Article by Silvia Pratten

Between June and July 2010 I was presented with the opportunity to go to Argentina, specifically to San Martin de los Andes, actually, to present a workshop on the Andean Tradition. Something interesting to me was that after 8 years of having been the language bridge from Spanish into English of the ancient Andean teachings, now my task was to translate the teachings from English back into Spanish, a very interesting symbolism altogether. One of the basic teachings of the Andean wisdom is that there is nothing complicated or separatist nor hierarchical about Nature! God Creator is manifested in Nature in a holistic manner, the Sun lights and warms up equally everybody and everything, the rain falls everywhere under the clouds without noticing countries’ borders; … and the language of love, work and wisdom is universal. Everything reflects simplicity and divinity in nature – the existence of the cosmic universe is as real as the existence of the inner universe in each one of us. God is present in all visible and invisible.

So towards August / September my trip to the Andes between Chile and Argentina was becoming something somehow more concrete and so many simple messages started to pour into my heart. I ought to rationalize nothing, only prepare the teachings in its most sacred aspect so to facilitate the participants to the workshop just to remember …

And that is what happened, a team of 4 teachers was formed, two Fourth level and two Third level priestesses of the Andean Solar priesthood, 4 women, plus two Third level Argentinean maestras. We were energetically surrounded by Andean Grandmothers and in fact by Ancient Grandmothers from all the corners of the world; we were instrument of a kind of reactivation of the divine feminine aspect on this Earth. Therefore, we had a very strong presence of Mother Mary, I felt the presence of my granny (Mama) and all my maternal family line. The Grandfathers and Fathers were there; right through the Inca lineage all the way to Manco Capaq but in a position of support and respect, because this was an energy task for the raising of the vibration of unconditional love – the Mother aspect of God.

We arrived at San Martin de los Andes, next to lake Lacar, a very deep body of water (deeper than 700 meters – as the probes used only reach down to 700 m. and they still do not touch the bottom!), also very close to the Lanin, a dormant volcano which lies half in Chile and half in Argentina.

In the last few years I had learned to connect to nature, I could talk to the snow covered mountains, listen to the trees, the forests, the stones, the butterflies, the rivers…, but nothing could have prepared me for the sacred heart to heart connection, nothing.

Each and every person present in the workshop got there purely by intuition. We even had the honor of welcoming a direct descendant of the last Camichingon, from the province of Cordoba. The Southern region where we were, the Patagonia, was once inhabited by the Patagonians, who became extinct thousands of years before the Tawantinsuyo, later the land was populated by the Tehuelques, who were then displaced by the Mapuches, and that was the nation that the Quechuas and Aymaras were never able to integrate into the Tawantinsuyo. Indeed, the last Andean nation integrated into the Tawantinsuyo was the Camichingon.

Differing to the perception the Spaniards had regarding the political organization of the Tawantinsuyo, the Inca leaders did not conquer by force but rather integrated the populations into the family of the Sun and the Moon. The Incas practiced Ayni (reciprocity) with all nations; they exchanged the best each had to offer. The Amazonian peoples shared their medicinal plants and their incenses which facilitated the communication with the brothers and sisters in other dimensional spheres, while the coastal peoples offered the fruits of the seas as food but also the perfectly shaped seashells, the pututos, which sounds travel strongly over great distances. All these peoples shared the same love and respect for Creation, fully understanding the sacred manifestation of mother/father vibration of God in Nature.

Therefore, the Camichingon people were one of the last Andean populations of the Kollasuyo, and then conquered by the Spanish (this time, a real conquest in the best Western brutal style). Many sacred locations were energetically protected, and the Andean wisdom passed from generation to generation, in the process also integrating the best of the Spanish culture and religion.

The last Incas in Cuzco (Huascar and Atahualpa’s brother, Choque Auqui and his priests and amautas), had to gather the Incan tangible and intangible “treasures”, like their artefacts, symbols, tapestries and objects, as well as their teachers, masters, experts, the keepers of ancestral wisdom (both technological and spiritual) and fled through hidden tunnels from the Koricancha to Sacsaywaman and then raced through Paucartambo towards the lower lands of the jungle, where they were received by the Masters of the White Brotherhood in the inner retreats of what is now the Peruvian province of Madre de Dios. Before entering the jungle though, they left an Ayllu as guardians of the path; these families settled in the highlands of the Andes guarding the access roads to the lower lands of the jungle. They became the keepers of the purity of heart needed to be the bridge between the world being conquered and the world retreating to give way to the new era, a cyclic time of dense energy that all ancient peoples of the Americas knew was coming. However, they also knew that in time, a new cycle of light energy would come, in which the last guardians of the Andes, the Quero people of Cuzco, at the right time and space, would be responsible for reconnecting the balanced order of love, work and wisdom between all peoples, in other words, the kingdom of Love would be established once more on Earth.

Over the years (centuries) the Q'eros lost the memory of their history. Of course they did keep their primary mission of being the keepers, but this task was done only listening to their ancestors’ instructions whispered into their hearts. Their intellect eventually was eroded by the words of the conquistadors, the new masters and landlords. The same situation was experienced by the Camichingons in Argentina, Christianization nearly obliterated the Camichingon identity. Their history was lost in the official decrees of the Spanish government. But the ancestral wisdom knew how to expertly practice the Andean virtues of patience and silence. So these peoples, the Q’eros, the Camichingons and so many other peoples all over the territory of the old Tawantinsuyo, know that it is time to reclaim their memories (their history) in order to fulfill their task.

