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Humanity can be saved in The Road to Q’ero: A Journey Home

September 20, 2012 By

Honoring the Earth can save humanity, Western visitors learn as they visit an ancient Incan community. The Road to Q’ero: A Journey Home is an experiential documentary with a gentle message of fierce love.

Directing are Iva M. Peele, Jack Peele and Beth Bornstein Dunnington. It is now available streaming (password: qeroayni13 ) and on DVD.

The people ascend

The group climbs the Andes to reach Q’ero (altitude 16,000 feet) with their guide, the shaman Lorenzo Ccapa Apaza. There’s a feeling of ascent while diving into ancient mysteries.

Iva, her son Jack, his girlfriend Julie, and friend Katherine participate in never-before filmed rituals, or karpays, performed by don Lorenzo. The karpays release “heavy energies” and increase understanding.

An era of new consciousness, or pachacuti, can begin if humans are willing to create it, says John Perkins, a chief economist, shaman and author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman. “We the people must make it happen,” he says. “We cannot look to our leaders.”

Condor and eagle meet

In this sustainable, just and peaceful world, the Eagle (science, industry and “male” energies) will live in harmony with the Condor (the heart, intuition and “female” energies), Perkins explains.

Every indigenous culture has similar prophecies about this time of potentially “extreme, radical, beautiful change,” he adds. Love, service and wisdom are already emerging and expanding in each one of us, says Jorge Luis Delgado, a shaman and author of Andean Awakening.

It is vital “to completely be human on the planet” with fierce, real love, says Iva. The Q’eros “don’t separate themselves from Nature. They completely express their spirituality through a relationship to being on the planet.”

Healing for humanity

Reaching Q’ero, the visitors discover that don Lorenzo has initiated them into the karpays. Rituals are offered to the spirits of water and mountains. Despachos (prayer bundles) of coca leaves, flower petals and sweets are burned as gratitude offerings to Pachamama, Mother Earth.

Don Lorenzo urges everyone to offer Earth rituals in order to save humanity from shortages of food and water, and from disease. “The only way that we can correct this balance in the external is by first correcting the balance within,” says Rita Rivera Fox, a master teacher and coach.

For messages and wisdom from the film, visit The Road to Q’eros messages from the Andes.

If you like The Road to Q’ero: A Journey Home, you might enjoy:  Dreaming Heaven; Timewave 2013.

 

The Road to Q’ero: A Journey Home  /   2012  /  NR  /  1 hour, 25 min

Cast Overview:  Lorenzo Ccapa Apaza, Iva M. Peele, Jack Peele, Julie Kunz, Jorge Luis Delgado, John Perkins, James Wanless, Rita Rivera Fox

Directors: Iva M. Peele, Jack Peele, Beth Bornstein Dunnington

Genres:  Documentary

 

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This Sacred Earth: how to reconnect with Nature and one another

April 22, 2012 By

This Sacred Earth: The 2012 Phenomenon shows you simple ways to reconnect with Nature and others as humanity’s Golden Age unfolds. Shamans and scholars participate. Billie Dean and Andrew Einspruch direct this uplifting documentary.

The film is now streaming on various platforms as 2012: This Sacred Earth. The DVD is available at the film’s website.

Befriending Nature

“Nature is really, fundamentally, a relationship,” says Andras Corban Arthen, founder of the EarthSpirit Community.

It’s crucial to heal our relationship with Nature, Arthen says. Humankind’s problems originate in “the deliberate separation of human beings from direct participation in the natural world,” he believes.

“Mother Nature is yearning for us and we are yearning for her,” says Karen Ward, author and Irish-Celtic shaman. “We just have to get out and be. It’s that simple.”

Walking outdoors every day, sending love to the sun every morning and evening, and thanking the plants and animals that make up our meals are simple ways to begin. Irish-Celtic shaman John Cantwell notes that Nature can help us heal depression, stress and overweight.

Down to earth

Connecting with tree, animal and plant spirits has been “incredibly practical and useful,” says scholar and Celtic shaman Dr. Geo Athena Trevarthen. She feels she’s become a better mother, wife and friend.

Living simply doesn’t mean moving into a cave. It means living with less. Buying more “stuff” doesn’t bring happiness or fulfillment, insists author and past life regressionist Dolores Cannon. Watch less television, advises druid author Philip Carr-Gomm.

