The renowned San Pedro curandero Eduardo Calderón revered the sacred lagoons of Las Huaringas in the northern Andes.  Here he calls the spirits to bring healing and good luck to those who have come from afar.

Eduardo evokes the spirits of the four winds...

Eduardo{s clients gaze at his powerful shamanic artes on the mesa.

"San Pedro has a special symbolism in curanderismo (folk healing) for a reason. San Pedro is always in tune with the powers of animals, of strong personages or beings, of serious beings, of beings that have supernatural power..." 

What is the Huachuma experience?

 Here is an old published account ... [the plant first produces drowsiness or a dreamy state and a feeling of lethargy, a slight dizziness, then a great 'vision', a clearing of all the faculties. It produces a light numbness in the body and afterward a tranquility. And then comes detachment, a type of visual force, inclusive of all the senses including the sixth sense, the telepathic sense of transmitting oneself across time and matter ... like a kind of removal of one's thought to a distant dimension."

Huachuma is the catalyst that activates all the complex forces at work in a curanderismo healing ceremony, especially the visionary and divinatory powers of the shaman, who can make himself the owner of another's identity.

Ecstatic magical flight is characteristic of the contemporary Huachuma ceremony. "One is transported across time, matter, and distance in a rapid and safe fashion..."

The goal of the shaman is to make his patient "bloom" during the ceremony, to make his subconscious "open like a flower," even like th night-blooming Huachuma itself.

The traditional entheogenic status of the cactus in Perú remains strong today. Not only is it still used in shamanic trances and healing sessions but it is also used increasingly to combat contemporary problems such as alcoholism. The peyote cactus used widely by North American Indians is also considered a medicine which cures alcoholism and this parallel is all the more striking since both cacti contain mescaline.

San Pedro, Peyote, and Mescaline ~ Entheogenic Catalysts for Healing
... More about the nature of the Huachuma experience and traditional San Pedro shamanism in Perú ...

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The Huachuma Mesa Journey From Time Join us on the supreme shamanic pilgrimage instructed by the grand maestro Huachuma  and maestros of the original Chavín mesa along the space-time continuum of northern Perú ... exploring the land, mind, and shamanic cosmology  of the incredibly advanced Sicán-Lambayeque, Moche and Chavín civilations of Peruvian antiquity ... from the great Sicán ceremonial pyramid complexes at Túcume and Batán Grande ...  to the powerful and foreboding Moche mesa pyramids of supreme sorcery on the northern coast ... and climaxing at the ancient Chavín Huachuma Temple of Universal Consciousness  at Chavín de Huántar, the Axis Mundi of the Andes ...and perhaps the entire planet.

Mesa of the Serpent.  Amazonian Culture.The Mesa of the Shamanic Lower World ...the womb of the soul.   Where Chavín Consciousness begins.

Powerful healing energy of the Divine Feminine uniting with ancient grandfather wisdom of the Andesa amidst the verdant organic splendor of the Amazon. Primary elemental energies are water, earth and air.

Mesa of the Puma.  Inca Civilization.  The Mesa of the Shamanic Middle World.

Realizing the spiritual world in which we live NOW.  Understanding and reconciling our human nature and gaining knowledge of our trajectory.  Primary elemental energies arre earth and fire.

Mesa of the Condor.  Inka Civilization.  The Mesa of the Shamanic Upper World.

Realizing ascending communion with the Spirit of Nature and Cosmos.  Primary elemental energies are earth, air, fire and water.

Mesa of Water.  Huancabambino Post-Colonial Culture. The Mesa of the sacred lagoons of Las Huaringas.  Experiencing contemporary San Pedro healing through the mesa norteña at Las Huaringas and Huancabamba.  Primary elemental energies water and air.

Realzing healing and renewed life energy at the sacred lagoons of Las Huaringas.

Mesa of Death. Lambayeque Culture.  A Fire Mesa at the 1,000 year-old Lambayeque city of pyramids at Túcume, near Chiclayo,  a center of contemporary San Pedro mesa practice ...

Understanding Death ... what it is and what it isn't.  The conquest of fear.  Primary elemental energy is fire.

Mesa of Power and Sorcery.  Moche (Mochica) Civilization.The electrifying Moche Mesa of Power and Sorcery ... near ancient 1,600 year-old Moche ceremonial mesa pyramids, one a site of human sacrifice to propitiate the awesome power of the El Niño on the northern coast of Perú ... done with honor, courage, and love for the good of all  ... a challenging but necessary test in the quest for knowledge and understanding of the human experience.

Contemplating the nature of Power ... Must it always corrupt?  What are the benefits and risks?  Can you stand the test?  Primary elemental energies are wind and sea.

Mesa of Healing and Transformation.  Chavín Civilization.  Up the ascending stairway to the gallery of the Lanzón, the immortal Axis Mundi of the ancient Chavin world, at the most sacred shamanic shrine in the Americas  ... the  Grandmother and the Mother of all Peruvian mesas ... the ancient 3,200 year-old wachuma temple of universal consciousness at Chavín de Huántar.

The Chavín Mesa initiation is the supreme experience for the devoted follower of the shamanic path.  It is an opportunity for dynamic positive and lasting change in one's life ... If not here, where?  If not now, when? Primary elemental energies are earth, air, fire, water, and Consciousness converging in perfect harmony.

Mesa of Creativity. Witnessing Natural Creative Forces in the Andes. Realizing dynamic union of the Spirits of Nature and Cosmos within and all around us ... in the 6,000,000 year-old Cordillera Blanca of the central Andes,  the highest tropical peaks in the world ...

Realizing our spiritual immortality and collective Oneness with all Creation. Earth and Cosmos.  Everything all at once.  We ARE One.

In our ceremonies, the Mesa becomes an Axis Mundi, a world center, a place where heaven and earth unite, the spiritual metaphoric portal of universal healing energy and immortal knowledge ...

An Inkan Huachuma Pilgrimage to the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu a communion with the Spirits of Nature and Cosmos June 30 - July 7, 2008 an incredibly transformative shamanic pilgrimage to powerful sacred sites of the Inka and their ancestors ... ... beginning with a heart-opening despacho ceremony of burnt offering to Pachamama with our dear friends the legendary Q'ero of the high Andes,  the living descendants of the Inka. From the Sacred Valley to the legendary shamanic sanctuary of Machupicchu

with two stunning shamanic mesa works
with the Grand Maestro Huachuma, don Otorongo Blanco,
and the Spirits of Nature and Cosmos
at the powerful natural huacas of Chinchero and Machu Picchu

...an inspiring shamanic journey to ancient sacred sites of shamanic power in the Sacred Valley ...

featuring two powerfully transformative Mesa works with the grandfather maestro Huachuma,
later known as San Pedro

... The earthy and revealing Puma Huachuma Mesa at beautifully surreal Chinchero ...

... and the magnificently transcendent Condor Huachuma Mesa at mystical Machu Picchu.

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A heart-opening despacho ceremony of offering to Pachamama, Mother Earth,
with the esteemed Q'ero shamans from the sacred Apus in the high Andes, the living descendants of the Inka

~ group size limited to twelve ~

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