PART I. TEACHINGS OF SHAMANS

American shamans have been practicing energy medicine for more than five thousand years, although some healers claim their spiritual heritage is even older. They remember stories passed down from grandmothers to granddaughters, telling about the times when the Earth was very young. Although the ancient inhabitants of America possessed enormous astronomical knowledge, advanced mathematics and exquisite architectural experience, they did not have writing.

It is for this reason that scientists have paid more attention to the spiritual traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Buddhism, which are based on written evidence. Western theologians have been studying Buddhism for more than two hundred years, but the spiritual achievements of Native Americans aroused their interest only forty years ago. The study of shamanism was left to anthropologists, but they (with such rare exceptions as Margaret Mead) turned out to be completely unprepared to confront questions of spirituality.

The almost complete destruction of the Indians by European settlers drove the handful of surviving indigenous inhabitants of America into the less than optimal conditions of reservations, where the elders desperately tried to preserve their spiritual traditions.

It is easy to understand that now they are not eager to share their heritage with white enslavers. The Peruvian Indians suffered a similar fate.

The Spanish conquistadors came to this country in search of gold, and the spiritual traditions of the Incas could remain unaffected, but what the conquistadors did not care about was violently destroyed by the missionaries.

The scattered groups of gold miners who landed on the shores of South America brought with them beliefs that were incomprehensible to the Indians.

It turned out, firstly, that by divine will, everything edible on earth belongs to man (in particular, Europeans), who rules over earthly animals and plants. Secondly, people do not know how to talk to rivers, animals, mountains and God. Third, humanity will have to wait until the end of time to taste eternity.

Such ridiculous thoughts never occurred to the Indians. The Europeans believed that they were expelled from the mythical Garden of Eden, and the Indians knew that they were the guardians and guardians of this Garden. They continued to talk with the roaring rivers and whispering mountains; they still heard the voice of God in the gusts of wind. Spanish chroniclers noted that, meeting with the Inca ruler Atahualpa, conquistador Pizarro handed him a Bible, explaining that it was the Word of God. Inka raised the book to his ear, listened to it for a few seconds and threw it to the ground, exclaiming: “Does the real God ever become silent?!”

The Native Americans were struck not only by the silence of the European God, but also by his gender. The conquistadors brought with them patriarchal mythology, which clashed with Indian ideas about the primacy of the feminine. Before the arrival of the Spaniards, divine principles were personified by Mother Earth and her feminine manifestations (for example, caves and other holes in the soil).

Europeans imposed the divinity of the masculine gender - the phallus, or Tree of Life. Church spiers rose to the heavens. The Feminine Earth was no longer revered, and animals and forests simply turned into valuable prey.

We are still caught in the grip of these incoherent views today. We are convinced that everything that does not breathe, does not move and does not grow is devoid of life. We equate energy to fuel, which we draw from wood, oil and coal. IN ancient world energy was considered the animate fabric of the Universe. Energy is Being in manifestation.

Probably the most important modern expression of this fact is Einstein's equation E = mс2, connecting energy and matter. We, the representatives Western culture, are occupied by matter, which is finite by nature. Unlike us, the shaman is identified with energy that is unlimited in nature.

There is another fundamental difference between ancient and modern Americans. We rely on regulations. Our society is based on rules determined by the Constitution, the Ten Commandments, and laws created by elected bodies. These requirements organize our lives and help change the world. The ancient Greeks, on the contrary, were guided by generalized concepts. They were fascinated not by rules, but by ideas. They believed that one idea could turn the whole world upside down and there was nothing more powerful in the world than a thought that arose in a timely manner. Shamans rely on perception. When they need to change the world, they change their perception, as a result of which their relationship with everything around them transforms. They imagine one of the possibilities - and the world is changing. It is for this reason that the Incan elders sit in a circle for joint meditation: they mentally create the world that they would like to leave as a legacy to their great-grandchildren.

One of the reasons why the techniques of energy medicine were kept strictly secret was that they would inevitably be accepted as a set of unshakable methods (just as mainstream medicine is often perceived as a disparate set of procedures). Many people mistakenly believe that they can master energy medicine simply by mastering some set of rules. However, for a shaman, it is not the rules that are important, but the Spirit. Each village may have its own special healing techniques, but the Spirit remains unchanged. True healing is the awakening of the patient's original nature and his sense of infinity.

Chapter 1. HEALING AND INFINITY

We have been walking for many days. I told Antonio that I would be happy to buy us both a bus ticket (I think I would even be generous with a taxi). But he stubbornly refuses to agree. He would hardly even allow me to hire horses. “My people walk,” he replies. He seems pleased that he can easily outpace me on foot, even though he is nearly seventy.

When we got to Sillustani, the first thing I did was take off my shoes and put my feet in the icy lake water. The places here are eerie - the cemetery, stretching for tens of miles, resembles the Egyptian Valley of the Kings. Only shamans, rulers and their wives are buried in giant stone towers off the very shores of Titicaca. These regions are famous for their masons. Where does such advanced technology come from here, near a lake at the very top of the world?

Antonio explained that funerary towers (shi1ra) not only glorify the deceased shamans, but also serve as their homes when they return to our world for a while. They become free and powerful spirits and therefore can take on flesh again whenever they wish. These stories did not make me feel any better. We have to stay here the whole night and perform a special ceremony as a sign of respect for the shamans of antiquity.

“They are out of time,” Antonio said. According to him, if my belief in reality is based on the idea that time flows in only one direction, the perception of my own future will completely unsettle me. “Getting a taste of the future without letting that knowledge influence your actions in the present requires great skill,” he said.

From the diary.

My career in medical anthropology began with a fascination with the human mind. I spent hundreds of hours in anatomical theaters in the 1980s. I wanted to understand how thinking contributes to the health or disease of the body. Spirituality (both traditional and modern) was of little interest to me at that time. I had no doubt that science is the only reliable way to obtain knowledge. One day I was sitting in a laboratory at the University of California, cutting sections of brain tissue to prepare slides for examination under a microscope. The human brain is the most amazing organ of the body.

Deep folds make it look like a one and a half kilogram walnut.

For nature, depressions and turns were the only way to create a thin but very extensive layer of the cerebral cortex without increasing the size of the skull. In his evolution, man has already encountered an anatomically insurmountable obstacle: the pelvic girdle is simply not able to pass through the birth canal something larger than the head of a modern baby.

Under a microscope, millions of synapses are revealed, connecting each brain cell to its neighbors through an amazing network of living fibers. A huge amount of motor and sensory data is constantly transmitted through the neural network. Yet admiration for the structure of the brain is unique to us Westerners. The Egyptians treated it without much respect: after the death of a person, it was liquefied and pumped out, although all other organs of the body were mummified.

One question that was hotly debated in our laboratory that day was whether human consciousness is limited to the brain or, for that matter, the body. I knew that if the human brain were simple enough to understand, then our thinking would be too simple - and then we would not be able to comprehend our own brain. Sections of brain tissue were studied in the most careful way, but the mind continued to elude. The more I learned about the brain, the more acutely I realized the complexity of how thinking works.

I also believed that the human race managed to survive for many millions of years before the advent of modern medicine, because the body and mind knew the path to good health. People continued to live after deep wounds that became infected, and fractures received when falling into ravines. Up until the age of fifty, going to the doctor was more dangerous than staying at home, relying on the strength of body and mind. By the beginning of the twentieth century, medicine had succeeded only in the field of diagnostics. She was sorely lacking treatment methods, effective drugs and experience in surgical interventions, which were developed only during the Second World War. Penicillin, the first true antibiotic, was not used until 1940. Looking at the deplorable state of medicine until the middle of this century, you begin to be amazed at how our ancestors managed to stay healthy over the past millennia? Perhaps indigenous cultures know something very ancient about the mind and body, something that we have long forgotten and are now trying to recreate in our laboratories?

Now the concept of psychosomatic diseases has become familiar, but initially they were associated only with hypochondria (“it’s all just in the head”).

However, later studies showed the reliability of the influence of thinking on the body. In a certain sense, we all become virtuosos of psychosomatic self-hypnosis from a very early age. When I didn't feel like going to school, I would give myself all the symptoms of a cold in a matter of minutes. And yet, psychosomatic illnesses contradict all the survival instincts built into our bodies over three hundred million years of evolution. How powerful is the mind if it manages to suppress the mechanisms of survival and self-preservation! Now imagine what you can achieve if you channel these instincts into psychosomatic health!

In recent decades, a new field of biology has been rapidly developing - psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). Experts in this field have discovered that the mind is not concentrated solely in the brain, but spreads throughout the body.

Dr. Candace Pert discovered that neuropeptides (molecules that are constantly washed by the bloodstream and fill the spaces between cells) respond almost instantly to every sensation, feeling and change of mood, thereby turning the entire body into a pulsating, tireless “mind”. The body fully experiences all the sensations we experience.

The gap between mind and body has been reduced to the size of a single molecule. In addition, we found out how psychosomatic disorders develop. Now we know that in a depressed state of mind, every cell of the body feels depressed, the immune defense weakens, and the likelihood of illness increases. We know that laughter is, if not the best, then, in any case, one of the best medicines. A few years after I left that laboratory, experts in the field of PNI proved what shamans had long known: the body and mind are one. However, these scientists lost sight of the decisive factor in any shamanic healing - the Spirit.

IN SEARCH OF THE SPIRIT

At twenty-five, I became the youngest medical professor at the University of San Francisco. I had my own laboratory (department of biological self-regulation), which studied the influence of energy medicine and visualization on chemical processes in the brain. Thanks to energy healing techniques, we were able to increase the level of endorphin (a natural substance responsible for reducing sensitivity to pain and ecstatic states) in the brain by almost 50%. My students and I were making amazing discoveries, and yet my initial excitement was steadily fading. Yes, we could influence brain chemistry, but we still had no idea how to restore health to a person suffering from a deadly disease.

We were like children who suddenly discovered that by mixing mud with water you can make clay. But I wanted something more. I dreamed of understanding how to build houses from this clay, or at least sculpt pots.

One fine day, sitting in my laboratory, I suddenly realized that the scale of work should increase, not decrease. A microscope is far from the best tool for finding answers to the questions that concern me. I needed a system larger than the neural networks of the brain. Many others were already working on hardware, but I wanted to learn how to create software. If there are specialists in the world who can channel extraordinary abilities human mind to heal the body, then I must find them. I wanted to know everything they knew. Anthropologists' reports hinted that some peoples of the earth supposedly knew these secrets. These include, for example, the Australian Aborigines and the Peruvian Incas.

A few weeks later I left my position at the university. Colleagues believed that giving up a promising university career was pure madness. I traded my lab for a pair of hiking boots and a ticket to the Amazon region. I was going to learn from those researchers whose vision was not limited to the microscope lens. I dreamed of learning from peoples whose knowledge went beyond the measurable material world - the only true reality, as I had always been told. I wanted to meet those who feel the space separating objects, who can see the luminous threads that weave all living things into a single animated web.

