists enshroud Machu Picchu it is difficult to not drift with her away somewhere else in time and space.
Machu Picchu embodies elements of intrigue that peek out from the veneer of an exotic tourist destination. The Illustration 3: Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu was kept hidden from the Spanish during their conquest of Peru and much of South America. The religious zeal of the Conquistadors, supported by the Catholic Church, was to eradicate Inka sacred sites, places of 'idolatry' and 'devil worship'. Inka temples were torn down to their foundations and rebuild as Cathedrals. Today we have few examples of the grandeur of Inka spiritual architecture. Machu Picchu represents one of those rare jewels. Machu Picchu's remote location helped to save it for our generation. The rediscovery of Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham in 1911 is like a sacred seed that lay buried for nearly 500 years that now emerges brining the Inka energy back into the world.
There are a number of indigenous spiritual traditions that have survived from the time of the Inka Empire. The tradition most written about today is that of the people named the Q'ero. The Q'ero live high in the Andes of Peru at 14000 feet and escaped large-scale contact with the Conquistadors. The anthropologist Oscar Nunez Del Prado made contact with some Q’ero during a festival in 1949.
The Q'ero held a prophecy of a 500-year period of darkness called a pachacuti. The Quecha word pachacuti means ‘the world turned upside down’. Certainly to the people alive at the beginning of Pizzaro’s conquest in
Plains. It is very interesting that Hiram Bingham rediscovered Machu Picchu often called a ‘City of Light’ in 1911 as this Inka defined 500-year period of darkness was ending.
There is another aspect of intrigue that comes into play when viewing Hiram Bingham's rediscovery of Machu Picchu within the wider scale of Native American cultures. According to the Mayan Calendar, the rediscovery of Machu Picchu occurs approximately 100 years before the turning of a great cycle around the year 2012. From a metaphysical viewpoint the wisdom and secrets of Machu Picchu have appeared at this time to assist humanity with a great leap forward in consciousness. Machu Picchu is a mystical message in a bottle. The site has a treasure trove of spiritual messages in a beautiful and complex container. Every inch and angle of the original construction holds active sacred knowledge. As you will see Machu Picchu is a fully functional library actively expressing knowledge and wisdom left by the builders for their people and ours. Machu Picchu is a container of spiritual technologies and ‘machines’ that still function for us today if we know how to interact with them. Most pre-Western cultures had people who operated as the experts in the spiritual realms. These learned men and women were called amoung other names the shamans, healers, bards, sangomas, medicine men, or priest-philosophers. The wise ones in the Inka culture were called the Amautas. The particular people involved in building Machu Picchu would have been the high initiates of the Inka priesthood that would have included a number of the Amautas.
High spiritual initiates constructed Machu Picchu to serve multiple purposes. First, Machu Picchu expresses the spiritual wisdom accumulated by these learned people and their spiritual lineages. Second, Machu Picchu forms a spiritual crucible for the personal spiritual training. When we travel to Machu Picchu today we often have interesting mystical experiences because we are passing through this spiritual university. Third, Machu Picchu anchors high dimensional harmonics into the earth as a kind of spiritual electrical substation. At Machu Picchu and other sacred sites high spiritual energies are fed into the earth and broadcast out to all life on earth.
We are attracted to Machu Picchu because it is a functional site of conscious spiritual technology. Machu Picchu clearly embodies characteristics that make it a machine for the transformation of consciousness. When we talk about spiritual energies, indeed any energy, we are not talking about a dead abstract force. Spiritual energy like all energy is consciousness. You cannot separate consciousness and energy. The electricity running through your dwelling is not a highly organized form of consciousness but it is still a form of consciousness inherantly. Machu Picchu was created by an advanced consciousness feeding a culture that processed knowledge of the energies of existence. Machu Picchu shows the use of these energies for the healing and transformation of consciousness. Individual features of Machu Picchu provide for personal experiential healing of individual human beings. But as a whole Machu Picchu is as a functional beacon transmitting the energies of conscious enlightenment to the world. Machu Picchu at scales both micro and macrocosmiscally is a reflection of our higher selves expressed in organic spiritual architecture.
From the spiritual perspective in order to understand or interact with something you need to harmonize and resonate with it. At a certain point in personal spiritual development you become aware of the rhythms of the cosmos. Once you are aware of your own awarness of these cosmic energies then information about reality and how to interact with it in sophisticated ways comes pouring into your consciousness.
cut off from reality.
The Inka culture demonstrates people in harmony with the many energies and sublime forces around them. Indeed the Andean perspective is that we live on the skin of and feed from the breast of Pachamama. The Sun Father watches overhead providing warmth and energy for everything we need to grow. The rain blesses us with water for drinking, bathing, irrigation, and play. We look to the hummingbird as a sign of the joy of spirit. This perspective is achieved when we first realize our place in this grand family of life. This is a vignette into the earthy yet spiritual radience of the people of the Andes and indeed much of South America.
There are many similarities between the Inka and other solar cultures. Like Ancient Egypt the spiritual harmonization of the Inka attunes itself both to terrestrial and solar consciousness. The Andean psyche associates various animal archetypes with the internal progress on the spiritual path.
In Andean culture three animals typify the three worlds. The serpent represents the lower world. The puma represents our middle world. The condor represents the upper world. These power animals also represent mastery over that world. Any developing spiritual culture and individual persona must first deal with the energies at the level of the serpent. The serpent’s expression of the divine is not as much limited as it is foundational. In another deep Jungian aspect the serpent symbolizes our undulating DNA. Shamans who drink the Amazonian Ayahuasca psychedelic tea report the serpent as a common motif in their experiences. The Ayahuasca vine itself is shaped like a serpent.