This last leader of the Camichingon community of Cordoba, who as a child received the teachings from his grandfathers and at age 12 was send to boarding school with the Jesuits Catholic order, experienced firsthand what his ancestors lived at the end of the Inca times under the power of the foreign conquistadors. This man, recipient of a sacred mission entrusted to him by his grandfathers when he was a little child, now received the message that he needed to attend the Andean Tradition workshop (brought to Argentina, strangely enough, by South African teachers!).

To go from the Northern to the Southern region of the Andes in Argentina, one has to travel to Buenos Aires in the coast and then into the provinces, there are no direct roads from Cordoba to Neuquen. So it was quite difficult for this Camichingon brother to reach San Martin de los Andes, but arrive he did, together with two Andean priestesses who have been initiated in the Order of the Children of the Sun in Cuzco. One of these ladies is a channel and received clear messages of the energies that were being brewed in preparation for this Andean Tradition workshop in San Martin de los Andes! We organizing it also felt being guided by sacred forces …

The workshop dynamics were at all times that of a huge celebration. We had from musicians and healers to engineers and teachers, from youngsters of 20 and 30, to kids of 50 and 60! Not to mention the thousands and thousands of grandmothers, masters, princes and stars that arrived from all corners of the world. A real Portal of Love opened for us (of the unconditional love that only a mother is able to give to her children) that feminine aspect of God – and in the process of cleansing and clearing the pain and hurt that may numb our hearts, those macho Argentineans were held by the loving mother energy of God and were able to wash their pain and sorrows, and cried and wept as little children, safe in their mother’s arms, reaching their own feminine emotional and spiritual aspects and balancing them, balancing their God within; and the sacred transformations flowed as wind and water…

God was all present in the waters of lake Lacar, in the snow on the surrounding mountains, in the streams flowing down from the wooded hills; washing and cleansing not only the emotions of those attending the workshop but of all the peoples, dominated and crushed over the centuries all over the planet. At the end of the first day of teachings, as we all made a circle of thanksgiving and were sent to sleep, nobody wanted to leave; it felt as if a window to paradise had been opened, that place where all of us were little children, where music, song and dance was perfection, and suddenly all kind of musical instruments started to appear: drums, rattles, flutes, a violin, tambourines, bells, Tibetan bowls and even a didgeridoo! And everybody started to dance as little preschool kids, in total freedom, jumping and twirling and having so much fun, and among these 20 exuberant children… hundreds of ancient dancers appeared, even angels and archangels joined the celebration, dancing to the rhythm of the beating of the human heart when in harmony and perfect balance… in absolute Unity.

At a planetary level, the feminine energy (associated with spirituality – in contrast to the masculine energy which is associated with science and reason) has left the mountains of Tibet, Nepal and India…, to arrive in the Andes. That is why the South American continent is showing changes in its people, from government officials to students.

During the time of Inca Pachakuteq, the ancestors communicated information to the Inca in the form of prophecies, and the Inca in his wisdom, prepared the teachings for a better understanding of the shifts to come to his people, the change from a light energy to a dense energy. These prophecies were not shared with the Spaniards as they would not understand them; but 500 years later, their descendants do need to learn about these prophecies because another energy shift is coming as the cycle is completed. We learn from everything, from the good and pleasant experiences and from the bad and difficult ones. However when we choose to learn from the light, the teachings are swift and soft but when we choose to learn from the dark, the lessons are hard, painful and take a long time; but after all, when we learn our lessons, we arrive at the same point of Light (and Light is Love, and God is Love). That is why the Incas knew that the arrival of the Spanish did not mean a horrible disgrace, it only meant the arrival of a dense energy cycle which would bring hard lessons for humanity, and that God, in its infinite love for us, agreed to watch without interfering, honoring the law of free choice – on top of what he sent his Son Jesus Christ to teach modern humanity about Love and Light in the most dense energies…!

For the Andean people it was easy to spot the light within the spectrum of energies, and see the real Love of God even behind the atrocities the Spaniards brought into their lives. Because as there were Spanish murderers and monsters, only interested in possessions and power, also there were good, true Christian men and women that brought the teachings of Jesus the Christ to the New World and made Him a presence in the Americas.

So the time has come to remember the prophecies of Inca Pachakuteq. The year 2012 is a time of transition from the dense energy to a new cycle of light energy. And that is what the happy group of twenty children and the millions of ancestors were celebrating in San Martin de los Andes with so much joy.

The Crystalline Heart of Mother Earth is settling in the Southern Andes, and this balanced Mother energy is raising through the Andes all the way to the tip of Colombia; but the most beautiful thing is that the Heart of Hearts is soon to come out from the Inner Retreats of Paititi (in the Peruvian province of Madre de Dios)… very significant that in Spanish, the name of this province bordering with Cuzco was named Madre de Dios… (the Mother love of God), isn’t it?

Silvia

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