Over time, my search led me from the Amazon jungle to the Peruvian Andes, where I met Don Antonio, who was then nearly seventy. By Western standards, he was very poor. He didn't even have electricity, let alone a TV. However, he claimed to have a taste of infinity.

“We are luminous beings going to the stars,” he once told me. - But in order to understand this, you need to feel the taste of infinity.

I remember how I chuckled when this medicine man first stated that we were interstellar travelers who had existed since the beginning of time. “The quirks of folklore,” I thought then. “Reflections of an old man who cannot come to terms with the inevitability of death.” I believed that Don Antonio's thoughts were akin to the archetypal ideas of the soul described by Carl Jung. Antonio interpreted the myth literally and not symbolically, but then I did not contradict him. I remembered how I once tried to explain to my Catholic grandmother that in fact there was no virgin birth, it was just a metaphor indicating that Christ was born enlightened - the true Son of God in the full sense of these words. My grandmother couldn't come to terms with this. For her virgin birth The Virgin Mary remained a historical fact. I decided that Don Antonio's ideas about infinity belonged to the same category. For both of them, a beautiful allegory turned into dogma. Mythologist Joseph Campbell said that reality is woven from myths, through the veil of which our gaze penetrates from with great difficulty. This is why it is so easy to be an anthropologist surrounded by a completely alien culture: for an outsider, it is transparent, like a king’s new dress.

From time to time I tried to explain to Don Antonio that the king had no clothes, that myths should not be confused with facts. That was until I witnessed him helping a missionary as she lay dying: The village was located at the foot of a hill about a mile from our route. It included massive ruins of Inca-era structures.

The granite blocks of the surviving walls were cut so skillfully that they had held together only by friction for many centuries.

Once upon a time, the Incas built their fortress here as an outpost of civilization on the edge of Altipalapo. Now, a thousand years later, their descendants live in the ruins of this fortress and cultivate the terraces of their hill. Chickens, pigs and guanacos walked around the yard. An Indian woman was pounding corn in a mortar.

The old man led us to one of the shacks. It was getting dark, and when we entered the house, it took me a while for my eyes to get used to the darkness. A woman in a large black scarf and with a candle in her hands stood at the head of the bed and whispered something; a miserable straw bed was located in the middle of the room on two wooden supports.

A woman lay stretched out on the bed, covered up to her chin with an Indian blanket; due to severe exhaustion, it was impossible to judge her age.

Short gray hair, the bones of the face are tightly covered with jaundiced skin, the thin tendons of the neck are tense. From sunken sockets, motionless eyes looked at the ceiling. She did not move, did not give any sign in response to our appearance.

Morales turned around, looked at me and held out a candle; I walked over and took it from him.

He ran his hand over the woman's face; her eyes are everything. They also looked at the ceiling. On her chest lay a silver crucifix, from which a chain with rosary beads stretched around her neck.

“Missionary,” Morales whispered. -Two days ago the Indians brought her here from there. -He pointed down, beyond the foot of the hill, and further towards the jungle.

“Her liver has failed,” I said. -I think it's a coma. How can we help?

- Nothing. She will die at night. We can only help her spirit to be freed.

Twenty or thirty candles turned the shack, made of clay and straw, into a kind of chapel. I sat near the door on a bag of cornhusks and watched my companion, who sat opposite. The room, protected from the evening cold by thick walls, was warm from many burning candles.

Antonio went to the head of the bed, very carefully lifted the dying woman’s head and removed the rosary with the crucifix. Nothing changed in her breathing or her face as he laid her head back on the pillow. He placed the rosary chain in the palm of her left hand and curled her fingers, thus holding the rosary in her fist. Antonio asked me to blow out the candles.

Approaching the narrow bar that encircled the room in the form of a shelf, I heard Morales singing. I looked back: his eyes were closed, the movements of his lips were almost imperceptible, his hand was still on the woman’s forehead. There are three candles left; there was smoke in the air from the others, extinguished.

Don Antonio moved his hands to a point located a couple of centimeters above her heart. With two straight fingers, the middle and index, he made circular movements counterclockwise, then moved his hand to the side and up, without stopping the spiral movement in the smoky air. Heart chakra...

He repeated this three times and proceeded to the third chakra, starting from a point an inch from the body just above the solar plexus. He described slow and precise circles with a diameter of ten centimeters, then accelerated the movement and moved his hand up and to the side.

Her belly, her heart, the hollow at the base of her throat, her forehead and finally her crown.

“Look,” he said.

I took my eyes off his face and began to look down at his body, at the same subtle breathing movements of the chest.

And suddenly Morales hit me on the head.

It was like lightning. He raised his elbow and dealt me ​​a short, painful blow to my forehead. Everything swam before my eyes. Reflexively, I grabbed the bruised area with my hand.

- Look! - he ordered.

It lasted for an instant. Something appeared on the surface of her body. Something milky and translucent -on distance a couple of centimeters around her body.

Then it disappeared. He grabbed me tightly by the forearm and, leading me around the bed, placed me at the head of the bed.

- Look again. Unfocus your vision.

And then I saw. Out of focus, but undoubtedly there, this time at a distance of ten centimeters from the surface of the body, a subtle glow appeared, as if the luminous form of her body was separated from the flesh. I had to make an effort not to focus my vision. I felt an involuntary chill rise up my spine.

- Am I really seeing this? - I whispered.

“Yes, my friend, you see it,” answered the old Indian. -We forgot this vision, it was clouded by time and reason.

- What it is?

“It’s her,” he said. - This is her essence, the light body. She would call it soul. She wants to let her go.

Morales worked with a dying woman again. He repeated the entire procedure that I had already seen, repeated it just as patiently and energetically, without the slightest hesitation, completely surrendering himself to the work of his hands. Then he leaned towards the woman's head and whispered something; his lips were less than a centimeter away from her ear. Suddenly her chest rose, she inhaled convulsively, the air noisily filled her lungs - and her breathing stopped.

- Exhale!

And I heard a long, hoarse and difficult exhalation, the last breath leaving her chest and exiting through her open mouth. And then I suddenly saw, as if out of the corner of my eye, a milky glow rising and gathering into some kind of indefinite, shapeless mass; whitish and translucent, like opal, it hovered above the missionary’s chest. The mass moved, floated over the throat, head and finally disappeared.

- What was it? -I was still speaking in a whisper.

- The Incas call it Viracocha. - He closed her eyelids with his fingertips. - I'm glad you saw it.

From the book by Villoldo and Jendersen “Dapse of the Four Winds”

Today, twenty years later, I began to understand the old Indian and his words about the taste of infinity. I realized that the perception of infinity really has the ability to heal and transform us, to free us from the short-lived shackles of illness, old age and disease. I spent more than two decades among shamans in the jungles and highlands of the Andes and realized that man is not only flesh and blood, that he is woven from Spirit and light. The consciousness of this permeates every cell of my body. I am convinced that this has affected how I heal, how I age, and how I die. The perception of infinity is the core of the Enlightenment Process, the most important healing practice described in this book.

By studying with shamans, I understood the difference between healing and healing. Treatment corrects external symptoms; it's a bit like patching a burst tire.

Treatment can get rid of the consequences of a snake bite or delay the development of a tumor with the help of chemotherapy, but it cannot help a person avoid a nail on the road, a snake in the bushes, or the illness that caused the tumor. Healing is something broader, more general and complete. Healing transforms everything human life, and very often, although not always, brings physical recovery. I have seen many recoveries that were not accompanied by healing. I also saw incredible healings, although the patient still could not be cured. Healing comes as a consequence of the feeling of infinity. In healing, success is measured by improved well-being, a newfound sense of peace, increased strength, and a sense of oneness with all life.

A few weeks after the incident with that missionary, I fell ill with pneumonia after wandering among the rocks near Machu Picchu. A full course of antibiotics did not help control the infection, and the cough did not stop. Every time I coughed, my stomach muscles spasmed. Tormented by terrible pain, I hurried to Don Antonio. The old Indian invited me to lie down on the skin that usually lay at the foot of his bed. He himself sat down on the pillow next to my head and conducted a healing session. He called for help from the Four Sides of the World, and then from Heaven and Earth. Then he raised his arms, as if spreading the air above his head, and slowly lowered them, pressing them to his sides, as if pushing the walls of some invisible bubble. He repeated the same movement, but this time it was as if he was moving the walls of the bubble towards me so that it covered me like a blanket. I instantly felt a sense of safety and comfort. The noise in my head stopped, and I fell into a state of stillness and serenity that I had previously only experienced in meditation. Antonio's voice, coming from somewhere far away, asked me to breathe in the same rhythm as him. I felt my breathing rate increase. I felt his fingers trace counterclockwise circles over the dimple at the base of my throat; he extracted some kind of sticky substance from me, making me think of “cotton candy.” I watched what was happening detachedly, as if it were happening to someone else. It seemed to me that this was a dream that did not disturb my peace of mind. Then mine left hand began to twitch involuntarily. “Your body gets rid of poisonous energy,” Don Antonio explained. -Don't be afraid. Let everything go by itself.

The cramps reached the left shoulder, and then spread throughout the body, to the right leg. They were completely involuntary and resembled sharp jolts that happen when you fall asleep. True, in this case the twitching intensified. They stopped as suddenly as they had begun, and I immediately fell asleep.

When I woke up, the first thing I did was look at the clock and realized that I had been asleep for about an hour.

Antonio was still sitting next to me, supporting my head with his hands. He asked how I was feeling. I listened to my body and realized that I couldn’t move. Oddly enough, this didn't bother me at all. It seemed to me as if I was lying on the waves of a warm, calm sea. Antonio massaged the skin on my head, and after a few seconds I was able to move my arms and legs, even stand up. I felt as if I had slept soundly the whole night. The chest pain has completely disappeared. I asked Antonio what he did.

He cured me in one session. This was enough for the cough to completely disappear.

The immune system kicked in and I felt like I was getting better. However, even more important was the deep healing that accompanied getting rid of the disease. After Enlightenment, I felt a lasting calm and serenity.

It is difficult for me to describe this feeling - a state of goodness, forgiveness and happiness, which then persisted for many years. I tasted liberation from the chains that chained me to bygone days and a painful past, imposed feelings of guilt and regret, inspired hopes for the future and worries about it. I understood what peace meant and believed that such grace can only come from prayer and the generosity of God's love. “I don’t bless anyone or anything like that,” Don Antonio said confidently. - I just showed you a sacred space where you can feel infinity. Essentially, you did most of the work yourself.

By doing so, he let me know that he had created a sacred space where the healing took place. The energy of this space and the assistance of luminous beings from the spirit world allowed me to heal myself.

As I found out, the path of the shaman is the path of strength and direct connection with the forces of the Spirit.

Before, I didn’t even suspect that such a path existed. Christian upbringing taught me to repeat without mistakes evening prayers. Later I mastered meditation. Prayer and meditation are still integral parts of my life, but the path of power is something special.

It requires direct perception of the Spirit in His own kingdom - in infinity. When you connect with the powerful energies of the world of Light, true healing occurs. At the same time, you discover your own essence, hidden under a limited personality, and experience limitless unity with the Creator and the Created.