The serpent has also been recognized by the Andean people to symbolize the untransformed ego. The serpent is consciousness at the level that crawls upon the ground. Viewed from this aspect a serpentine conscousness is reactive and has not achieved mastery over self. Once we learn both our strengths and shortcomings we usually question our place in the world. This inner reorientation usually comes in the form of a mid-life crisis, dark night of the soul, or other spiritual emergence. At this point we typically commit ourselves to the spiritual path. A process of inner refinement is often accompanied metaphysically by activation of the kundalini life energy that also follows the serpent metaphor. When our personal transformation has begun we learn how to use the basic serpent level energies to empower our lifes path.
Often we find that when the spiritual life has begun in earnest then we immediately want to take up our wings and fly like birds or angels. A sense of breaking free from the gravity of mundane life unlocks our imagination and opens immense possibilities for personal growth. Our inner spirit often compels us to undertake spiritual pilgrimage to the ocean or to the mountains. Our hearts long to more fully manifest a breaking free of the constraints of life as we have known it and to seek reunification with the spiritual essence of all things. In the Andean worldview this is the realm of the Condor. The Condor soars high above the earth communing with the Creator Wiracocha. To the Maya and Aztecs this union of serpent wisdom and life force combined with the wings of flight to become respective interpretations of the same spiritual forces of Kulkulcan and Quetzalcoatl. Quetzalcoatl is the rainbow colored flying serpent. The spiritually refined personality finds the way to harness the energies and experinces of living upon the earth in order to take flight to the higher spiritual domains. Today we are witnesses to the return of Quetzalcoatl both individually and collectively. The sacred mythic tones of the past are being sounded again in our time.
In the Inka spiritual domain it is the puma that resides in and represents this middle world that we live in. Egyptian symbols like the Sphinx and Sekhmet convey the power of the divine feminine to empower human life. The goal of the human spiritual life is not to escape from the earth. The goal of the human spiritual life is to be a living and breathing human expression of the divine being. It is this transformed personality that the puma represents. To become a puma you must observe the reactive ego and gain mastery over it. Reforming the ego is an act of love, not just power. It takes the courage of the puma to see the shortcomings of self and others and still walk with an open heart. In a certain sense the puma is another way to view Quetzalcoatl the winged-serpent. The earth body joins with the winged inspiration of the heavens to form a divine being that walks upon the earth. This refined puma person is called a ‘Puma Runa’. The repeated iconography of the
It is at this integrated stage in spiritual development that the puma person can stand as a divine solar initiate. Just as the Sphinx that stands next to the pyramids in Egypt the puma person stands on the earth being
attunded daily to the presence of the divine solar being as their self. The Buddha and the Christ said to take the middle way. The Inka say the same thing. To live as a divine puma person on the earth is to balance all the energies of the universe while walking in the flesh. There is a divine mission to be accomplished by those who walk in this manner. These beings are the puma people, the modern Inka within our midsts.
All spiritual lineages encode the subtle bodies of their initiates with specific information related to the function of that group. The codes of light committed to the Inka lineage are expressed through Inka knowledge and sacred sites like Machu Picchu. The same storehouses of Inka light, knowledge, and wisdom are sitting now right in front us. Places like Machu Picchu resonate with Inka consciousness in sublime and active ways. The Inka sites were designed, visited, and inhabited by great spiritual initiates. The built-in sacred geometry and architecture, some of which is very concealed, formed a resonant container to hold cosmic energy and the spiritual energy of the Inka. Places that have additionally been engineered as premier sacred living machines, like Machu Picchu, possess the added benefit of having been formed as explicit conductors of the highest spiritual energies known to the Inka. It is not an exaggeration to say that when walking through Machu Picchu you are walking in the footsteps and within the community of the advanced spiritual beings who have lived there and continue to exist at this site. Conscious awareness at Machu Picchu plugs you into the same divine informational matrix that exists beyond time and space.
Machu Picchu is a sacred library that is supercharged through sacred geometry and architecture. If you walk through Machu Picchu with awareness you can have a very deep experience at many levels. But you will get more out of your experience if you use both your mind and your heart and tune into the information that is there. It is one thing to undertake a trip to a sacred site as a tourist. It is a completely different experience if you travel as a spiritual pilgrim expecting that your trip will have a significant outcome from the very beginning. This amount of consciouss awareness and gentle expectation is one key to experiencing sacred sites to full advantage.
Origins, Fate, and Future of the Inka
The origins of the Inka are shrouded in the mists of time and legend. The oldest and largest cultural centers in the immediate region are those of Chavin de Huantar in Peru and Tiwanaku in Bolivia. At Chavin de Huantar, 250km north of Lima, the open courtyards present motifs of serpent figures. Grand plazas were built to sensationalize sound and imagery following threatrical scale and effect. Chavin has underground passages and a very interesting monolith called the Lanzon. It is likely that this culture, 1000-200 BCE, incorporated the etheogen cactus San Pedro into their ceremonies.
But it is to the southeast of Cusco, at Tiwanaku, in Bolivia, that the genesis of the Inka seems to be rooted. The culture and megalopolis of Tiwanaku, near La Paz, from before 200 BCE until 1000 CE teemed with an organized population on and around the shores of the mystical Lake Titicaca. Within the Tiwakanu Cosmovision it is Wiracocha, the weeping God holding staffs, which guided all aspects of daily life.