Grow a garden and share with others, suggests Lucy Cavendish, Australian author and white witch. “It’s a fantastic opportunity for us to fall back in love with this planet, our home, to fall back in love with each other,” she adds.

The New Human arrives

“Homo Luminous is the new human that’s appearing today. We’re taking a quantum evolutionary leap,” shaman and author Dr. Alberto Villoldo believes.

He sees our natural human lifespan as 150-200 years. The new species will grow, heal and die differently. We will create “psychosomatic health” rather than psychosomatic illness, he says. Extraordinary relationships, spirituality and psychic abilities will become commonplace.

Villoldo recommends that we live peace and joy as a daily practice. “You act from courage not from fear. You act from love not from reactivity or rage. You act from truth, and not from a set of lies that we’ve internalized and confused with reality,” he explains.

“For me it’s like being rewired,” says Ward. The way we think, feel, live and love are continuously evolving.

 Preview of the Golden Age

The world after December 21, 2012 will still contain horror and beauty, says Haleaka Solari Pule Dooley, a Hawaiian Kahuna. We each decide what to tune into. It’s a time when “our true priorities will be brought forth,” she says.

“Inner change is happening today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow,” says Villoldo. The New World will be as different from this world as this world is from Neanderthal times, he notes.

The Golden Age will be filled with “spontaneous mind-to-mind, heart-to-heart communication, anticipating events before they occur, living synchronistically so you’re living in the symphony of creation,” he notes. Negativity and trauma will be replaced with beauty and wonder, says Cannon.

Co-creating a new world

The 2012 turning point gives us “a deadline to make important changes, and to change how we’re relating to the Earth,” says Lucy Cavendish, Australian author and white witch.

“With awareness, I think this truly is the Golden Age,” says Trevarthen. “What we focus on expands,” according to Billie Dean, shaman, author and co-director of the film. “So if we want a different kind of world, then we have to think about the sort of world we really want.”

Spiritual practice

Ward envisions accessing our ancestors’ wisdom, knowledge and ancient ways. “Bring it into a modern context, evolving as a spiritual community.”

Praise and bless what’s true and beautiful in the world now, advises Trevarthen. Shamanic ceremonies are shown in beautiful, natural surroundings.

Embrace and create change

We can turn our world around with a light heart, creativity, imagination, pride and audacity, Cantwell notes. Optimism and hope comprise this world view.

Grassroots people create change by following their hearts. World people are already standing up to injustice by saying: “We won’t allow this.”

Life as spiritual art form

“Doing your work is about forgiveness,” Dean notes. It’s about loving yourself, loving others and the Earth. It means walking the Earth with impeccability and “making life a spiritual art form.”

Aliens won’t be swooping in to save us, says photojournalist and investigative reporter Paola Harris. Meaningful change must come from within.

We must live with intention and reverence. Those who don’t change will simply become extinct, Villoldo cautions.

 

Be peace

Overall This Sacred Earth is very mature, heartfelt and insightful. It simplifies spirituality with humor. It opens with a remarkably clear summary of the 2012 galactic alignment and related issues. Excellent music includes the song Spiral Dance by David Pendragon and Tribe World Ensemble.

“Be peace. Be love. Be beauty. And walk in beauty,” says Dean. (4.5 out of 5 stars)

If you like This Sacred Earth: The 2012 Phenomenon, you might enjoy:  Earth Whisperers; 2012: The Odyssey; Anima Mundi.

 

This Sacred Earth  /   2009  /  NR  /  53 min

Cast Overview:  Dr. William Bloom, Dolores Cannon, John Cantwell, Philip Carr-Gomm, Lucy Cavendish, Andras Corben Arthen, Billie Dean, Haleaka Solari Pule Dooley, Paola Harris, Anne Hassett, Minmia, Janet Ossebaard, Dr. Geo Athena Trevarthen, Dr. Alberto Villoldo, Karen Ward, Robert Wakeley Wheeler, Angelika Whitecliff

Directors: Billie Dean and Andrew Einspruch

Genres:  Documentary, Nature, Spirituality

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Renegade: Wild West meets shaman in psychedelic adventure

March 9, 2012 By

 

A must-see mindbender, Renegade transforms Wild West adventure into a shamanic journey. Vincent Cassel stars as Mike Donovan, a U.S. Marshal who must face the devil to redeem himself and preserve a sacred Native American secret.