The healing practices that I learned and honed through my Indian mentor are ancient techniques for creating sacred places where real miracles can then happen. Sacred places allow you to enter infinity and experience enlightenment, which occurs instantly in this timelessness. This is the central healing practice described in this book - the so-called Enlightenment Process. When you penetrate into infinity, the past and the future disappear, only the here and now remains. You are no longer constrained by regrets about the past and worries about the future. Of course, one cannot say that memories, as if by magic, are completely erased - the losses, suffering and sorrows experienced remain in the memory, but no longer determine who you are now. You begin to understand that you are not what happened to you.

The perception of infinity destroys the illusions of death, illness and old age. This is not only psychological or spiritual process, as it renews every cell of the body. The immune system is given complete freedom, after which rapid physical and emotional healing begins. Miracles become commonplace: spontaneous remissions occur - those cases of mysterious recoveries that baffle doctors. But, most importantly, a person gains spiritual liberation - enlightenment. In the embrace of infinity, you can feel who you were before birth and who you will be after death.

The shaman I studied with claimed to be able to locate his luminous essence (what is called the soul) through time in the same way as one tracks deer in the forest. He said that he could reveal the luminous threads of his essence at the beginning of time, right up to the Big Bang, and also in the distant future; he can find out who he was and who he will become later, when our universe again turns into the point from which it once arose.

Infinity should not be confused with eternity. Eternity means a countless succession of days. It is associated with time, with age and death, and infinity, on the contrary, precedes time and existed long before its emergence.

Since infinity never came into existence, it can never perish. Our infinite Self exists beyond life and death; in itself it never plunges into the flow of time. It is not born at the same time as the body and does not die when the body dies. By plunging into infinity, you leave linear time and enter sacred space. Since you cease to be identified with time and the mortal physical shell, the death of the body no longer frightens you.

This state of freedom is the center of many mystical traditions. Shamans discovered practical ways to achieve this goal. My mentor understood that his luminous essence was indestructible. We really want to believe and just hope for this, but very few people know without a doubt that this is so. As you read this book, you are unlikely to begin to realize this either. Antonio once told me that the shaman clearly distinguishes between information and real knowledge. Information is data that water consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Knowledge is understanding the nature of water so deeply that you can make it rain.

For many years, Don Antonio and I honed the Process of Enlightenment, based on shamanic healing practices, which were almost destroyed by the conquistadors and the Church. The process of Enlightenment allows you to regenerate yourself with the help of that source that animates and permeates all living things. Of course, a scratch on the cheek does not require spiritual insight. If you cut yourself, just wash the wound and cover it with a band-aid. But if your immune system does not respond to the needs of the body, if your loved one is knocked down fatal disease, if in your life you again and again encounter similar painful problems, then perhaps it’s time to go beyond the material and finite, and resort to a healing practice based on the perception of infinity.

Chapter 2. LUMINOUS HEALERS

Over lunch, Professor Lancho told us about the giant paintings in the desert.

The chief archaeologist in the Nazca region, he was the most influential person in these places: any excavations were carried out only with his permission. To prevent the looting of the finds, an entire police detachment was assigned to his disposal. We have known each other for many years. Having caught the next treasure hunters, he takes the loot from them and transfers it to the local museum, and the robbers are sent to prison. The age of some finds is estimated at thousands of years. Having come across a creation that he thinks I might like, the professor saves it for me. That's how it is here in Latin America. He does not personify the law, he is the law. And we are friends.

Today he gave me a box with a gift.

“You won’t see this in any museum,” said the professor.

Opening the box, I took out the mummy's hand. The marks of a high priestess-shaman were tattooed on his wrist. Lancho has given me very interesting artifacts in the past, but this one broke all records in its quirkiness. As for Antonio, he was very upset by the fact that the shaman’s burial place was desecrated.

Tonight we are going to perform one ritual at a huge figure of a hummingbird carved into the desert soil. I will take this hand with me and bury it, return it to the Earth, where it rightfully belongs.

The ceremony ended at midnight. We walked along giant desert marks to receive hummingbird energy that embodied the qualities needed by a shaman for his grand journey. I placed my withered hand on the edge of the altar - rags made of simple linen with Antonio's healing stones. In the darkness, it seemed that the fingers of the hand were moving, calling us to them. Antonio closed his eyes and sang, shaking his rattle. He turned to me. His good-natured, deep-set brown eyes transformed, and I thought I was seeing the eyes of a hawk.

And he began the ritual all over again: he began to whistle and chant, calling on the souls of the dead.

Antonio himself couldn’t believe his eyes: a line of some creatures appeared in front of us, lined up in the middle of the desert next to the altar. Antonio performed a divine service and told the ghosts that it was time for them to rest, to return home to the world of the Spirit. He called upon a whole generation of healers - luminous spirits - to help, and the souls that appeared to us began to disappear one by one, freeing themselves from torment.

“She will not rest until she knows that all her people are mourned and healed,” said Antonio.

When another spirit approached us, it seemed to me that I felt its torment.

Here is an orphaned child, here is a girl who has lost her lover, here is a man whose entire family has died...

This went on all night. At dawn, when the last spirit was healed, Antonio told me to bury my hand.

“Now she will find peace,” he said. - That’s why that archaeologist gave it to you. She wanted it that way. She knew that today we would be here to help her people heal.

Truly, the ways of spirits are inscrutable...

From the diary

I became the first North American anthropologist to establish contact with the Quiero people, the last descendants of the Incas who now live in secluded areas at the very top of the Andes. This tribe, which still speaks pure Quechua, has had little contact with church and state for the last five hundred years.

Their shamanic practices remained unaffected by the Conquista and were not influenced by missionary activity. The Quieros are the legendary keepers of the prophecies of the Inca people. Their healers, including my mentor Don Antonio, believe that the spiritual heritage of the tribe is hundreds of thousands of years old.

They remember stories that tell about what happened on earth before the appearance of man. The spiritual wisdom of the ancestors includes life lessons, secrets about the post-mortem journey into infinity, and healing techniques using the Luminous Energy Field.

The mass extermination of Indians by the first European "settlers" destroyed the spiritual traditions of most indigenous peoples. The healing practices that survived after this genocide are now carefully kept secret. It is easy to understand that shamans are very reluctant to reveal these secrets to white people. The Spanish conquistadors and the missionaries who accompanied them destroyed the Healing schools Cusco. They demolished ancient temples and built their churches from the same stones in the same place. The traditions of the Incas were not preserved, as before, by organized groups of priests-shamans, whom the Inquisition tirelessly put to death. Spiritual and healing practices were passed on only from word of mouth. mouth. When the Catholic Church declared the rites and ceremonies of the “pagans” illegal, spiritual teachings became like carpets, worn out by the winds of time - after five hundred years only fragments and multi-colored threads remained of them.

We consider the Inquisition to be a thing of the past. We are convinced that this terrible organization ceased to exist during the Age of Enlightenment, and this opinion is largely fair. The Inquisition departments closed many years ago. Everywhere, except for one single state - Peru, the country of the Incas. Here, under the leadership of the Dominicans ( Catholic Order, who executed Joan of Arc in the Middle Ages), the last organ of the Inquisition operates to this day.

Now it is called the “Department for the Eradication of Idolatry.” It was preserved in the Andes, since this is the only place in all of America where the spiritual practices of shamans have been preserved. Modern Peru is a Catholic power with a population of twenty-four million. More than twenty million of its inhabitants are descendants of Indians who converted to Christianity, but continue to seek healing from shamans and worship Inti (Sun) almost in the same way as they did five hundred years ago.

The fact that an active branch of the Inquisition remained in these places was enough to make me interested in the descendants of the builders of Machu Picchu. The fact that the local healers still speak to rivers, trees and God made my interest even keener. The idea that shamans could hold knowledge about ancient practices of healing the mind and body turned my interest into an irresistible urge to get to know them. Thus began an endless journey that took me from the primeval garden of the Amazonian jungle to the peaks of the Andes. There I found ancient spiritual practices according to which every person is capable of perceiving infinity, and such experiences will make him whole. These teachings assert that the Earth does not belong to us, but rather we belong to the Earth; that we can still talk with God and hear His voice in all Creation.

Under the guidance of Don Antonio, I reached the very roots of the Incan civilization and absorbed the precious remnants of energy therapy from five hundred years ago - a tradition of healing through Spirit and Light. Among the ruins of the ancient empire, the sages scattered, preserving the memory of the past. Don Antonio and I visited countless villages and met with healers there. By participating in their rituals, we extracted the very essence from them. The lack of a written tradition led to the fact that in each village Healing practices acquired their own coloring, a special style. We went all the way to the Amazon; For more than ten years I studied with the medicine men of the jungle. We walked along the entire Peruvian coast from Nazca - a place where the face of the desert is covered with giant images of beasts of power and geometric shapes, - to the famous northern lagoons of Shimbe, home of the most famous sorcerers of the country. Near Lake Titicaca, “the sea at the top of the world,” we have collected a number of stories and healing rituals that once belonged to the people from whom legends say the Incas descended. When my mentor became too decrepit for hiking, I continued this quest myself.

Antonio and I wove together the disparate threads of the healing traditions of the Inca people. He compared this activity to the restoration of a tapestry that had decayed over time. The conquistadors believed that they had destroyed this carpet once and for all and scattered its threads throughout all corners of the dying Inca empire. But after a tireless search that lasted almost twenty-five years, all that remained was to stretch the found threads to loom surviving shamanic knowledge, re-sew the fabric that has fallen apart over time into shreds - and before us appeared a set of sacred techniques that transform the body, heal the soul, change the way of life and death of a person. From them it becomes obvious that each of us is surrounded by the Luminous Energy Field, whose source is located at infinity. This is the matrix that holds the key to the health and vigor of the material body.

I would like to highlight two people we worked with: Doña Laura, a healer from the highlands, and Don Manuel Quispe, a shamanic elder of the Quiero tribe. These two represent the origins of the Inca people, whose ancestors came from the coast, from the jungle and from the mountain plateaus.

Many of the shamans we met have already passed away, but ninety-year-old Don Manuel remains my teacher to this day. As an anthropologist, I believe that sources of scientific information must be candid and reliable; For this reason, I do not trust authors whose work lacks reliability, since no one except themselves has seen their informants. In the following pages I want to introduce you better to those to whom I owe my training. All of them are real shamans, their exploits have already become legends. They were my mentors.

DON ANTONIO MORALES

Antonio taught at the University of Cusco. For field work, I needed a translator who was fluent in Quechua, the language of the Incas, and who could understand and translate the subtle terminological nuances characteristic of shamans. Professor Morales fully met these requirements. A thin, rather fragile man in a shabby suit from the 1940s with a plastic pencil case sticking out of his chest pocket not only spoke Quechua fluently, but was also a scientist capable of deciphering the poetics and philosophy of the Indians. One problem was that he could not stand anthropologists, since he considered them modern conquistadors who dreamed of profiting from the spiritual wealth of indigenous peoples. For a long time I didn’t understand why he still agreed to work with me. Antonio categorically refused to pay the translator and during travel only put up with the fact that I paid for the night and food. Only many years later did I understand the truth: he also decided to make me his translator. In me he saw the bridge that would allow him to transmit the teachings of shamans to the Western world.

