Previously, I wrote about the Ukhupacha (the Lower World) and the Kaypacha (the Middle World) in conjunction with teaching the corresponding weekends of the Pachakuti Mesa Apprenticeship Series. I recently co-taught the third weekend of the Apprenticeship series with my wife, Autumn. After delving into the other two worlds, we finally explore the Hanaqpacha.

Previously, I wrote about the Ukhupacha (the Lower World) in conjunction with teaching the first weekend of the Pachakuti Mesa Apprenticeship Series. So, as the second weekend of teaching came up – A Balance of Power (Transforming the Present) – I found…

“You really like the dark, don’t you?” one of the recent participants of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition Apprenticeship series asked me, as I turned out the lights. My beloved Autumn and I were teaching the first of the five-part weekend intensive series, The Call to Heal…

Three years ago, we in the Heartland Ayllu – the local Kansas City community of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition – decided to start our own tradition. It is common practice within an ayllu to hold community Link Up ceremonies on Wednesday nights, often once a…

Just recently my family and I vacationed to some sites up north, one of them being the Indian mounds in Aztalan, Wisconsin. While the kids were off playing in the woods my wife and I sat on top of the mounds, a stepped ziggurat which operated as the tribe’s prime ceremonial center. Yet…