Category: Despacho
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Elder’s Meditation of the Day – July 30
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in Andean Cosmovision, Beginners’ Mind!, Challenges!, Compassion, Despacho, Empathy, Empowerment, Energy Medicine, From my own teachers, Healing energies, Karma, Meditation, Mental and Emotional Health, Mind-Body Healing, Mindfulness, Relationships, Sacred Space, Shamanism, Spiritual Worlds, SpiritualityElder’s Meditation of the Day – July 30 “You want to know who’s a real medicine man? He’s the one who doesn’t say ‘I’m a medicine man.’ He doesn’t ask you to come to him. You’ve got to go and ask him. And you’ll find he’s always there among his own people.” — Louis Farmer,…
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The Despacho
Q’ero Elder Don Manuel Q’ispe, in a presentation at Canyon de Chelley in May 1997 (translated by Jose Luis Herrera), spoke of despachos this way: “The despacho is a gift–a giving back of what we receive everyday in our lives. We seek, through the despacho ceremony, to bridge the ordinary and non-ordinary realms; to establish…