Until the incident with the missionary, I did not even suspect that Don Antonio was leading double life- the university professor turned out to be a civilizados, an Indian shaman-healer. He handled the rattle and feathers as deftly as a ballpoint pen. The venerable scientist, the feared and loved shaman - this is the healer I was looking for, although in fact he himself found me. Antonio was orphaned very early and was raised by nuns. As a child, he cleaned churches in Cusco during the day and taught himself to read and write in the evenings. In winter (the dry season in the Andes), he went to the mountain village of Paucartambo, inhabited by the Quero tribe, and it must have been there that he learned healing.

Shamans enter their path in different ways. The most direct and deadly is a lightning strike. She hit Antonio when he was twelve years old.

Lightning tore off his right earlobe and left a huge scar on his chest, stretching from his right shoulder to his left hip. For two years after the accident, he did not utter a word, and the nuns decided that the poor man had become mentally damaged. However, by the age of fifteen, he had already read all the Western classics and knew Spanish and Latin perfectly. After the lightning strike, his brain was transformed: dormant abilities awakened in him, allowing Antonio to easily get ahead of both the educated mestizos of Cuzco and the purebred mountain Indians. I am convinced that lightning somehow miraculously brought his brain into perfect condition, turning him into a powerful car worthy only of the highest quality gasoline. His body could not tolerate alcohol: Antonio got drunk from a glass of beer. Alcohol loosened his tongue, and then he began to tell me stories of his youth. Only on these rare occasions was he ready to answer any questions I had. The only difficulty was that, after finishing a bottle of beer, he stopped talking altogether and simply fell asleep.

Antonio was the most unusual person I have ever known. I did not see him for several years and then returned to Cusco with a group of students. Having learned that I was in the city, Antonio left his village at three o'clock in the morning. Even at the age of seventy, he did not ride buses and moved with the agility of a cat. In the remote rosada where we were staying, he appeared at six in the morning. Antonio entered the room without knocking, determined to take me by surprise. I was just leaving the bathroom and saw Antonio landing with a well-executed jump on the bed of my friend Hans - among other things, a master of Chinese martial arts. I closed my eyes in horror. I was scared to imagine what would happen to Antonio now. When I opened my eyes, Hans and my mentor were standing on the bed, shaking each other's hands and laughing like old friends.

Antonio was a seventh-level kirak-akiuek, the highest level a shaman can achieve. (In the Andes, the first level shaman is called aupi-kararau, this is a disciple who has established the right relationship with nature. Essentially, he is not yet considered a real shaman. The second level is rattratesayouok. Ratra means plain, tesa - shamanic altar, and uok - power. On At this level, the student becomes a bearer of thesa. He accumulates his own collection of magical objects, and his duty is to serve the Earth. The third level is called altotesaouk, that is, the highest bearer of thesa is responsible for the ari, sacred mountains, and medical knowledge. three stages; as the shaman's strength and wisdom increase, increasingly higher mountain peaks become his patrons. The fourth level is kirak akiuek. The word kirak means “elder”, and akiu-ek means “to chew.” a shaman of this level “chews” knowledge so that other people can “digest” it. It may take a lifetime to reach this level; the shaman now has a responsibility to the stars.

Only rare shamans rise so high. The highest levels are called inka Mailki (“Eternal”); sarha inka (“Brilliant”) and taitachis ranti (“brilliant” Divine light"). These levels are even more refined than the previous ones and are determined by the powers that the shaman possesses. - Approx. author.)

He took me on as a student, but treated me as an equal. Antonio was convinced that shamanism could no longer be considered the exclusive property of the Indians - these sacred teachings were necessary for the West to develop new philosophy and ecology of the 19th century. He really hoped that I would be able to prove this in practice.

DON MANUEL QUISPE

Ninety-year-old Don Manuel is the oldest living Inca healer. I first read about it in 1962, in the Peruvian newsletter of the National Geographic Society. Then he was 52 years old, and in the article he was called the oldest Quiero shaman and the only person who knew how to work with qiiri - rings of multi-colored knotted laces, with the help of which calculations were carried out in the Inca Empire. By 1989, when we met in person, he used qiiri only to tell legends. Don Manuel forgot Inca mathematics. Only old stories were preserved in his memory.

Manuel Quispe was born into a peasant family from the Quiero tribe. At the age of fifteen, Manuel became seriously ill. His father took him to the village healers, but neither they nor the doctors from the hospital in Cusco could help the boy. Returning home with his emaciated son, Manuel's father stopped at the Huanca Sanctuary, a sacred place with powerful natural forces. The Incas treated Huanca with such respect that in order to convert the Indians to their faith Catholic priests they had to build a church right on the site of the sanctuary. A miracle happened there: Manuel began to eat again, his strength was returning before his eyes. Huanca is located halfway to the top of Mount Pachatusan (the name means "axis mundi"). The mountain spirits told Manuel to go to another ari (sacred mountain) called Ururu; the path to this peak passed through the entire valley. Young Manuel spent the next few months in the cave. He led the life of a hermit: he drank water oozing from the walls of the cave and made long mountain treks alone. It was there that he first began to talk to the Ari.

The mountain itself became his teacher. He was on the verge of death more than once, personal experience made sure of the continuation of life “on the other side”, and then returned to his native place. His apprenticeship was completed among the Quieros - Manuel underwent formal rites under the guidance of one of the legendary shamans of his people.

When I met him, Don Manuel no longer had his front teeth. He knew that Antonio was my mentor, and therefore agreed to teach me. In return, he wanted only one thing: false teeth. This task turned out to be more difficult than I could have imagined. The dentist had to remove the remains of the destroyed teeth from Manuel’s mouth in several stages, and after these procedures Manuel was writhing in pain. Twice he almost died from painkillers. He blamed me for all this. When the desired dentures were finally installed, Manuel looked at himself in the mirror and smiled. From the next week he began to teach me everything he knew. We went to Mount Ausangate, where he performed the ceremony of hatun kar-rau, “great transmission.” Finally, he told me to take a swim in Otorongo Varmi Cocha, “the lagoon of the jaguar.”

What? - I stared at him in disbelief.

Go and jump into the lagoon,” he repeated. - This is for all the pain with my teeth.

Winter was in full swing, we were at an altitude of more than four kilometers, there was snow everywhere. The thermometer in my backpack showed ten degrees below zero.

The water supply in the lagoon was replenished thanks to the blue glacier in the center of the lake. I had no doubt that swimming at such a temperature and at such an altitude would lead to a heart attack.

But it’s not my fault that the dentist spared painkillers for you! - I objected, hoping that he would come up with an easier test.

“I almost died at the foot of the mountain before Ari saved my life,” he said, revealing his sparkling new teeth in a sly grin. - I brought you to the sacred mountain. I gave you my kararau. Now let's see if Ari will save your life.

He explained that I should touch the ice at the bottom of the lake with my lips. Although the lagoon was only two or three meters deep, I doubted that I would be able to reach the bottom.

“Don’t stay there too long,” Don Manuel advised.

“I’m too old for such feats,” I thought, but something deep in my soul gave me courage, and I unexpectedly began to undress: I threw off my fur jacket, fleece pants and insulated underwear. The skin immediately burned with cold. Standing on a boulder over the icy water, I hesitated, clutching my chest tightly with my arms as my whole body was covered with pimples. Realizing that delay would do nothing, I jumped down. The cold water knocked all the air out of my lungs.

I managed to swim to the middle of the lagoon, but I couldn't take a deep enough breath to dive. Finally, as if in a dream, I plunged headlong into the water, sank to the bottom and kissed the surface of the glacier.

Subsequently, Don Manuel told me about the kind of initiations that shamans usually undergo in the Andes. There are seven levels of major rites of passage. A healer only needs to pass the first two tests, while a real shaman needs to pass four. All seven checks pass only rare people.

Don Manuel, Dona Laura and Don Antonio were the only shamans alive at that time who completed all seven rites of passage.

At the first level, the medicine man receives the seven archetypes, or ordering principles of the universe, and absorbs the spirits of the snake, jaguar, hummingbird and condor into the four lower chakras. Three luminous beings penetrate into his higher chakras - the ordering principles of the lower, middle and upper worlds. In addition, he receives “power belts” - they protect the healer from the poisonous energies of his patients. The student then undergoes the kawak ritual, after which he gains a shamanic vision. I have turned this ritual into a special technique (see chapter five) that helps develop the second attention, which allows you to perceive the luminous essence of all living things.

The next level is the ratratesaouok ceremony. During this ritual, the shaman receives the heritage of healers who dedicated themselves to serving the Earth and all sentient beings.

After this rite of passage, the healer never works alone. He is helped by a community of luminous beings who have transcended time and culture.

The ritual connects the shaman with many generations of luminous healers - they get to know him and respond to his call.

In fact, there was no great need to swim,” Don Manuel admitted when I sat down on the shore and frantically pulled on my clothes. - I just wanted to test your determination.

In the evening, when Don Manuel fell asleep, I snuck into his tent and hid the damn false teeth. Then he searched for them for two whole days.

For almost seven years, until Don Manuel became too decrepit to travel, we taught the techniques of kirak akiuek to my North American students. The pinnacle of our travels was the ceremony of healing the Earth at the central altar of the Cathedral of St. John's in New York - the largest gothic cathedral on the planet. Hundreds of people took part in this event. Don Manuel smiled happily all evening - he could not even imagine that he would have the opportunity to perform such a ceremony at the Christian altar.

DONA LAURA

Doña Laura was Antonio's partner. Both mastered their art in the highlands and studied with the same mentors. Then Antonio moved to the city, and Dona Laura rose even higher and settled at the very snow line not far from Mount Ausangate, sacred to the Incas. She looked like a fierce hag - one of the most frightening old women I have ever seen. It was as if she saw right through you; by candlelight, the facial features were transformed - the nose became a beak, and the eyes seemed to turn into those of a hawk. She greatly disapproved of Antonio's taking me as his disciple, and often scolded him, declaring that this path was only for Indians. It was only after I went through the rites of passage and became a kirak akiuek myself that she stopped calling me “boy.” Over time, we even became friends.

I never took her disdainful attitude as anything personal. She was harsh with all her students and beat them with a stick when they made too ridiculous mistakes. To get even a fleeting smile from her meant to deserve the highest praise. She headed several healing societies, and in rank and position she was no lower than Don Antonio. In addition, she knew how to change her appearance. Although most shamans can sleepwalk in the spiritual form of an eagle or jaguar, Laura could do this in reality, in broad daylight. She was able to merge with the condor and fly this giant bird wherever her heart desired, diving into gorges or soaring several kilometers into the air.

