Have you ever looked into yourself so deeply that you “didn’t care to apologize” and “found the thought inadmissible”? What a life and so little holes in your soul you would have if only you were so wise and yet, what a curse and quite unlike ‘any blessing it would be. Your knowledge of others and their intentions would make you feel so alone and so devastatingly unable to convey to others what games the ego does play. You might try to use intellect and be found arrogant. You might use love and empathy and be found invasive and intense. You might develop the austere distance of an impeccable warrior as Carlos was taught and then no longer need. No longer need! Anything! This is the world of Carlos Castaneda which calls out for humanity to look at itself and know how sensationally gifted our soul can be and in the final analysis how scary it would be not to actually care for another person at some intense level of need. But if there is no need in those dimensions what is there? Love and connectiveness as we have said; or purpose and productive involvement in creation on a collective and common basis, where each separate energy is never able to feel anything more than the most of whatever they want.

In Don Juan we see the laughter and his great power which has no application except to help the truly interested and committed student who sincerely commits to the path without knowing what is about to happen. The awe and inspiring nature of the courage makes the word warrior seem the only appropriate word to use. No Fear! This part of the Keltic Creed that the Toltecs knew and used so well in making other people rise within their own soul to achieve great oneness and beauty, is most important. Between the teacher and the pupil passes less than I would hope could be, but in the final analysis I envy Carlos, as I question Don Juan.

INITIATION: – What does it take to learn from the secrets of esoteric and adept scholars? Does one have to commit to pay money and be willing to attend endless lectures like Carlos did at UCLA under professors Meighan and Garfinkel? Perhaps it takes the willingness and intense desire he showed when he saw or felt an opportunity to learn the ways of the self-proclaimed last Toltec or a shaman of a lost culture? In some situations one has to go through so many hoops and hurdles with lots of tricks and traps that one wonders if there really is anything more than sorcery at work. Don Juan had to trick Carlos at first because he knew there was no way Carlos would really believe the simple truths of our cosmic and spiritual world. Is that a rationalization? Today you can learn a lot of these things from books and seminars. In most cases you should do this and then determine if there is some group who meets your own interests and requirements. Because we have just dealt with it as a highly shamanistic experience and because that is what the Druids and alchemists really were or are, and we recently dealt with that; we are going to quote a good explanation about shamanism that you can use as your own initiation if you so desire.

“shamanism Perhaps the oldest system of healing in the world, shamanism is prevalent in tribal cultures which, though isolated from one another, have developed beliefs and techniques with startling similarities {Unless you believe in long time world travel or astral and akashic cognition.}. The shaman is an individual who enters an ecstatic altered state of consciousness, which enables him to communicate with guardian and helping spirits and draw upon enormous sources of power. The primary purpose of shamanism is the healing of body and mind. It is also used for divination and to ensure good hunts and prosperity for a tribe or village.

According to archaeological and ethnological evidence, shamanism has been practiced for some 20,000 to 30,000 years. {The recent discovery of 90,000 year old drugs or herbal remedies in Neanderthal sites as well as the Mungo Man clearly moves this a long way back from a purely physical evidence point of view.}. It may be much older, perhaps as old as the human race. It is found all over the world, including very remote parts of the Americas, Siberia and Asia, Australia, northern Europe and Africa.

Shamanic systems vary greatly, but there are basic similarities in most systems {The Judaic Tree of Life and The Tree of Yggdrasil are more than just basic similarities.}. The shaman must function comfortably in two realities, the ordinary reality of the everyday waking world, and the nonordinary reality of the shamanic state of consciousness. The nonordinary reality is attained in a trance, which varies from very tight to deep coma and enables the shaman to see and do things that are impossible in ordinary reality. Once in a trance, the shaman enters the lowerworld by slipping into a hole or opening in the earth. In the lowerworld, he sees the cause of disease in a patient and knows its cure, and sees his guardian spirit and spirit helpers. He can shape-shift into these spirits and fly through the air. He performs his cures and can see into the future. When his shamanic work is done, he reemerges from the lowerworld back into ordinary reality. Shamans are also said to ascend to the sky in spirit boats or astride the spirits of sacrificed horses.

The nonordinary reality is as real to the shaman as is the ordinary reality. The things he sees are not hallucinations but are externalized. The shamanic state of consciousness is induced through drumming, rattling and dancing or, in some societies, by ingesting hallucinogens.

Shamans tend to be men {Women have more of these abilities in their natural state and require less altered consciousness.}, though women also can become shamans; some women shamans are extraordinarily powerful. In some cultures, shamans are involuntarily chosen by the spirits; they realize their calling in a transformational experience, often a serious illness that brings them close to death {For example Damion Brinkley of today.} and is self-cured. In other cultures, persons with natural shamanic gifts are selected at a young age, trained and initiated.

