“By doing one learns, with study one refines, through dreaming one creates, in loving one fulfills – such is the secret for tending to the sacred garden of our soul.”

~ don Oscar Miro-Quesada

The Heart of the Healer Shamanic Mystery School is a sacred repository of ancient knowledge woven from Indigenous traditions and universal mysteries through initiatory study and psycho-spiritual practice.

At the core of our Shamanic Mystery School lies the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition™, a rich cosmology bridging Peru’s ancient cultural wisdom with the needs of the modern world, rekindling our bond with a living universe, ancestral spirits, nature’s energies, and otherworldly intelligence. The teachings embrace insights from other enduring traditions, broadening your perspective and enriching your spiritual journey.

These cosmologies invite us to reintegrate multidimensional consciousness into our collective narrative, offering a fresh lens on spirituality and our place in the cosmos. This illuminates the path to embracing All Our Relations as shamanic allies and cosmic kin.

We believe in the infinite power of human imagination as a sacred force for transformation. By awakening this universal shamanic gift, we aim to help humanity evolve into a Gaian Cosmic Culture rooted in love, creativity, and interconnection. Through interdimensional exploration and ritual artistry, we invite you to remember yourself as part of a sacred community dedicated to Earth’s renewal.

This is more than a school – it’s a gateway to transformation, a call to rediscover your true self, and a community that celebrates your unique role in the cosmic tapestry. Are you ready to awaken your infinite potential and align with the Great Work?

Join us today. The sacred is calling – you are the answer.

Our Core Values

Why The Heart of the Healer Shamanic Mystery School?

Our human relationship with Mystery underlies all Self-discovery and cultural creativity. The experience of awe and reverence felt as witness to the majestic miracle that is our living Cosmos has inspired our human quest for truth and wisdom since time immemorial. This yearning for an enlightened understanding of The Ineffable is the raison d’être for the existence of all mystery schools. The Heart of the Healer Shamanic Mystery School offers both the earnest aspirant and adept initiate of the Great Work a nonpareil community of pioneering souls dedicated to love-empowered deep transformative practice as a means of reawakening human divinity upon Gaia-Pachamama.

Our History

The Heart of the Healer was established to:

Preserve and revitalize indigenous earth-honoring wisdom and ceremonial healing practices.

Protect ancestral sacred sites, pilgrimage destinations, natural landscape shrines and tribal lands.

Impart the prophetic vision and mythic reality of native peoples as expressed through their creation stories, tribal legends, spiritual rites-of-passage, art, music, dance, song, and other traditional forms of cultural identity.

Disseminate the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of cross-cultural shamanism through practitioner apprenticeships and teacher sanctioning opportunities involving the nurturance of heartfelt sacred community worldwide.

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The Heart of the Healer History Timeline

1969 – 1982: Oscar Miro Quesada apprenticeship with don Celso Rojas Palomino

1982 – 1986: Oscar Miro Quesada apprenticeship with don Benito Qoriwaman Vargas

1986: Oscar Miro-Quesada offers his first Pachakuti Mesa shamanic initiation to faculty and students in the United States at the Psychology Department of West Georgia College

1987: Oscar Miro-Quesada representing heart island (South America) shamanic wisdom anchored the Pachakuti Mesa altar ground as the central ceremonial space at the August 16 – 19 Harmonic Convergence in Thomas Knob, NC

1989: Oscar Miro-Quesada establishes The Heart of the Healer Seminars 

1989: Oscar Miro-Quesada teaches his first five-part apprenticeship series in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, West Palm Beach, FL

2000: The Heart of the Healer is established as a not-for-profit 501c3

2001: 1st International Remembering Pachamama: Exploring Third Millennial Shamanism, Highlands, NC  

2002: 2nd International Gathering Phoenix Rising: Transforming the World from Within, Kent CT

2003: 3rd International Gathering Mamapacha Unveiled: Communing with Gaia’s Living Soul, Red Feather Lakes, CO

2004: 4th International Gathering Awakening the Global Heart: The Flowering of Compassion for the Seven Generations, Watsonville, CA

2005: 5th International Gathering Wiracocha’s Dreaming: The Mirror Within Spirit and Matter, Shelby, MI

2006: 6th International Gathering Ancient Knowledge for a New Age in collaboration with Shamanism and Healing Association, Salzburg, Austria 

2007: 7th International Gathering K’uchi’s Revelation: Celebrating our Destiny as the Prophesied Rainbow Tribe, Pisac, Peru

2007 – 2010: Shipibo Community Outreach Program provided 55,200 meals and school supplies to 52 homeless families displaced from the Amazon rainforest to the outskirts of Lima, Peru. 

2007: Rainforest Sanctuary Initiative purchases initial 100 acres of endangered rainforest  in the community of La Torre, on the Tambopata River, Peru

2007: First People’s Language Preservation Program, in co-operation with Wind River Indian Reservation and the University of Wyoming

2008: Rainforest Sanctuary Initiative provides new roofing for El Centro Sowewnakeri (Center for Amazon Eagles), which offers educational programs on rainforest preservation

2008: Rainforest Sanctuary Initiative purchases 15,225 acres of endangered rainforest, a 2,500-acre Castana Nut concession, and an eco-lodge on Rio Las Piedras, in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru

2008 – 2010: Rainforest Sanctuary Initiative hosts Community Service Trips to Rio Las Piedras in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru

2008 – 2012: Rainforest Sanctuary Initiative hosts biosphere teams, scientists, and students from England at Rio Las Piedras

2009: THOTH Publications releases the revised 25th-anniversary version of Wizard of the Four Winds: A Shaman Story by Douglas Sharon, edited by Robin Harman

2009 – Present: The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition: Cross-Cultural Shamanic Arts for Personal and Planetary Transformation, five-part apprenticeship series taught by PMT Sanctioned Teachers

2010: Construction begins on Sipapu Residential Convergence Center on the 100 acres property  in the community of La Torre, on the Tambopata River, Peru

2010 – 2012: THOTH Rainforest Service Trips to Sipapu Residential Convergence Center in the community of La Torre, on the Tambopata River, Peru

2013: Sipapu Residential Convergence Center Ceremonial Adytum stargate activation with THOTH community members 

2013:  Sipapu Residential Convergence Center hosts THOTH community members and medicine ceremonies with invited local plant healers

2012 – Present: Oscar Miro-Quesada teams up with The Shift Network and creates a robust Universal Shamanism wisdom corpus of online apprenticeships. See On-demand courses

2014: The Heart of the Healer closes down the 501c3 and is managed privately with an emphasis on growing the global presence of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, its Sanctioned Teachers, and building and strengthening our worldwide shamanic community

2014 – 2021: THOTH continues evolving as a source of educational and earth-honoring sacred community-building offerings based on imparting the wisdom, beauty, and ritual artistry of its lineage

2021: The Heart of the Healer Shamanic Mystery School is established and committed to the eco-spiritual evolution of humankind through soul-honoring initiatory apprenticeships in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, Goddess Consciousness, and Ancestral Star Wisdom.

Our destiny lies in our origins!