One of her students was a short and plump guy named Mariano. He had a wonderful sense of humor and was deft at collecting medicinal herbs, but he managed to make stupid mistakes in almost everything. One day, when we were at the foot of Ausangate, he challenged her: “How can you be sure that you have really been transported into the body of a condor, that this is not a trick of the imagination?” At that moment I was about three meters away from them, at our tent with Don Antonio. After Mariano’s words, the atmosphere seemed to be filled with electricity, and a sly grin flashed across Antonio’s face. It would never have occurred to any of us to doubt the abilities of the old shaman, and therefore we all tensely waited for her reaction.

Is there any difference between imagination and reality? - she responded in an insinuating voice. We looked at each other in disappointment.

Dusk was approaching, and we, half a dozen students, went to get brushwood and deliciously dried llama droppings, which in the mountains are used as fuel for fires.

Half an hour later everyone returned to camp - everyone except Mariano. Among Doña Laura's students there were only two men, and the rest jokingly called them behind their backs female names.

Where is our Mariana? - one student asked.

Looks like the poor thing got lost,” snorted another.

I immediately noticed that Antonio was worried. After all, it was winter and we were on the second highest mountain in South America. In such cold weather you can freeze in half an hour. Antonio motioned for me and another guy to go in search. Moving a little away from the camp, we saw Mariano, who was staggering towards the tents. His face was covered in blood, he could barely stand on his feet. I opened the first aid kit, which I always kept at the bottom of my backpack just for such cases. My mentor did not like Western medicines, but medicinal herbs did not grow at this altitude. We climbed well above the wooded area, and in the surroundings I did not notice any plants at all - all around was an ice-covered desert, dotted with bare stones. We carried Mariano into our tent and found that the back of his jacket was riddled with cuts, and the white padding was red with blood. Something - apparently animal claws - tore through his clothes and left three deep marks on his body. We asked Mariano to tell us what happened, but he just shook his head and insisted that he fell into a hole and skinned his face on the ice. In the evening we heard him asking Doña Laura for forgiveness. Apparently, a huge condor fell on him from the sky and tried to carry him to the clouds. Condors sometimes carried away adult sheep, rose with them a hundred meters and threw the animals onto the rocks.

Over the years, Doña Laura and I became friends. One day she told me the secret of changing your appearance: to do this you need to understand that you are no different from everyone else in the Universe, that you are no better and no worse. As soon as you begin to realize with every cell of your body that you are the same as everyone else - and mean no more than an insect, no less than the Sun - you have the ability to take on any form, even a condor, even a tree. You can even become invisible.

Doña Laura explained that shamans mastered the art of invisibility so as not to attract attention to themselves. Antonio can do this too. He is invisible to the Catholic Church. No one knows who he really is, and this allows him to change the world around him.

You can achieve anything you want, she once told me, even if someone else takes all the credit.

DON EDUARDO

Eduardo Calderon was a fisherman. He lived in the northern part of the Peruvian coast, near the famous Chimbe lagoons. Eduardo, a descendant of the Moche Indians - a great civilization that flourished thousands of years ago - had a natural gift for seeing the luminous essence of all living things. Over many years of study, he developed this talent. One glance at a person was enough for Eduardo to tell the story of his life - both what is known to everyone, and those intimate details that each of us hides from strangers. As a healer, Don Eduardo was known throughout Peru. Even members of the government turned to him for help.

Antonio repeated more than once that I should meet Don Eduardo.

Shamans from the coast were famous for their ability to peer into the world of the Spirit. In the Andes, this art was almost lost. Although there were also born seers here, the methods for developing this ability have already been forgotten. Most healers relied on rather inaccurate fortune telling from coca leaves. Antonio's proposals did not arouse much interest in me. I had my fill of learning from him, and I also spent a lot of time studying Amazonian Death Rites and post-mortem journeys. And then Antonio disappeared.

I flew to Peru in hopes of spending three months in the highlands with him. The university said he was taking a year off, but no one knew where he went or when exactly he would return. In the Amazon region, the rainy season reigned, preventing any movement. I reluctantly packed my bags and went to Don Eduardo. The day after my arrival, he was supposed to perform a healing ceremony. At night, twenty to thirty patients and their relatives gathered on the beach. Eduardo appeared accompanied by two assistants. After about an hour, I really wanted to straighten my legs, and I stretched out right on the sand.

Returning to the crowd, I noted that one of Eduardo's assistants had disappeared. This man suddenly fell ill, and they laid him down, wrapping him in a blanket. Eduardo motioned for me to come and take his assistant's place.

Sitting down next to Don Eduardo, I immediately felt that I had found myself in some other, clearer and more transparent world. It was as if the spotlights were turned on and everything around became much clearer. Compared to this, even the luminous forms that I saw in the Andes with Don Antonio paled. As soon as I moved a meter and a half away, the world around me plunged into night darkness again. Don Eduardo's Luminous Energy Field made my vision amazingly clear. Then he turned to me and said that I have a gift, but it needs to be developed, I need to learn to see everything clearly and accurately.

We need to get rid of this,” he said, turning to me. - This is her brother who died in an accident a few months ago. He had not yet realized that he had died, and came to his sister for help.

He began to heal his deceased brother, trying to help him wake up and complete his journey into the world of the Spirit. “The priest would have carried out an exorcism and simply thrown this unfortunate soul into the darkness,” Don Eduardo noted.

Chapter 3. LUMINOUS ENERGY FIELD

I became convinced that the San Pedro potion brought me nothing but nausea.

The viscous liquid resembled mucus, and I gagged in disgust, trying to swallow it. The taste was appropriate... I tried it several times, but there are clearly no ingredients in this brew that could cause visions in me and other participants in the ritual. I am convinced that the changes in consciousness are actually caused by Don Eduardo's singing. In addition, there is an energy that he says arises at the site of the ritual when he calls on the spirits of the snake, jaguar, hummingbird and condor. I'm not sure that this isn't some subtle form of hypnosis - perhaps Eduardo is just playing with us, and his patients recover only because of their faith in his power.

Post-hypnotic suggestion. I once saw it force a man to strip down to his underpants in a crowded auditorium.

I cannot find an explanation for only one fact: I actually see energy, and this only happens if I am sitting next to Don Eduardo.

As soon as I move a couple of meters away from him, all sensations immediately disappear. It’s as if he’s surrounded by some kind of electric field—by the way, the air next to him really flickers. As soon as I enter this field, I begin to see everything that he sees.

Last night he treated a woman. She stood two meters from us with a child in her arms. Eduardo began to sing, and then five or six appendages similar to the tentacles of an octopus appeared from the woman’s stomach. One of the appendages extended and touched the belly of the milky white figure hovering next to the woman. Eduardo said it was hers ex-husband, who is trying to gain custody of his daughter.

“Your ex-husband is to blame for your pain,” said Eduardo. - He is connected to you through the uterus.

Despite the apparent weight, Eduardo jumped over his magic stones in one leap, grabbed one of the swords from the altar and landed next to the woman.. When he touched the tip of the sword to her stomach, the woman’s entire luminous body flashed with a bright light. The glow was very strange, frightening, like the heat of lava; in the streams of light and darkness, some lumps swirled over her skin. With a sharp movement of his sword, Eduardo cut the dark cord, and it instantly disappeared into the stomach of the entity hovering nearby, as if it were an intestine that was pulled back into the peritoneum.

Eduardo began to suck on the second end of the dark tentacle coming from the woman’s stomach, noisily sucking this poisoned vein into his mouth. This went on for about a minute; then Eduardo stumbled back and ran outside the circle. I heard him vomit.

When I looked at the woman again, there were no longer any dark shoots. I saw how her second chakra began to rotate - slowly at first, then faster and faster, simultaneously taking on a conical shape. Meanwhile, Don Eduardo returned to the altar, plopped down tiredly next to me and asked:

-Have you ever seen anything like this, buddy?

From the diary

Each of us has a Luminous Energy Field that surrounds the material body and permeates the entire organism, just like a magnetic field that causes iron filings to take certain directions. The Luminous Energy Field existed before the beginning of time. It was once one with the unmanifested light of Being and remains unchanged throughout infinity. This field is outside of time, but manifests itself in it, over and over again creating new material bodies.

Imagine that we are enveloped in a transparent rainbow sphere, shimmering with blue, green, purple and yellow sparkles, spreading to an arm's length from the body. Near the skin itself, streams of golden glow flicker, flowing along the acupuncture meridians. Between the skin and the membrane of the Luminous Energy Field, sparkling vortices swirl, merging into whirlpools of light. This receptacle of life force is a veritable ocean of animated energy; it is necessary for life no less than the oxygen and nutrients that the blood carries. The Luminous Energy Field represents the purest and most precious source of life. When the energy reserves of the field are depleted by illness, toxic substances in the environment, or stress, our well-being is disrupted. By replenishing energy reserves, we regain our health and vitality, and extend our active and full-blooded life.

Indian and Tibetan mystics, who discovered the existence of the Luminous Energy Field thousands of years ago, described it as an aura around the material body. At first glance it seems rather strange that the same idea is found in the jungles and highlands of America. However, having realized the universality of the concept of the human energy field, I realized that every culture had to discover it. On eastern mandalas, Buddha is depicted surrounded by bluish and golden lights; in the West, the head of Christ and the apostles is enveloped in a sparkling halo. According to the mystical tradition, the Apostle Thomas shone with the same radiance as Christ himself. Native American legends tell of people who glowed at night, as if burning with some kind of inner flame. In the Andes, stories are told about the ruler Pachaku-tek, who shimmered with sparkling light at dusk, for which he was called the Son of the Sun.

All life on earth is woven from light. Plants absorb the light of the sun and turn it into living tissue; animals eat plants, and therefore, even on the physical plane of existence, it is light that is the most important building element of life. We are light trapped in matter. Any Living being consists of light that has taken a certain form and vibration frequency. Physicists who study subatomic particles know very well that if you look into the very heart of matter, you will find that the entire Universe is made of vibrations and light.

Do not think that stories about the light that surrounded Buddha or Christ are just myths and legends. In addition, such a glow cannot be explained by any type of bioluminescence (characteristic, for example, of fireflies). Buddha showed the path to enlightenment. He said that to free yourself from suffering you need to follow your own light. They say that when Christ was baptized in the Jordan River, he was enveloped in a blinding light. Many believe that Christ glowed with the light of His love, but doubt that they themselves can shine, although this contradicts His in my own words: “For I have given you an example, that you also should do the same things that I have done.” However, most often these stories about light are considered metaphors. Enlightenment is perceived more as a higher understanding. Research has convinced me that the ancient teachings about light are facts that can be verified through personal experience. Having realized our light nature, we will be able to get out of the trap of the material world and perceive infinity. However, first you need to study the structure of the Luminous Energy Field.

ANATOMY OF THE SOUL

The Luminous Energy Field is a sparkling matrix that permeates the entire body. In high school, I was fascinated by the wonderful ovals that appear when you hold a magnet to iron filings scattered on glass. I moved the magnet under the glass and watched as the sawdust regularly obeyed the invisible field, following it like a caravan of metal ants. I mixed the sawdust with my fingers, but as soon as I took my hand away, they, as if guided by their own intelligence, immediately returned to their previous position. What caused the pieces of metal to occupy a certain position? Many years later I realized that Western medicine's attempts to change the material body are not much different from mixing iron filings on glass. Surgery and drug treatment often cause severe, traumatic changes in the body. This approach always seemed to me like a rude intervention, because it is easier to change the position of the sawdust not by hand, but by smooth movements of the magnet.