The shaman must obtain a guardian spirit, which is the source of his spiritual powers. The guardian spirit also is called a ‘power animal’, ‘tutelary spirit’, totemic animal’ or ‘familiar’. A common method of discovering and connecting with the guardian spirit is the solitary all-night vigil outdoors {It is often a death-defying experience to try to lie to your tribe about any ability if you cannot Do the work.}. The guardian spirit usually manifests as an animal, bird, fish or reptile but may also appear in human form. It is both beneficent and beneficial and brings to the shaman the, powers of an entire species {Or inanimate lifeforms with conscious wisdom like the trees and mountains.}. The shaman invites the guardian spirit into his body; it protects him from illness and from unfriendly forces in the lowerworld. Guardian spirits change over the years as the shaman’s needs change.

After a guardian spirit is acquired, healing and divination may be performed. Healing techniques vary. A shaman may collect spirit helpers, which are the causes and cures of illness {The church believed this to the exclusion of the free will of people and the active ingredients of physical nature. Few good shamans would do this today, if they ever did.}. Spirit helpers are represented by plants, insects, small objects, worms and the like. When the shaman sees, in trance, the cause of an illness, he places one of these objects in the back of his mouth and one in the front. He then begins to “suck” the illness out of the body of the patient. The energy that causes the illness is absorbed by the spirit helpers in his mouth who protect the shaman from absorbing the illness himself. The helper in the back of the mouth acts as a backup, in case the illness gets past the helper in front.

In other techniques, the shaman descends to the lowerworld, or the realm of the dead, to bring back the soul of a patient or to retrieve a patient’s guardian spirit. Some shamans exorcise disease-causing spirits in séancelike procedures or by invoking or cajoling them to leave the patient.

Sleight-of-hand tricks are sometimes used, but do not necessarily negate a healing.

Western interest in shamanism has been rising since 1951, when Mircae Eliade {Another Eranos Conference attendee.} published his landmark study, Shamanism. An increasing amount of literature has been written since about shamanic systems and the uses of hallucinogenic drugs.

Some traditions of contemporary Paganism and Witchcraft incorporate shamanic practices. Most of these concern raising energy, r, Otherworld journeys and healing. Some Witches, such as STARHAWK, consider Witchcraft essentially a shamanistic religion because raising energy, Otherworldly contact and healing are fundamental to it. Some Pagans say the same about various forms of contemporary Paganism. Pagan and Wiccan shamanism fosters a closer connection to the Earth and plays a role in the environmental and ecological interests of many individuals. It also plays a significant role in the creation of healing therapies especially tailored to Pagan and Wiccan spirituality.

FURTHER READING:
Harner, Michael. The Way of the Shaman, New York: Bantam. 1982.

Harvey, Graham. Contemporary Paganism: Listening People, Speaking Earth. New York, New York University Press, 1997

Kalweit, Holger. Dreamtime & Inner Space: The World of the Shaman Boston, Shambala Publications, 1984.” (7)

There are many things we would have to agree seem unlikely to have the attributions credited to them by people who have done these things for millenia. That does not detract from the actual result and it can easily be said that science has made some similarly false attributions. The difference for us should be that shamans were doing something and scientists seldom actually achieved any great result.

Author of Diverse Druids, Columnist for The ES Press Magazine, Guest writer at World-Mysteries.com

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By: Janis Drennen

Janis Drennen

May 14, 2009

Published : August 2009 issue of NorthEastern Holistic Resource

Munay Ki means I Love you in the Quechua language.

Munay- Ki are Nine Rites of initiation for one to become a person of wisdom and power that has accepted the Stewardship for all creation. – Alberto Villoldo, PhD.

The Munay-Ki Rites are available to anyone who asks but those that ask should be prepared to travel an interesting journey being able to connect even more to past and the future! The Laika felt that people would come to the Munay-Ki when they were ready and felt a calling to do so. And as the saying goes the Masters appear when the student is ready.

As you receive the Nine Rites your body starts becoming what the Laika know as a “ Rainbow Body” . Each chakra starts cleaning itself of all past traumas and glowing with their original and intended colors. Once you receive the 7^th, 8^th, and 9^th Rite your Luminous Energy Field starts changing your internal programming for a new aging, healing, and death process. The Nine Rites attunes your body from that of a human to the body of an Angel.

The first four Rites can be given to the Receiver in any order and are given seperately, as a pair, or all at one visit. The order that I like to share with those who wish to receive is the Healer Rite/Hampe, the Seer/Kowak Rite, The Bands of Protection, and the Harmony/Ayni Karpi Rite.

