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THE HEART

OF THE SHAMAN

Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., is a medical anthropologist who comes from a long line of Earth-
keepers from the Amazon and the Andes. The author of numerous best-selling books, Dr.
Villoldo currently directs The Four Winds Society in Park City, UT, where he trains people in
the practice of energy medicine and soul retrieval. https://thefourwinds.com/

THE NATURE OF TIME daydream of a different future. Then

This is an excerpt from chapter 2. His book is fascinating. the past opens up to you.”
I learned with Don Manuel that one can enter the river of time
I have traveled the Peruvian rain forest and camped to discover treasures hidden by ancient masters inside the cur-
by the edge of the Amazon and the Mother of God rents and eddies of the past and in the turbulent whitewaters
rivers. Later, I studied with the shamans of the high of the future. You could journey to explore the currents of
Andes, in villages near bubbling brooks that later merged into tomorrow to find opportunities for yourself and your village.
tributaries of the Amazon. I was fortunate early on in my trav- Once you did so, you could stop searching and get on with the
els in the Andes to study with Don Manuel, whom I mentioned job of creating it with the power of Ti, the Primordial Light.
earlier. He was in his late 60s when I first met him, and we
hiked together through the Andes for nearly 30 years. I learned the practice of journeying through time from Alejan-
dro Kahuanchi, a Huachipaeri shaman from the lush highland
On one occasion, I asked Don Manuel if the Inka notion of jungle near the city of Cusco, and a brilliant tracker. His last
time, of pacha, meant that I could be born again in the past. name came from the Quechua word meaning “seer.” I was
I had thought that if reincarnation existed, we would always in my late 20s when I found him. Kahuanchi showed me how
take rebirth in the future. Could I be a soldier in Alexander’s to hide a spiritual treasure to discover on my deathbed many
army 2,000 years ago in my next incarnation? years from now. This medicine would help me cut through the
fear and chaos that occurs when the storm of death approach-
“It’s like a dream, where the past and present swirl into each es, and would bring me the courage to leave my body behind
other,” he responded. “It depends on your personal power.” and return to the world of Spirit consciously, with grace and
dignity.
“What do you mean?” I asked the old man.
“But you must be careful not to witness the moment of your
“Some people do not have enough personal power even to be death,” he insisted. “It is for God to decide the details. You
in the moment fully. They are here, but absent in some strange cannot choose the moment of your passing. But you can choose
way, not living in the present. They are stuck in the past, vic- to meet it with courage, to surrender to your death like one
tims of their childhood, of how they suffered, or they did not does to a lover, and take your awareness with you into the
get what they feel they deserved. They pray for a better, more beyond.”
comfortable future.”
It was an irresistible offer, and I followed his instructions and
He continued: “Your personal power is the product of your buried a time capsule to discover in the last days of my life.
communion with the Ti. If the Ti is strong within you, and you
are unencumbered by your past, you cannot be seduced by the ...continued on page 27

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