The magnet with iron filings became for me a metaphor for the fact that matter and consciousness are inextricably linked to each other by an invisible energy field. I have seen cases where a malignant tumor removed by a surgeon reappeared within a week after the operation. Only the material formation was removed, but the Luminous Energy Field still included the imprint of the disease. It was only a matter of time before it reappeared, but the tumor was in a hurry to re-establish itself in the body, obeying the already existing pattern. When we heal through the Enlightenment Process, we change the pattern of the “iron filings” of the body, making changes to the energy fields that define it. The Luminous Energy Field needs to be treated, then the material body will also be healed.

The Luminous Energy Field consists of four layers that extend beyond the boundaries of the body:

1. Physical (organism).

2. Mental-emotional (mind).

3. Mental, or ethereal (soul).

4. Causal (Spirit).

Each layer stores energy of a certain quality. The outermost layer accumulates energy that powers the material body. The next layer stores the energy that gives us mental and emotional vitality. Even lower is the layer of refined spiritual energies, and closest to the skin is the layer of the most subtle spiritual energy. In reality, there are no clear boundaries between these layers. They are similar to the colors of the rainbow, that is, they smoothly dissolve into each other. Although physicists have arbitrarily established a frequency boundary that distinguishes, for example, the color red from orange, by looking at a rainbow, we cannot say exactly where the boundary between them lies.

The Luminous Energy Field includes an archive of personal and ancestral memories, early childhood traumas, and even painful events that happened in past lives. This information, or imprints, is preserved in all colors, along with all the feelings experienced. The prints resemble a dormant computer program; when it comes into action, it pushes a person towards those actions, relationships, events and illnesses that in one way or another imitate the original patterns. Our personal history is indeed repeating itself. Imprints of physical trauma are stored in the outermost layer of the Luminous Energy Field; emotional imprints are in the second layer, mental imprints are in the third, and spiritual imprints are in the fourth, deepest layer. Markings in the Luminous Energy Field cause predisposition to a certain lifestyle. They guide our experiences, cause characteristic events, and cause attraction to people of a certain type. The prints force us to re-enact painful dramas and heartbreaking scenes, but in general they direct us to those circumstances that will allow us to heal long-standing spiritual wounds.

In principle, it is not so important where exactly the fingerprint is saved, because we are not very concerned about how exactly the computer stores our email. Another thing is important: we have the opportunity to write new letters and change their content. Likewise, when developing the Enlightenment Process, I was most concerned with eliminating the negative contents of the imprint. All prints contain certain data; The chakras use this information and organize our physical and emotional world accordingly. The imprint information gives one form or another to the Luminous Energy Field, which, in turn, affects matter.

The Luminous Energy Field contains the overall blueprint of our lives. It determines how we get sick, how we recover, and how we can die. If there are no traces of illness in the Luminous Energy Field, the person recovers from the illness very quickly. On the contrary, the imprints of disease can suppress the immune system, which is why recovery is delayed for a long time. Nobody wants to be sick for several months in a row; we want to get better in a matter of days or weeks. By erasing the negative imprints that became the original cause of the disease, we help our immune system easily cope with the disease.

George, an athletic-looking guy in his early twenties, was born with a failing kidney. When a donor was found, George went to the University of California San Francisco Medical Center for a transplant. On the eve of the operation, his immune system was suppressed with the help of drugs so that it would not reject the foreign kidney. The donor was a healthy person, but before transplantation, as usual, the kidney was carefully examined to ensure that it did not contain active cancer cells. However, after the transplantation, passive cells began to develop, and within a week a tumor the size of a grape appeared. George was in terrible pain.

Doctors stopped giving him immunosuppressants. White blood cells rushed to the disease-causing area, and the tumor disappeared in a matter of days.

Another problem arose: the body rejected someone else’s kidney. Doctors returned to drugs that suppress the immune system, the kidney began to work again - and the tumor immediately reappeared. This continued for several weeks, during which the tumor appeared and disappeared seven times. After two months of torment, the body finally accepted the new organ, simultaneously getting rid of the malignancy, and George was able to stop taking medications. I am convinced that the reason George recovered was because there was no trace of cancer in his Luminous Energy Field. When it was not suppressed by drugs, the immune system quickly dealt with the tumor.

RIVERS OF LIGHT

The Luminous Energy Field has the shape of a donut - a figure that in geometry is called a torus. At the core of the field there is a very thin axis, a tunnel, no wider than the thickness of one molecule. The Incas called this hole roro, or glowing bubble. Those who have had near-death experiences talk about traveling through this tunnel to the light glowing at its end. The human energy field is a copy of the Earth's magnetic field, which extends from the North Pole, arcs around the entire planet and closes at the South Pole. The lines of force (seke) of the Luminous Energy Field emanate from the crown of the head and arc down along the luminous body, forming a large oval that extends to an arm's length. Our energy field sinks into the ground almost twenty-five centimeters and closes at the feet.

Although the strength of the Earth's magnetic field decreases rapidly as we move away from the planet's surface, it never remains zero. The magnetic field goes hundreds of kilometers up and spreads at the speed of light (300,000 kilometers per second) to the very boundaries of the Universe. The human energy field extends only a meter and a half from the body, since it also rapidly loses its strength with increasing distance. However, it also goes into infinite space at the speed of light, connecting us with the luminous matrix of the entire Universe, which the Incas called tehetiuo - “the all-pervading web.”

The surface of our planet is covered with lines of force, seke, similar to acupuncture meridians; these flows converge in the largest chakras of the Earth.

Such meridians crisscross the entire globe; they carry energy and information from one corner of the planet to another. Shamans claim that they can communicate with each other using a luminous matrix formed by the ley lines of the Earth. Healers are able to sense and sometimes even see the luminous grid of the Universe, connecting the Earth with distant galaxies.

In our technological society, many people have lost touch with the matrix of the Universe. I have often noticed that patients who come to me with symptoms of chronic fatigue have completely lost touch with the natural world. They stopped walking in the forest, growing tomatoes in the garden, and even smelling flowers. I don’t mean to say that you can get rid of chronic overwork by simply taking a walk in the forest; This is a rather difficult ailment to treat. And yet, for real recovery, people suffering from this disease must certainly restore contact with the natural network of force lines.

Like the ley lines on the surface of the Earth, our skin also runs along meridians that connect acupuncture points—essentially tiny chakras—to each other. In their functions, energy meridians are similar to the circulatory system. These are the veins and arteries of the Luminous Energy Field.

Indian healers call meridians rios de 1ikh - “rivers of light” flowing in a luminous body. According to legend, five thousand years ago the first experts in acupuncture saw a streaked surface human body meridian network. Today, the most famous Japanese acupuncturists are blind people. Their amazing ability to accurately diagnose is due to the fact that the blind person is not distracted by the patient’s appearance. Feeling the flow of qi with his fingertips, he catches the rhythm and pulsation of energy flowing along the meridians. By identifying places where the flow of qi is difficult or, on the contrary, too rapid, the healer accurately diagnoses the patient.

Mystical traditions are replete with stories about people who knew how to perceive the Luminous Energy Field. The Incas called these kawak, “seers.” On the Nazca Plains in southern Peru there is an abandoned city called Kavachi (“city of seers”). In this settlement they were engaged in only one thing: learning the ability to see the light essence of all living things. Over the years, I have developed the ability to perceive the light flows of the human body, read the imprints of health and disease. I am convinced that everyone has this ability from birth, we just do not develop it or lose it at the age of seven or eight, when we are taught that the only reality is the material world. All American shamans rely in their work on the ability to directly perceive energy.

Almost twenty years ago, when I came to Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca Empire, I had the opportunity to observe the work of a healer named Maximo, who was then treating an Indian woman. The old woman suffered from asthma. At the slightest exertion - for example, when climbing stairs - she began to have attacks of suffocation and coughing. After the traditional greetings and introductions, Maximo asked the woman to sit down and unbutton her jacket. He himself stood behind her and began to move his index finger along an invisible line next to her spine. Stopping from time to time, he pressed his finger firmly against her body, telling the patient to relax. He tracked invisible lines on her back, pressed first one point and then another, and the woman’s painful sensations gradually passed.

Maximo stimulated exactly those points that are used in acupuncture to treat asthma. When the session ended, I expressed my admiration for him, but the healer's answer amazed me even more - he stated that he had never heard of acupuncture. According to him, he adopted his method of treatment from his grandmother, who taught him to see rivers of light (seke) on the surface of the skin and massage those points where the light encountered obstacles, facilitating its flow. When his last patient of that day left, I asked Maximo to describe these “rivers of light” as clearly as possible. He smiled, invited me to take off my shirt and began to draw meridians directly on my body with his wife’s bright red lipstick. Then I climbed onto the dining table, Maximo began to take pictures of me - and at that moment his wife and two daughters entered the room. They screamed and immediately ran out of the house. I later learned that it was not the sight of the scantily clad man on the table that shocked them, but the fact that we were wearing lipstick.

When I returned to California, I compared the photographs with a Chinese atlas of acupuncture meridians and found that they matched exactly. For Maximo and other American shamans, the bodily "rivers of light" are tributaries, emanating from and drawing substances from the great luminous rivers that cross the surface of the Earth.

Many people are surprised by the use of the idea of ​​chakras in the American Indian tradition. They often say that they considered chakras to be part of Indian thought.

Chakras are an element of the anatomy of the Luminous Energy Field. The fact that in Europe kidneys are called “kidneys” does not mean that they are a purely European heritage. Likewise, chakras cannot be considered exclusively Indian concept. All living things have chakras - crickets, deer, squirrels and people. Even trees have them. In animals, like in humans, the chakras are located along the spine.

In trees, on the contrary, the chakras are mobile, since plants lack a spinal column. Run your hand along the tree trunk. Tingling in the palms indicates the presence of chakra. It can be grasped with both hands, since the tree chakra is usually the same size as a tennis ball. By gently nudging the tree chakra to align its position with your own chakras, you can achieve a stable connection with the tree.

In different areas of South America, the chakras are called ojos luz 1iz, “eyes of light.” My Inca mentors called them rikios, or “light wells.” With the help of chakras, we receive impressions of the outside world: we perceive love with the heart, sexuality, fear and danger with the stomach (second chakra), and intuitive insights with the chakra between the eyebrows (sixth). In unpleasant circumstances, the second chakra often trembles, and it seems to us that our stomach is twisting in a knot. Thanks to the unmistakable instinct that allows you to feel something with your heart, love began to be associated with this organ; When we talk about grief, we call it heartache.