There are numerous similarities between Egyptian and Inka cosmologies and we will touch lightly on a few of them. Taking Wiracocha, the weeping God, there is a similar myth from Egypt that states that human beings have been created from the “tears of God.”
I llustration 6: Weeping God From The Gateway To The Sun At Tiwakaku
The Tiwanaku society collapsed around 1000 CE and the entire area underwent a time of incubation as if waiting the arrival of the Inka some two centuries later. Some theories suggest that the Inka, along with their empasis on the sun, Inti, began as a small religious cult from the Island of the Sun in Lake Titicaca. Other authorities believe that the people who became the Inka were the elite from the Tiwanaku civilization who fled
northeastward towards Cusco. Carlos Milla Villena points to evidence showing an orderly migration of the Inka people from Tiwakanu through an almost exact northwest line to and beyond Cusco in a shape following a pattern of the Andean Cross, the Chakana.
It is with Manco Capac, the first Inka Emperor, and his sister-wife Mama Ocllo that the stories that are truly Inka unfold. Whether these two founders traveled alone or as a group of four brothers and their sister-wives is uncertain. It is through a mythic pilgrimage that the Inka ancestors traveled northwest to found their new home the city of Cusco. In one story it is a golden staff, given directly by Wiracocha, which sinks into the ground and signals the finding of the Inka Promised Land. Students of mysticism and magic will recall that
refined contributions among their many skills.
There are indeed stories that say some parts of Cusco such as the grand stone works above the city, called Saxaywaman, were already in place when the Inka arrived. Perhaps even some of the main streets in Cusco were already in place before the arrival of the Inka. These are details we may never know conclusively. But it is clear that academic discussions cannot easily justify the use of ropes and pulleys to explain away the skill of the Inka. Most of what the Inka were really doing is still hidden from conventional science. Like an unfolding flower the spiritual mysteries are becoming more aware to us.
The fate of the Inka is a very sad story. Disease had crept inland ahead of Pizzaro's men. A civil war between the royal princes Huascar and Atahualpa had torn the empire apart. It is within these conditions that a scruffy band of 180 men, 1 cannon, and 27 horses, set the stage to overthrow an empire. Part of the Inka
vulnerability was in their legends of Wiracocha. Whether Wiracocha was an individual or a collective people is uncertain. Wiracocha was thought to be fair skinned and sporting a beard. Something the Spaniards had in common with the legend. The Inka also felt it incredulous that the Spanish would attempt to harm let alone dethrone the Sapa Inka Emporer. But as most tragedies would have it bad went to worst and the Spanish unleashed a conquest of destruction of sacred sites and sacred quipu knotted string records, rape, torture, murder, and other behaviors at the forefront of the most brutal forms of colonialism. The invaders had brought the ignorance of their own age of darkness with them. They destroyed a civilization whose greatness they could not even begin to understand.
Illustration 7 Inka Quipu Knotted Record
It is a tribute to the current people of the Andes that their ancestors passed through this time of darkness, this Pachacuti, awaiting the return of truth and light to their world. Even as the rubble was being cleared, bodies buried, and flames extinguished, there remained a light in their ancestors’ hearts. There also remained a vast number of things hidden away from the conquest. It is these living remnants, the Andean people and the sacred sites, that are the beacons and keys of light for us today.
For the benefit of Western readers it is appropriate to dispel some myths that have been at the core of at least the European academic mindset. This has to do with the stance that any civilization that did not have written records was somehow more primitive that those that possessed writing. This matter of writing has historically been used as proof of the superiority of the ‘discoverer’-invaders. It has also been used by over five hundred years by European interests to attempt to justify both conquest and colonization.
Thousands of quipus across the Inka Empire were gathered and burned. Similar tactics were employed against the Mayan and Aztec and today we have less than half a dozen Mayan and Aztec codices intact. Although the Mayan culture appears to have had more extensive use of pictographs, a Mesoamerican version of hieroglyphs, both Central and South American cultures employed visual symbolism. Alternative pioneering Egyptologists such as R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz and John Anthony West have made it clear that stone structures are engineered containers of sacred information. Parallels showing that Inka architecture also possesses sacred information are just now being re-understood.
The actions of the conquistadors to destroy a civilization went beyond overthrowing the government and installing their own. The invaders turned the Inka world upside down. Anything to do with the old ways was gathered, burned, and pulverized. Along with the outward destruction is a long reverberation, a dark wave, which lasts hundreds of years, in which the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of the Inka culture was also reduced to the fragments we have today. When we speak of crimes against humanity we usually refer to actions that have affected the victims and their immediate families. But how you can qualify, let alone justify, crimes that reduce the knowledge, wisdom, and richness, of humanity for hundreds of years? It is only in the past few decades that native peoples around the world have begun to get their voice back and been allowed to practice the old ways that have been carried down person to person all these generations.
Let us return to the concept of writing, or the lack thereof in a civilization such as the Inka. For now assume that the quipus were the accounting tools of the Empire. Let us also assume that much of the transfer of knowledge was done verbally and through song. These patterns fit with what we can understand from other societies that live closer to the earth than we do. Establishing these minimums of knowledge storage and transfer is there anything else that can be forms of records of civilization beyond pottery fragments, jewelry, weapons, and the kind of artifacts you see in museums? There are at least two areas and mechanisms the Inka are likely to have employed.
