comments about the  Huachuma Pilgrimage Through Time from some distinguished alumni of the Chavin Mesa updated March 29, 2008

Huachuma Pilgrimage Through Time "A truly magical journey of discovery. revelation, and personal transformation at ancient centers of shamanic power, revisiting the greatest pre-Inca civilizations of northern Perú ... the Moche and Chavín 2008 Calendar of Events

We hope you enjoy reading these candid comments from some of our alumni from around the world.  If you would like to correspond personally with some of them before enrolling in SpiritQuest, let us know and we will forward some e-mail addresses.

"Hermano Howard,

I believe your Huachuma Journey Through Time has become legendary among SpiritQuest alumni for good reason. It’s a spiritual immersion in Huachuma Mesa work of the highest order for those intent on Self-discovery and personal transformation.

My participation in this sacred shamanic pilgrimage has changed me to the core in ways I have yet to fathom. Each Mesa was a life-changing communion with the divine, a heartfelt and most humbling transpersonal journey within the journey.

I thought I’d experienced all you had in store; from the breathtaking horseback ride to the magical lagoons of Las Huaringas in the high Andes, to the challenging, off-the-charts Huachuma Mesa work at Túcume, El Brujo and Chavín de Huántar.

But, brother, you really know how to bring down the curtain. The closing Mesa of Heaven’s Gate was a transcendent, “4th dimension” taste of Heaven on Earth that I will cherish forever.

I look forward to seeing you in Iquitos real soon for the 2005 Ayahuasca Odyssey and I’m already laying in plans to attend another Huachuma Journey Through Time.

Oh mama…

Warm regards, Howard… to you and your and your caring staff.

~Dan Reynolds"

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Dear Howard,

    As you know, I only requested to join you on the Huachuma Journey Through Time as a last minute thing.  I was already a participant in the Ayahuasca Solstice Odyssey and had signed up for the Andean Huachuma Pilgrimage.  Now I'm really glad it worked out that I was able to do all three journeys in a continuous sequence.  There was a feeling of the whole thing gathering momentum like an epic tale, each mesa building on the last and the healing getting ever more deep for me.

    Now, having completed all three journeys, I have the sensation of having undergone a shamanic initiation, spending time and achieving healing in each of the three shamanic worlds: The Lower World of the Amazon, the Middle World of the Inca and Moche cultures and the Upper World of the Chavin and Heaven's Gate.

    For me these five weeks of initiation have been the culmination of a lifetime of personal evolution, learning to be my authentic self, awakening from culturally induced self-delusion.

    Having recently celebrated by fiftieth birthday this initiation feels like the most wonderful birthday present from myself to My Self.

    Howard, I want to thank you one more time for following the compass of your heart, for finding the path that leads to Chavin, Heaven's Gate and beyond, for sticking to the path when things were not easy so that others, like myself, may experience heaven on earth and taste everlasting life.

    I want to thank Don Rober and Mamacita Ayahuasca for my personal healing.  After a lifetime of asthma, no more wheezing!

    I also want to thank all the staff at your Iquitos jungle retreat.  Everyone contributed to make a loving, healing, joy-filled family atmosphere that greatly assisted me as I went through deep healing work, casting off a lifetime of accumulated dross and welcoming in an abundance of much needed life energy.

    I can hardly wait to come back to Peru to experience more.

    There's always more........

    In gratitude

    Martin Stevens
    Wood sculptor, Port Townsend WA  USA

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