Our Shamanic
Mystery School
“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.
How to Learn With Us
By the Numbers
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.
Founders
Oscar Miro-Quesada Solevo
Oscar is a respected kamasqa curandero and altomisayoq adept from Peru, originator of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition cross-cultural shamanic ritual healing arts, and Founder of The Heart of the Healer (THOTH) Shamanic Mystery School. don Oscar is an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher, Earth-honoring ceremonialist and author.
Cindy Miro-Quesada
Cindy has worked at the center of The Heart of the Healer (THOTH) since 2002. She is a Founder and currently Creative Director of The Heart of the Healer Shamanic Mystery School. As Shamanic Doula, she is passionate about guiding women to the Source of their Divine Feminine Consciousness.
“Shamanism is a path that must involve mystery, and mystery is a process of incessant, endless revelation, of a seeing beyond ourselves, of an opening up to relationship with others as valuable or more valuable than just our own survival.”
– don Oscar Miro-Quesada
Our Core Values
OUR VISION & MISSION
The Heart of the Healer (THOTH) Shamanic Mystery School exists to rekindle humanity’s sacred relationship with Spirit, Earth, and community through the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition™ of cross-cultural shamanism.
We offer more than teachings—we provide a living path of initiation and belonging:
- A path that nurtures profound inner transformation
- Strengthens the interpersonal fabric of a community
- And awakens reverence for Gaia-Pachamama’s great web of life that sustains us all.
Rooted in the ancestral healing arts of the Andes and expressed through earth-honoring ceremonial practice, THOTH seeks to be a catalyst for nothing less than the spiritual evolution of human planetary consciousness. Our mission is to help midwife a world where diversity is celebrated as sacred, where hearts awaken in service, and where humanity learns again to live in harmony with All Our Relations.
OUR CORE VALUES
Unity Through Compassionate Action
Right action, born of wisdom and compassion, is the bridge that unites all beings.
Living Gnosis
We embody and teach the perennial insights:
- Consciousness begets Matter
- Language begets Reality
- Ritual begets Relationship
- Nature begets Purpose
- Love begets Life
Humble Learning
We “keep it green,” remaining lifelong students of the Great Mystery, guided by humility rather than the pursuit of expertise.
Celebrating Life as Sacred
We honor existence as a radiant gift, teaching love by the way we live and serve.
Co-Creating Sacred Community
Through Earth-honoring ritual artistry, we build inclusive, nurturing circles that nourish the medicine soul of All Our Relations.
OUR WAY OF BEING
THOTH is a lineage-rooted school of shamanic wisdom that carries both gravitas and joy, reverence and playfulness.
We are:
- Inclusive and welcoming, opening our circle to people of every background and culture.
- Relevant and inspiring, meeting the challenges of our times with timeless tools.
- Trustworthy guides and companions, walking beside our students even as we lead.
We are not exclusive, political, fame-driven, or inauthentic in our educational endeavors. Instead, we embody a tone of integrity, inspiration, and companionship—like wise friends walking the path together.
OUR VALUE TO THE WORLD
THOTH exists to serve all who feel the call to heal, to grow, and to evolve their co-creative experience of sacred belongingness in life.
We offer:
- Apprenticeships and courses that deepen connection to self, Spirit, and the natural world.
- A lineage-honoring approach that reveres ancestral wisdom while remaining accessible to modern seekers.
- A supportive global community that empowers both novices and seasoned practitioners to flourish within the Great Work.
OUR ESSENCE
The Heart of the Healer Shamanic Mystery School is a sanctuary for awakening hearts, a circle for strengthening community, and a love-inspired global family dedicated to re-weaving humanity’s sacred bond with Earth and Spirit.
Through the artistry of shamanic ritual service and the living wisdom of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, we invite a world of compassionate belonging, creative participation, and planetary healing.