William Burns Glynn has studied the designs on the textiles woven and worn by Inka nobility. Mr. Glynn believes that the geometric patterns in Inka textiles represent a form of encoded geometric language. Mr. Glynn’s 1990 book Legado de Los Amautas (Legacy of the Wise Men) discusses the system he has decoded. So we have a strong possibility that the Inka had encoded information we would ascribe to writing in at least another graphic form that was worn perhaps as a living testament to the message woven in the threads of their garments. This view begins to open up the possibiltiies that the Inka encoded information in mechanisms that are foreign to us but not inexistant.
There is yet another realm of Inka knowledge that has been missed by both the conquistadors and by modern science. That is the realm of metaphysical knowledge. Suppose a visitor to our civilization did not understand radio waves. You could tell them that there are volumes of information in the air in front of them. Everything from television broadcasts, conversations on cell phones, and reams of electronic information accessible on wireless Internet connections. None of this information is written down. If your visitor only understood writing and saw no writings they may assume that your civilization is very primitive.
There is a similar question that is used by thinkers in metaphysical circles that goes something like ‘What is the sign of a greater civilization, one that possesses great starships able to travel the galaxy, or one which is able to travel the galaxy without those ships?’ A civilization that must utilize matter and energy rather than
consciousness to achieve its goals is certainly less advanced and relatively more primitive. Our culture assumes that the path to the stars lies through space ships. But beings able to travel without UFOs are move advanced than anything that may have occurred at Roswell.
Assume for a moment that most of what the Inka civilization was about was unseen and recorded using techniques science cannot currently measure. Our Western civilization has become so material that non-physical recording would be incomprehensible. Popular culture has viewed other cultures with ‘only’ a spoken tradition and no writing with disdain. But we don’t hold open the possibility that a specific cultures non-use of writing, or other technologies such as the wheel, is an intentional act. I won’t go so far as to say that telepathy was common for the Inka but anyone can understand that communication from mind-to-mind would have little use for writing and somewhat less for talking. The lack of written communication for the Inka, rather than proving their primitiveness, strongly implies that their world, their experience in life, did not require writing. As we will see later the design of Machu Picchu convincingly says that the consciousness of the Inka, at least some of them, extended into planes of existence well beyond what we would call the physical. Machu Picchu proves that the Inka knew reams about energetic fields and solar and cosmic phenomena both in the physical and metaphysical realms. We know from the descendants of the Q’ero people of Peru that they possess knowledge of sophisticated interpersonal and transpersonal energetics. Machu Picchu encodes this type of energetic information and more into actual physical structures
If, as is suggested, the Inka civilization utilized information beyond the physical and had a great deal of their consciousness plugged into higher levels of information, then what would someone with no experience of these higher levels of consciousness, such as a conquistador see and do? The invader would surely assume that although seeing that the Inka had lived with order and dignity, they were surely an ignorant people. Being in relative darkness of material consciousness themselves the invader would perceive nothing of the true spiritual essence of the people they were invading. Any structures, artifacts, or phenomena of the people that the invader witnessed being beyond their own understanding, would immediately be labeled as works of the devil, and destroyed. In this manner you have the irony of the spiritual darkness of the European invader unable to perceive the spiritual light of the Inka culture. The Conquistadors lust for gold, fame, fortune, zeal for
subjugation, worked hand in hand with the presumed ideology of divine commission. What you have playing out are the materialist and religious memes of the West carried into South America, and indeed out from Europe, like a virus. This was literally illustrated by smallpox and other diseases spreading energetically ahead of both Cortez’s men in Mexico and Pizarro’s men in Peru. The spiritually dark memes brought from Europe in 1492 slowly and systematically spread by disease and conquest to almost fully quench the spiritual light in the American civilizations.
During 1492-1532 CE the world turned upside down. A pachacuti of 500 years of darkness had begun.
Fortunately for everyone this pachacuti is ending in 1992-2012 CE. The rediscovery of Machu Picchu occurs just as the pachacuti of darkeness is ending. The wisdom of the builders of Machu Picchu, of the great Inkas, now begins to speak to us again. And the really interesting possibility is that the 500 years of the pachacuti saw not the end but just the suspension of the Inka Empire.
Pachacuti: Andean Cycles Of Time
The Andean prophecies about the return of the age of light are tied to the concept of a ‘Pachacuti’. Pachacuti is usually translated as the world turned upside down. Andean sources have pointed out that the arrival of the Europeans to the Americas represented the beginning of a Pachacuti, a period of 500 years, of darkness. The concept of Pachacuti points to the widely held aboriginal cultural concept of viewing time as a cycle. In the West we generally view time as being linear, start, middle, and end. Most earth-consciousness cultures viewed time, and most of the functioning of the universe, as being circular. The Pachacuti function as alternating time periods of relative spiritual darkness and relative light. These Pachacuti depict the tendencies for spiritual light to be more free, or more constrained, to influence mankind.
Even in our language we are challenged to describe the modulation that the Pachacuti provide. In the Hindu religion the movements of the expansion and contraction of the universe are viewed as the inhalation and exhalation of Brahama. Higher spirituality tends towards a unification that is beyond the dualities of light and dark, good and evil. When discussing these periods it is important not to apply our cultural filters to these periods. Instead of alternating periods of absolute light and darkness view these periods as phases of the moon. These periods are the dance of revelation and integration, of expansion and concretation. In the periods of ‘light’ there is new spiritual information that propels consciousness forward. In the periods of ‘darkness’ there is a period of integration. This cyclic alternation mirrors the change of the four seasons. The light of springtime brings growth that matures over the summer. From the growth of summer the seeds of autumn are sown which rest below the soil during the winter.
