I just returned from Peru. This time it was a visit designed to reconnect with family in Peru and to explore new places as a tourist, but in the end I was also inwardly compelled to go visit one of my Master Shamans, Carlos, while in Cuzco.

The last few times I had visited Carlos, he’d mentioned he wanted to take me to a very private sacred site and do a ritual to connect with the heart of Pachamama (Mother Earth). This time, I finally had the time to dedicate to that visit with him. We agreed we’d meet in his store (he sells shamanic artifacts) the next morning, and from there he’d drive us to the location. That next morning, he drove us to what looked like a park about 20 minutes from the outer edges of Cusco. Once we got out of the car and started walking, I noticed that the terrain was filled with crevices and mini gorges. Among one of these was a uniquely shaped rock cave. It looked like a naturally made chapel. In its center was what I would have defined as an altar, and all around it were offerings of flowers, fruits, and coca leaves. Carlos said that this was the heart. Next to it was a naturally made stone slab that emulated a bench. We sat there in silence for a bit; there were no instructions or suggestions from him.

After some time he said, “…now close your eyes, lovingly think of everything good you want for yourself and anyone you care about.” I did as I was told, and as I got started he walked away. Within a few minutes of me whispering my intentions for myself and for my family, friends, and clients, I felt it—an energy that lovingly listened. It was not a presence; it was more diffused. It was more like a state of being emanating from all around the natural altar.

There was a very subtle and general sense of communication. I was being heard, but more than that, I was being loved for my intentions, and as this sensation increased something within me gave in and broke. I wasn’t aware that within my work and life as a shaman, and also as a man with friends, family, and businesses, over time I have developed a shell of an identity. I have gotten hard and dry, but something within me, sitting there now, was reminding me of a purity and innocence within me. My heart became hypersensitive. I tried to contain it, but the melting of the shell had already begun, and sobbing came out of me as naturally as breathing.

I cried and cried and could not stop. It was quiet but induced small convulsions that made me open up even more and cry more. Then I felt the love emanating from all around that place. It was an embrace of love, understanding, and support. Feeling and knowing that an external motherly force “felt” that way toward me made me cry even more. It’s difficult for me to express how love can disarm one. If you’ve had a session with me, you know how much emphasis I place on being aligned and centered, but this experience was uncontainable. I knew I was loved, I was being heard, and I would always be helped. I knew that my heart had never been alone and that all my desires (for myself and those I had mentioned) were good and noble and lovingly accepted by Pachamama. All these emotions made me cry more when I realized that all this time I had thought I was alone or that I had to pursue it alone. I could feel the compassion and love from this motherly source, and it broke my heart to have been so ignorant and so blind. As I write this, I get emotional again.

In the Andean Cosmovision, Mother Earth, Pachamama, is a sacred, living, sentient being that understands mundane verbal speech. I’ve known this for decades, but this time I opened up at a deeper level where I experienced it. After the whole experience, on the way back, Carlos mentioned that it was the crying that facilitates the connection with Pachamama. The crying guarantees that our expression comes from a pure and loving place within us. I have written this to contribute to humanity remembering the loving relationship we have with Mother Earth, but also to document this life-changing experience I had and what I learned this time. One who allows himself to feel in this way does not move through life alone; he moves with support.

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If something in your life has stayed in place longer than it should, there is a reason for it. It is being held there. And what is held in place requires a different level of awareness to release.

What I experienced in that sacred space is the same principle I apply in my work. When the heart opens, when the emotion is real, when the desire comes from a pure place within you, things move. Fast. Pure. Permanently.

If you are ready to shift something that has not responded to effort, logic, or time, then this is where we begin.

You don’t need to figure it out first. You don’t need to prepare. You need to show up.

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We will get to the heart of it quickly. And once it moves, everything around it begins to move with it.