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November Greetings THOTH Community,

A MESA IS A LIVING SYSTEM OF MEDICINE WORK. It is the very heart of Peruvian Curanderismo. There are many different kinds of Mesas. As taught by don Oscar Miro-Quesada, the Mesa is a kind of altar and sacred medicine ground. The Pachakuti Mesa is a synthesis of Peruvian shamanic coastal traditions combined with southeastern Andean Paqokuna practices. As you progress through an apprenticeship and a series of initiations, you become a Mesa carrier. Your own Mesa will organically grow and evolve, reflecting your personal development as a practitioner of shamanic healing service.

This month we are celebrating beginner mind. Whether you already have a Pachakuti Mesa or you are new to the practice, we invite you to explore a document entitled Creating a Basic Mesa, and a tutorial video featuring don Oscar, Introduction to the Pachakuti Mesa , which covers consecrating the ground and creating a basic mesa. Both can be found on our website Ritual Arts Basic Practices page or see our Featured Video section below. In addition, you may benefit from this wonderful article by sanctioned teacher and Writer’s Forum contributor Daniel Moler, The Mesa 101. 

Pachakuti Mesa Tradition gatherings: PMT community gatherings are being offered in California | Finland | Kansas | Missouri and Quebec. Please follow the links for event information and MULTIPLE gatherings and locations within each state, AND check back on the cale nd ar for your region as events may be added during the month!

Wednesday Night Link-Up gatherings this month are being offered in Florida | Kansas | New Mexico | North Carolina | Utah | Virginia and also online. Check your region as more may be added.

Sacred Retreats include December Solstice SoulShifting Retreat in Magnolia, Mississippi with Dr. G. Love; and Sacred Valley Pilgrimage: Receive the Hummingbird’s Blessing, Peru with Darcy Kopas & Robin Flynn. 

Wishing you a beginner heart,
Cindy, Xio mara, Marin and Michele
‟The wonderment of being a learner contains greater medicine for your soul than striving to be an expert.”
 ~ don Oscar Miro-Quesada
Five-part Apprenticeship Series Starting Soon


The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition:  Cross-Cultural Shamanic Arts for Personal and Planetary Renewal


Part I of V: THE CALL TO HEAL

Glenda Skelley

Garry Caudill

Jnana Gowan

Mona Rain

Judy Hoaglund

Cynthia Greer

Yola Dunne

Yola Dunne



To learn about the many benefits of sponsoring an apprenticeship in your region contact PMT@heartofthehealer.org
Featured Teacher

Judy Hoaglund has been on a spiritual path for most of her life. Her earliest memories are of being in nature, which she considers her first teacher. Along the way she has traveled extensively, lived in three other countries and delved into mysticism, Sufism, ethnobotany, shamanic journeying, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and Reiki.  

Yet it was in her first circle with don Oscar, in January of 2002, that she finally felt like she had found her “people”. She immersed herself in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition and numerous retreats with don Oscar. In 2009 Judy became a sanctioned teacher. Shortly thereafter, she made the PMT the center of her life’s work.

Being a PMT teacher has opened a much deeper understanding and appreciation for the beauty, depth, wisdom and power of the mesa work. For Judy however, the most satisfying and nourishing part about teaching is the privilege of watching students transform over the course of the five-part series. Judy’s other passion is helping those who come to her mesa lodge find healing, release and resolution of issues, answers to life-long questions, and transformation. She is always willing to share her wisdom with humor and compassion. 

Judy is offering Part I of the 5-Part Apprenticeship The Call to Heal, beginning February 15, 2019 in Santa Rosa, California.

Programs with don Oscar Miro-Quesada
IN-PERSON RETREAT
December 6-9 Wait List
IMMORTAL TRUTH: A Shamanic Journey of Cosmic Awakening in Service to the Great Work A very special four-day retreat and workshop of initiatory teachings and Pachakuti Mesa Tradition ritual. Facilitated by don Oscar Miro-Quesada and located within the mystical and enchanting landscape of Joshua Tree, California.

See more of don Oscar's offerings:  events,  free podcasts, and  products.

Mesa Photo by Connie Frisbee Houde
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Join Our Universal Shaman Initiates Facebook Group
Get answers, ask for healing, share your medicine gifts! Enjoy the many benefits of being an integral part of our loving, supportive and wise community of mesa carriers. This group is open to students of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition.
In the Writer′s Forum
The Heart of the Healer Writer′s Forum features gifted writers inspired by the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition Lineage. Check in often for thought-provoking reading.
Featured Video
Introduction to the Pachakuti Mesa
Whether you are completely new to the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Cross-Cultural Shamanism, or you have been a PMT practitioner for years, there is much to be gained watching and listening to don Oscar explain and demonstrate the creation of a basic mesa on this recently recorded video. For a companion reference, download Creating a Basic Mesa.

To view more of don Oscar′s video messages and become a subscriber to his YouTube channel click here or on the YouTube icon below.
Apu Shasta
Our newsletter header depicts Mt. Shasta, a long-revered volcanic mountain in northern California . For a list of other sacred pilgrimage sites and apus in North and South America visit Sacred Sites in our Ritual Arts section on the THOTH website.