In the West the challenge for us is that our culture has removed us from the normal relationships with the earth that our passage through these time cycles produces unintended side effects. These side effects are most evident in the integrative or ‘dark’ periods. During an integrative ‘dark’ cycle earth-based cultures are generally venturing inward and concretizing the wisdom of the previous light cycle through art, music, and mythology. Because our material civilization is not standing in a correct relationship with the earth there is a shadow aspect of ourselves not properly aligned or expressed during the ‘dark’ phases. When our culture enters a dark period of the time cycle we tend towards the lower drives of fear and warfare.
The isolation we find ourselves in comes from cutting off our recognition of or encounter with the irrational and mysterious forces of nature. For instance how many adolescents today reaffirm their relationship to the earth and the community by undergoing rites of passage? Increasingly in Western socities nineteen or twenty year olds, especially young men, create their own psychic transitions that appear to be temporary psychosis. Who in our culture can tell these young people that they are undergoing a psychic reorientation rather than just having an acute chemical imbalance to be treated invasively with foreign chemicals? At a time these young people most need ceremony and community support we drug them and temporarily commit them to mental wards. The psychic and sacred do not exist easily within the clinical and larger scientific nomenclature.
Due to our fragmentation and separation from the sacred in Western society the least desirable behaviors tend to be exhibited during the time cycle dark phases. In written history these recurring phases tend to be times of profilic or global strife, warfare, and ignorance. But these side effects are not a function of the time cycles but
This is the cycle of ‘returning to ourselves’. The Q’ero point out this is a time of opportunity not of guarantee of spiritual development.
In the Andean view of time these periods of light and darkness follow one another. Even beyond the Andes there are numerous time cycles with the Mayan Calendar having another potentially fractal view of time. The magical thing is that the universe is so complex that multiple cycles can function all at the same time. There is not a single canonical time cycle that represents the single version of the truth.
For the Andean time cycles we are examining we can assume a 500 year cycle which spans the time of the European discovery of the Americas until just before 2012. The relationship of these periods of light and dark should be natural and follow the example of the phases of the moon. So if we are leaving a 500-year phase of relative darkness then this implies that the greater time cycle is one that is 1000 years long. A complete pairing of a light and dark cycle, each 500 years long, comprises an entire light/dark cycle that lasts 1000 years before the next 1000-year cycle begins. Within a single 1000-year cycle you have one turning of the world from dark to light and another turning, or Pachachuti, of light to dark. Using 1512 and 2012 as nodal points in the transition from one zone to another we can come up with a relative map of time according to the 1000-year overall cycle.
Illustration 9 Hypothetical Mapping Of Years CE To The Andean Pachacuti Cyle Of Time
The direction of time flow in the Pachacuti time diagram is clockwise. At the 90 degree or 3:00 position you have the years 512 and 1512. This position associates roughly to the season of autumn or evening twilight. At the 180 degree or 6:00 position you have the years 762 and 1762. This season is winter and the time of day is midnight. At the 270 degree or 9:00 position you have the years 12, 1012, and 2012. This is the spring season and the time of day is sunrise. At the 360 degree or 12:00 position you have the years 262 and 1262. This area represents summer and the time of day is noon.
darkness. The year 1512 is exactly in the middle of the landings of Columbus and Pizzaro. In 1520 Cortes begins the conquest of the Aztecs. By 1762, at the dark maximum of a long cycle of conquest and colonization, European governments have firm footings in both of the American continents.
The first year listed in this Pachacuti diagram is the year 12 CE. This is a time of increasing light. Not
coincidentally this corresponds to the childhood and ministry of Jesus Christ. The entire period through and past the top of the diagram in the year 262 CE mirrors a spreading of both Christian teachings and their general co-existence with the ancient wisdom of the mystery schools. A general decline of spiritual light is already apparent by 387 CE. Note that in 325 CE Constantine begins what Thedosius completes in making Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. It is in this period of the late fourth century and early fifth century that the ancient knowledge no longer finds a place in the new Christian governance and most of the ancient knowledge present in Europe is being destroyed. By the year 512 CE the seeds of the Dark Ages have begun. Following the Pachacuti map to the bottom at the year 762 CE there is an interesting development. Islam, with its symbol of the crescent moon, is established. Islam presents a haven for mathematics and other sciences to continue progressing while rational thought in Europe languishes.
The year 1012 CE on the left of the map represents a reemergence of another period of light. Mahmud of Ghazhi has already begun a conquest bringing Islam into India. This fusion of cultures provides the creative seedbeds for the great Sufi mystics of India. The Eastern Orthodox Churches break away from the Church of Rome. Troubadours begin singing around Europe to help awaken the hearts of the people to the subtleties of life and love.
One of the most interesting points on this Pachacuti circle of time is at the top near the year 1262 CE. The theory behind this Pachacuti circle of time suggests that areas near the top of the circle should be dominated by light and expansion of new growth. James J. Walsh noted the 13th century as the ‘Greatest of Centuries’. In
Western society this period marked a final forward movement out of the dark ages. Universities, cathedrals, arts, and crafts helped lift Europe out of its doldrums. Philosophy and the sciences were once again stirring with the inputs of Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, and their contemporaries. City hospitals were opened to heal the sick. Great libraries were established and books were put into circulation. Many old books were being
reprinted. At this time the Arthurian legends and the Holy Grail appear to inspire peoples imaginations. Very notable on the way up to this apex is an event in 1215 CE. In the wake of the Norman Conquest the monarchy of England had consolidated power to the ire of the local noblemen. In a preview of events to unfold over 500 years later it was the issue of taxation imposed by King John that led the barons of England to revolt. The result was a document widely regarded as one of the most significant first steps to individual rights; the Magna Carta. This document, signed in 1215 CE, and reissued in 1216 CE after King John’s death, established a basic set of rights and freedoms for citizens of England.
