don Oscar Miro-Quesada
Originator of the Pachakuti Mesa / Transmitter of Wisdom Traditions / Vision Keeper of The Heart of the Healer Shamanic Mystery School
Oscar Miro-Quesada Solevo is a respected kamasqa curandero and altomisayoq adept from Peru, founder of The Heart of the Healer (THOTH), originator of Pachakuti Mesa Tradition™ cross-cultural shamanism. An internationally acclaimed shamanic teacher and healer, earth-honoring ceremonialist and author, don Oscar is OAS Fellow in Ethnopsychology, served as an NGO observer at the United Nations, and is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle and Birth 2012 Welcoming Committee. He has been guiding ethno-spiritual pilgrimages to sacred sites of the world since 1986, with special emphasis on Peru and Bolivia. Scroll further down the page to discover more about our unique and gifted Maestro.
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Teaching PMT Across the Globe
Don Oscar teaches in the US and abroad, dedicating his life to the revitalization of aboriginal wisdom traditions as a means of restoring sacred trust between humankind and the natural world. A seasoned navigator of non-ordinary states of consciousness, don Oscar is well prepared to help people from all walks of life access realms of Being through which multidimensional powers and forces are available for healing self, others and our planetary ecosystem as a whole. His ceremonial work and shamanic apprenticeship programs have been featured on Sounds True, CNN, Univision, A&E, Discovery Channel and The History Channel’s Ancient Aliens.
Apprenticeship Years
Oscar Miro-Quesada’s apprenticeship in northern coastal huachuma curanderismo formally took place between the years 1969 and 1986. His first immersion into the living soul and mythic reality of Peruvian shamanism was under the uncompromising tutelage of the famed huachumero don Celso Rojas Palomino from Salas, accomplishing intensive training and becoming don Celso’s segundo de mando en banco (second in command for curing sessions).
Less than a month after don Celso’s passing, don Oscar found himself serendipitously involved in a less formal four-year shamanic apprenticeship in the southeastern Andean Paqo tradition with famed kuraq akulleq don Benito Corihuamán Vargas from the village of Wasao near Cusco. don Oscar received his musqochiwarqa qallariy transmission as altomisayoq from don Benito in November of 1985, barely seven months before this deeply revered elder made his earthly transition.
“Vocation is the inherent birthright one senses beyond the call to pursue a particular path that demands surrender and compliance with powers and mysteries far greater than ourselves.”
~ don Oscar Miro-Quesada
Events with don Oscar
October 2026
THE LUMINOUS THRESHOLD: A Shamans Directory LIVE ONLINE EVENTExpired
September 2026
In-Person Retreat in New York with don Oscar Miro-Quesada – Join our Waiting ListExpired
March 2026
Wednesday Night Link-Up with Cindy & Oscar Miro-QuesadaExpired
November 2025
Altar, Ayllu and Altruism with don Oscar Miro-QuesadaExpired
Books & DVDs by don Oscar
Shamanism: Personal Quests of Communion with Nature and Creation
Replete with heart-opening and mind-expanding wisdom, don Oscar Miro-Quesada provides students of consciousness and explorers of cosmic and divine realms a leading step forward in our understanding of shamanism as the world’s most enduring healing and spiritual tradition. Audio Version now available.
Lessons in Courage: Peruvian Shamanic Wisdom for Everyday Life
Bonnie Glass-Coffin, PhD and don Oscar Miro-Quesada have written the biography of an extraordinary man who has awakened to his own purpose in life as a servant to conscious evolution for all humanity. It is don Oscar’s own life story, dealing with nothing less than individual, spiritual, and planetary transformation.
Lecciones de Coraje
Esta es una profunda narracion sobre el solido aprendizaje de Miro-Quesada a traves de un viaje epico desde la Tierra hasta los pueblos de las estrellas, desde el conocimiento academico contemporaneo hasta la profundidad y el poder de la sabiduria y los rituales indigenas. Escrito por don Oscar Miro-Quesada y Bonnie Glass Coffin, PhD.
