| Co-creative Community An interview with Oscar Miro-Quesada, Peruvian Shaman by Kim Oursler In these certain times of enlightenment, awakening, and cosmic understanding, we find Truth Seekers and Truth Teachers alike. Blessing our community in the month of May, we have the honor of hosting Oscar Miro-Quesada, a Peruvian-born Shaman. Oscar has been leading spiritual pilgrimages to the sacred sites of Peru and Bolivia since 1986 and facilitating experiential workshops integrating timeless wisdom teachings since 1979. He will be in the Kansas City area May 28-30. I had the opportunity to speak with Oscar about his upcoming visit to Kansas City. What brings you to Kansas City? Oscar: The people working with such dedication there requested that I come, and it is my responsibility to bring this medicine way to the Northern regions. I have a passion to help co-create sacred community and deepen the impact of benevolent social change. This is through invoking and evoking the unseen worlds and through ancestral rites of passage. In this cosmic era, we are moving from the personal and the inter-personal to the transpersonal and leaving a legacy for the next seven generations. We draw forth powers and forces to help soften our reliance on the external world, the material world. I hear that from many people who are seeking. I've had people express to me a sense that something is missing, that being consumed with the material world is not fulfilling and leaves them feeling empty. During this time of awakening, many feel the call of Spirit. They hear a call deep within the soul that awakens them to purpose and passion. What is happening on our planet right now? Oscar: A critical mass of people who are sensitive to impending change are coming together to build a new humanity. My understanding of where our solar system is in relation to our galactic center, the Milky Way, is that the tilt of our axis is coming into alignment. This causes a shift and the people are waking to it. It is time. All native peoples share a common understanding that in 2012, certain natural forces may be harnessed from our Earth Mother. The winds, the womb of the Mother, the waters of the Earth may be held in sacred container in sacred trust by stewards of the Earth. Stewards of the Earth will do more to attenuate this shift in consciousness. It is crucial to managing the de-stabilization that comes from being out of balance, i.e. the environmental destruction, imbalanced distribution of wealth, and warring nations. What can we expect when you come to KC? Oscar: I show up and work until the work is complete. First of all, I tune in to what the needs of the circle are and try not to show up with any pre-planned agenda. My greatest passion is to initiate people into ancestral ceremonial practices that they can integrate into their daily lives to enhance and expand their sense of purpose. The tradition I apprenticed in is called KAMASQA CURANDERISMO. That means the ability to invoke, meaning to bring into consciousness and to earth alternate realities. [I] then evoke those realities through ritual practices and give them form in the lives of oneself and others. It involves a ceremonial ground called a MESA, which is an altar that consists of various sacred artifacts and power objects. These have either been inherited from a lineage of your own teachers from generation to generation or those that have been received from the natural world while on a pilgrimage or vision quest. We enter into communion with those in a harmonious way and create a safe and sacred space for people. They can then realize that everything they have learned has been conditioned by the social matrix we are born into. We try to unlearn that and recreate a new vision of what it means to be human. Defining this with words does not do justice to this very millennial tradition. It conceptualizes it and concepts de-create life. I teach people the art of ceremonial mastery -- balancing the left side and the right side. The left is filled with past events that have influenced one's perception of self and the world. The right is filled with that which has not yet been born in one's life. The balance is the integration of one's past and one's potential future, walking a path of service that respects life as a sacred gift. Having seen people working with the mesa, I want to create a visual picture of the mesa being a living altar. It is an altar you can sit in, be in. Oscar: Beautiful! Living is the key term there. It becomes a portal between worlds. Is there anything else you feel might need to be said to our Kansas City community? Oscar: This is an inclusive, open invitation for all individuals -- children, adolescents, young adults, adults and elders -- to join in sacred community and experience at the soul level a living universe as part of their life purpose. Within that sacred community, if one attends gatherings on a consistent basis during New Moons, Full Moons, Equinoxes, Solstices, they can serve as anchors for the Emergence of the cross-cultural shamanic global culture that is much needed at this time. There is so much estrangement from the sacred dimension of life, due to our over-reliance on the materialistic mindset. If people are interested in experiencing work that will serve as a legacy for seven generations, that is self-less in nature and earth honoring in intention, they will find a new community in which to fulfill their soul's progress. That's the best way I can put it. That's a beautiful way to put it. People come to me on a regular basis who are experiencing a disconnect from Spirit. So many people are seeking and don't know where to go. People need a place where they can be open and don't have to be fearful of it. Oscar: That happens within community. Community is very important. Now is the time to gather together and re-member as a global family. Remember that the master teacher, Christ, Krishna, whatever name you want to call it, manifests in many forms. These world teachers spoke very simply of the fact that with an open heart, a quiet mind, and a willingness to trust in the sacred gift of life that we best serve both seen and unseen worlds. Love is a very strong component to this work. The Pachakuti Mesa: Working the Legacy of Peruvian Shamanism In the Modern World with Oscar Miro-Quesada will be in the Kansas City area May 28-30. For more information, please call (816) 942-5418 or visit www.buffalo-lodge.com Kim Oursler is a Priestess of the Goddess, a writer, mother, and doula. She serves as Community Marketing Coordinator for Wild Oats in Overland Park, KS. She may be reached at (816) 966-9882 or by e-mailing kimoursler@aol.com Copyright © 2004 Kim Oursler |
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