It is also during this time that the genesis of the Inka Empire occurs. Manco Capac, followed by Sinchi Roca, establish the Empire centered in Cusco. The Inka build upon the foundations of the earlier cultures to solidify a new dynastic society. What we consider as Inka is established and solidified as a culture and the beginnings of Inka imperial expansion.
and artist Leonardo DaVinci much of this century is marked with unrest. Martin Luther launches the Protestant Reformation. The Church of England breaks from the Catholic Church. Mary the 1st, ‘Bloody Mary’, of England attempts to quash the Protestants. The Ottoman Empire expands through military force on numerous fronts even sacking Rome and ending the Italian Renaissance. There are wars throughout Asia. In 1556 the world’s deadliest recorded earthquake occurs in Shaaxi China. The Valladolid Debate of 1550-1551 CE attempts to argue that AmerIndians did not possess souls. Overall the 16th Century is a period of increasing spiritual darkness and
extreme unrest.
Moving into the 17th century one of the darkest aspects was the emergence of a form of science which
discredited the existence of the spirit. The most famous examples are found in the theories of Rene Descartes. He states ‘Matter and mind can possibly exist separately, therefore they must really be distinct’. This thought becomes a seed into the inevitable distancing of science from the spiritual. Matter is seen as dead, as
desacralized, something to be divided down into its component parts to be understood and controlled with the rational mind. The de-animation of nature justifies any treatment of the material world and inhabitants who do not enter into the same type of intellectual banter.
The other great intellectual drift away from nature came in the form of the theories of ‘natural law’ of Jacques-Beninge Bossuet and later Thomas Hobbes. Natural law says that because governments have been allowed to rule by providence their acts are inherently just. Thus any action of governance justifies the means. Although this view outwardly acknowledges the spirit it does so only to give authority to man-made institutions. Once the institutions are sufficiently empowered they can tell the citizenry what to think and do. Then there is no longer any need to seek a relationship with Spirit directly. Natural law becomes a way to further invest nation
governments with the same type of authority that the large religious institutions and monarchys already possessed.
This takes us to the bottom of the Pachacuti circle around the year 1762 CE. Ironically this area of the time cycle also corresponds to the ‘Enlightenment’. The Enlightenment is the flowering of the ideas set forth since the downward turn around 1512 CE. These concepts of nature separate from God, blossom in the fields of thought that had been razed since the previous cycle of time around the upper right quadrant in 387. The ancient knowledge had been destroyed at that time and the West languished for nearly a thousand years in the ‘Dark Ages’. At the top of the next cycle in 1262 CE European culture had begun to blossom again. A delicate harmony between rational thought and spiritual matters had been maintained during this period until the right quadrant of the time cycle in the 16th century. It is at this time that the spirit is truncated and exorcised from
the rational flowering of the 13th century. The result is a materialistic civilization that is in full bloom in the
middle of the period at 1762 CE.
During this period numerous wars are occurring throughout the world. There is a glimmer of spiritual light regarding the freedoms of people carried from the sparks of the Magna Carta from the top of the time cycle of the 13th century. By the year 1776 CE the American documents of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of
Rights, and the Constitution are created. Although the young country of the United States of America is born in the lowest part of this cycle dominated by materialism there are many intellectual and spiritual fruits that are also produced within its borders. An influx of emmigrants seeking religious freedom and opportunity seed the new country. Eventually the ideas of freedom and human rights spread out from America’s shores.
The continuance of the time cycle that birthed the United States results in a great continental expansion. All indigenous cultures suffer displacement or genocide as a result. Indeed, across all the Americas, local cultures and ways of life are destroyed as the land is taken and reshaped in the name of ‘Manifest Destiny’ and
‘progress’. Through this period of the largest wars in history the native people have carried a spark of life and wisdom. When a native tribe would migrate there would typically be a fire-carrier. This person carried the embers from the old fire and fashioned a tube that would slow burn for hours. Upon reaching the new campsite a new fire would be created from the embers of the old. At around the year 2012 CE the new fires of spiritual light will be fully kindled. With deep gratitude we acknowledge that the emergence of the Pachacuti of light has
We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For
“We are the ones we have been waiting for.” North American Hopi Elders. “That the Eagle and the Condor will fly together.” Andean Prophecy
Something is up. All across the Americas there is a renewed sense of vitality among native peoples. Small countries are standing up to the larger countries demanding fair treatment. The methods and ways of Western civilization are under scrutiny and many old things that do not work are being set aside. Environmentalism, New Age, Conscious Living, Alternative, TechoMaxi, and TechnoMini are all energized by what seems to be a world that is speeding up. We are clearly, from all sides and indicators, in a time of great, if not immense change. Accompanying this undercurrent is a great sense of uncertainty and often fear. We have been taught to look for the solutions from somewhere, anywhere, outside of ourselves. If only the wise ones, the great leaders and healers of old, were here to help us make it through.
The people who are going to make it through this transition are already here. Instead of looking outside for the answers maybe we need to look inside. The allies we have in the trek of life and wisdom are known to us. Trust in the beauty of the inner self. Trust in the loving arms of Pachamama. Trust in the earth, air, water, fire, and sun. Our helpers are forces and angels of light and love. Yet, to really make this all happen, a transition to a world of wisdom and beauty, it takes you and me.