Loosely based on the Franco-Belgian comic book series Blueberry, Jan Kounen’s film combines psychedelic visuals with artistic cinema and deep perception. Renegade is now available at Netflix.

Native mysticism

Young Mike is sent to his Uncle to develop good character. Mike sneaks off to a saloon that night. Wally (Michael Madsen) shoots Mike’s first love Madeleine, and a huge fire erupts. Mike retreats to the desert, filled with sorrow.

Nearly dead in the hot sun, Mike is rescued by a Chiricahua (Apache) shaman and “snake whisperer” who coaxes the slithering creatures away. Mike stays with the natives and grows into a man.

“The spirit of the plants can teach you the secrets of life,” the shaman tells him. Mike befriends young Runi (Temuera Morrison).

The devil returns

When the shaman dies, Mike returns to town. He never loses his native gifts of sensing and seeing. Drinking heavily, he dallies with saloon girls while ignoring smart, lovely Maria (Juliette Lewis), who is smitten with him.

Back from the dead, Wally is determined to find gold and more in the natives’ sacred mountains. He is the white man the natives fear most.

Cassel’s fascination with shamanism comes through in this intense performance. Lewis gives an absorbing character study of Maria, strong and free as any woman of her era could be.

The warrior’s path

Pyrotechnics and a shootout follow. Mike begs Runi to share the natives’ secret. This will enable him to confront Wally. Mike becomes the first white man to drink a powerful potion.

Mike must face his true nature and his fears. He shape shifts. Exhaling snakes, he becomes a body of snakes. His spine, a black centipede, breaks in two. Mike’s showdown with Wally is a phantasm more frightening than any gun battle. Reviewing his life, Mike discovers a horrible secret.

Tetsuo Nagata’s cinematography is stunning. Aerial and wide-range shots make you feel expansive and free. Reyes Abades supervises impressive special effects. Rich, evocative visuals come from Rodolphe Chabrier and his team.

“Welcome to the other world”

Kounen told Filmmaker Magazine that he spent months with the Shipibo-Conibos in Peru, participating in ayahuasca ceremonies. “There is a tremendous knowledge that we cannot imagine in our culture. You have to make the bridge to make people consider. Just consider. The culture protects itself from these concepts,” said Kounen.

“Cinema is a great tool to deal with a modified state of consciousness and different perceptions,” the director said. “Shamanism, or meditation, or other ways, help us to understand how the creatures that we are work.” A Shipibo ayahuasca guide performs a sacred chant in Renegade.

Kounen told The Guardian that “for 4,000 years shamans have used these plants to heal. They guide those in need through a journey of self-examination, in which they perceive themselves differently, and hopefully re-establish a balance. Is this metaphysical medicine?” (4.5 out of 5 stars)

If you like Renegade, you might enjoy: 2012: Time for Change; Wind Journeys.

 

Renegade /   2004  /  R  /  2 hours, 4 min

Cast Overview:  Vincent Cassel, Juliette Lewis, Michael Madsen, Temuera Morrison, Ernest Borgnine, Djimon Hounsou, Hugh O’Conor, Geoffrey Lewis, Kateri Walker, Vahina Giocante, Kestenbetsa, Tcheky Karyo, Eddie Izzard, Colm Meaney

Director: Jan Kounen

Genres:  Western, Advenure

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Timewave 2013: master time as you live in the present moment

March 3, 2012 By

We can master time in a world without limits, according to Timewave 2013: The Future is Now. Part two of director Sharron Rose’s documentary 2012: The Odyssey delves into Mayan prophecies and ideas of time.

As Rose visits the Q’ero, shamans and healers descended from the ancient Incans, you can hear their guidance. The DVD is available from Sacred Mysteries Productions.

Rare visit with the Q’ero

Rose meets the Q’ero in the Andes Mountains of Peru. They fled the Spanish Conquest some 500 years ago. The Q’ero live in the present moment. They do not own televisions, computers or cell phones.

With clear perception, the Q’ero have mastered time. This allows them to travel to the past and present. Seeing Earth’s future allows them to share prophecies. Anthropologist and psychologist Dr. Alberto Villoldo translates for the shamans.

Despacho ceremony purifies

Shamans Don Umberto Sonco and Dona Bernadina Sonco perform a Despacho ceremony to help release negativity and change the future. The Despacho is a mandala made with objects that symbolize beauty, endearment and humor. Cookies, candies, roots and flowers are used here.