In Eastern tradition, the chakras are believed to be located within the body, but shamans see them as emitting luminous threads (hiaska) that extend beyond the body and connect us to trees, rivers and forests, as well as personal history and destiny. In addition, the Indians distinguished seven chakras, and the shamans with whom I studied identified two more. The eighth chakra is located above the luminous body, but within the Luminous Energy Field; it is called the nipple, “the source of the sacred.” The ninth chakra is also located outside the body; she is one with all that exists and resides in infinity, in the world of Spirit. It is called saisau pirah, “the point of the unmanifested Being” (that is, infinity). We will talk more about chakras in chapter six.

Chakras are the working organs of the Luminous Energy Field. These are whirling discs with a wide neck rotating a few centimeters from the body. With the help of this bell, the chakras absorb the radiant substance of the luminous body, which provides a person with spiritual, emotional and creative nutrition. The sharp funnel-shaped tip of the chakra enters the spine. Chakras convey information about past traumas and suffering; imprints store this data in the Luminous Energy Field, in the nervous system. Chakras are connected to our neurophysiology, which has a major impact on our emotional and physical well-being. In addition, the chakras are associated with the endocrine glands that regulate human behavior.

LIVE LONG AND BRIGHTLY

When the Luminous Energy Field is poisoned by pollutants of a material or emotional nature, lumps form in the chakras. The same thing happens to an engine when its pistons become clogged with dirt. As pollutants accumulate, the chakras begin to spin more slowly and the immune system weakens. The quality of the “fuel” that is stored in the Luminous Energy Field is important for longevity. If it is poisoned, the chakras transmit toxins to the central nervous system, and the person becomes sick more often and may be on the verge of death. The extent to which our energy reserves are properly renewed determines the degree of our health and activity.

The quality of light energy significantly affects how quickly we age. Scientists studying aging have discovered that the body's biological clock moves unevenly. The age of our cells is determined not by years, but by the number of lives, that is, the ability to reproduce and create exact copies of themselves. Let's say liver cells can divide a hundred times before they stop performing their functions. If you freeze them after fifty divisions and unfreeze them only after a hundred years, they will still be able to reproduce another fifty times. However, a person’s eating habits and lifestyle significantly influence whether he will be able to enjoy his entire life span. Addiction to alcohol halves the lifespan of liver cells.

No less important for longevity is the quality of the energy stored in the Luminous Energy Field. Although laboratory studies of the connection between the energy reserves of the luminous body and the lifespan of cells have not been carried out, shamans believe that the quality and purity of these most important energies directly determines the life expectancy of a person. Emotional and physical stress quickly depletes energy reserves - one might say that our “fuel tank” becomes empty. Like a battery, the Luminous Energy Field can only operate at full capacity if it is recharged. We have all encountered people who have aged dramatically after experiencing emotional upheaval, such as a family split or the loss of a loved one. The duration and standard of our life depends on how correctly we save and restore energy reserves.

DISEASE FEATURES

The Luminous Energy Field contains information that can destroy us or heal us. It is similar to DNA, in whose double helix the formulas for longevity and inherited health characteristics are stored. These are blueprints of our body, similar to architectural diagrams that describe the entire structure of a house. However, unlike conventional blueprints, which remain the same as a building ages, our lighting design is constantly modified by the positive and negative experiences of life. Unresolved psychological and emotional traumas are imprinted in the light field as ugly scars. The peace and serenity that comes through spiritual practices becomes fuel for the deepest layers of the Luminous Energy Field, filling the soul and spirit with renewed energy.

The drawings according to which our body was built when we were still in our mother’s womb contain the memory of all past lives - how we suffered, how we loved, how we were sick and died. In the East these impressions are called karma; These are forces that roll through our lives like a giant surf, and we cannot escape from its embrace. The imprints store orders that force us to repeat certain events from the past. It is very helpful to learn where exactly energy imprints are stored in the Luminous Energy Field and how to erase them so that the body, mind and spirit can become healthy again.

In the outermost layer of the Luminous Energy Field there is a membrane - this is the “skin” of the luminous body. The membrane plays the role of a protective shell, and in this sense it really resembles the skin covering the internal organs of the body.

Imprints of physical injuries and illnesses remain on this membrane, like patterns carved into the surface of glass. When working with a patient suffering from a long-term illness, I almost always detect an energetic imprint that suppresses the immune system. If this mark is not erased, recovery may take months, even years; in addition, the person will not only retain a predisposition to the same disease, but will also transfer this imprint into subsequent lives. Imprints in the mental-emotional layer of the Luminous Energy Field force us to lead a certain lifestyle, cause an attraction to people and relationships of one type or another. They guide the direction of our emotional life. The imprints imprinted on the etheric (spiritual) layer determine our physical existence. Finally, imprints in the causal (spiritual) layer dominate the nature of our life path, including the acquired forms of spiritual peace and other achievements.

A fingerprint stored in a luminous body is much like an email in a computer's memory. You can unscrew the hard storage medium with a screwdriver, but no matter how much you look at its insides, you will not notice any sentences, paragraphs or punctuation marks, since the computer language is a magnetic recording of zeros and ones. The Luminous Energy Field also uses a special code. Childhood abuse is not portrayed as a picture of an offended child, and cancer is not a foreign speck in the energetic structure. Both look (to those, of course, who can see) like a lake of dark, stagnant energy. Coming into action, the imprint launches its program, drawing strength from the energy reserves of the Luminous Energy Field. It is almost impossible to interrupt its execution; it rushes like a raft along a mountain river, and it is very difficult to turn it around. You have to overcome rapids until you spot another convenient place to moor.

Imprints are formed if a person has not gotten rid of the negative feelings that accompany any trauma. One of my patients had a very powerful impression caused by the divorce of her father and mother. Susan was seven years old at the time, and she believed that her father’s departure was her fault, that she had done something wrong. Later, she desperately struggled with the harsh consequences of her parents' divorce, which surfaced in her own marriage. Although she loved her husband, and he never gave her reason to mistrust, Susan was sure that he, like any other man, could not be relied upon, that he would not give her support if she needed it.

No matter what her husband did, he could not prove otherwise. After examining her Luminous Energy Field, I discovered a bunch of knotted threads above her left shoulder, resembling a tangled skein of yarn. During periods of activity, this imprint pulsated, causing vibrations above Susan's left shoulder. Years of psychotherapy helped her understand childhood problems, but this approach did not erase the imprint. Crises and emotional stress set the imprint’s program in motion, and it again began its destructive activities. Old traumas surfaced and were transferred to all the men around Susan in her life. After three healing sessions, she began to trust her husband and consider him a reliable support. Susan forgave her father and even mended her relationship with him.

However, I have met other patients who suffered from physical or emotional shock (including victims of violence and torture), but for them the experience did not leave imprints on the Luminous Energy Field. They were able to get rid of painful memories and unpleasant sensations caused by long-standing traumas. We all know people who have suffered terrible grief but have come to terms with the ordeal and learned from it. We also know opposite cases when a person failed to heal from injuries, wounds and pain. Such people bear deep scars, and their souls are full of bitterness and sorrow. But let's remember the psychiatrist Jerome Frank, who was able to see the meaning and purpose of existence even in a concentration camp, after the Nazis destroyed his entire family! If we are able to heal the emotional aspects of painful circumstances as they arise, no imprint is left in the Luminous Energy Field. Compassion and forgiveness in the midst of acute torment prevent toxic energies from leaving a mark in the Luminous Energy Field. Impressions can arise as a result of rather strange and at first glance unrelated events in the outside world.

Later they force us to connect with those people who are poisoned by similar experiences. Fingerprints can lead to the most incredible meetings, after which you are left with the feeling that fate itself brought you together with a person.

Imprints can guide our bike into the thick of it traffic or, on the contrary, help to miraculously avoid an oncoming truck. The story of Magda described below serves as a good example of how the imprints on the soul level of the Luminous Energy Field can change the world around us with the same ease as our well-being.

Magda came to me complaining of what she herself called “amazing bad luck.” She was a single mother; at the age of seventeen, her only son died in a car accident - and since then, on every anniversary of his death, the life of Magda herself was under threat. One time, her car's brakes failed while she was stopping at a traffic light; As a result, Magda ended up in intensive care, where she was hastily operated on. The following year she was again admitted to the emergency hospital with acute indigestion. To examine her internal organs, she was given a barium solution. The fact that she was allergic to barium became clear only after her heart stopped. In general, this went on for five years in a row. Magda could not understand why life-threatening incidents happened to her only on one day of the year - February 26th.

When she first appeared in my office, Magda exclaimed:

Well, why couldn’t I die instead of him? Why should I continue to live?

She blamed herself for allowing her son to go for a drive with friends on that ill-fated evening. Without him, she was lonely, life lost its meaning, there was no reason to continue this miserable existence. During the Enlightenment Process, Magda experienced muscle twitching, spasms, and then a feeling of lightness and relaxation. She cried several times as her body spasmed. By the end of one session, she said she felt deep peace; she realized that her son had also found peace, felt that he was nearby and was trying to console her. After a few more sessions, we managed to erase the imprints that pushed her towards accidents - in psychiatry this is called the “anniversary effect”. Magda experienced a liberating epiphany and realized that her and her son’s souls were one. She no longer doubted that she had never parted with him. Magda managed to cope with the sad loss of her child. Nothing bad happened to her anymore. She survived the next February 26th without any surprises. When the destructive energy scheme collapsed, the entire world around us changed.

If any imprint comes into action, its poisonous energy flows into one of the chakras, causing a person emotional torment or undermining the protective abilities of his body. In Magda's case, the suffering grew like storm clouds, and the storm began on the anniversary of her son's death. While searching for an imprint in her Luminous Energy Field, I immediately noticed thunder clouds swirling nearby. Dark energies always indicate the presence of an active imprint. When it comes into play, a person begins to attract those events that will allow him to relive the original circumstances in order to try to recover from their harmful influence.

HEREDITARY FINGERPRINTS

The healers of the Amazonian forests talk about curses that are sometimes imposed on the entire family and are passed on from generation to generation. Over the years of studying with shamans, I realized that this is a metaphor; in fact, we are talking about inherited fingerprints. The most common form of such impressions is a predisposition to diseases that we inherit from our parents.

It is known that heart disease and breast cancer are often passed on in families. If your mother or grandmother died of a heart attack, you have a genetic risk factor that is a predisposition to heart disease. Such hereditary data is also stored in the Luminous Energy Field in the form of imprints.

I had the opportunity to work with two sisters whose mother died of breast cancer. Both inherited the corresponding risk factor from her. When they contacted me, doctors had already discovered a malignant mass in the breast of one of the sisters; the other had no warning symptoms. In the Luminous Energy Field of the sister with the tumor, the active imprint of the disease was clearly visible. I noticed only a faint trace in the luminous body of the second sister. We got to work. The sick sister underwent surgery and eventually recovered. The second one still shows no symptoms. Both got rid of the imprints that predispose them to this disease.