Into this mix appear sacred sites all around the world like Machu Picchu. The ability, in our time, for someone from Amsterdam or Denver or Tokyo, to be able to travel to a place like Machu Picchu is significant. You can pay for special tours to receive some initiations. But walking around Machu Picchu is an initiation in it's own right. Machu Picchu waits like a priestess to activate within you those gifts of love and light that we carry already. Machu Picchu truly is a special place.
The consciousness of the Inka and Machu Picchu again awakens. You can associate this with the ending of the Pachacuti of darkness in the period from 1992-2012 CE. There is harmonic convergence and harmonic
concordance. You have cosmic emissions from the center of the galaxy and magnetar gravity waves acting as metaphysical sources of transformation inspiration. We are in a universe far stranger and more alive in ways that science is only beginning to allow into their paradigms. At a deeper level what is really happening is a process of self-reflexive unfolding as part of a universal consciousness.
I’m sure many of you have seen images of fingers or other body parts being pressed against large sheets of mylar, latex, or other types of plastic. What you can see of the person poking through the other side of the sheet is a very small representation of what that person really is. This subset of information appearing from the other side is similar to the amount of understanding that science and culture can measure and has allowed as ‘fact’. What we have been conditioned to expect and perceive is a small subsection of what is really out there. The wonderful thing about this situation is that something has happened which makes the old standards of materialism and ideology no longer sufficient in the minds of growing numbers of people. It’s almost like large
What is clear is that the children of today will be faced with some difficult choices. Choices between rising trends of so-called material wealth verses trends of declining planetary health. The children and young adults of today are increasingly tuned into the words of Chief Seattle where he says ‘What we do to the earth we do to ourselves’.
The real solutions to the challenges facing our children will come from sources on the other currently unseen side of this plastic boundary. It is not primarily breakthroughs of science that will help save our species. It is breakthroughs of consciousness that we most need. What is reassuring is that the advances in consciousness are present in cultural resources such as aboriginal peoples and in the great spiritual and physical resources like Machu Picchu.
Even more astounding is the energy and consciousness that produced the great spiritual civilizations of the world is present to everyone. Almost beyond believability is that this great spiritual energy and consciousness is the reality behind every single human heart and mind. Recall once again the image of the plastic boundary. From our cultural conditioning we perceive to varying degrees that there is something more magical behind the workings of the universe than our culture allows room for. The thickness of this boundary is only maintained by the conventionality of the ways we try to explore reality. For people today who are opening to meditation, yoga, energy work, channeling, divination, and all forms of non-scientific and immediate experience, the boundary between conventional life and the spiritual path becomes more and more a permeable layer allowing both information exchange and osmosis.
The children of today are those who are able to stand outside of the accepted conventions. Children today have a strong sense of self and increasingly a sense of purpose. Society today is challenged by these new children who look at the world differently, they learn differently, and will not accept things that people have just gone along with for hundreds or thousands of years.
Ultimately the path of direct experience is a path to self-knowledge, gnosis, and even salvation. Within you, right now, are all the keys that are needed for you to understand how the universe works. Seemingly on this side of the boundary is a mundane and secular life. On the other side of the boundary are the angels and all joy and all truth. What is the truth? The boundary that you think separates you from everything that is divine exists only in your mind. There is no boundary. There is no separation between you, in this moment, and the divine essence. It is not your heart, and breath, and all your organs that sustains you in each moment. In each instant it is the divine essence you carry within you which energizes the holy mechanics of body and mind. The realization of the immediacy of the divine in every moment is a hallmark of the mystical consciousness we name as being Inka. In some sense every person on the earth at this moment made a choice to be part of this experience. What we are seeing is the re-emergence of the sacred experience as a normal part of human life. And there is every reason to believe that the unfolding experience of consciousness will be much more universal across populations than has ever existed before.
Imagine that eight people from an advanced civilization begin a journey from a lake somewhere. This journey takes some years. When this group finally reaches the site of their new outpost these people, because of their relatively advanced state of consciousness, take the positionof leaders amoung the local people. Within a few hundred years this society unifies vast areas under its governance. These same people create numerous temples and structures that operate according to spiritual technologies. So from eight people you now have many more people with some understanding of the spiritual principles. These others beyond the eight include the initiates into the spiritual tradition. And in accordance with the divine principle of the seed being sown, that great civilization comes to a seeming end. This is the story of the Inka.
The great spiritual knowledge of the Inka comes under the influence of greater cycles of time than can be altered. The great Inka civilization, composed of people with great spiritual awareness, is sown into the bosom
changed into an age of light. And in following the example of what is written elsewhere in Middle Eastern literature, the result of what is happening is the resurgence of spiritual knowledge some twenty fold, some forty fold, some one hundred fold.
Consider this book as a message from Pachamama, the Apus (Andean mountain deities), Inti TayTay (Sun Father), the plants and animals, and ancestors of South America. If you have the chance, please come to Machu Picchu. Even if you don't have the chance, let the dreams of Machu Picchu come to you. Imagine the beauty here as part of who you are, that is the truth. You are the beauty you have been waiting for.
Attuning Consciousness
When you arrive at a sacred area, especially those areas that are frequently described by myths or legends, it is prudent to be self-aware. We always carry with us a consciousness that has with it a certain frame of reference. This consciousness and vibration forms our current energy signature. When we walk into a sacred area our own energy signature will be affected by the energy signature of the place where we are. This ability to become aware of energetic changes and get glimpses of other dimensions is all supported by attuning consciousness. The act of attuning is to impress upon yourself an openness to the existence, energy, and vibrations, of another person, being, or place. When two musicians come together to play the first thing they will do is to tune their instruments. Tuned instruments play in harmony with one another and actively support one another. If the instruments were not tuned then the sounds they made would not be pleasant. In fact sounds that are harmonously tuned together actively create a synergistic space between the notes that give music a spritual quality. It is these harmonics, through attunement, that are vehicles to entering deeply into sacred
relationships.