The Q’ero place all negative thoughts and feelings into the objects. The shamans blow prayers into coca leaves and add them to the Despacho.

Vision of the future

The ceremony becomes a metaphor for purification and renewal throughout the film. Rose blows her prayers into the coca leaves “to dispel the wars and suffering that is the story of this age just ending.”

Rose sees a new world “built around the idea of partnership and cooperation” where “Nature would be restored and men and women live together in peace.”

Finally the bundle is thrown into a fire, symbolically burning up negativity and sending prayers into the world.

The Q’ero pray and prophesy

The Q’ero share wisdom from the ancient Incan prophet Pachacuti. “The world, which has gone into chaos, will be turned right side up again, and a new human will be born,” says Rose. New humans are seen in bodies of light.

Disasters will affect many areas of the world, says Don Umberto. “We must make our prayers to the feminine, to the Mother. We must come back to the ways of the feminine, of stewardship, of protection.”

“The United States has a great power, it has great brilliance, great resources. It is up to the United States to take leadership in the world. To bring peace, to bring balance back to the planet,” Don Umberto says.

Nature of time is changing

Western linear time is founded on cause and effect, says Villoldo. Time turns like a wheel for indigenous societies. Based on synchronicity, shamanic time allows us to influence the past and future.

“When we’re able to engage a different form of time, we’re not only the result of an earlier cause,” Villoldo explains. “The future can reach back like a giant hand and bring you forward into who you are becoming. So we can be informed by who we are becoming.”

Age of the Great Lie

“We live in the age of the great lie,” says Villoldo. We distrust politicians, medicine and the media. “It’s a conspiracy of mediocrity,” he believes. Philosopher and scholar Jean Houston adds, “It’s like every shadow that ever existed has risen to be faced so that we can make the next step.”

Author Whitley Strieber believes that extinction events will mark 2012. Others say that profound evolutionary shifts are unfolding within us. “What is probably more likely going on is that we are in the grip of a gigantic change” as “the old ways are dying,” explains producer and author Jay Weidner.

An Age of Peace

“Ancient texts and traditions say that we are preparing for 1,000 years of a peaceful coexistence in this world,” New York Times best-selling author Gregg Braden tells Rose. “Sometimes our greatest strengths become apparent when we face the greatest challenges together,” he adds.

“We have this window of opportunity to make a really radical and fast transition to a different social paradigm and a different sustainable infrastructure,” says author and producer Daniel Pinchbeck (2012: Time for Change).

“We are heading toward a singularity in history in which yesterday looks nothing like today, and today looks nothing like tomorrow,” says Houston.

A view of enlightenment

Enlightenment is a way to free ourselves from the “cultural trance” of the modern world. “The whole change of the world has to start with you,” Rose told Awareness Magazine. “If you want a world of beauty and connectivity, you have to start with yourself.”

“You will be firmly grounded in the material world, and from this place, bring your expanded knowledge and perception into your every action,” she noted. “As you bring this expanded energy into your physical body, your whole body will begin to become lighter. You will heal. This is what they mean by enlightenment.”

As in part one, Timewave 2013 includes esoteric discussions about alchemy and astronomy.

Living love the best way to prepare

We nurture life-affirming or life-denying feelings every day, says Braden. Western science has shown that feelings do change our body chemistry.

“If we can reconcile our fears and our judgments and our bias, our jealousy and our anger as well as all the love, and accept the forgiveness and the tolerance and the compassion that comes our way every day. . . . we have already prepared for whatever eventuality,” Braden maintains.

“Compassion and forgiveness are the path towards true liberation,” says Villoldo. “The year 2012 is not only a purging but also an embrace of all that is really important to us.” (4 out of 5 stars)

If you like Timewave 2013, you might enjoy: 2012: The Odyssey; 2012: Time for Change; Thrive.

 

Timewave 2013: The Future is Now /   2008  /  NR  /  1 hour, 28 min

Cast Overview:  Jose Arguelles, Gregg Braden, Riane Eisler, William Henry, Jean Houston, John Major Jenkins, Rick Levine, Dennis McKenna, Terence McKenna, Don Martine Pinedo, Vilma Pinedo, Daniel Pinchbeck, Sharron Rose, Umberto Sonco, Bernadina Sonco, Geoff Stray, Whitley Strieber, Alberto Villoldo, Jay Weidner

Director: Sharron Rose

Genres:  Documentary

 

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