Healing Light: An Apprenticeship in Peruvian Shamanism
Healing Light brings us a full-length audio curriculum with don Oscar Miro-Quesada. Listeners will join him to explore the fine arts of northern coastal Peruvian shamanism; guided journeys and healing; rituals of the Pachakuti Mesa tradition.
Mirror of Heaven, Embodiment of Earth
This beautifully crafted DVD tutorial provides the viewer with a step-by-step apprenticeship of the Pachakuti Mesa tradition of cross-cultural shamanism.
RAMA: As Above, So Below
The RAMA Mission is an incredible journey into the universal laws uniting humanity through love and light. The objective is to prepare the Earth as the home of the new, more evolved person and the return of the Christ Consciousness.
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Videos with don Oscar
Enjoy this sampling of don Oscar Miro-Quesada’s core teachings, and be sure to visit our YouTube channel to discover even more.
Podcasts & More with don Oscar
don Oscar Miro-Quesada on The History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens”
Don Oscar talks about his early apprenticeship, our relationship to the Star Nation, and features a despacho ceremony. Skip to 10:10 to view only don Oscar’s portion of the episode. (Aired 2/28/14)
If you would like to schedule don Oscar Miro-Quesada for a live collaboration, podcast or interview, please contact cindy@mesaworks.com.
More About don Oscar
Don Oscar has been facilitating experiential workshops and apprenticeship series that integrate healing practices and Earth-honoring ceremonial traditions with a focus on the creation of heartfelt sacred communities around the world since 1979. His widely-acclaimed ethnospiritual pilgrimages to ancestral lands, which he has guided since 1986, are carefully designed to awaken a reverent awareness of Pachamama (“Earth Mother”) as a vital evolutionary dimension to human experience. He often is invited to teach at prestigious leading-edge educational centers such as Naropa University, Shambhala Mountain Center, New York Open Center, Rowe, Interface, Frankfurter-Ring, Omega and Esalen. He has offered highly successful live online shamanic apprenticeship programs sponsored by Glidewing Productions, The Shift Network, and THOTH Shamanic Mystery School.
Aside from his extensive personal involvement and scholarly contributions related to the practice of cross-cultural shamanism, don Oscar has served as member of the United Nations Non-Governmental Agency Community through the National Service Conference of the American Ethical Union, sponsor of Inter-Spiritual Dialogue (ISDC), of which he also is a founding Counselor. Don Oscar attended the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in the capacity of NGO Observer, with further participation in UN events anticipated based on cooperative partnerships between The Heart of the Healer (THOTH), the Inter-Spiritual Dialogue Network, the Spiritual Caucus at the United Nations, the United Nations Committee for Spirituality and Global Concerns and The Source of Synergy Foundation’s Evolutionary Leaders Circle.
In addition, don Oscar is one of twelve members–including Jean Houston, Jack Canfield, Neale Donald Walsch, Ervin Laszlo, Lynne Twist, Rinaldo Brutoco, Michael Bernard Beckwith, Ashok K. Gangadean, Dot Maver, Lynne McTaggart and James O’Dea–personally selected by futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard to serve on her Birth 2012 Welcoming Committee in partnership with The Shift Network.
The Maestro as Scholar
Some of don Oscar’s other “mainstream” accomplishments include an A.S. degree in Life Sciences from Mitchell College, a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Comparative Religion from Duke University, as well as an M.A. degree in Humanistic/Transpersonal Psychology from the State University of West Georgia. Don Oscar is also Fellow in Ethnopsychology with the Organization of American States (OAS), having completed a two-year OAS post-masters research fellowship fulfilled through the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His research in applied ethnopsychology while at Emory, combined with three years of medical anthropology fieldwork among various rural communities in Peru, contributed to the development of a satellite program in public mental health services that conjoined native folk healers within the Peruvian national health care delivery system. He has also held many distinguished professional appointments in academia, clinical psychology and holistic medicine that are too numerous to mention here. Rigorous scholarship and an open, curious heart has always been of special importance to this unique and gifted teacher of the sacred arts.