There was another case. Ken came to me with family problems. He and his fiancée could not adapt to life together and decided to seek advice. During the conversation, I noticed a dark spot in Ken's energy field, about twenty centimeters above his chest. When I looked more closely, I felt that its root came from a black formation in Ken's heart. I asked if there was a history of heart disease in his family. He replied that all his relatives had very healthy hearts and no one died from heart attacks. In addition, he stated that he felt full of strength and health. I was surprised because I had long ago learned to trust my vision. I convinced Ken to undergo a medical examination and, first of all, check his heart function, as well as eliminate black meat from his diet, exercise and take care of his heart. Then I worked with his heart chakra. Reason told me that he might be suffering from emotional stress, which I might have confused with heart disease.

Three days later, Ken called to say that his brother had just undergone major heart surgery. During a routine medical examination, doctors discovered that his brother’s heart could fail at any second. Ken himself also underwent an examination, which showed that his heart was fine. I knew that abnormalities in the Luminous Energy Field could indicate health problems months and even years before physical symptoms appeared, and therefore I advised Ken not to neglect preventive measures to strengthen the heart. In addition, he and I conducted an Enlightenment Process to eliminate the source of risk before it manifested in the body. Ken was healed before surgery was necessary.

Fingerprints may also be associated with psychological characteristics that we inherit from our parents. In Nancy Friday’s book “My Mother and Me,” the author talked about how she lived an exact copy of her mother’s life despite the fact that she tried with all her might to do the opposite. We often face the same difficulties, follow the same life path like our parents. If your grandmother and mother connected their lives with rude husbands, then you may also be predisposed to a similar choice. Even the Bible says that the sins of the fathers are passed on to seven generations. These sins are not severe punishment imposed on innocent descendants, but negative energies that are passed on to children from fathers and mothers. Psychologists believe that subconscious plots and forms of behavior inherited from parents can be hardwired into the very structure of the brain, and the only way to recode these circuits is psychotherapy. I am convinced that such negative tendencies and habits are imprinted in the Luminous Energy Field, and through the Enlightenment Process it is possible to achieve in one session what psychotherapy would take many years to achieve.

For true healing, psychotherapeutic conversations alone are not always enough. In psychology, it is believed that as soon as a person begins to recognize previously unconscious “complexes” and “urges,” he is immediately freed from their harmful influence. Shamans, on the contrary, believe that mental understanding leaves only barely noticeable traces on the surface of the Field and is not at all sufficient for healing. Understanding that she suffered sexual abuse as a child helps a woman understand her mistrust of men, but very rarely allows her to enter into close relationships. In the end, we all know very well that we need to play sports, not indulge in sweets and meditate, but few people force themselves to do only what is healthy. The rational mind does not great influence on feelings and physical attraction, fears and desires. However, the Enlightenment Process can lead to a real breakthrough, since it operates at the level of the causal layer of the Luminous Energy Field. Psychotherapeutic conversations work only on a mental level; they are not capable of erasing or changing old imprints in the Luminous Energy Field.

There is another type of prints that are passed down from generation to generation, from father to son and from mother to daughter. This principle interested me when I noticed its manifestations in my own family. My grandfather lost his entire fortune during the Great Depression when he was forty-five. When my father, a successful Havana lawyer, was forty-six years old, he lost his job and everything he had - a communist takeover took place in Cuba. It must be said that my father always measured success by material wealth - what kind of house a person lives in, how much he earns, what school his children go to. After the revolution, when we fled Cuba, he set himself the task of starting over and achieving the same level of well-being. Over the next twenty-five years, he worked day and night, spent almost no time with his family, and deprived himself of all the joys of life. At the age of seventy, my father retired as a quite wealthy man. A few months later, he called me and admitted that when he woke up that morning, he didn’t know what to do. He decided to enjoy life and began to travel: he visited Europe, China and other countries that he had always wanted to see. That's great, and yet he lost twenty-five years.

When my brother turned forty-eight years old, doctors discovered he had a brain tumor. Chemotherapy and radiation did not bring results, and a couple of months later he died in the prime of life, leaving behind a wife and two children. At forty-five, I also faced the risk of losing everything I held dear. Thanks to my first books, I was often invited to give lectures or give lessons. I spent four days a week traveling or giving lectures on shamanism and energy medicine. There was no time left for family. Despite desperate attempts (including therapy and psychological counseling) to save our marriage, it still fell apart. My wife and I divorced, and soon after, our six-year-old daughter fell from a horse and had major liver surgery. When this happened, I was on an expedition to the Amazon and was heading to another famous healer, Don Ignacio. This shaman was a great seer. When I told him about what had happened in my personal life over the past six months, he stated that he saw a dark mass in the area of ​​​​my heart.

“This is my sadness,” I answered.

“No,” he objected, carefully moving his hand over my heart. - This is your grandfather's misfortune. “Then he began to explain that my grandfather ruined one man’s career and was punished for it. The “curse” was passed on to my father, brother and me.

You can fight against numerous enemies for the rest of your life,” said Don Ignacio. - And you can heal your heart and the whole world around you.

That evening Don Ignacio helped me heal my heart. He dispersed the dark nebula over my heart chakra, erasing the inherited imprint ingrained in the Luminous Energy Field. The next day I flew to the United States. A couple of days before, my daughter was discharged from the pediatric ward and she recovered. It was too late to save the marriage, but I managed to strengthen my relationship with my children. Today we are on wonderful terms. Since then I have been very attentive to prints that can be passed on through generations. By healing these imprints in ourselves, we save both our parents and our children. I believe that I saved my son from an imminent life crisis at the age of forty-five; Moreover, I healed the entire male line of my descendants. Why am I so sure of this? I'm alive, my children are fine. Unlike my father, I did not need to spend twenty-five years recovering.

CHANGING FINGERPRINTS

For us physicists, the difference between past, present and future is simply a stupid and persistent misconception.

(Albert Einstein.)

Shamans are able to draw out toxic emotional energies around an imprint and then erase the imprint itself. Initial stages Shamanic training includes techniques for deep cleansing, or “washing” the Luminous Energy Field. The shaman does not identify with his personal history. For this reason, Navajo healers have every right to say: “I am the mountains, I am the rivers.” Shamans also experience loss, hunger, pain and suffering, but they understand that, first of all, they are travelers in infinity.

This is the task of healing through the Enlightenment Process. I rarely work with my patients' medical histories the way psychotherapists do. I simply help patients understand that they are not a medical history, not actors in a script that was once written by their parents, society or era. They are the authors of their stories. To achieve this goal, I need to break through to the deep imprints in their Luminous Energy Field.

This is very difficult to do, like trying to watch a movie by taking the film out of a video cassette. The film is produced only with the help of auxiliary devices - a video recorder and a television screen.

Chakras are similar intermediaries between the material world and the Luminous Energy Field. In a sense, these spinning vortexes of energy can be considered the equal sign in Einstein's famous equation E = mc 2 . With their energy, the chakras organize the physical matter of the body, make it sick or healthy, instantly change the entire world around us; Thanks to the chakras, we can cross the gap between the material world and the realm of energy.

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PART I. TEACHINGS OF SHAMANS

American shamans have been practicing energy medicine for more than five thousand years, although some healers claim their spiritual heritage is even older. They remember stories passed down from grandmothers to granddaughters, telling about the times when the Earth was very young. Although the ancient inhabitants of America possessed enormous astronomical knowledge, advanced mathematics and exquisite architectural experience, they did not have writing.

It is for this reason that scientists have paid more attention to the spiritual traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Buddhism, which are based on written evidence. Western theologians have been studying Buddhism for more than two hundred years, but the spiritual achievements of Native Americans aroused their interest only forty years ago. The study of shamanism was left to anthropologists, but they (with such rare exceptions as Margaret Mead) turned out to be completely unprepared to confront questions of spirituality.

The almost complete destruction of the Indians by European settlers drove the handful of surviving indigenous inhabitants of America into the less than optimal conditions of reservations, where the elders desperately tried to preserve their spiritual traditions.

It is easy to understand that now they are not eager to share their heritage with white enslavers. The Peruvian Indians suffered a similar fate.

The Spanish conquistadors came to this country in search of gold, and the spiritual traditions of the Incas could remain unaffected, but what the conquistadors did not care about was violently destroyed by the missionaries.

The scattered groups of gold miners who landed on the shores of South America brought with them beliefs that were incomprehensible to the Indians.

It turned out, firstly, that by divine will, everything edible on earth belongs to man (in particular, Europeans), who rules over earthly animals and plants. Secondly, people do not know how to talk to rivers, animals, mountains and God. Third, humanity will have to wait until the end of time to taste eternity.

Such ridiculous thoughts never occurred to the Indians. The Europeans believed that they were expelled from the mythical Garden of Eden, and the Indians knew that they were the guardians and guardians of this Garden. They continued to talk with the roaring rivers and whispering mountains; they still heard the voice of God in the gusts of wind. Spanish chroniclers noted that, meeting with the Inca ruler Atahualpa, conquistador Pizarro handed him a Bible, explaining that it was the Word of God. Inka raised the book to his ear, listened to it for a few seconds and threw it to the ground, exclaiming: “Does the real God ever become silent?!”

The Native Americans were struck not only by the silence of the European God, but also by his gender. The conquistadors brought with them patriarchal mythology, which clashed with Indian ideas about the primacy of the feminine. Before the arrival of the Spaniards, divine principles were personified by Mother Earth and her feminine manifestations (for example, caves and other holes in the soil).

Europeans imposed the divinity of the masculine gender - the phallus, or Tree of Life. Church spiers rose to the heavens. The Feminine Earth was no longer revered, and animals and forests simply turned into valuable prey.

We are still caught in the grip of these incoherent views today. We are convinced that everything that does not breathe, does not move and does not grow is devoid of life. We equate energy to fuel, which we draw from wood, oil and coal. In the ancient world, energy was considered the animate fabric of the Universe. Energy is Being in manifestation.

Probably the most important modern expression of this fact is Einstein's equation E = mс2, connecting energy and matter. We, representatives of Western culture, are concerned with matter, which is finite by nature. Unlike us, the shaman is identified with energy that is unlimited in nature.

There is another fundamental difference between ancient and modern Americans. We rely on regulations. Our society is based on rules determined by the Constitution, the Ten Commandments, and laws created by elected bodies. These requirements organize our lives and help change the world. The ancient Greeks, on the contrary, were guided by generalized concepts. They were fascinated not by rules, but by ideas. They believed that one idea could turn the whole world upside down and there was nothing more powerful in the world than a thought that arose in a timely manner. Shamans rely on perception. When they need to change the world, they change their perception, as a result of which their relationship with everything around them transforms. They imagine one of the possibilities - and the world around them changes. It is for this reason that the Incan elders sit in a circle for joint meditation: they mentally create the world that they would like to leave as a legacy to their great-grandchildren.

One of the reasons why the techniques of energy medicine were kept strictly secret was that they would inevitably be accepted as a set of unshakable methods (just as mainstream medicine is often perceived as a disparate set of procedures). Many people mistakenly believe that they can master energy medicine simply by mastering some set of rules. However, for a shaman, it is not the rules that are important, but the Spirit. Each village may have its own special healing techniques, but the Spirit remains unchanged. True healing is the awakening of the patient's original nature and his sense of infinity.

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