Upon entering a sacred area you should attune yourself by first asking permission to enter. Asking permission is a form of attuning. You are giving recognition to that which is around you and asking for a relationship to be established. All forms of sacred interaction are based on relationship through attunement. If you walk through a sacred site without having first tuned to it through permission then you will be lucky to experience anything of the real essence of the site. You will be like any other tourist.
After asking for permission to enter a sacred site it is advisable to give an offering. The offering is a
manifestation of your request and acknowledgement the value you place on your visit. Your offering could be a small flower or flower petal, some water poured on the ground, a strand of your hair, or a pinch of a sacred herb like tobacco. Your offering does not need to be physical it could be a sacred phrase like Namaste or short chant or prayer. If you are at a small sacred site, especially one with the importance of Machu Picchu, it is better to not leave physical offerings and if you do it should be something that will decompose quickly and not persist at the site. You should generally not leave offerings like crystals at mountains or other sacred sites. There are often local caretakers around these sites who work with the energy all the time. Leaving a crystal at a site or on a mountaintop can disrupt the energy flows making more work for the local caretaker. Remember that your offering should convey the feelings in your heart for the beauty that you are being allowed to
experience.
During your stay at the sacred site you will be seeking to enter into deeper communication with the area. You may have with you a list of features at the site that you want to make sure you don’t miss. You may be following a guidebook. All of this is fine. But also allow yourself time to just follow your intuition. Allow yourself to be guided to certain areas for no apparent reason. Once you feel you are in those areas allow yourself the time, alone if necessary, to tune in a find out why you were guided to those areas. This concept of ‘spirit-walking’ is embodied in many aboriginal cultures. Most people would be familiar with the term ‘walk-about’ from movies or video we have seen about Australia. This type of walking can and often does reach an altered state of reverie. In fact much of the great tracking skills of the American Indians deals with both fantastic observation and awareness skills couple with this type of consciousness. Some of the most significant information in this book came about though just following guidance given to me on my visits to Machu Picchu and surrounding areas.
Once you have completed your time at the sacred site it is important before leaving to give thanks. Again thanks can be in the form of an offering. In some traditions it can be touching your forehead to a stone or kneeling on the ground. It could be just standing facing the setting sun with the wind caressing your hair holding gratitude in your heart. Often you feel yourself never wanting to leave. It is at this time that you can
could also be braiding or other type of craft. The point is that there should be some reflection on your
experience. If you are traveling with a group then discussing your experience can really be insightful. But also make sure you have personal time to go within and not be concerned about how your expression looks to others. What matters is how it looks to you.
Lake Titicaca Attunement
Before we start unveiling the mysteries of Machu Picchu there is some attuning of our consciousness to do right now. For this attuning we will travel in our minds backwards in the footsteps of the Inka. Traveling back through the mists of time and legend we arrive at the legedanary point of emergence of the Inka at Lake Titicaca. To the Inka Lake Titicaca and Tiwanaku is the pacarina; the place of emergence.
Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world. Many of the islands of the lake are shaped like mytical animals. It seems you could almost call this place Lake of Legends. There are numerous legends about the lake and it’s origins. A number of these legends involve its formation as part of the flood of Noah or the demise of Lemuria. Not far from Lake Titicaca is the famed ancient city of Tiwanaku which is thought to be the earliest city complex in the Americas.
In high-energy areas like Lake Titicaca our energy, conscioussness, and hence our view of reality will be affected. Often times people report seeing lights, angels, UFOs, or other phenemona in these areas. Partly these things are seen because the normal rules that we place on what is real are reshaped by the energy of sacred sites. It is as if doorways and windows that have been closed through lack of use are reopened by the energy of the sacred site. It is at sites heavily associated with myth and legend like Lake Titicaca that you can peer around the corners of your normally perceived reality into something different and often higher. Once these doors of perception are coaxed open do not be surprised if you begin to perceive things in your mind and to physically see things you would not normally expect. Lake Titicaca is a powerful location that, like Machu Picchu, can reshape your view of reality. And to really understand what the ancient builders of the sacred sites where doing it is crucial that we work on our concept of reality. If we can look at what we perceive of as reality, and understand it enough to change our perceptions and awareness, we can then change our reality.
There is much symbology associated with Lake Titicaca that encodes deep aspects of understanding reality. In the Andean Aymara origin myth the creator Wiracocha sends out the woman Ymay Mama Wiracocha and the man Tocapa Wiracocha. Mama Wiracocha is told to go towards the mountains and create people. Tocapa Wiracocha is told to go towards the plains and create people. Wiracocha travels in the middle with the act of creation. In this myth we can see semblences to the concept of the Tao. The Tao is one representing
Wiracocha. But the Tao Wiracocha chooses to manifest into a seeming set of polarities in order to create. The one becomes the two and the three. So the one Wiracocha shows us how the female and male polarities support each other in the act of creation. And still with polarities the oneness of Wiracocha exists. This is remeniscent of the words of the Buddha who encourages us to take the middle way in life.
Beyond the Wiracochas and Inka rulers arguably the most legendary person associated with both Lake Titicaca and the Inka is someone named Amaru Muru. This person was undoubtedly an Amaru, a master teacher. In