The Healer/Hampe Rite connects one with the EarthKeeper Lineage from the past that assist the receiver on their path to healing themselves as an individual. The EarthKeeper lineage will do their “work” while you are in sleep time or meditation. This comes from the peoples of the highland Q’ero.

The Seer/Kowak Rite reconnects the filaments of your Third Eye and Heart to your visual cortex. This is so that you may “see” and “feel/know” what needs to be done. This comes from the peoples of North Coastal Peru and of the amazon.

The Bands of Protection or Power. There are 5 Bands that are installed into the LEF- Luminous Energy Field which the elements: earth, water,fire,air and pure light near the 2^nd to 6^th chakras. The Bands of Protection act as filters to absorb anything negative that comes your way, mulches it, and feeding the elements instead of harming you with ills or toxic emotions. This orignated in the Q’ero nation.

The Harmony/Ayni Karpi Rite. In the lower chakras you receive the “seeds” of the archtypes of serpant, jaguar, hummingbird and eagle. In the upper chakras you receive three “archangels” Husacar Inka, Quetzalcoatl, and Pachakuti. These seeds grow with time and assist in the cleansing of the chakras. This rite comes from the lowland Q’ero and the edge of the Amazon.

At this point the receiver must agree to be a Spiritual Steward of the Earth and a Spiritual Vessel to go on to receive the final five Keeper Rites. These final five rites come with great power and great responsibility of the receiver. If the receiver is not ready to handle such a task the “seeds” for the ending results of the Rites will be stored until the person is ready or merely used as a food and will never germinate. The following 5 Rites are done in order.

The Day Keeper/ PampaMasayok Rite. This is the connection to the great medicine people of the Laikas of Q’ero region, those that honored the way of Mother Earth and the Feminine. This allows you to practice peace, travel beyond fear, and to heal one’s feminine side. The Earth must be strong before the mountains are placed and the feminine needs to be set before the masculine.

The Wisdom Keeper/ Altomesayok Rite. This is the connection to the great medicine people of the high mountains of the Andes ( Masculine). This Rite aids you to travel beyond time. The Wisdomkeepers protect the ancient wisdoms and share with those when the time is appropriate.

The EarthKeeper /Kurak Akuyek Rite. This rite connects you with the archangels that are the stewards of all life on Earth and are said to look like humans but be as large as the trees. This rite helps you learn the ways of the seer rite.

The StarKeeper/Mosoq Karpay. This Rite prepares you for the time to come (~2012) and is said when you receive the Starkeeper Rite you acquire stewardship of times to come and all the future generations. A great responsibility is placed upon you. Some also claim that it changes your physical body in the aging and healing process.

The Creator/Taitanchis Rite. The word Taitanchis means “God”. By receiving this rite your God-light is awaken and you must accept the stewardship of all creation. This is the last and final rite that was finally shared with and made available for the world by the Inka elders of the Andes in 2006.

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1. THE GREAT LAW -
“As you sow, so shall you reap”. This is also known as the “Law of Cause and Effect”.
Whatever we put out in the Universe is what comes back to us.
If what we want is Happiness, Peace, Love, Friendship…Then we should BE Happy, Peaceful, Loving and a True Friend.

2. THE LAW OF CREATION -
Life doesn’t just HAPPEN, it requires our participation.
We are one with the Universe, both inside and out.
Whatever surrounds us gives us clues to our inner state.
BE yourself, and surround yourself with what you want to have present in your Life.

3. THE LAW OF HUMILITY -
What you refuse to accept, will continue for you.
If what we see is an enemy, or someone with a character trait that we find to be negative,
then we ourselves are not focused on a higher level of existence.

4. THE LAW OF GROWTH -
“Wherever you go, there you are”.
For us to GROW in Spirit, it is we who must change – and not the people, places or things around us.
The only given we have in our lives is OURSELVES
and that is the only factor we have control over.
When we change who and what we are within our heart
our life follows suit and changes too.

5. THE LAW OF RESPONSIBILITY -
Whenever there is something wrong in my life,
there is something wrong in me.
We mirror what surrounds us – and what surrounds us mirrors us; this is a Universal Truth.
We must take responsibility what is in our life.

6. THE LAW OF CONNECTION -
Even if something we do seems inconsequential,
it is very important that it gets done as everything in the Universe is connected.
Each step leads to the next step, and so forth and so on.
Someone must do the initial work to get a job done.
Neither the first step nor the last are of greater significance,
As they were both needed to accomplish the task.
Past – Present – Future
They are all connected…

7. THE LAW OF FOCUS – You can not think of two things at the same time.
When our focus is on Spiritual Values, it is impossible for us to have lower thoughts such as greed or anger.

8. THE LAW OF GIVING AND HOSPITALITY -
If you believe something to be true,
then sometime in your life
you will be called upon to demonstrate that particular truth.
Here is where we put what we CLAIM that we have learned,
into actual PRACTICE.

9. THE LAW OF HERE AND NOW -
Looking backward to examine what was,
prevents us from being totally in the HERE AND NOW.
Old thoughts, old patterns of behavior, old dreams…
Prevent us from having new ones.

10. THE LAW OF CHANGE -
History repeats itself until we learn the lessons that we need to change our path.

11. THE LAW OF PATIENCE AND REWARD – All Rewards require initial toil.
Rewards of lasting value require patient and persistent toil.
True joy follows doing what we’re suppose to be doing, and waiting for the reward to come in on it’s own time.

12. THE LAW OF SIGNIFICANCE AND INSPIRATION -
You get back from something whatever YOU have put into it.
The true value of something is a direct result of
the energy and intent that is put into it.
Every personal contribution is also a contribution to the Whole.
Lack luster contributions have no impact on the Whole, nor do they work to diminish it.
Loving contributions bring life to, and inspire, the Whole.

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Dr Villoldo learned and studied the rites of the Inca Shamans with a number of mentors over a period of years living with them in the Andes Mountains of Peru ^[1]. As he describes in his book Shaman Healer Sage^[2] , he travelled for more than ten years with his first mentor Don Antonio Morales throughout the Andes and the Amazon to accumulate and distill the shamanic knowledge of these peoples. From this distilled knowledge, Dr Villoldo assembled the Munay-Ki as a series of rites derived from Inca traditions, but stripped of some of the elements of the cultures they came from intending respect. ^[1]

Dr Villoldo writes that the rites derive from the great initiations from the Hindus Valley that were brought to the Americas by the first medicine men and women who crossed the Bering Strait from Siberia during the glacial period some 30,000 years ago, and who were known as the Laika, the Earthkeepers of old ^[3]

The nine rites of the Munay-Ki were first given together and including the ninth rite, the creators rite in 2006.

The Munay-Ki rites are initiations, which Dr Villoldo says are intended to help the initiate become a person of wisdom and power ^[3].

Dr Villoldo describes how the Munay-Ki rites give us access to what he terms “luminous beings”, and which he notes Buddhists call Bodhisattva ^[4]. He indicates they are spiritual allies.

Initiates generally both receive the rites, and are taught how to pass them on and in turn teach them. Recipients are asked not to charge specifically for passing the rites on, though it is considered acceptable to recoup costs or to charge for coaching initiates through understanding the changes the rites bring to their lives. The rites are offered in workshops or 1:1 in most countries around the world.

The Rites

Chakras Diagram

The rites are grouped into three categories and are given in the order shown below ^[5]

• The foundation rites
  • 1 – Healers Rite
  • 2 – Bands of Power Rite
  • 3 – Harmony Rite
  • 4 – Seer Rite
• The lineage rites
  • 5 – Daykeepers Rite
  • 6 – Wisdom Keepers Rite
  • 7 – Earthkeepers Rite
• The rites to come
  • 8 – Starkeeper’s Rite
  • 9 – Creator Rite

The rites are said to plant seeds in the energy fields of the chakras.

Fire Ceremonies

Candles used in fire ceremony

Following receipt of the Munay-Ki rites initiates are encouraged to engage in fire ceremony rituals, to maintain and grow the gifts received in the rites. A fire ceremony is done for each rite. The initiate meditates with their focus on the fire from a candle, and drawing the warmth of the fire into the chakras that were the focus of the specific rite, while opening their heart and mind to the theme of the rite . It is recommended that initiates engage in the fire ceremonies for each ritual between daily and weekly to grow the gifts of the rites, ^[6]

The Energies

The various rites involve invoking a range of powers and energies including the following:^[7]

• The lineage of the Laika
• The power and medicine of the South, Serpent
• The power and medicine of the West, Jaguar
• The power and medicine of the North, Hummingbird
• The power and medicine of the East, Great Eagle
• Huáscar, Lower world and the subconscious
• Quetzalcoatl, Middle world
• Pachacuti, Times to come
• Daykeepers
• Wisdomkeepers
• Earthkeepers
• Starkeepers
• Spiritkeepers
• Earth, Pachamama
• Water
• Fire & Sun
• Wind & Air
• Light

The rites call these energies to move into various of the initiate’s chakras, with the energies and chakras involved varying from rite to rite.

• Shaman, Healer, Sage: How to Heal Yourself and Others with the Energy Medicine of the AmericasISBN 978-0609605448

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